The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
 (Wednesday, March 27, 2024)
It’s estimated that an older patient can spend three weeks of the year getting care — and that doesn’t count the time it takes to arrange appointments or deal with insurance companies.

Medicare plans can now cover the weight-loss drug Wegovy
 (Friday, March 22, 2024)
Private Medicare plans that pay for prescription drugs can now cover obesity medicine Wegovy, if it's prescribed to reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes in people at high risk.

Social Security Chief Testifies in Senate About Plans to Stop ‘Clawback Cruelty’
 (Thursday, March 21, 2024)
Commissioner Martin O’Malley testifies to two Senate panels that his agency will stop the “injustices” of suspending people’s monthly benefits to recover alleged overpayments. The burden will be on the Social Security Administration to prove the beneficiary was to blame.

Telehealth Sites Promise Cure for ‘Male Menopause’ Despite FDA Ban on Off-Label Ads
 (Thursday, March 21, 2024)
Most healthy men produce sufficient testosterone as they age. Yet online ads and telehealth sites are promoting testosterone drugs with flawed promises of boosting libido and busting stomach fat.

Sitios de telesalud prometen una cura para la “menopausia masculina” a pesar de prohibiciones
 (Thursday, March 21, 2024)
En anuncios de Google, Facebook y otros medios, los sitios web de telemedicina sobre testosterona pueden prometer una solución rápida para la “lentitud” y la libido baja en los hombres. Pero los médicos dicen que no hay pruebas de su eficacia.

Biden Said Medicare Drug Price Negotiations Cut the Deficit by $160B. That’s Years Away.
 (Thursday, March 21, 2024)
Savings estimated by the Congressional Budget Office from allowing the federal government to negotiate Medicare drug prices are based on a 10-year cumulative projection.

Covid and Medicare Payments Spark Remote Patient Monitoring Boom
 (Monday, March 18, 2024)
Demand for help monitoring patients’ vital signs remotely has taken off since a Medicare change in 2019. Dozens of companies now push the service to help overburdened primary care doctors — and as a revenue stream. But some policy experts say its growth has outpaced oversight and evidence of effe...

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Maybe It’s a Health Care Election After All
 (Thursday, March 14, 2024)
Health care wasn’t expected to be a major theme for this year’s elections. But as President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump secured their respective party nominations this week, the future of both Medicare and the Affordable Care Act appears to be up for debate. Meanwhile, the cyberat...

Concerns Grow Over Quality of Care as Investor Groups Buy Not-for-Profit Nursing Homes
 (Wednesday, March 13, 2024)
For-profit groups own more than 70% of U.S. nursing homes. Industry leaders and researchers wonder whether corporations and investors can succeed where not-for-profit organizations have struggled. Or, will quality of care suffer in the name of making money?

An Arm and a Leg: The Medicare Episode
 (Monday, March 11, 2024)
On this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann breaks down the complicated and expensive world of Medicare with practical tips to pick the right plan and avoid penalties.

Biden Said State of the Union Is Strong and Made Clear His Campaign Is Off and Running
 (Friday, March 8, 2024)
President Joe Biden used his roughly 68-minute address to Congress to counter lackluster public approval ratings and draw clear contrasts between his administration’s policies and those of Donald Trump and some congressional Republicans. Abortion and health care were in the spotlight.

The State of the Union Is … Busy
 (Thursday, March 7, 2024)
At last, Congress is getting half of its annual spending bills across the finish line, albeit five months after the start of the fiscal year. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden delivers his annual State of the Union address, an over-the-counter birth control pill is (finally) available, and controver...

Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services
 (Thursday, March 7, 2024)
A recent report finds half of America’s rural hospitals are losing money, and many are struggling to stay open. Researchers and advocates worry the hospitals’ financial spiral will have immediate and long-term health effects on their communities.

Whistleblower Accuses Aledade, Largest US Independent Primary Care Network, of Medicare Fraud
 (Tuesday, March 5, 2024)
A recently unsealed lawsuit alleges Aledade Inc. developed billing software that boosted revenues by making patients appear sicker than they were.

Study links insulin resistance, advanced cell aging with childhood poverty
 (Monday, July 25, 2022)
A study linked childhood poverty and teens' beliefs about their life prospects with accelerated immune cell aging and greater levels of insulin resistance in young adulthood.

Researchers identify protein connected to aging and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
 (Monday, July 25, 2022)
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is an aging-associated disease caused by progressive scarring of the lungs, leading to respiratory failure and death. Therapies to treat IPF are limited, making studies on the mechanisms responsible for this crippling disease a priority. Now researchers have di...

Pharmacist-based deprescribing successfully reduced older adults' exposure to anticholinergic drugs
 (Thursday, July 21, 2022)
A new study has found that using pharmacists as deprescribing care coordinators decreased prescription of anticholinergics by 73 percent and reduced cumulative use of these drugs by as much as 70 percent.

Loss of 'youth' protein may drive aging in the eye
 (Monday, July 18, 2022)
Loss of the protein pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), which protects retinal support cells, may drive age-related changes in the retina, according to a new study.

Scientists reveal new function of enzyme ADAR1 linking it to age-related diseases via a role independent of RNA-editing during aging
 (Monday, July 18, 2022)
Scientists have revealed a novel ADAR1-SIRT1-p16INK4a axis in regulating cellular senescence and its potential implications in tissue aging.

Whether you're 18 or 80, lifestyle may be more important than age in determining dementia risk, study reveals
 (Wednesday, July 13, 2022)
Individuals with no dementia risk factors, such as smoking, diabetes or hearing loss, have similar brain health as people who are 10 to 20 years younger than them, according to a new study. The study found that a single dementia risk factor could reduce cognition by the equivalent of up to three ...

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