Tue.Jul 23, 2024

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Public Health: An Issue Worth Debating

Forbes Healthcare

During this year's campaigns at all levels across the country, candidates need to talk about - and voters need to ask about - their plans to make our nation healthier.

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HCA posts $17.5B in revenue in Q2 and raises full-year guidance

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The Nashville, Tennessee-based provider attributed the stronger than expected results to increased patient volumes.

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Swimming In The Seine Isn’t The Only Health Risk For Paris Olympians And Fans

Forbes Healthcare

There are many risks to Paris visitors, including Covid, air pollution, dengue, whooping cough and measles, among other.

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Statement for the Record to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Ending the Big PBMs’ Predatory Grip on Patient Access and Affordability

Patients Rising

American healthcare reads like a dystopian novel. A crisis, born from unchecked power consolidation, threatens the foundation of patient care and access to essential medications. At the heart of this […] The post Statement for the Record to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Ending the Big PBMs’ Predatory Grip on Patient Access and Affordability appeared first on Patients Rising.

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Despite Gilead’s Promising HIV Prevention Drug, A Vaccine Is Still The ‘Holy Grail’

Forbes Healthcare

The U.N. has proposed a target of ending AIDS by 2030. But it’s a pipe dream unless scientists are able to crack the code of one of the world’s sneakiest viruses.

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Strategies to grow your medical practice

Physicians Practice

Growth has its risks, but the right strategy can deliver stability, security, and long-term profits.

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Lawmakers slam PBMs for hurting patients, independent pharmacies

Medical Economics

Three largest pharmacy benefit manager executives testify in House Oversight Committee.

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E-Bike And E-Scooter Accidents Surge Across US As Climate-Friendly Vehicles Take Off

Forbes Healthcare

E-bike and e-scooter riders were more likely to be older, helmetless and intoxicated than conventional riders and researchers from UC San Francisco said there’s an urgent need to develop better infrastructure and educational programs to keep riders safe.

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What does your CEO need to know about cybersecurity?

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

CEOs don’t necessarily have to become experts in the technical aspects of cybersecurity to be prepared in case of an attack or — hopefully — stop one before it starts.

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Modified Self-Amplifying RNA Provides Opportunities For New Vaccines And Treatments

Forbes Healthcare

An infectious disease physician discusses new research results that could lead to innovations in vaccines and treatments.

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PBMs under fire for high drug prices, undermining independent pharmacies, harming patients – a slideshow

Medical Economics

House Oversight Committee takes aim at pharmacy benefit managers.

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Honeybee Super-Senses Detect Lung Cancer And Distinguish Between The Two Main Types

Forbes Healthcare

Honeybee antennae detect lung cancer and accurately distinguish between small-cell and non-small-cell lung cancer.

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Pharmacy group, providers sue Change Healthcare after cyberattack

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The National Community Pharmacists Association and dozens of providers argue UnitedHealth-owned Change didn’t have adequate cybersecurity protections and caused them financial losses.

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Cancer Therapy and The Intestinal Microbiome

Forbes Healthcare

Secrets in the intestinal microbiome may shed light on how to enhance cancer immunotherapies such as checkpoint inhibitors.

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Reducing the AIDS epidemic; addiction treatment online; drones in emergencies – Morning Medical Update

Medical Economics

The top news stories in medicine today.

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A New Target To Boost Cancer Immunotherapy: LAG-3

Forbes Healthcare

Researchers are targeting a novel protein called LAG-3 to improve responses to cancer immunotherapies such as checkpoint inhibitors.

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Expectations of Medical Assistants in the OB/GYN Field

Prism Career Institute

Medical assistants play a crucial role in improving a patient’s experience. Whether by greeting patients at the front desk, assisting with paperwork, or helping doctors during exams, medical assistants ensure that treatment runs smoothly. They do the same and may do more when serving in an OB/GYN office. Prism Career Institute offers a Medical Assistant program at campuses in Cherry Hill and West Atlantic City , New Jersey, as well as in Philadelphia , PA.

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Three proactive steps your practice can take to thwart hackers

Medical Economics

What the change health care cyberattack can teach medical practices about protecting their information

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Connect Care Mobile Apps Outage - Thursday July 25, 2024, 00:00-02:00

Connect Care Bytes Blog

There will be an upgrade to the Connect Care mobile applications on Thursday, July 25, 2024, between 00:00 and 02:00. ( Note : This upgrade was originally scheduled for July 18.) During the upgrade process, the Connect Care mobile apps Haiku and Canto will be unavailable. The downtime per device could rage from 30 seconds to 2 minutes (depending on connectivity) while the upgrade is completed.

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S&P Global Ratings downgrades Walgreens, citing struggles in both pharmacy and retail

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

The drugstore retailer faces debt maturities, and the upending of some strategies introduces new uncertainties, analysts said.

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Negotiating with payers, Part 1: How to prepare for the negotiation

Medical Economics

How to prepare for a contract negotiation with a payer.

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Medicalized Gender Transition and the Silence of Medicine and Bioethics

Sensible Medicine

Last week brought news of the death of Peter Buxtun , the whistleblower who exposed the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Though the study is now universally recognized as one of the great scandals in the history of American medicine, for years Buxton’s colleagues in the Public Health Service ignored his complaints and dismissed his insistence that it violated basic ethical standards to deceive and withhold effective treatment from the Black sharecroppers who were the study’s subject