New study ties pharma payments to prescription practices
Recent efforts to improve transparency haven't made much of a difference, one author noted. But earlier reforms made a dent the "most egregious" practices.
Study highlights how much is still unknown about biosimilars
"I’m not sure we learned something new from the meta-analysis, but it does give confidence that indeed there’s a good margin of safety and the risks are minimal.”
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ACA Medicaid expansion gets more poor adults in for care
Yet researchers found no improvement in adults’ own assessments of their health, a conclusion echoed by similar studies, the authors wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
ACP wants more telemedicine, but on its terms
In a position paper this week in Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians acknowledged that telemedicine can increase access to care and patient satisfaction while delivering care that often is more efficient and less costly than in-person encounters.
Could mental decline be inevitable for those diagnosed with midlife diabetes?
People who are diagnosed with diabetes in their 50’s are much more likely to suffer from mental decline by the time they reach their 70’s, according to a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, which started in 1990. Scientists looked at both black and white adults, 13, 351 in total, between the ages […]