Melanie Evans
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New York, NY, United States
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Europe Is Probing Whether Ozempic Use Raises Risk of Suicidal Thoughts
Drug-safety regulators received reports of suicidal thoughts linked to the weight-loss drug and another medicine in the class. → Read More
Face Mask Mandates Fall Away Among Many Hospitals, Doctors
Some of the last holdouts drop Covid-19 mask and test requirements after health and medical agencies roll back recommendations. → Read More
Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Abortion Medical-Emergency Guidelines
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the federal rules fly in the face of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, which triggered a near-total abortion ban in Texas. → Read More
Hospitals Must Provide Abortions in Emergency Situations, Biden Administration Says
New federal guidelines aim to help doctors and hospitals reconcile state laws restricting abortions with a federal law that can require the procedure to stabilize a pregnant woman with an emergency medical condition. → Read More
Doctors Struggle With State Abortion Restrictions at Odds With Federal Law
The federal law, requiring doctors to provide emergency treatment to stabilize certain patients, may necessitate performing an abortion in some cases. → Read More
Health-Insurance Providers Begin Publishing Prices for Medical Care
Insurers and employers began publicly posting the prices they pay for healthcare services ranging from doctor visits to lab tests, hugely expanding a federally mandated effort to unveil the long-secret rates. → Read More
Supreme Court Reverses Cuts to Billions of Dollars in Hospital Drug Subsidies
The Supreme Court said the Department of Health and Human Services unlawfully cut lucrative pharmaceutical subsidies to some hospitals, in a victory for hospitals that had disputed the move. → Read More
The Billionaire Funding a Battle Against Hospital Monopolies
A legal campaign to force changes at giant healthcare systems has new backing from John Arnold, a philanthropist who confronted pharmaceutical giants over drug prices. → Read More
Hospitals Face Penalties for First Time for Failing to Make Prices Public
Two Georgia-based institutions are first to be hit with fines in connection with federal rules that took effect in 2021. → Read More
UnitedHealth Leans Into Telehealth to Reduce Costs, Meet Patient Needs
Chief executive Andrew Witty says households and businesses want a more efficient, higher quality system. → Read More
Hospitals Look to Raise Treatment Costs as Nurses’ Salaries Increase
Health insurers and employers are pushing back against the requests to increase hospital prices by as much as 15%. → Read More
As Omicron Surged, Non-Covid-19 Patients Contracted Virus in Hospitals in Higher Numbers
A record number of people in hospitals in January had coronavirus infections they caught while there, The Wall Street Journal found in an analysis of government data. → Read More
In Hospital Strained by Omicron, Weary Nurses Treat Too Many Patients
Staff at Houston Methodist Hospital have been working overtime, and beds for cancer and heart disease have shifted to help deal with a Covid-19 surge. But the hospital still can’t keep up. → Read More
COVID-19 hospitalizations reported in US hit new high
U.S. hospitals are caring for the highest number of patients with Covid-19 reported during the pandemic, according to federal government data, as the Omicron variant worsens pressures on the already strained facilities. → Read More
Hospitals Cut Beds as Nurses Call In Sick With Covid-19
Without enough critical workers during the Omicron variant’s surge, some facilities say they must limit capacity to assure proper patient care. → Read More
Some Hospitals Charge Up to 10 Times More for Medical Scans Than Others, Study Finds
The report, based on once-secret pricing data and published in the journal Radiology, found that thousands of hospitals didn’t report their prices despite a new federal requirement. → Read More
Nurse Salaries Rise as Demand for Their Services Soars During Covid-19 Pandemic
The average annual salary for registered nurses, not including bonus pay such as overtime, increased about 4% this year to $81,376, according to an analysis. → Read More
Hospitals Swamped With Delta Cases Struggle to Care for Critical Patients
Soaring Covid-19 caseloads are endangering patients who need urgent medical care at some overwhelmed hospitals in states where the virus has filled beds. → Read More
As Delta Variant Spreads, Florida Hospitals Race to Find Open Beds
At AdventHealth in Florida, “mission control” staff monitor data to stay ahead of a new flood of patients. → Read More
Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
Google and national hospital chain HCA will work to develop algorithms to help improve operating efficiency, monitor patients and guide doctors’ decisions. → Read More