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‘Blue Monday’ Falls On January 20 In 2025. What Does This Mean?

Forbes Healthcare

The third Monday of each January has been dubbed "Blue Monday," known as the most depressing day of the year. But is this actually the case?

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Why Nurse Leader Engagement Matters

Emerging RN Leader

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC A nurse leader recently told me how nurse engagement in her units had plummeted. She needed to put together an action plan, but she was wise enough to see the link between what was happening with her units and her behavior. She shared the following story: I feel […] The post Why Nurse Leader Engagement Matters appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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PBMs Under Fire Again, But Despite Bipartisan Pressure Reforms May Be Elusive

Forbes Healthcare

As Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, ends her tenure this week the FTC posted a second report in six months critical of pharmacy benefit managers.

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States have the power to influence health care

KevinMD.com

Individual states in the United States can significantly shape key health care areas through policy. In early 2024, aKKF analysis indicated that Americans collectively held around $220 billion in medical debt. North Carolina has one of thehighest percentages of adults facing medical debt, at 13.4 percent. On July 1, 2024, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Read more States have the power to influence health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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The nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services: a new beginning?

Sensible Medicine

Today’s guest column is by Dr. Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer. He is Danish expert in vaccine science, who is supportive of US reforms. How can be possibly be enthusiastic about RFK Jr? And enthusiastic despite writing, “[Mr Kennedy] focuses on topics that are potentially important/relevant, and then unfortunately often exaggerates or distorts the facts.” So what are the facts, and what are the distortions?

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Trust and Grievance in 2025: The Edelman Trust Barometer on MLK Jr. Day Converging with the World Economic Forum Kick-Off and the Next U.S. President’s Inauguration

Health Populi

At the start of each new year comes the World Economic Forum meet-up in Davos , Switzerland and with that conference start today, 20 January 2025, the publication of the Edelman Trust Barometer. Now in the study’s 25th annual edition, the Edelman Trust Barometer this year finds us, globally, in a Crisis of Grievance which is eroding trust. Edelman surveyed 1,150 residents (plus or minus) in each of 28 countries around the world, yielding over 33,000 citizens’ voices sharing perspecti