• Weekly Line: The next pandemic? It could take a cue from the common cold.

  May 25, 2018
  

  Infectious disease experts are always on the lookout for the next pandemic.
  

• Non-publication notice

  May 25, 2018
  

  American Health Line will not publish on Monday, May 28th, in observance of Memorial Day. We will resume publication on Tuesday, May 29th.

• These 12 factors explain how happy your community is, according to a study

  May 25, 2018
  

  A new study identifies 12 factors related to clinical care, demographics, social and economic status, and physical environment that explain more than 90% of the variation in community well-being in the United States.

• Cancer death rates dropped overall—but not for every type of the disease, report finds

  May 25, 2018
  

  Kathy Cronin, deputy associate director of the surveillance research program at the National Cancer Institute, says, "There is a lot of good news in the report—overall mortality is going down for all cancers combined."

• Survey unveils 'startling' decline in public trust in vaccines

  May 25, 2018
  

  A recent survey shows 77% of respondents said they were confident in the U.S. system for evaluating the safety of vaccines and recommendations for when they should be given, down 8 percentage points from 2008.

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• Trump might stop cost-sharing reduction payments. What would that mean?

  August 7, 2017
  

  President Trump has repeatedly threatened to halt payments that reimburse insurers for reducing out-of-pocket costs for low-income enrollees on the Affordable Care Act's exchanges. Here's what you need to know about the payments and what could happen if Trump halts them.

• Amid uncertainty on health care reform, three insurers announce exchange exits

  August 4, 2017
  

  The insurers say uncertainty surrounding the Affordable Care Act's cost-sharing reduction payments are a reason for their exits from exchange markets in California, Nevada, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.

• Insurers attribute proposed 2018 premium increases to ACA uncertainty, KFF finds

  August 10, 2017
  

  Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says, "In most of the country, the [individual health insurance] market would be stable if not for significant uncertainty about what the ...Trump administration will do."

• US News names 152 'Best Hospitals'

  August 8, 2017
  

  Mayo Clinic tops U.S. News & World Report's "Honor Roll" for the second year in a row.

• ACA repeal has been declared 'dead' countless times. What would really mean it's failed?

  August 1, 2017
  

  The conventional wisdom is that under Senate rules, the GOP's effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act will be officially "dead" if it doesn't pass by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. But a former Senate parliamentarian tells American Health Line that things aren't so simple.

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