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.

Several academic hospitals have been awarded $26 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research new ways to prevent hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), particularly those resistant to antibiotics

A new deal between UnitedHealthcare and device maker Medtronic means fewer options for UnitedHealth customers who need insulin pumps to treat Type 1 diabetes.

If someone is dying but could donate vital organs before life support was removed, can a spouse make someone a living donor without that person's direct consent?