The healthcare industry has been turned on its head in the last two years, and is still reeling from supply chain disruptions, staffing shortages, high rates of physician burnout, and uncertainty over the continuing Covid-19 pandemic. What has been clear to many healthcare leaders during the pandemic is that their organization’s data can be incredibly useful in helping them to […]
In the fall of 1988, Matthew Farrow, a 5-year-old boy with a rare blood disorder, received the world’s first transplant of umbilical-cord blood from a newborn sibling. It worked: Farrow was cured. This miraculous outcome broke open a whole new field in medicine—and, not long after, a whole new industry aimed at getting expecting parents to bank their baby’s umbilical-cord […]
Gilead Sciences has expanded its cancer therapies portfolio and pipeline by striking deals and its latest one has the pharmaceutical company partnering with MacroGenics on the development of bispecific antibody drugs for cancer. Gilead is paying $60 million up front to kick off the alliance, which gives the Foster City, California-based drugmaker an option to license MGD024, a drug in […]
Two and a half years in to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing shortages remain. Health systems are paying higher prices to secure workers. Supply costs are elevated and some service lines have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. As a result, many hospitals were operating in the red in the first half of 2022, with executives concerned about the financial ramifications […]
With staff shortages persisting in healthcare, more care is being provided by less experienced nurses. To provide support to recent nursing graduates, Atrium Health in North Carolina launched its virtual nursing observation program in March 2021. The program connects newer nurses with nursing veterans via video. Many experienced nurses are nearing retirement age or, due to burnout exacerbated by the pandemic, are interested in leaving […]
Desde el lunes 17 de octubre, miles de consumidores podrán comprar audífonos directamente en las tiendas, y a precios dramáticamente más bajos, gracias a una ley federal de 2017 que está entrando en vigencia. Durante décadas, estos dispositivos solo pudieron comprarse con receta médica y desembolsando miles de dólares. Ahora, una nueva categoría de audífonos de venta libre costarán desde […]
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded affordable health coverage options in the U.S., helping to reduce the number of uninsured individuals. Even so, KFF has found that most people who remain uninsured are nonetheless eligible for coverage and financial assistance through the Marketplace or Medicaid. Many consumers – including most uninsured – have limited awareness of affordable coverage options available […]
It’s every parent’s nightmare—the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). While it’s comforting to know that that level of expert care is there, you hope and pray you’ll never need it. When we welcomed our third child, Waylon, three weeks early, we knew he might need extra care due to a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. But he entered the world […]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The nation’s first trial over a state’s ban on gender-confirming care for children begins in Arkansas this week, the latest fight over restrictions on transgender youth championed by Republican leaders and widely condemned by medical experts. U.S. District Judge Jay Moody will hear testimony and evidence starting Monday over the law he temporarily blocked last year […]
Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.) broke ground on Northwell Medical Pavilion, an outpatient care facility in New York. The $450 million, 200,000-square-foot facility will offer treatment for numerous cancer types, with services provided Northwell Health Cancer Institute (Lake Success, N.Y.). The facility will also include neuroscience and cardiac care services. It’s slated to open in fall 2025.