The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), said Monday it has completed an evaluation of the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red and processed meat. A group of 22 experts from 10 countries convened by the IARC Monographs Program determined the consumption of red meat is probably carcinogenic to humans.

Tennessee Senator co-sponsoring two bills to pave the way for new medical device breakthroughs.

Progress has been made, but it's not clear if women are being accurately represented in medical research.

New tool shows little focus exists on user-centered designs of electronic health records

Representatives from health insurance provider Aetna recently announced that Aetna Whole Health Chicago will be available on Illinois' health marketplace website as well as to Illinois businesses for the 2016 health insurance open enrollment period. Aetna Whole Health Chicago will be available through Advocate Health Care’s network of 4,000 primary care physicians and specialists at 250 sites.

A recent federal insurance marketplace study by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that nearly 15 percent of insurance plans provided no in-network physician for at least one specialty. The study covered physician networks in 34 states offering plans through the federal marketplace. The most commonly excluded specialties were endocrinology, rheumatology and psychiatry.

Lisa Yourman discusses treatment advancement for CF, funding for research and health care tribulations.

Insurance company says it can't offer affordable health insurance plans to Florida customers in 2016.

Prime Therapeutics, LLC said Monday its recent study showed that 40 percent more of its Medicare members took medications as prescribed when they were participating in a Comprehensive Medication Review through its medication therapy management (MTM) program. For the study, researchers analyzed the medication-taking habits of 106,915 Prime Therapeutics' Medicare members.

Efforts to improve the quality of life of children, individuals and families affected by lupus were recognized at the Lupus Foundation of America’s Evening of Hope New York City Gala. Evening honorees included Siegelvision President and CEO Alan Siegal who received the Visionary Award for his efforts to brand not only the Lupus Foundation of America, but lupus itself.

The Stop the Bleed initiative recently launched by the White House is aimed at providing bystanders at the scenes of emergencies with the tools and knowledge to stop life threatening bleeding. American Academy of Family Physicians Board Chair Robert Wergin said that at an event to launch the initiative, Kevin O'Connor, the vice president's physician, said we must move more people from being bystanders to "by-doers."

A Community Pharmacy Foundation study of medication waste raises questions about the cost-savings associated with prescriptions filled by mail, the National Community Pharmacists Association said. In the study, more than 6,500 prescriptions that were returned by consumers for disposal at pharmacies through the NCPA Dispose My Meds program between June 2012 and June 2013 were analyzed.

American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) officials lauded a proposed federal budget agreement concerning Medicare. “The proposed bipartisan budget agreement bodes well for patients who depend on Medicare ... but it also contains provisions that will mitigate draconian premium increases for millions of Medicare Part B enrollees," AAFP President Wanda Filer said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded a multimillion-dollar grant to the Lupus Foundation of America to boost its mission to improve symptom recognition, diagnosis and quality of life for people with lupus. The funding will be used for a variety of purposes, including establishing new resources and support for people at risk for and living with lupus.

American Medical Association (AMA) officials have expressed disappointment concerning the final recommendations released earlier this week by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on diabetes screening.

According to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, more than 29.1 million people in the United States are living with diabetes, which makes research for treating the disease critical.