BY MIKE MAGEE July 25, 1972 was fifty years ago this week and it is a day that all AP Science journalists know by heart. As Monday’s AP banner headline read: “On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents leaked […]

Humana will restructure its operations next year to drive enrollment and expand the services it sells to other payers, executives said Wednesday. The company will divide the organization into two units: health insurance services and CenterWell, the company’s care delivery and healthcare services arm, CEO Bruce Broussard said during a second-quarter earnings call. The decision to reorganize is part of […]

Penn Highlands Healthcare is preparing to open the Stern Center for Behavioral Health in DuBois, Pa., according to the website thecourierexpress.com The $22 million project at the Penn Highlands DuBois East campus is scheduled to open in late September and will house inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services for children, adolescents, and adults. The facility includes: 44 child and adolescent […]

In April, CISA advised organizations to continue identifying and remediating vulnerable Log4j instances within their environments and plan for long-term vulnerability management. In June, CISA released a joint advisory to warn network defenders that threat actors have continued to exploit Log4Shell in VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway servers to obtain initial access to organizations that did not apply available […]

Dive Brief: About 500 nurses at the Mayo Clinic’s hospital in Mankato, Minnesota, will no longer be represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association after voting 213-181 to decertify their labor union, according to a release. A registered nurse at the hospital filed the petition to decertify the union with legal representation from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, […]

This slideshow explains the prescription drug provisions proposed in the Senate Reconciliation Proposal.

The head of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to rename monkeypox to prevent the “potentially devastating and stigmatizing effects” that the virus’s name could bring about. Commissioner Ashwin Vasan wrote to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a letter on Tuesday expressing his concerns over how his city […]

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville, Tenn.) is planning an expansion of Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH) in Nashville. The project will build a new 15-level, 470,000-square-foot inpatient tower atop an existing parking structure. The facility will house 180 inpatient beds, 10 operating rooms (ORs), radiology services, multiple specialty clinics, a spacious lobby, and new administrative office space. Blair, Mui + Dowd […]

In retrospect, Peggy Dula said, she shouldn’t have taken the ambulance. She was the least injured of the three siblings who were in a car when it was struck by a pickup truck last September. Her daughter had even offered to come to the crash site and pick her up. Jim Martens, 62, and Cynthia Martens, 63, Peggy’s brother and […]

The INVEST Digital Health conference, scheduled for September 28 in Dallas, will offer opportunities for healthcare startups to meet with traditional and strategic investors in an intimate setting to gain insights on investment strategies and criteria investors look for in digital health startups.  The forums are designed to complement a conference agenda that spotlights employee health benefits and digital health […]