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Getting Lung Cancer Screening Staff Involved Improved Tobacco Cessation

(MedPage Today) -- Integrating smoking cessation into a lung cancer screening program had the biggest benefit for patients who wanted to quit, a randomized trial showed.

How Nurses, Doctors Rank in Gallup's Poll of Most Trusted Professions

(MedPage Today) -- Nurses once again earned the top spot as the most trusted profession in America, with pharmacists and physicians ranking fourth and fifth on Gallup's annual Most Honest and Ethical

Vaccinating Toddlers Too Early, Too Late Has Decreased Over Time

(MedPage Today) -- Vaccine doses given to U.S.

Prospect Is Another Casualty of Private Equity in Healthcare, Experts Say

(MedPage Today) -- Prospect Medical Holdings -- a company that was named in a recent Senate report on the negative impacts of private equity on healthcare -- said it has filed for Chapter 11 bank

Intra-Arterial Lytics After Successful Stroke Thrombectomy Did Not Improve Outcomes

(MedPage Today) -- For stroke patients undergoing mechanical thrombectomy, adjunctive intra-arterial thrombolytics fell short for further improving outcomes in two randomized trials.

Childhood Cancer Survivors Have Double the Risk of Melanoma as Adults

(MedPage Today) -- A history of childhood cancer more than doubled the risk of melanoma and premature death in adults, a large retrospective review showed.

STAT+: Truveta enlists health systems, drugmakers to launch ambitious new genomic database

Health data company Truveta said Monday it’s partnering with health systems and drugmakers to launch the Truveta Genome Project, a database of genetic data that is expected to accelerate personalize

Dementia Cases to Double in the U.S.

(MedPage Today) -- Dementia cases in the U.S. are expected to double in the next four decades, a new analysis suggested.

Cinco cambios críticos que puede sufrir Medicaid bajo Trump

Los republicanos en Washington afirman que planean utilizar recortes de financiamiento y cambios regulatorios para reducir drásticamente Medicaid, el programa de salud federal gerenciado por los esta

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