Hospital spending on inpatient drugs went up by an average of 38.7 percent per admission and 23.7 percent annually between 2013 and 2015, according to a study from the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals.

Everyone has checked symptoms online, using websites such as WebMD, to help diagnose themselves, but are these kinds of computer diagnostics accurate—or at least better than an actual physician? Harvard Medical School student Hannah L. Semigran with researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Human Diagnosis Project have good news for doctors.

Recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) shouldn’t be tied to insurance coverage, according to the physicians who helped craft those guidelines.

Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, is circulating a letter among members of his party calling for a lawsuit against HHS to block the agency from settling legal disputes with insurers over the Affordable Care Act’s risk corridor program.

Warnings for specific prescription drugs may not cover the implications of mixing certain medications, which can mean side effects much worse than just dizziness or upset stomach. While many of the dangerous drug parings have been discovered, many are still hidden. Researchers from New York's Columbia University Medical Center and the Data Science Institute at Columbia University are using data science to uncover such interactions.

Technology company CureVac has appointed Pierre Kemula as new chief financial officer, a position responsible for overseeing the company’s financial and capital market initiatives.

Unfriendly malpractice laws and a high cost-of-living are driving physicians away from Connecticut, according to State Rep. Prasad Srinivasin. And he should know, since he’s a physician himself.

Rather than use prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) only to track opioid prescriptions, two physicians writing in the American Journal of Managed Care suggested the concept be expanded to collect and report information on all prescriptions.