Researchers from the University of Missouri explored the importance of health information technology in the hope of raising awareness for seniors in nursing homes.

Insurance coverage with standardized deductibles, out-of-pocket spending limits and co-pays will be available during the next open enrollment period for health insurance marketplaces, according to Kaiser Health News.

CMS has told members of Congress it will contact customers who are enrolled in both Medicare and a subsidized insurance plan purchased through the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges, and tell them to leave their exchange plan immediately.

While politicians consider public healthcare options, the most-populous state in the U.S. is already inching towards a public system.

Requesting access to experimental, unapproved treatments from the FDA can sometimes save a patient’s life when no other treatment has worked. But as STAT’s Sheila Kaplan writes, there is a dark side to “compassionate use.”

A federal mediator has called Allina Health and the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) back to the bargaining table in a late attempt to avoid 4,800 nurses striking beginning on Labor Day, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins, MD, PhD, told a crowd of medical researchers in Chicago he has a “sense of optimism” about the ability to offer more grants through the agency, while encouraging them not to shy away from bold projects.

A study of Liberian men found previous estimates of how long the Ebola virus could remain in semen were significantly too low, as one man was found to still carry the virus 565 days after he recovered from the illness.