Sep 7, 2026 | Health Care
As respiratory disease season approaches, several medical groups are issuing new vaccination guidelines. Tetra Images/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tetra Images/Getty Images …Click here for the full...
Sep 7, 2026 | Health Care
Be strategic with your time and come prepared to help avoid delays in diagnosis and treatment.Focus on describing your symptoms to give your provider the best chance at identifying the root cause.Be your own best advocate. Speak for yourself when possible, ask...
Sep 7, 2026 | Health Care
TRAVERSE CITY — Hometown Pharmacy announced the closure of four Northern Michigan locations this week, part of a nationwide trend that operators say has gotten worse in recent years.Three of the closed locations are in Traverse City and one is in Muskegon.The...
Sep 7, 2026 | Health Care
Pharmacist interventions at 14 health-system specialty pharmacies avoided an estimated $3.6 million in direct medication costs over six months, according to a multisite analysis presented at the ASHP Pharmacy Futures 2026 meeting, in St. Louis.The study quantified the...
Aug 31, 2026 | Health Care
Employers in the United States are facing rising healthcare costs for next year, and drug prices are a major driver of that increase, according to a new survey released today by the Business Group on Health. “An array of forces across the healthcare industry, from...
Aug 31, 2026 | Health Care
An article from Dive Brief Most physicians are using artificial intelligence for clinical or administrative work. Some believe they should be paid more if AI increases their efficiency, according to a new report. …Click here for the full...
Aug 31, 2026 | Health Care
It's estimated that the United States will face a shortage of more than 141,000 doctors by 2038, with rural areas hit the hardest.Aug 28, 2026…Click here for the full article!
Aug 31, 2026 | Health Care
Data: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Map: Jim Sergent/AxiosPatients now spend an average of more than two and a half hours in hospital emergency departments, and visits have been getting longer in nearly half of the states, new federal data shows.Why it...
Aug 31, 2026 | Health Care
BANGOR, Maine — Last year, Republicans set American health care on a new path: They slashed $1 trillion from expected Medicaid funding over the next decade and allowed tens of billions of dollars in annual insurance subsidies to expire. The full impacts of those...
Aug 24, 2026 | Health Care
An international online platform settled with the Connecticut attorney general's office Wednesday and agreed to stop selling GLP-1 weight-loss medications to customers in the United States, according to a press release from the attorney general's office.The...
Aug 24, 2026 | Health Care
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – President Donald Trump signed an executive order last Monday (Aug. 10) directing parents to separate the single-dose MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella into three individual shots administered to their children over time and at...
Aug 24, 2026 | Health Care
Click the Pic to expand the image John R. GrahamJohn R. Graham is a Visiting Fellow who contributes nearly three decades of health policy expertise to research across all of Paragon’s initiatives. He worked on Capitol Hill from 2021 to 2024 as a Professional Staff...
Aug 24, 2026 | Health Care
These days, it seems like everyone is talking about specialty drugs. But what about the pharmacies that distribute them?Specialty pharmacy started as a niche industry in the 1970s. But as more specialty drugs were invented, it grew hugely profitable. Specialty drugs...
Aug 17, 2026 | Health Care
Donald Trump has signed an executive order with plans for sweeping changes to the childhood vaccination schedule that would require that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to be broken into three separate shots, once it becomes available in the US.The order...
Aug 17, 2026 | Health Care
In the last eight years, women living in counties in one-third of the country have faced an abysmal reality: they live in a maternity care desert, which means a place where there are no hospitals or birth centers or even any obstetric clinicians. That reality has...
Aug 17, 2026 | Health Care
As cancer treatments have advanced and outcomes have improved, one aspect of cancer care in the US has consistently worsened over the last decade: the wait time for surgery. According to a study in JAMA Surgery, patients with one of six types of cancer—breast, colon,...
Aug 17, 2026 | Health Care
Internal medicine physicians who were not born in the U.S. treated 22 million Medicare beneficiaries in 2024, but Trump administration immigration policies may put a dent in that workforce, exacerbating care shortages for the underserved, researchers said. Patients...
