Payer
Insurers to cover Novo's Wegovy for some Medicare heart patients
Bloomberg | March 28, 2024
CVS Health Corp.'s Aetna insurance unit, Elevance Health Inc., and nonprofit insurer Kaiser Permanente said they would cover Wegovy for...
Nursing
Iowa nurse criminally charged in death of care facility resident
Iowa Capital Dispatch | March 28, 2024
Prosecutors say the LPN refused to let the staff call 911.
Clinical Care
California Is Expanding Insurance Access for Teenagers Seeking Therapy on Their Own
KFF Health News | March 28, 2024
Sponsors of AB 665 presented the bill as a commonsense update to an existing law.
Clinical Care
California Is Expanding Insurance Access for Teenagers Seeking Therapy on Their Own
KFF Health News | March 28, 2024
Sponsors of AB 665 presented the bill as a commonsense update to an existing law.
Clinical Care
Yale CCO Recommitted to Patient Safety and Care Quality
Christopher Cheney | March 28, 2024
Yale New Haven Health is stepping up efforts to be a high-reliability organization.
Pharma
The next generation of cancer drugs will be made in space
Wired | March 28, 2024
Injectable immunotherapy drugs can be made, in theory, but gravity prevents them from crystallizing correctly. A startup thinks the solution...
Clinical Care
The world's broken market for medicines
Financial Times | March 28, 2024
For patients, drug shortages ultimately translate into less effective treatment.
Clinical Care
Strategy to prevent hospital-onset C diff shows mixed results
CIDRAP / University of Minnesota | March 28, 2024
Although hospitals that implemented the strategy saw a reduced incidence of hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection, incidence was already declining at...
Clinical Care
Older Americans now have twice as many STIs as a decade ago
Newsweek | March 28, 2024
The CDC says the rates of STIs in adults aged 55 and older have doubled over the past decade.
Payer
A woman's fight to escape the hospital shows Medicaid's limits for disabled Texans
The Texas Tribune | March 28, 2024
Staffing shortages and mismanaged care can delay when Texans on some Medicaid programs are discharged from hospitals.
Pharma
Indiana AG Sues Drugmakers, PBMs Over High Insulin Prices
John Commins | March 27, 2024
The suit says diabetes care costs the Hoosier State $5 billion annually.
Clinical Care
Moderna says new Covid vaccine showed stronger immune response than current shot in study
CNBC | March 27, 2024
The results come as Moderna competes with rival Pfizer for more share of the Covid vaccine market and tries to...
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