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Medicare Coverage of Major Pain Procedures May End
One in five Americans with chronic pain could soon lose access to evidence-based interventions that have been around for decades. Impending changes in Medicare coverage threaten access to local anesthetic blockade or “peripheral nerve block” procedures. Medicare administrative providers across the country have recently proposed eliminating coverage of these minimally invasive, non-opioid treatment options for […]
The Trump administration has restored funding for the major diabetes study. The stop is still stung
Trump administration The restoration of federal research funding at Columbia University has relaunched a historic study of diabetes that has followed patients for almost 30 years and a considerably extended understanding of the disease, its treatment and its prevention. The study, who has been led by a professor from the Harvard Medical School since his […]