Chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday that his recently announced decision to step down from his government positions was not at all affected by threats of investigations from congressional Republicans. Fauci on Monday announced that he would be stepping down from his positions as both President Biden’s chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute […]
Alcon is acquiring Aerie Pharma for $770 million, the third deal in the past two years that brings commercialized glaucoma products to the eyecare giant’s portfolio. According to financial terms announced Monday night, Geneva, Switzerland-based Alcon will pay $15.25 for each share of Aerie, a 37% premium to the stock’s closing price on Monday. Aerie went public in 2013 […]
Carilion Clinic, a not–for–profit healthcare organization in Roanoke, Va., is postponing the planned construction of a new behavioral health center to incorporate lessons learned from the pandemic, according to the website roanokerambler.com The project, which gained zoning approval less than a year before the pandemic, was originally part of a $300 million expansion on Carilion’s Roanoke campus. When the plans […]
SDOH: An Emerging Priority for Healthcare The World Health Organization has defined social determinants of health as the range of nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes: “They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.” The U.S. Department of Health and […]
On the list of perfect pet parents, Mikel Delgado, a professional feline-behavior consultant, probably ranks high. The Ph.D. expert in animal cognition spends half an hour each evening playing with her three torbie cats, Ruby, Coriander, and Professor Scribbles. She’s trained them to take pills in gelatin capsules, just in case they eventually need meds. She even commissioned a screened-in […]
BY KIM BELLARD Speaking as a sometimes forgetful “senior citizen,” when I found out that non-invasively zapping brains with electricity can result in measurable improvements in memory, that’s something I’m going to remember. I hope. In research published in Nature Neuroscience by Grover, et. al., a team lead by Boston University cognitive neuroscientist Robert Reinhart produced improvements in both […]
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus, Ohio) and Kindred Rehabilitation Services (Louisville, Ky.) are planning to replace the 60-bed Dodd Rehabilitation Hospital with a new 80-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Columbus, according to the website dispatch.com. Situated adjacent to the medical center’s Outpatient Care East building, the 86,000 square-foot, three-story hospital will include treatment and research for patients […]
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73.2 percent effective against the disease in children under five, the company said Tuesday. The company touted the data as reinforcing the importance of the vaccine, which was authorized in June, after months of waiting for a vaccine for the youngest children. The effectiveness is for after three shots of the vaccine. The Pfizer […]
“Partnerships, including JVs and alliances with other healthcare organizations and with new entrants, are just one way to access new capabilities, unlock speed to market, and achieve capital, scale, and operational efficiencies” in health care transformations. “In an environment with continued competition for attractive assets and significant capital in play from institutional investors, these partnerships may also be the most […]