Most of us are pretty good at taking care of our physical bodies. We brush our teeth every morning. We feed ourselves so we don’t starve. We try not to overdo it on the coffee and alcohol. We get at least some (but probably not enough) sleep. We go to the doctor when we’re sick. But in the beautiful chaos […]
Hybrid Work Provided Health Systems with Unforeseen Benefits Working through the pandemic, the hospital decided it wanted to set up its workforce for remote work more permanently, but it had to overcome some hurdles to get there. There were the common IT challenges such as hardware, connectivity and security. But there were other difficulties, including more competitive recruiting and hiring. […]
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 includes a number of climate, tax, and health care provisions. Major health care provisions include prescription drug reforms that primarily affect Medicare as well as a three year extension of enhanced subsidies to purchase Marketplace coverage that were included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). However, a temporary federal policy to close […]
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion advocacy group, is launching a record $50 million investment into the midterm elections in November, the organization announced Wednesday. The effort is aimed at states that are poised to either ban or expand access to sexual and reproductive health, and comes just a few months after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. […]
Voice-recognition AI software has improved the basic processes for a variety of professions, including restaurateurs, journalists, and any customer service organization that employs an automated call center. For the healthcare industry, voice-recognition AI in the examination room has shifted from a mere convenience to an urgent need. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic reached the United States, and the ensuing “Great […]
BY MIKE MAGEE Senator Lindsey Graham (R.,S.C.) is on summer recess. A consummate professional politician, and war hardened lawyer, Sen. Graham has made a career out of flipping on a dime. His moral calculus has been flexible enough to wiggle and weave, and switch sides if cornered. In a dream, I caught a glimpse of him reading on one of […]
A cap on prescription drug price increases is the most popular part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the $430 billion climate, health care and tax package that President Biden signed into law Tuesday, according to a Politico-Morning Consult poll. The poll found that 76 percent of respondents strongly or somewhat support placing a limit on the amount that prescription drugs […]
Joseph Osmundson, a microbiologist at NYU, was walking home recently in New York City when a stranger abruptly shouted “Monkeypox!” at him. He wasn’t infected with the virus, which has been spreading largely through intimate contact between men, nor did he have the characteristic skin lesions. So he must have been targeted for this catcall, he told me, on account […]
State and local health authorities are facing new obstacles in responding to monkeypox after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized dividing Jynneos vaccine doses into fifths to expand the available supply, with many authorities unsure about how to immediately adopt the new strategy. The FDA last week authorized a new method of administering the Jynneos smallpox vaccine, which is being used to prevent monkeypox amid the ongoing […]