Big Investors Push Nursing Homes to Upgrade Care and Working Conditions Nursing homes and long-term care facilities, where 182,000 Americans perished during the covid pandemic, have taken heat from government re...
Pandemic Imperiled Non-English Speakers More Than Others In March 2020, just weeks into the covid-19 pandemic, the incident command center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston was scrambling t...
Virtual Care Spreads in Missouri Health System, Home to ‘Hospital Without Beds’ When Tom Becker was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in March 2020, the 60-year-old EMS helicopter pilot from Washington, Missouri, wor...
From Rotten Teeth to Advanced Cancer, Patients Feel the Effects of Treatment Delays With medical visits picking up again among patients vaccinated against covid-19, health providers are starting to see the consequences of a ...
UVA Health Will Wipe Out Tens of Thousands of Lawsuits Against Patients University of Virginia Health System, which for years has sued thousands of patients annually for unpaid bills, said Monday it will cancel a...
Pandemic Highlights Need for Urgent Care Clinics for Women SAN JOSE — Last spring, only weeks into the pandemic, Christina Garcia was spending her days struggling to help her two young sons adjust to...
The FDA Seeks a New Way to Review Old Drugs Without Causing Prices to Soar Chuck Peterson of Omaha, Nebraska, recently experienced a swollen, painful knuckle caused by arthritis. He got a prescription for colchicine...