President Joe Biden’s proposal to mandate staffing levels and nursing homes would require providers to hire 187,000 new nurses at a cost of up to $10 billion a year, and displace nearly 1 in 5 residents, according to a report the American Health Care Association released Tuesday. The nursing home lobbying group has long opposed regulations that dictate how many […]
On Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took the time to map out the federal agency’s strategic plans and key initiatives moving forward. During the national stakeholder call, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, CMS Chief Operating Officer Jon Blum and Deputy Administrator and Director of Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Dan Tsai, among others, discussed Medicare […]
Caitlin Bernard, the Indiana OB-GYN who provided services to a 10-year-old Ohio girl who traveled out of state to receive an abortion, filed for damages against Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) on Tuesday. Bernard claimed Rokita made “false and misleading” statements about her to both local and national media. DeLaney & DeLaney, the law firm representing Bernard, said in […]
Though mass shootings have been an ongoing issue in the U.S. for decades, the number of these shocking and tragic events has been rising in recent years — mass shootings increased by nearly 40% from 2019 to 2021. So far this year, 356 mass shootings have occurred across the country. These frequent calamities cause an influx of patients with traumatic […]
Las clínicas que tratan las enfermedades de transmisión sexual —que ya se enfrentaban a un aumento explosivo de enfermedades como la sífilis y la gonorrea— se encuentran ahora en la primera línea de la lucha para controlar el brote de viruela del simio, que crece rápidamente. Tras décadas de falta de financiación y dos años y medio de una pandemia […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s global coronavirus response will run out of money in the coming weeks without new funding from Congress, USAID Assistant Administrator for Global Health Atul Gawande warned on Tuesday. “We are grinding our operations to a halt,” Gawande said at The Hill’s Future of Health Care Summit. “The COVID task force will have to go […]
Just a few years ago, telemedicine was limited and providers were often skeptical. Then, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 spurred growth of telemedicine use. Telemedicine’s benefits, however, go beyond pandemic care. Data has shown that the availability of telemedicine results in fewer missed appointments. Other studies have found that satisfaction with telemedicine is similar to that for […]
The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for Indiana to enforce a law that stiffens parental notice requirements in cases where a minor seeks an abortion. The law at issue had been blocked since 2017 by lower courts based on Roe v. Wade and related precedents. Following Roe’s overruling, Indiana asked the justices last week to fast-track an order […]
One in eight people in the world have a mental health disorder, according to the World Health Organization, but high treatment costs and a shortage of healthcare professionals make it difficult for people to seek help. Wysa, a company founded in 2015 that provides AI-driven mental health support through an app, is trying to circumvent the traditional mental health landscape […]
Polonsky announced earlier this year that he would step down at the end of September. He first came to the university for an endocrinology fellowship in 1978. Polonsky will remain on faculty and serve as a senior adviser to University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos. Anderson is director of the department of medicine at Johns Hopkins, the William Osler Professor […]