07 November 2018
A measure on the California ballot designed to cap dialysis clinic profits went down to defeat by a sizeable margin in this week’s election. If passed, Proposition 8 would have capped dialysis clinic profits to 15 percent. With close to 95 percent of the precincts reporting as of early Wednesday, the measure was going down […]
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07 November 2018
Hard-of-hearing hospital patients who have trouble communicating with medical personnel are more likely to end up back in the hospital within 30 days, compared to patients who don’t have trouble hearing, a U.S. study suggests. Hospitals are often noisy, chaotic settings, where understanding speech is challenging, particularly for people with hearing loss, which is very […]
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07 November 2018
Hospitals have sought to find ethical high ground with initiatives called communication-and-resolution programs. Hospitals investigate the specifics of adverse events, provide explanations to patients and offer compensation when needed. The study assessed the liability effects of communication-and-resolution programs at four Massachusetts hospitals. One of these programs, known as Communication, Apology, and Resolution, or CARe, was implemented at […]
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07 November 2018
CVS is test marketing a membership service in the Boston area called CarePass. For a fee of $48 annually or $5 monthly, members are entitled to free delivery on prescriptions and most online purchases, monthly $10 coupons, pharmacist helpline, and a 20 percent discount on all products with a CVS-brand. CarePass is up and running […]
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07 November 2018
3 Rivers Capital, a Pittsburgh-based private equity firm, has acquired Aurora-based Amazing Care Home Health Services. 3 Rivers Capital is new to the home health care arena but has garnered success in its physical therapy business and intends to translate that success into this new venture. It plans to grow the home-healthcare business both […]
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07 November 2018
The latest outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has the potential of becoming, for the first time, an endemic outbreak given its location in a war zone and data that suggestions that 60 to 80 percent of new cases do not have a direct epidemiological link to prior cases. […]
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31 October 2018
Paladina Health has announce the hiring of Dr. Tobias Barker as the organization’s next chief medical officer. Dr. Barker currently serves as vice president of medical operations and chief medical officer of CVS MinuteClinic. CVS currently operates more than 1,100 MinuteClinics across 34 states. He also has overseen CVS’ telemedicine operations nationwide. DaVita sold Paladina […]
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31 October 2018
Insulin was first discovered nearly 100 years ago, and as newer forms of the drug have been introduced, the price has climbed. Three companies — Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk — control 99 percent of the world’s insulin, and advocates have been asking them to explain their pricing. According to the American Diabetes Association, […]
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31 October 2018
More people were killed by seasonal influenza last winter than any year since the 1970s. Fewer than 4 out of 10 adults in the United States got flu shots last winter, the lowest rate in seven seasons and one likely reason that the 2017-2018 season was the deadliest in decades, 79,000 deaths. The CDC estimates […]
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31 October 2018
AMA CEO and Executive Vice President Dr. James Madara said in a call with reporters, “The curricular structure of medical student education hadn’t advanced much in the previous century. So, we were graduating young doctors that were largely unprepared for how medicine is practiced today.” The five-year grant program is the latest phase of the AMA’s Accelerating […]
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