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MDedge Daily News: A call to push pause on a Medicare payment program
And are fast food swamps to blame for more type 1 diabetes?
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Time for a facelift?
How friendly is the face of your office?
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New rankings focus on child health care
States were compared across 30 indicators of cost, quality, and access.
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Federal court puts chill on Maryland drug price-gouging law
Similar price-gouging legislation has been introduced in at least 13 states this year, though none of those measures became law.
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Will patients get on board with CMS’s new health data approach?
CMS Administrator, Seema Verma, wants clinicians who still believe they can deny patients’ access to their own health records to change their...
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Surgeries account for almost half of hospital costs
Spinal fusion heads the list of most costly operating room procedures.
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Musculoskeletal procedures predominate in top 20 surgeries
Knee and hip replacements are both in the top five.
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MDedge Daily News: Which diabetes drug boosts survival best?
And there’s new promise in early-stage lung cancer.
The Optimized Doctor

Grind it out
“And five more, four more, three more, two more, one more, and done!” Just when you thought you could not stand the searing pain any longer, it...
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MDedge Daily News: Can a nasal spray reverse suicidality?
And pain relievers and inflammatory bowel disease? It’s complicated.