Topline A group of more than 7,000 nurses from two private hospitals in New York City ended their strike and agreed to return to work on Thursday after agreeing to a preliminary deal with their employ...
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Russia Attacks Ukraine Power Grid, Leaves Hospitals Without Electricity, Here Are UNITED24 Aid Efforts
Actor and director Liev Schreiber, seen here in Ukraine, has been serving as a UNITED24 ambassador … [+] trying to raise funds to purchase power generators for hospitals. (Photo: Andrii Yushchak...
Country Artists Join ‘Musicians On Call’ To Honor Those In VA Hospitals This Veterans Day
Craig Morgan, accompanied by Mike Rogers, performs for Musicians On Call’s concert For Veterans … [+] Presented by Wrangler. (Morgan is singer/songwriter and proud Army veteran) Courtesy o...
First RSV Vaccine On The Horizon—Pfizer Touts Strong Trial Results As Children’s Hospitals Count Soaring Cases
Topline Pharma giant Pfizer on Tuesday said it would ask regulators to greenlight a vaccine designed to protect infants against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, following strong results in late-st...
Hospitals Erase $8 Billion as Tenet, HCA Results Disappoint
(Bloomberg) — Stocks of hospital operators are plunging on Friday after earnings reports from Tenet Healthcare Corp. and industry-giant HCA Healthcare Inc. underwhelmed investors, wiping out mor...
Raffles Medical Group Sees China On The Mend From Covid As Its Expansion Continues
Dr. Vincent Chia, managing director of Raffles China Healthcare, a subsidiary of Raffles Medical … [+] Group in Singapore, joined the 2022 Forbes China Healthcare Summit this month. Forbes China...
Hospitals Can Provide Abortions In Emergencies
The Biden administration said all pregnant woman have access to abortion under federal law in an … [+] emergency situation under guidance issued to medical care providers on July 11, 2022. In th...
Hospitals Need To Offer Abortions In Emergencies—Even In States Where It’s Illegal, HHS Says
Topline The Biden Administration said Monday hospitals are required under federal law to provide abortions in lifesaving and other emergency situations, and staff will be protected from any state-leve...
North Carolina’s Opportunity To Ban Health Industry Gag Clauses And Unleash Price Transparency
This piece was co-written with Cynthia Fisher. Jason Dean from Tennessee needed stitches on his knee after a minor accident last year. He went to a local hospital that told him insurance would cover t...
Rural, Smaller Hospitals Relied Heavily On Covid Relief To Survive, Study Suggests
Topline More than $170 billion in Covid-19 relief funds the federal government allotted to struggling hospitals during the pandemic helped healthcare facilities stay afloat by offsetting major financi...
China Branches Out The Digital Yuan Trial To Hospitals And Finance Sector
The use of the digital yuan continues to expand in various sectors of China, including hospitals now. A few hospitals in Hangzhou and Guangzhou have also started to accept digital yuan for...
3D Printing Is Ready To Tackle Plastic Body Implants
3D-printed skull implant by German MedTech start-up Kumovis. Kumovis After an accident left a 40-year-old woman in Sweden with a massive head injury late last year, she received a 3D-printed implant m...
hospitals could run out of oxygen supplies in 24 hours, WHO
A woman holds a child as people arrive at a train station converted into a refugee center, at the border control between Poland and Ukraine, after Russia launched a massive military operation against ...
Healthcare Is Slowly Moving Out Of Hospitals & Into Homes
The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has reshaped society’s understanding of ideal healthcare delivery. During the height of the pandemic and amidst sweeping social isolation measures, billions of people...
Covid mask mandate lifted because hospitals OK
A recent sharp drop in Connecticut’s Covid hospitalizations allowed the Democratic governor there to feel comfortable dropping the state’s mask mandate, effective later this month. “...
Biden deploys military medical personnel to hospitals in six states
A soldier transports a patient at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts on December 30, 2021. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Thursday will announce the...
New Jersey reinstates public health emergency as omicron overwhelms hospitals
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy speaks to volunteers as he meets with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during the gubernatorial election in Newark, New Jersey, November 2, 2021. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters New Jer...
Commissioner on omicron cases, impact on Mumbai hospitals
People crowd not following social distancing norms amid Covid-19 pandemic at Juhu Beach, on January 2, 2022 in Mumbai, India. Pratik Chorge | Hindustan Times | Getty Images India’s financial hub...
Biden Administration Doubles Orders For Pfizer’s Anti-Covid Pill As Hospitals Run Short
Topline The federal government doubled its order of Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral pill Paxlovid to 20 million treatment courses, the company announced Tuesday, after hospitals ran low on the drug that w...