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Traumatic brain injury, when not treated soon could significantly increase chances of developing Alzheimer's. US Army soldiers to receive gadgets that can scan for brain injuries   VANO SHLAMOV/AFP/Getty Images The US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command has awarded a contract worth close to $10m (£7.6m) to Neural Analytics, a company that designs and builds medical instruments, for the development of a device that can help quickly determine if a person has received a head injury and how severe it is instantly on the battlefield. Read More: 'DO SOMETHING!': Trump lashes out as the Russia investigation heats up According to a Military Times report, the device, named Lucid System, will be made to monitor and detect physical signs of traumatic brain injury. Leo Petrossian, chief executive officer of Neural Analytics told the Army Times "Our objective is to build an instrument for someone with little or no training that they can use reliably." The Lucid System s...

Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH. Credit: US Department of Health and Human Services livestream. On the same day that the president is poised to ask the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the opioid abuse crisis a public health emergency, HHS is hosting a symposium on privacy in the digital age. The pre-planned opening speech addressed the privacy implications of the opioid crisis—and how that emergency designation could amplify them. ::Also Read:: Hillary Campaign, DNC Accused Of Violating Election Law With Dossier Payments Beginning more than a decade ago, “There was an assumption that we were overprescribing opioids and that they were being diverted,” said Leo Beletsky, JD, MPH, of Northeastern University. “At the same time, there was really a feeling that we were failing people in treatment, so prescription drug monitoring became part of that as well.” Beletsky called such prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP) an “essential tool” for the public health fight agains...

Two top Republicans announced a bill Tuesday restoring federal subsidies to insurers while including tough conditions sought by the White House. Senate Democrats have enough votes to kill it, but the measure underscores the changes the Trump administration and congressional conservatives say they want in exchange for resuming the payments. The proposal seeks changes in President Barack Obama’s health care law that go far further than provisions in bipartisan legislation that is stuck in the Senate. That compromise has stalled as President Donald Trump has flashed contradictory signals about whether he supports it and conservatives — especially in the House — have complained it doesn’t revamp Obama’s statute strongly enough. Tuesday’s GOP alternative — by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady of Texas — highlighted the party’s internal differences over the issue. At a lunch Tuesday with GOP senators, Trump apparentl...