The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would revoke guidance to the nation's hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical condition.
Allina Health doctors picketed in the rain outside four clinics at 6 a.m. Tuesday, hopeful that a show of unity would kickstart their languishing contract talks. Then the doctors hustled off to see patients. The one-hour protest of Allina's Coon Rapids clinic was barely observed by daylight, much less the public, but the recently unionized doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants said they had history on their side. The protest was believed to be the first in Minnesota involving doctors engaged in their own union contract dispute.
When cancer spreads from a primary tumor to new sites throughout the body, it undergoes changes that increase its genetic complexity. A new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center provides fresh insights about how cancers evolve when they metastasize — insights that could aid in developing strategies to improve the effectiveness of treatment.
America's healthcare system is experiencing a crisis. It’s a crisis of trust and compassion, driven by the corporatization of medicine prioritizing profits over patients. Despite spending more per capita on healthcare than any other developed nation, our system is failing in fundamental ways— declining life expectancy, eroding trust in medical professionals, and burning out the very caregivers we depend upon. The question isn't whether we can afford to fix healthcare; it's whether we can afford not to.
The FBI is urging people to report healthcare providers who may be assisting transgender minors with gender-affirming care, as part of the Trump administration's mission to 'protect children.'
Primary care physicians at Mass General Brigham voted overwhelmingly in favor of forming a union on Friday amid a dispute with the hospital system over their bargaining unit's size. Of the 237 eligible physicians, 209 participated in the mail-in election earlier this month, with 88% of voters in favor of unionization. If certified, the union — representing all full-time, part-time, and per diem primary care physicians at Mass General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital — will join the Doctors Council, an affiliate of the SEIU. But the union will be unable to begin negotiating a contract until it resolves a legal battle with the hospital system over the size of its bargaining unit.