Since the Trump administration began allowing states to implement work requirements within their Medicaid programs, thousands of beneficiaries have been impacted, with some already losing critical healthcare coverage. Unfortunately, as more of these programs roll out, not all beneficiaries will be able to meet the requirements–simply because they aren’t aware of them, according to The New York Times.

A Weston, Connecticut, cardiologist was sentenced to six months in prison and handed a $500,000 fine this week after illegally trading stock in a life sciences company, the Associated Press reports.

An agreement between artificial intelligence (AI) startup Paige.AI and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York is drawing backlash over the company’s exclusive rights to the cancer center’s 25 million pathology slide images, the New York Times reported.

Data and analytics were named the top challenge healthcare executives expect their organizations to face next year.

AI trained with neuroimaging data may be used to successfully predict outcomes for people at risk of psychosis and depression, according to research published online Sept. 26 in JAMA Psychiatry.

Medicare patients who receive hospital outpatient care are more likely to be poorer and have more severe chronic conditions compared to those treated in an independent physician office, according to a study commissioned by the American Hospital Association.

Biopharmaceutical company Amarin this week announced the topline results of its REDUCE-IT trial, a global study that achieved 25 percent cardiovascular risk reduction in a population of 8,179 statin-treated adults with the daily use of Vascepa, also known as icosapent ethyl.

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP)—a common condition that’s rarely serious—might boost heart patients’ risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD), researchers reported in the BMJ journal Heart this week.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) released in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Sept. 26, a new strategic plan for tuberculosis (TB) aiming to strengthen research, diagnostic tools and clinical efforts to tackle the disease, according to a NIH news release.

Between 2010 and 2017, healthcare providers and health plans accounted for the most breaches and largest number of patient records compromised from breaches, according to a research letter published in JAMA.