Hospitals and Insurers Join to Cut Health Care Costs
Insurers, hospitals and doctors say they are forming partnerships and creating programs to find ways to slow the growth in the nation’s $2.7 trillion health care bill. (Source: NYT Health)

Self-induced facial excoriations and ocular trauma: a treatment dilemma
We present five unique cases of self-induced facial excoriations with psychiatric disease ranging from psychogenic excoriation to psychogenic parasitosis. Patient 1 presented with a vertical hypertrophic scar involving the forehead (figure 1A). The patient admitted to skin picking. Three years earlier, an abscess from repeated acne pustule manipulation required surgical drainage. The scar was injected with triamcinolone acetonide with improvement. Patient 2 presented with periocular lesions in various phases of healing (figure 1B). Biopsy at an outside institution revealed only inflammation. When queried about self-manipulation, the patient reported... (Source: British Journal of Ophthalmology)