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Here's The Latest in Health Care:

•  Who will be replacing Tom Price as the next Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS)? Alex Azar, former pharmaceutical executive at Eli Lilly and former HHS general counsel and deputy secretary, is the President's nomination for the next head of HHS. Some major goals Azar will be tasked with, if confirmed, is the lowering of drug prices and implementing deregulation.  Read More

•  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug with a sensor that transmits data to a smartphone app, notifying whether someone has taken it. The tiny sensor is about the size of a grain of sand and is embedded into the pill, serving as a digital ingestion tracking system.  The sensor will detect and record the date and time the pill was ingested.  Read More

•  In the first 11 days of Healthcare.gov's open enrollment period, signups totaled nearly 1.5 million. Some experts suggest that with the push for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal, the heightened visibility of the health care law is actually driving the increase in signups for the ACA exchange plans.  Read More

•  Scientists have found that a rare genetic mutation in Amish people living in a rural part of Indiana actually protects them from Type 2 diabetes and provides life-extending benefits.  The new findings could lead to new therapies for chronic diseases.  Read More

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