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The case against financial incentives for annual physical examinations

Hospital spending accounted for 40% of the growth in medical costs from 2022-2024

Statins have few side effects

Obesity associated with higher risk of infectious disease

Weekend Longforms: AI in mammography, Cesarean section without anesthesia, AI workload, and long-term harm of viral infections

Friday Shorts: COVID vaccine efficacy, nixed mRNA flu shots, measles, CDC, and home cervical cancer testing

Higher cancer mortality in those with high deductible health plans

Blood pressure is often poorly controlled in the U.S.

Those diagnosed with cancer during the pandemic had higher mortality than expected

Direct-to-consumer multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tests: promise, uncertainty, and employer impact

Saturday Longforms: AI, losing limbs, prior auth, premiums, and zero value of a life

Friday Shorts: Hospital prices, telehealth for high blood pressure, maternal syphilis and measles epidemic

Patient engagement with home blood pressure monitoring

Statins effectively reduce cardiovascular risk in people with diabetes, regardless of baseline risk level

Obesity rates continue to climb

Health plans that are too good to be true

Weekend Longforms: Rotavirus vaccine, ghost networks, breastfeeding and codeine, and rural health

Friday Shorts: Affordability, social determinants of health, cervical cancer self-swabs and water fluoridation

Study confirms safety of abortions

Digital health funding is back to pre-pandemic levels

Cancer deaths decline in those under 50

Fewer primary care practitioners available

Weekend Longforms: The Pitt, AI, vaccines and invisible habits

Friday Shorts and follow ups: Preventive services misbilled, pediatric COVID vaccine safety, cost sharing and health worker affordability

The impact of zero pay for diabetes care on total medical expenses

Total health care costs in the US exceeded $5 trillion in 2024

Cancer survival continues to increase

Reflections on Martin Luther King's Birthday

Weekend Longforms: Influenza, willpower, kids with brain cancer, and an IVF mixup

Friday Shorts: Telemed doesn't increase total visits, RSV vaccine safe in pregnancy, and golf courses and Parkinson's disease

Report highlights variation in health across the US

Those discontinuing GLP-1 medications rapidly regained weight

Flu and Tdap vaccinations in pregnancy lower hospitalization rates of infants

Medical debt and cancer screening

Weekend long forms: PBMs and GPOs, transgender care, rare disease drugs and employer cost efforts

Friday Shorts: AI costs, GLP-1s and asthma, lead, heart disease drugs and vaccines to prevent dementia

One in six adults face high medical cost burden over 4 years

What the shift to direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical purchasing means for patients and employers

HHS slashes vaccine recommendations

FDA approves the first oral GLP-1 medication

Weekend Longforms: Lifesaving FDA employee, pseudoscience, and broker fraud in Florida

Increased health insurance costs lead to lower employee wages