Emerging RN Leader
AUGUST 7, 2024
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Some of the most troubling conversations I have with leaders today concern a growing number of nurses who seem to lack empathy. Caring for patients in a way that projects concern and empathy has always been a core value in nursing. Leaders see an increasing number of […] The post Teaching Empathy appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
By bringing together top doctors, scientists and engineers, Terry Ragon believes he can succeed where major governments have failed and cure one of the world’s wiliest viruses.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 3, 2024
Last week Adam Cifu and Vinay Prasad offered dueling interpretations of a randomized trial of masking. These posts were read by nearly a hundred thousand readers, and you can read them below. One reader, Ben Recht, a Berkeley Professor, thinks both of them are wrong. This is his column. Sensible Medicine Adam Cifu is Wrong About Masking In a recent post on Sensible Medicine, written on my phone while traveling, I criticized a randomized trial of masking in the BMJ that found Norweigans told to w
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
One challenge hospitals face is reimbursement from private payers, which doesn’t cover the higher costs of care in rural areas, according to a report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 7, 2024
America's poorest seniors could soon find it much harder to get the medicines they need.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
CAR T cell therapy is showing promise in treating glioblastomas and autoimmune diseases. New tools like base editing may help T cell therapy address solid cancer tumors.
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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
On Wednesday, CVS slashed its earnings guidance for the third time this year, announced a plan to cut $2 billion in costs and fired the head of its insurance division Aetna, which continues to struggle with high medical utilization.
Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 8, 2024
Hypocritical articles on politics and medicine weren't really about politics and medicine, they were a message- the standards we set for you, don't apply to us and everyone knows it. The post The Hypocrisy Is The Point. Doctors Who Said Not To Mix Politics & Medicine. first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 5, 2024
Pfizer and Moderna’s updated vaccines will be available for people six months and older, while Novavax’s vaccine will be aimed at people 12 years and older.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 5, 2024
New rules outline how websites must be accessible to patients with disabilities. Here’s how to comply while improving patient care.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 8, 2024
The decision, disclosed Wednesday in a securities filing, is a sharp reversal to the pharmacy behemoth’s past commitment to building out its healthcare delivery offerings.
Science Based Medicine
AUGUST 5, 2024
Ever since COVID-19 first emerged in 2020, evidence-free claims that it had arisen due to a "lab leak" have proliferated. A recent paper argues that this conspiracy theory has been very harmful to science. I argue that it's more than just lab leak that is harmful. The post How conspiracy theories like COVID-19 “lab leak” harm science and public health first appeared on Science-Based Medicine.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 4, 2024
Pharmacy benefit managers have been under constant pressure for years for their alleged role in raising patient out-of-pocket costs and squeezing independent pharmacies.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 6, 2024
CDC leaders remind doctors they are the front line clinicians to get shots in arms for fall respiratory illness season.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
The slide in the nation’s uninsured rate could become steeper if subsidies in the Affordable Care Act exchanges expire on schedule next year, according to health policy experts.
KevinMD.com
AUGUST 9, 2024
Despite the evening hour, the sun beats down on our group as we gather to orient new participants to the street run. It’s a typical Spring day in Florida, with temperatures already in the upper 80s. We stand in a circle on a downtown sidewalk in our green t-shirts. In the center of our circle Read more… Street medicine: a lifeline for Florida’s homeless amidst new public sleeping ban originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
Novo and Lilly have struggled to keep up with demand for semaglutide and tirzepatide—generic names for Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound—and there have been reports people with diabetes have struggled to access the drugs as more people use them to lose weight.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 8, 2024
The top news stories in medicine today.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 8, 2024
The latest attack on the Grand Blanc, Michigan-based health system comes less than a year after it was hit by a ransomware attack.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 5, 2024
First some background from my clinic. Here is how the conversation goes: Patient: “Doc, should I take this cholesterol drug that my primary care doctor prescribed?” Me: “What did your risk score come out as?” Patient: “What?” It stuns me how few doctors use the pooled cohort equation to guide use of primary prevention treatments.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch is taking over “day-to-day management” of the company’s Aetna health insurance business after its latest poor performance.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 6, 2024
Watchdog group praises CMS rule with ‘groundbreaking’ measures of patient safety in hospitals.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 5, 2024
The struggling drugstore chain has been chipping away at its stake in Cencora, formerly known as AmerisourceBergen, since last summer.
Sensible Medicine
AUGUST 7, 2024
In Post #1 last Wednesday, Elizabeth Fama introduced her critical appraisal series on the Back to Sleep recommendation. This week, she explores the downsides of sleeping babies on their backs. JMM Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Possible Downsides of Back Sleeping Sleep Quality For adults, it’s fairly interchangeable to sleep on the stomach, side, or back.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 5, 2024
Olympic swimming competitors are not yet out of the woods from swimming in polluted water. Many infections could still be incubating.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 9, 2024
Steven P. Furr, MD, FAAFP, president of AAFP, joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation covering the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, rural health care access, and cybersecurity.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 5, 2024
The bankrupt health system will lay off workers at the end of the month as it prepares to close two hospitals in the state, according to notices filed with regulators last week.
Physicians Practice
AUGUST 9, 2024
Each practice should learn from the result of this HIPAA case.
Forbes Healthcare
AUGUST 7, 2024
Novo Nordisk’s growth has slowed in recent weeks as the company struggles to produce enough semaglutide to meet stellar demand for Wegovy and Ozempic.
Medical Economics
AUGUST 9, 2024
Flexible care models, including remote patient monitoring, can help support clinicians and patients as care environments and acuity levels shift.
Healthcare Dive - Practice Management
AUGUST 7, 2024
Insurers cited workforce shortages, hospital consolidation and growing demand for pricey GLP-1 drugs as reasons driving the premium increases for 2025.
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