When his first push to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) failed to garner enough support, President Donald Trump initially said he would move onto other issues, namely changes to the tax code. He appears to have changed his mind in an interview on the Fox Business Network. 

After 40 years, changes are coming to the field of laser-based dermatological treatments. Researchers from the University of Missouri, taking into account an increased demand of minimally invasive laser-based treatments, have developed a laser light technique that transmits into the skin through direct contact.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a test capable of detecting ovarian tumors in their earliest stages, which could potentially improve patient five-year survival rates by 90 percent.

What’s most concerning to C-suite level hospital and health system executives has changed over the past year, according to a survey conducted by the Advisory Board Company.

If you were judging hospital executives by their pay, the winner would Alan Miller, MBA, chairman and CEO of Pennsylvania-based Universal Health Services, who earned $51.3 million in 2016.

Subsidies to health insurers offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will continue to be funded, HHS told the New York Times, even though House Republicans had made the argument in court the payments were illegal. 

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, known for its Kleenex tissues and Huggies diapers, has been hit with a $454 million jury verdict over a lawsuit claiming a former subsidiary misled buyers about the impermeability of its MicroCool surgical gowns.

Hospitals in CMS’s Inpatient Quality Reporting, Outpatient Quality Reporting and Prospective Payment System-Exempt Cancer Hospital Quality Reporting programs can take an early look at the star rating and quality data before the public gets to see it later this year.