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
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
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
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...
Aug 17, 2026 | Health Care
A newly funded project led by Alok Kapoor, MD, will explore how artificial intelligence can help people with diabetes better understand changes to their medications when leaving the hospital. Hospital discharge can be a particularly vulnerable time for people with...
Aug 10, 2026 | Health Care
Healthcare affordability discussions often focus on premiums, deductibles and drug prices. Those costs matter. But for the more than 46 million Americans who live in rural communities, affordability begins with something even more fundamental: whether care is...
Aug 10, 2026 | Health Care
Most employers, two-thirds, pay their own healthcare bills. They just hire insurers to do the logistics. They expect insurers to check claims to find mistakes and overpayments. But it’s not their money, and there’s no incentive to closely monitor the dollars. That’s...
Aug 10, 2026 | Health Care
SALT LAKE CITY – For anyone in need of healthcare, this is definitely the place.That’s the conclusion of a new analysis by America First Healthcare that ranks Utah as the most affordable state in the nation in which to seek medical attention.The study was built on...
