Nearly 200 physician’s groups, including 3,200 doctors, and 17 health insurance companies will work together with the government in an effort to provide better cancer care, HHS announced June 29. 

A $1.1 billion dollar proposal to support anti-Zika virus efforts at federal health agencies failed to advance in the Senate, opening up the possibility no funds will be authorized before September.

Medical devices play a vital role in patient care, but how they are approved and regulated are vastly different in the United States compared to the European Union.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued a preliminary recommendation June 28 that would put a stop to annual pelvic exams for most healthy adult women. 

Electronic health record (EHR) vendors and the clinicians they serve need more than a few months to adapt to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, according to numerous comments submitted to CMS by health IT groups.

Delaying the schedule start for reporting under new payment models set up after passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) was one of several common suggestions included in comments on CMS’s proposed rule.  

Use of relatively untested drugs on patients with serious mental health issues, along with incomplete case histories and falsified records, led New York University’s medical school to end eight psychiatric studies.

It’s finally OK to drink the tap water in Flint, Mich.—but only if it’s filtered, according to a June 23 announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency.