2018 Health Care Spending Up Due to Higher Prices
2018 uptick in utilization first seen in years, but impact dwarfed by price increases
FDA: Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities May Affect Medical Devices
Providers asked to identify devices; patients potentially affected by 12 Bluetooth-associated vulnerabilities
Female Clinical Chairs Paid Significantly Less Than Men
Findings based on study of 550 clinical department chairs at 29 public U.S. medical schools
FDA: Singulair to Get ‘Black Box’ Warning
Drug has long carried warning of potentially dangerous neuropsychiatric side effects
Less Than 1 in 4 Perinatally Exposed Infants Tested for Hep C
Rate of testing significantly lower among African-American infants
Shift in Birth Timing Tied to Decline in Birth Weights
Finding largely due to changes in obstetric practices toward cesarean deliveries, inductions from 1990 to 2013
Considerable Increase Seen in List, Net Prices of Branded Drugs
From 2007 to 2018, list prices increased 159 percent, while net prices increased by 60 percent
Racial/Ethnic Insurance Coverage Disparity Down Since ACA
From 2013 to 2017, drop seen in unadjusted, adjusted black-white gap, Hispanic-white gap in uninsurance
Late Mortality Down for Young Adult, Adolescent Cancer Survivors
Five-year mortality from all causes overall decreased, but improvement was limited for some cancer types
CDC: ~14 Percent of Children Have ADHD, Learning Disability
Likelihood of having ever been diagnosed with ADHD, learning disability highest for non-Hispanic blacks
