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Help is out there for hospitals trying to help patients addicted to heroin and prescription painkillers.

Prescribing rates are down — with wide geographic variation — but opioid-related hospitalizations are up sharply among females.

Diabetes, hypertension and obesity are the chronic illnesses that grab headlines and the attention of the health policymakers. Yet chronic kidney disease flies under the radar.

Plus, encouraging news on hospital "super-users," and more, in this week's roundup of health care news.

Company sees an opportunity in partnering with payers for certain populations.

A new guide from the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust explores the challenges of ensuring a population has access to and is eating healthy food.

'Hospital to Home' program focuses on the crucial first two weeks out of hospital.

The structured framework improves processes, saves $76 million at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center.

Plus, the importance of speedy sepsis care, transgender surgeries are on the rise, and more in this week's roundup of health care news.

We need to think about safety across the entire care continuum, says Tejal Gandhi, M.D., chief clinical and safety officer at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.