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More bulk billing will ease the cost of living. But what Australia’s health system really needs is genuine reform | Stephen Duckett

Medicare remains the right infrastructure for funding primary care, but it is now more than 40 years old and needs to be updatedWorrying signs are emerging about aspects of Australia’s health system

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AI-Enabled Prediction of Heart Failure Risk From Single-Lead Electrocardiograms

This multinational cohort study examined whether an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm could predict heart failure risk from noisy single-lead electrocardiograms.

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Automated Deep Learning Phenotyping of Tricuspid Regurgitation in Echocardiography

This study describes the development and testing of a deep learning computer vision workflow for identifying color Doppler echocardiogram videos and characterizing tricuspid regurgitation presence and

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Trump Seeks to Lower Drug Prices Through Medicare and Some Imports

President Trump directed his administration to help states import drugs from Canada. But a proposal to alter a Medicare program to reduce costs could wind up raising prices.

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Vaccine advisory panel, a frequent target of Kennedy, meets with little drama 

An advisory panel on vaccines meets, carefully, in the shadow of a health secretary who has often criticized it.

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STAT+: Trump targets health care costs with executive order on drug price negotiations, hospital payments

Trump's order is designed to reduce health care costs for older adults and people with disabilities, but the path to implementation is far from assured.

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British hospitals introduce treatment for heart failure that cuts deaths by 62%

‘Gamechanger’ brought in after success of trial offering larger doses of drugs within first two weeks of treatment People in Britain with heart failure are being given larger doses of drugs at the

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RFK Jr. calls rising autism rate an ‘epidemic.’ Researchers call it a ‘good sign’

A small increase in the autism rate suggests diagnosis and access to care are improving, researchers say — and don't herald a crisis as the health secretary argues.

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Brisk walking linked to lower risk of heart rhythm problems, study finds

Study of 420,000 Britons suggests going at speeds of at least 4mph can lower risks by up to 43%Walking at a brisker pace could lower the risk of a wide range of heart rhythm problems, according to a s

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Best Time of Day for Asthma Inhaler?

(MedPage Today) -- For mild to moderate asthma, mid-afternoon dosing of inhaled beclomethasone suppressed nocturnal lung function worsening compared with other dosing strategies, a small open-label t

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