Millions in U.S. with health care debt New research says 100 million in U.S. saddled with debt from health care 05:24 A growing number of Americans are delaying important medical care because of the high cost of treatment, a new survey shows. In 2022, 38% of Americans said they or a family member skipped or delayed…
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Physicians-in-training at top teaching hospitals across the country are joining unions, demanding higher pay and better working conditions. The Committee of Interns and Residents, the largest group representing doctors in residency and fellowship programs, said it added chapters at five teaching hospitals last year and two in 2021, up from a prepandemic pace of roughly…
Jan. 13, 2023 The University of Minnesota and its medical school announced a vision Thursday to acquire the Twin Cities facilities currently owned by Fairview Health Services. The news comes as Fairview and Sioux Falls-based Sanford Health pursue a merger. The university’s plan is part of a broader vision for a campus that would include…
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota announced Thursday its intent to gain full ownership of the existing healthcare facilities on its Twin Cities campus, currently owned by Fairview Health Services. The university and its medical school announced its new “MPact Health Care Innovation vision” aimed to make Minnesota a leader in healthcare. “With great inspiration from…
Alert Summary This WHO Medical Product Alert refers to two substandard (contaminated) products, identified in Uzbekistan and reported to WHO on 22 December 2022. Substandard medical products are products that fail to meet quality standards or specifications and are therefore “out of specification”[1]. The two products are AMBRONOL syrup and DOK-1 Max syrup. The stated…
Timeline of events The UC Health Physicians did their best to give as much detail as possible as to the timeline of events the week, beginning with what happened Monday night and going into Hamlin’s current state on Thursday. “As everybody knows, Mr. Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest on the field and it was promptly recognized…
Mississippi’s healthcare crisis is worsening and an overhaul of the state’s “current system of care is unmistakably essential,” a leading medical group warned hours before the State Legislature was set to begin its 2023 session at noon Monday. “The lack of access to healthcare for many Mississippians is currently a crisis, not a new crisis,…
Life expectancy in the best-performing countries has been increasing by three months per year every year since the early 1800s. Throughout most of human history, you had a roughly 50–50 chance of making it into your twenties, mainly due to deaths from infectious diseases and accidents. Thanks to medical advances, we’ve gradually found ways to…
Good medicine is all about blood flow and organ failure, mutation and degeneration. Good medical care is all about trust, contact, communication, listening, figuring out your goals and being heard. For doctors, it’s also about danger — risking the dark microbial forces of COVID, staph, monkeypox, MRSA, C. diff and hardening of the arteries. Your…
Both benefits and concerns exist, but implementing policies and regulations promotes employee productivity, guards safety. Both medical and recreational use of marijuana have been and continue to be a controversial topic when it comes to the workplace. In the United States, medical and recreational marijuana is illegal on a federal level. However, since February 2021,…