The U.S. Food and Drug Administration removed Eli Lilly's blockbuster weight-loss and diabetes drugs from its shortage list late on Wednesday, likely piling pressure on firms selling cheaper versions known as compounded drugs.
Resident doctors at Penn Medicine have voted to accept their first union contract, after more than a year of negotiations with the health system. The decision makes them the first residency program in Pennsylvania with a union contract.
Emergency medicine specialists are trained to handle unpredictable life or death situations, but the relentless pace of their profession may be cutting their own lives short.
Healthcare is undergoing a major paradigm shift. Some clinicians are shifting away from treating chronic conditions such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, back pain and fatigue — long the bread and butter of primary-care medicine — and toward targeting their common root cause: obesity.
Floridians expect and deserve the best healthcare. To deliver on this expectation today, tomorrow, and well into the future, we must continue to tackle the healthcare workforce shortage of physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals to support our vision of worldclass care close to home.