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Health care costs can be reduced

Plan Suggested for Reducing Health Care Costs

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Nine-point plan includes streamlining in billing, reduction in high facility fees, reducing drug costs
The groin pain and numbness some bicyclists experience isn't harmful to their sexual or urinary health

AUA: Cycling Has No Detrimental Effect on Urinary, Sexual Function

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Any transient discomfort or numbness won't harm sexual or urinary function, researchers say
Flibanserin (Addyi) may improve some measures of sexual dysfunction in premenopausal women

AUA: Flibanserin Shows Promise for Sexual Dysfunction in Females

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Patients noted improvements in desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain
Both electronic cigarettes and traditional cigarettes are tied to an increased risk for bladder cancer

AUA: E-Cigarettes Can Also Cause DNA Damage to Bladder Mucosa

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'Vaping' could lead to cancerous changes in urothelial cells, research indicates
An enhanced recovery after surgery program is associated with improved outcomes for patients undergoing elective colorectal resection and emergency hip fracture repair

Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Program Ups Outcomes

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Lower hospital length of stay and postoperative complication rates after implementation of ERAS
Hackers are increasingly targeting hospitals

Hospitals Need to Be Prepared for Ransomware Attacks

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Medical information a vulnerable target for those planning ransomware attacks, doctor warns
Medicaid patients have slightly longer waits at medical appointments than those with private insurance

Outpatient Wait Times Are Longer for Medicaid Recipients

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Researchers suggest lag time might be due to providers having larger caseloads
High-price practices have higher scores on certain measures of care coordination and management

Practice Prices Linked to Some Measures of Care Coordination

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But no differences in overall care ratings, receipt of preventive services, acute care use
From 2001 to 2010

Postmarket Safety Events for 32 Percent of Novel Therapeutics

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Thirty-two percent of 222 FDA approved novel therapeutics from 2001 to 2010 were affected
Increases in insurance coverage from 2008 to 2014 were not associated with worse access to care for continuously insured adults

Increases in Rates of Insured Don’t Harm Continuously Insured

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Continuously insured adults do not have worse access to care with increases in cover from '08 to '14