WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Officials with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced it won't change its payment policy on erythropoiesis stimulating agents used to treat anemia in kidney patients.

(MedPage Today) -- Nationally, deaths from cancer are continuing to decline -- but improved survival remains an elusive goal among the poor and less educated.

(MedPage Today) -- Although nearly all surveyed U.S. hospitals had plans for responding to mass-casualty events such as earthquakes and chemical spills, gaps and omissions were common, a CDC analysis found.

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Clinicians perceive industry-sponsored continuing medical education as rife with potential bias, but most consider supported CME essential and are unwilling to personally foot the bill if commercial funding was taken out of the mix.