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Either the stakeholders issuing the warnings overstated the risk of widespread closings—or COVID-era emergency funds succeeded in heading off a calamity of national proportions. Either way, patient access has taken a hit here and there.
Major TAVR policy changes appear to be on the way—should clinicians be excited or concerned? Leading U.S. medical societies are sharing their early reactions.
The Kentucky-based insurance giant had owned a 40% stake in the hospice company, stemming from its 2021 acquisition of Kindred Healthcare. Humana said a “consortium of investors" is making the buy, but few details were revealed.
Going by four markers of health risk, four neighboring U.S. states are the best places to raise children with high chances of living long, healthy lives.
Pericarditis, inflammation of the pericardium, accounts for approximately 5% of all emergency department evaluations for chest pain. These new recommendations are designed to help guide clinicians through the ins and outs of patient care.
From boutique clinics in Mexico to medical spas in Europe to top-tier academic medical centers in the U.S., healthcare organizations courting medical tourists are enjoying boom times.
The AMA doesn’t refute much of the Trump AI Action Plan so much as amplify some of its talking points. One exception is the plan’s open disdain for ‘woke’ AI.
If humanistic medicine is to endure the slow-motion AI tsunami flooding the healthcare landscape, humans will have to see those two forces—humanistic medicine and healthcare AI—not as oppositional to each other but as potentially synergistic.
When dissatisfied patients slam provider entities in online reviews, they tend to focus on administrative frustrations and thwarted requests. By contrast, satisfied healthcare consumers write quick, list-like rundowns of things that pleased them.
Customers with these devices on hand are asked to return them right away. No serious injuries have been reported at this time, but the presence of residual particulates can lead to such side effects as pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.