(MedPage Today) -- Members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted 15-2 to boost payment for physicians and other health professionals by 0.5 percentage points above current law for...

(MedPage Today) -- UnitedHealth Group (UHG) is artificially inflating risk adjustment scores of patients in its Medicare Advantage plans in order to get higher reimbursement, according to a report from...

The US government has made major changes to the pediatric vaccine schedule. We’d like to hear what you think about the new recommendations. Medscape Reader Polls Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/new-vaccine-schedule-your-thoughts-2026a10001mt?src=rss...

(MedPage Today) -- A man grabbed a bottle of what looked like water and took a swig. Hours later, he was in the emergency department with a life-threatening cerebral air...

(MedPage Today) -- Concerns of hemolysis continued to swirl around the Sapien 3 Ultra Resilia, with yet another report indicating such harm after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). In a...

(MedPage Today) -- HHS is planning to launch a new study on the effects of exposure to cellphone radiation. (Reuters via NBC News) Scott Adams, the creator of the popular...

(MedPage Today) -- For over a decade, the American health policy debate has been stuck in a loop, obsessively focused on the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While the political battles...

(MedPage Today) -- Superagers -- adults 80 and older with the memory capacity of much younger people -- had a higher frequency of gene variants that protected against Alzheimer's disease...

UK regulators have cleared a 7.2-mg dose of semaglutide after trials showed that more than 1 in 5 patients achieved over 20% weight loss. Medscape News UK Source link :...

(MedPage Today) -- The following may contain links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. "The CDC is dead to me," said family physician Sara...

Hugh Pym,Health editorandIan AtkinsonGiles TurnerGiles Turner paid privately to access abiraterone and was part of the campaign to get it approved in EnglandA life-extending prostate cancer drug is to be...

Microplastics are in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. How does this affect our bodies? More research is needed, but here’s what to...

(MedPage Today) -- The effort by FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, to drastically shorten the review of drugs favored by President Donald Trump's administration is causing alarm across the...

The National Audit Office says seven hospitals in England with unsafe concrete will stay in use but the rebuild programme will slip beyond 2030. Medscape News UK Source link :...

(MedPage Today) -- The following is a transcript of the podcast episode: Rachael Robertson: Hey everybody, welcome to MedPod Today, the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight...

(MedPage Today) -- Treatment with the supplement berberine failed to reduce visceral adipose tissue or liver fat in adults with obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a randomized...

You might not have to ring in your 100th birthday with a dairy-free, egg-free cakeXinhua/Shutterstock Longevity pioneers like Bryan Johnson are going to extreme lengths in the quest for immortality,...

(MedPage Today) -- Wastewater testing can alert public health officials to measles infections days to months before cases are confirmed by doctors, researchers said in two studies published Thursday by...

AI tools are helping to decipher long-standing maths problemsandresr/Getty Images Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise....

Duncan LeatherdaleNorth East and CumbriaPA MediaThe nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital launched employment tribunal proceedings against NHS bossesHospital bosses violated the dignity of a group of female nurses who complained...