Some senior Trump administration officials suggest the House could vote Thursday on a revised bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, but GOP lawmakers appear less convinced as legislative text for the latest proposed deal has not yet been released.
The measure would ban the retail sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Mexico.
TIME on Thursday released its annual "100 Most Influential People" list, spotlighting several health care leaders including Kaiser Permanente CEO Bernard J. Tyson.
More than two dozen U.S. medical groups will participate in the March for Science this Saturday—but some in the scientific and medical community worry that the activism could have negative consequences.
Michael Pencina, the lead study author and director of biostatistics at Duke University, says the findings indicate that "we're still searching for the perfect guidelines" when it comes to statin use.
Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals might outperform non-VA hospitals on outcome measures because the department over the past few decades has invested in quality improvement and care coordination and, unlike at other hospitals, most of VA's patients receive all of their care within one system, according to the JAMA study.
