The Union Health Minister and the Chief Minister of Gujarat have laid the foundation stone for a new cancer hospital in Rajkot. This hospital will aim to provide advanced and accessible cancer care services to the people of the region. The project is a significant step towards addressing the growing need for cancer treatment facilities…
Value-based care aims to reduce costs and improve outcomes in healthcare, but rural providers have been slower to adopt it due to challenges in staying viable and taking on risk. Homeward Health, a San Francisco-based company, is working to help rural providers transition to value-based care by forming contracts with health plans, partnering with existing…
Location: Altnagelvin Area Hospital in Londonderry is seeking a Consultant Physician in Endocrinology & Diabetes, offering a salary of £88,799 – £119,723 per annum. The closing date for applications is Friday, February 16, 2024 at 3:30pm. The full job description, criteria, and application form can be found on jobs.hscni.net. Applicants are encouraged to apply online….
Maternal cannabis use during pregnancy has been found to be associated with adverse outcomes related to placental dysfunction, according to a study published in JAMA. The study included 9,257 participants and found that 6.6% were exposed to cannabis during pregnancy. Overall, cannabis exposure at any time during pregnancy was associated with adverse outcomes related to…
Deborah Hackler, a lawyer who represents the hospital, McAlester Regional Medical Center, in small-claims court, frequently secures judgments for unpaid bills from patients. The hospital has filed close to 5,000 debt collection cases since the early 1990s. Residents of McAlester, Oklahoma have been taken to court multiple times for unpaid medical bills, impacting their lives…
Dr. Sumit “Sam” Garg discusses the Tecnis Eyhance monofocal IOL from Johnson & Johnson Vision and its benefits for cataract surgery in a video perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2024. He highlights the lens’ great distance vision and usable intermediate vision, as well as the option to offset one eye for improved intermediate or near vision….
U.S. Senate health committee chair Bernie Sanders subpoenaed or this, this, this, and this. Only Bristol Myers Squibb, CEO Chris Boerner, agreed to testify at a Jan. 25 hearing. Sanders invited the Johnson & Johnson and Merck executives, but they refused. Sanders is accused of retaliating against companies that sued the Biden administration to stop…
The CQC has called for improvements to maternity services at South Tees NHS Foundation Trust due to serious staff shortages causing the closure of the midwifery-led birthing unit at Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. Both the Friarage Hospital unit and the main maternity services at James Cook University Hospital need overall improvement, especially in leadership, and…
Clinician-scientists from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago were part of a diverse group tasked with developing new data-based criteria for pediatric sepsis by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM). The Phoenix criteria follow a paradigm shift to define sepsis as a severe response to an infection involving organ dysfunction, rather…
Cancer is still a leading cause of death globally, with an estimated 20 million new cases and 10 million deaths each year. Immunotherapy has shown promise in treating previously untreatable cancers, but faces challenges. A key challenge is the lack of accurate preclinical models that mimic human immunity. To address this, the COST Action IMMUNO-model…
