You can provide the best care possible inside the four walls of your hospital, but if your patients can’t afford their prescriptions after you discharge them, the system isn’t working. The post The Cost of Medication Non-Adherence — How Hospitals Can Close the Gap through Better Communication appeared first on MedCity News.
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This KFF tracker provides up to date information on U.S. pledges thus far to four multilateral health replenishments (the Pandemic Fund, WHO, Gavi, and the Global Fund) and U.S. government support to date.
This post looks at federal government databases with key health data that went offline on Jan. 31, 2025, including several related to HIV, some of which had returned by Feb. 2, 2025. It briefly describing the affected databases, which include widely used, large-scale national health surveys, indices, and data dashboards, that inform research, policy making,…
Texas is moving to allow for more freedom of choice with respect to receipt of vaccines. The Economist reports: Texas legislators meeting in Austin, the state capital, are debating new laws to relax vaccine rules, urged on by Texans for Vaccine Choice (TFVC). On February 18th activists in “Come and Make Me” shirts took to…
BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer. The dawn of state-regulated psychedelic mushrooms has arrived in Colorado, nearly two years since Oregon began offering them. The…
One reason are the administrative obstacles and frictions that eligible individuals have to overcome to receive the public services. A paper by Herd and Moynihan (2025) in the Journal of Economic Perspectives provides an overview of the literature. Such burdens are the experience of policy implementation as onerous, and arise via learning costs (knowing about…
Apple’s new Loud Sound Reduction capability scans the environment 46,000 times a second for sudden peaks in sound, reducing them to a safe level. The post The Apple AirPods Pro Have a New Hearing Feature, Yet the Biggest Impact May be to Protect Us All From Noise appeared first on MedCity News.
Here are three things providers should consider when it comes to Medicare. The post Changes Are Coming to 2026 Medicare Benefits appeared first on MedCity News.
New members were chosen just days before vaccine advisers to the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meet