Disease Management
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced five new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation payment models aimed at transforming kidney care so that patients with chronic kidney disease have access to high-quality, coordinated care.
Two investigational Ebola treatments being used in the ongoing outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are effective in laboratory studies.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today urged medical professionals to quickly recognize symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis — a polio-like illness that mostly affects children and can cause paralysis — and report all suspected cases to their health department.
Fewer than 40% of the U.S. population has been tested for HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported yesterday, although the agency recommends everyone aged 13-64 get tested at least once.
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine calls for a national strategy to reduce cancer incidence and mortality and improve quality of life for survivors.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday approved Louisiana’s Medicaid plan amendment allowing supplemental rebate agreement negotiations with prescription drug makers for Hepatitis C therapies.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force today recommended a pill that helps prevent the spread of HIV to high-risk patients.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday reported 1,001 cases of measles so far this year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Overall cancer death rates continue to decline for U.S. men, women and children, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
After increasing for almost two decades, the annual number of new diabetes cases in U.S. adults fell by 35 percent between 2008 and 2017, to 1.3 million.