Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) reiterated support for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) efforts to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in improper medical payments made to hospitals and healthcare providers using the Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Program.

Kamada (TASE:KMDA), a biopharmaceutical company developing, producing and marketing specialty life-saving therapeutics, has successfully concluded Phase I clinical studies designed to test the safety and tolerability of the aerosolized version of its flagship product, Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) using an optimized eFlow® Electronic Nebulizer (PARI Pharma GmbH) to treat various lung diseases.

Topical creams and ointments are frequently used for various allergic rashes. The number and types of these medications can be overwhelming, from over-the-counter medications, to prescription topical steroids, to newer…

There is no evidence to suggest that clinicians should choose a combination of biological therapies—treatments that boost or restore the ability of the body’s defense system to fight disease—and chemotherapy over the commonly used single-agent chemotherapy regimen for patients with metastatic melanoma, according to the results of a meta-analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Managed care health plans for Medicaid patients with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses may result in lower costs to the Medicaid system, but lead to greater personal expenditures and higher caregiver burden for patients and their families, new research indicates. This cost pattern was revealed in an analysis of total societal costs for 628 patients in the Tampa Bay area, to be published online Jan. 15 by The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) (http://ajp.

25% of heart attack patients have to wait at least 50 minutes before they are seen by a doctor in American emergency rooms (ERs), says a report by the Harvard Medical School. The average wait for a heart attack patient in an ER in 2004 was 20 minutes compared to 8 minutes in 1997 - an increase of 150%. In general, Americans in 2004 had 36% longer ER waits in 2004 compared to 1997.

Arizona-based Chicanos Por La Causa will continue offering HIV/AIDS services through the Ryan White Program, following a pledge by two state officials to help the group raise about $43,000 through private donors to maintain the services, the

The film “Juno,” which portrays a pregnant teen and her boyfriend deciding to give her child up for adoption and return to “carefree adolescence,” ignores the fact that “surrendering a baby whom you will never know comes with a steep and lifelong cost,” Caitlin Flanagan, who is writing a book on the emotional lives of pubescent girls, writes in a

A University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute study has found that a popular class of osteoporosis drugs nearly triples the risk of developing bone necrosis, a condition that can lead to disfigurement and incapacitating pain.The research is the largest study of bone necrosis and bisphosphonates, a class of drugs used by millions of women worldwide to help prevent bone fractures due to osteoporosis.

Practices with Nurse-Practitioners Outperform Practices with Physician Assistants in Diabetes Care MeasuresFamily medicine practices with nurse-practitioners (NPs) perform better at providing some types of diabetes care (primarily monitoring tests) than physician-only practices and especially better than practices using physician assistants (PAs).