Trump's Justice Department, through Attorney General Pam Bondi, announced earlier in the month that it will seek the death penalty against Mangione, in Bondi's words, 'as we carry out President Trump's agenda to stop violent crime and Make America Safe Again.' In his motion to take the death penalty off the table, Mangione's lawyers say Bondi's direction to Manhattan prosecutors — 'issued publicly, as a press release' — to seek a death sentence for him 'is political, arbitrary, capricious, a breach of established death penalty protocol and has now indelibly prejudiced this process.'
A new round of workplace violence in hospitals and clinics is lending urgency to efforts to create a first-ever federal standard for protecting nurses, social workers and others in the medical system. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) this month introduced legislation that would require healthcare employers to write and implement a workplace violence prevention plan.
Northern Light official says most of Inland primary care patients will be able to stay with their provider as the company moves closer to closing its Waterville hospital in June.
Researchers have been developing new ways to train machine learning algorithms with fewer labels. By first training a machine learning model to fill in the blanks of large-scale unlabeled bio-signal data, the machine learning model is primed to learn the relationship between a bio-signal and a disorder with fewer labels.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says GOP leaders are 'committed to finding at least $1.5 trillion in savings for the American people' and promised to 'aim much higher' in finding government programs to cut. That's going to be tough promise for Thune to deliver on in the Senate, where a handful of Republican senators have warned they will oppose steep cuts to Medicaid.
Houston Healthcare's plans to merge with Emory Healthcare continued on Thursday as the Georgia Attorney General's office held a public hearing at Central Georgia Technical College to review the proposed transaction. The merger, structured as a "member substitution" rather than a sale, would make Emory Healthcare the sole member of Houston Healthcare while maintaining the local system as a Georgia nonprofit corporation.