A new FDA rule allows retail sales of hearing aids beginning Monday. Retailers such as CVS, Walgreens, Best Buy and Hy-Vee will sell the devices.
Author: Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
Inflation is near a four-decade high. So why aren’t health care costs significantly higher?
For the first time in 40 years, inflation is rising faster than medical costs. But employers and health insurers are bracing for that to soon change.
Survey: More than 2.5 million middle and high school students still vape, despite crackdowns
The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey showed 14.1% of high school students and 3.3% of middle school students vaped at least once over past 30 days.
Alzheimer’s drug slowed progression of disease in late-stage study, drugmakers say
Officials said they will submit the new trial results to the FDA to bolster its case that lecanemab should be approved as an Alzheimer’s treatment.
HIV groups struggle to get insurance coverage for expensive prevention drugs, lab tests
HIV activists say people who are eligible for free HIV prevention care often don’t get full coverage even though federal law says they should.
‘Guardrails’ needed? Telehealth fraud cost Medicare $128M in first year of COVID pandemic, feds say
Improper claims from doctors and telehealth providers cost Medicare $128M in the first year of the COVID pandemic, according to a new federal report.
Patients seek relief from spiraling drug prices. Will the Inflation Reduction Act deliver?
Cancer and multiple sclerosis patients insured by Medicare are among those awaiting lower drug prices from the Inflation Reduction Act.
‘Almost useless’: Patients, advocates critical of federal pace to unlock hospital prices
Consumers are left in the dark about hospital prices before getting care. Now they want Medicare to enforce a new federal price transparency law .
Even America’s fittest cities have the blues; How exercise can improve mental health
Arlington, Virginia, is still tops in an annual ranking of the nation’s fittest cities, but mental health was a growing concern for all cities.
Hospitals must say how much they charge for hundreds of procedures. Here’s why many don’t.
More than half of U.S. hospitals have not shared pricing information as required by a new federal law. Consumer advocates urge federal enforcement.