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Vice President Harris will meet with Democratic attorneys general from seven states on Thursday about abortion rights as the White House prepares for a Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark abortion ruling Roe v. Wade.   Harris will meet with attorneys general from Wisconsin, Nevada, Illinois, California, Delaware, New York, and Washington state at the White House Thursday afternoon to […]

The healthcare industry has wrestled with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic for more than two years. Much has been asked of clinicians, who have faced unprecedented stress from the workload these cases have presented. They’ve had to nimbly adapt to the rapid scaling of telehealth and transform the way they work. Hospitals have grappled with provider burnout, staff shortages, […]

Disparate health outcomes could cost the American healthcare system $1 trillion annually by 2040, nearly tripling in size over the next 20 years and accounting for nearly 12.5% of healthcare spending, a new report warns. The analysis, published by Deloitte Wednesday, found the cost of excess health services delivered due to disparities is $320 billion annually, and the rate of […]

Rae Ellen Bichell and Markian Hawryluk Armando Peniche Rosales has a crooked toe that for years has predicted the weather, growing sensitive when rain or cold is coming. “It never healed right,” said Peniche Rosales, who broke the middle toe on his left foot as a high school soccer player in Denver years ago and limped home without seeing a […]

About one out of three COVID-19 cases in the United States now stem from the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the omicron strain, which are on their way to becoming the most dominant coronavirus strains in the country. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 11.4 and 23.5 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases are caused […]

The Covid-19 pandemic ensured that our healthcare system will never be the same. And like any major system upheaval, there were winners and losers. Folks who “won” are exactly those who have been winning for decades in America, including the large healthcare systems that were big enough to weather the pandemic headwinds and emerge with a newfound appetite for consolidation. […]

Twenty House Republicans voted against a package on Wednesday that includes provisions aimed at addressing mental health and substance abuse. The legislation, dubbed the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act, cleared the House in a 402-20 vote. Six Republicans and one Democrat did not cast votes. The lawmakers who voted against it were: Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Lauren […]

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is expanding monkeypox testing to commercial laboratories amid fears that the country is undercounting monkeypox cases because of insufficient testing.   The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it began shipping moneypox tests this week to five private testing companies: Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare.  […]

  Genetic medicines in development for blood disorders include several therapies made by taking a patient’s cells and editing them outside of the body. Novartis is one of the companies testing this approach, but it also sees advantages in treating these diseases with therapies that work inside the patient. The pharmaceutical giant is turning to the technology of Precision BioSciences […]