Jefferson Regional in Pine Bluff was recently recognized with multiple awards at the 2022 meeting of the Arkansas Hospital Association (AHA). Jefferson Regional received two Diamond Awards, a competition sponsored by the AHA and the Arkansas Society for Healthcare Marketing and Public Relations (ASHMPR). Jefferson Regional won a Total Campaign award for the development of a Radiology advertising campaign, and a Writing award for an article on COVID response for the AHA magazine.
Elon Musk's health tech venture Neuralink shared updates to its brain-implant technology during a 'show and tell' recruitment event Wednesday night. Musk said during the event that he plans to get one of the implants himself.
Monkeypox disease now has a new name: mpox. The WHO announced the long-awaited change this week, saying the disease's original name plays into "racist and stigmatizing language."
Yale and Harvard Law Schools recently announced they would no longer participate in U.S. News & World Report's flawed ranking system, followed closely by additional schools. The nation's medical schools need to follow their lead.
John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell will change its name in December to TriCities Hospital, the latest effort by a Virginia institution to shed a name referencing slavery. John Randolph, who was first elected into the U.S. House of Representatives in 1799, owned 400 enslaved people, according to the Shelby County Historical Society.