• Why you shouldn't trust the hype on that new low-carb diet study

  November 20, 2018
  

  A study recently published in BMJ suggests diets low in carbohydrates could enable people to burn more calories than other diets—but several nutrition experts say the results might not mean much for real-world dieters.

• How Mercy Hospital staff responded when a shooter entered the ED

  November 20, 2018
  

  A gunman opened fire yesterday afternoon at Chicago's Mercy Hospital, killing a physician, a pharmaceutical resident, and a police officer.

• How a new trial could offer hope for children with severe peanut allergies

  November 20, 2018
  

  Researchers have announced the results of a clinical trial that could lead to the first-ever FDA approval of an oral immunotherapy regimen to reduce children's allergic response to peanuts.

• Number of teens using e-cigarettes spiked by 78% since 2011, CDC finds

  November 20, 2018
  

  CDC's 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey shows the number of high school students who reported currently using electronic cigarettes increased from 220,000 in 2011 to 3.05 million in 2018.

• Improper Medicare payments fall to record low, CMS says

  November 20, 2018
  

  CMS says the 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) improper payment rate decreased from 9.51% in fiscal year (FY) 2017 to 8.12% in FY 2018, marking the second consecutive year the agency's improper Medicare FFS payment rate is less than 10%.

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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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