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(MedPage Today) -- Over the next month, millions of fans will gather across North America for the FIFA World Cup. Stadiums will fill with cheering crowds. Young athletes will dream of representing their countries one day. Communities will celebrate...
Read full article →How America’s outdated insurance model is failing at its most important job The post The Myth of Insurance Networks appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The gap between how nicotine use has evolved and how cessation treatment has evolved is a meaningful part of why quit rates have plateaued. The post Smoking Cessation’s Quiet Design Failure appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The World Cup isn't the only global soccer event of note. Check out the Grannies International Football Tournament.
Read full article →Telehealth companies offer lifestyle support so people taking obesity drugs can have the most success losing weight. But employers also want the telehealth providers to limit spending on the drugs.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Use of GLP-1 receptor agonists was tied to significantly lower risks of major diabetic foot complications compared with SGLT2 inhibitors in adults with type 2 diabetes, a large, real-world analysis indicated. Compared...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- For years, physicians have voiced the same frustrations: declining reimbursement, increasing administrative burden, private equity infiltration, insurance company control, expanding scope creep, artificial intelligence (AI) anxiety...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Fruit-flavored e-cigarettes recently authorized by the FDA were not significantly better at helping smokers quit than tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes, according to a new memo that's likely to stir new questions about the agency...
Read full article →But inside the health department, workers say the dysfunction of the DOGE era persists.
Read full article →KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Read full article →The FDA has approved a drug that was previously caught in a dispute between career staff and the political appointee head of the CDER.
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