SARASOTA, Fla., Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- INVO Bioscience, Inc. (OTCQB: IVOB), a medical device company focused on creating alternative treatments for patients diagnosed with infertility & developers of INVOcell®, the first FDA-cleared Intravaginal Culture System, today announced the appointment of Steven Shum as the

TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG) and Collaborative Health Systems (CHS), a WellCare company, announced today that 13 CHS Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) – nearly 90% of all CHS ACOs – delivered $53.3 million in total savings to Medicare

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ­­Blood transfusion guidelines may require further evaluation with an eye to reducing transfusions for patients with stable blood pressure, according to Divyajot Sadana, MD, from the Cleveland Clinic, who will present the study findings at the CHEST Annual Meeting 2019 in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations surge during the coldest months of the year—January, February and March—creating a spike in COPD deaths and hospitalizations that represent a greater financial burden on health care resources due to a longer length of hospital stay and higher hospitalization

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Children with asthma who are required to switch inhaler types to accommodate insurance formulary changes may experience a loss of lung function not seen in children whose inhaler type stayed the same, according to Scott Bickel, MD, from the University of Louisville Schoo

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with systemic sclerosis (SSc) who were treated with macitentan had similar therapeutic and safety results as patients with PAH from both idiopathic PAH (IPAH) and heritable PAH (HPAH), which is caused by a genetic mutation that runs in families, according to

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ­­Patients with lung blood clots who smoke are more likely to be readmitted for lung blood clots than nonsmokers, according to Kam Sing Ho, MD, from Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West in New York City, who will present the study findings at the CHES

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Among adults admitted to a hospital with pneumonia, patients who received an influenza vaccination had a lower chance of being readmitted, according to Kam Sing Ho, MD, from Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West, New York City, who will present the study findi

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- ­­Vaping is not a low-risk substitute for smoking cigarettes, according to researcher Charlie Lin, MD, who authored a case study of a 34-year-old former smoker diagnosed with granulomatosis attributed to two months of electronic cigarette use. Dr. Lin will present his case study at the CHES

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients newly diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treated with macitentan and tadalafil combination therapy showed hemodynamic progress, as well as improvements in function and risk profile, according to Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD, from Université Paris–Sud, who will pre