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An app designed to help those recovering from breast cancer was recently honored by the National Lottery Awards in the United Kingdom.

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One Medical Group, a primary care group with offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle and other cities, has closed a $350 million investment from the Carlyle Group, a private equity group based in Washington, D.C., TechCrunch reported.

Medicare could be saving a lot of cash by switching to generic constituents for some drugs—maybe as much as a billion dollars.
A recent study estimated spending in 2016 on 29 brand-name combination products would have been $925 million more than spending for generic counterparts.

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Most hospital executives and directors—nearly three in every five—believe Amazon will have the biggest impact in the healthcare market, according to a survey conducted by Reaction Data.

Researchers from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, is working to develop a new type 1 diabetes therapy that may lead to the long-term reversal of the disease in humans—and man's best friend.

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. hospitals are at risk of potential closure or are in weak shape, according to a recent report from Morgan Stanley.

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“This is a financial emergency for our practice,” one physician says, according to a new survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology.