| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Final rule eases sharing of substance abuse treatment records | | Friday, January 13, 2017 5:16 PM | |
| | The Obama administration has released a final privacy rule that makes it easier to share the medical history of people undergoing substance abuse treatment in federally funded drug and alcohol treatment programs. |
| Obamacare repeal heads to committees | | Friday, January 13, 2017 3:48 PM | |
| | By a near party-line 227-198 vote, the House approved a budget Friday that prevents Democrats from using a Senate filibuster to derail a blueprint that would repeal and replace President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law. |
| Oliver Smithies, 2007 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, dies | | Friday, January 13, 2017 3:30 PM | |
| | Smithies won the Nobel Prize for developing a technique used to manipulate genes in mice. The advance enhanced genetic research to better understand cancer, obesity, heart diseases and other diseases. |
| GOP lawmakers move to strike down DC's right-to-die law | | Friday, January 13, 2017 3:26 PM | |
| | Two congressional Republicans have introduced a resolution that would stop the District of Columbia from allowing terminally ill patients to end their own lives with the help of a doctor. |
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