Health Care

In this video exclusive, Maria T. Abreu, MD, AGAF, Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, and Carol Burke, MD, leaders in the field of gastroenterology, discussed how COVID-19 impacted them professionally and personally.

The American Heart Association announced a new program to virtually connect health care facilities to volunteer cardiologists.

Researchers called for immediate treatment action without restriction among patients with hepatitis C for continued progress in virus elimination following COVID-19, according to a presentation at The Digital International Liver Congress.

Total 1-year costs associated with intracerebral hemorrhage exceeded $120 million per year, according to results of a retrospective cohort study among adult patients in Ontario, Canada that were published in Neurology.

In a new ABIM Foundation survey, 30% of physicians said their trust in the United States health care system and health care organization leadership has decreased over the past year.

Health care spending on CVD increased to $320 billion in 2016, with treatment for hypertension, hyperlipidemia and atrial fibrillation/flutter being the primary drivers, according to data published in Circulation.

Better health care benefits both patients and physicians. However, more efforts are needed to achieve this goal, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

Healio launched its latest podcast, Vital Capacity, this week.

Health insurance coverage losses among patients with asthma and COPD improved after implementation of the Affordable Care Act, but there was no improvement in health care affordability or racial and economic disparities from 1997 to 2018.

Welcome to this special edition of Healio Psoriatic Disease, which focusses on the management of psoriasis in patients with skin of color, coinciding with Black History Month.