| Price appoints Georgia health commissioner Fitzgerald to head CDC
HHS Secretary Tom Price on Friday named Georgia’s top public health official, Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. READ MORE
The healthcare industry added 36,500 jobs in June, marking the strongest month so far in 2017 for job creation in the sector. The healthcare hiring machine continued to churn even as Senate Republicans mull over plans to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. READ MORE
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MEDICAL DEVICES & EQUIPMENT
Houston to Goop: We’ve got a problem Gwyneth Paltrow, whose Goop website has a blog post rhapsodizing about a line of “wearable stickers thar promote healing,” got fact-checked by NASA. READ MORE
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PHARMACEUTICALS
Wide variation in opioid prescribing among U.S. counties, report finds Despite an overall decline in recent years in the amount of opioids prescribed nationally, large disparities have been found among counties due largely to inconsistencies in prescribing practices, a new government report found. READ MORE
Painkiller maker stops sales at FDA request because of abuse The maker of opioid painkiller Opana ER is pulling the drug off the market at the request of federal regulators because it’s being abused. READ MORE
CLINICAL PRACTICE
S.C. hospital to pay $1.3 million for not properly treating emergency psych patients AnMed Health has agreed to pay the largest-ever settlement in a case brought under the federal law requiring hospitals to stabilize and treat patients in emergency situations. READ MORE
NQF launches opioid stewardship initiative Looking to play a larger role the fight against opioid abuse, the National Quality Forum on Wednesdaylaunched a new stewardship program to lower rates of overprescribing among healthcare providers and curb patient addiction risks. READ MORE
SPOTLIGHT
The VA and Air Force team up for telehealth, generic drug manufacturers challenge a price-gouging law, and scientists modulate sleep brainwaves to control memory. READ MORE
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