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Australian researchers found physicians often underestimate the harm and overestimate the benefits of common drugs, procedures and tests, according to The Age.

A Transparency Market Research report found the hospital infection therapeutics market is expanding through 2020, according to medGadget.

The California Department of Insurance conducted an investigation finding a foreign government was likely responsible for Indianapolis-based Anthem's cyber attack that impacted 78.8 million consumers.

Last year, the United States saw a decline in the number of births, according to CDC data.

Canonsburg, Pa.-based Mylan wants to cut out local pharmacists and pharmaceutical chains to set up its own pharmacy and expand EpiPen sales, according to Bloomberg.

The American Gastroenterological Association is bringing its annual Tech Summit back to Boston April 12 to April 14, 2016.

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration is seeing positive results from its campaign to reduce healthcare-associated infections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a study published in American Journal of Infection Control.

Spending on drugs costing more than $1,000 monthly has increased significantly over the past five years, a HHS Inspector General report found, according to The Wall Street Journal.

For the third year, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation will offer a fishing trip with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter to top-performing healthcare institutions.

CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, said Zika is still a large threat and people should not forgo protective measures against the infection, according to STAT.