While legislators from each political party have their own perspective on how the negotiations behind the faltering budget plan to address the imminent $118 million Medicaid funding shortfall have gone down, health care providers and those in the forest industry say they are not focused on the “he said, she said.”
A day after officials said new funding would keep Crozer Health's facilities open four to six weeks, an attorney for the company that owns the hospital said the money would run out far sooner. The shortening of that window of time increases the sense of urgency for the Delaware County health system facing down closure as its parent company, Prospect Medical Holdings, files for bankruptcy. The system includes Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Taylor Hospital and other facilities.
President Donald Trump abruptly yanked his nominee to head the CDC on Thursday morning shortly before a scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. A source familiar with the discussions said Trump pulled David Weldon's nomination because he did not have the votes to be confirmed.
The urinary tract infection (UTI), has become the medical bogeyman that will not go away, a default but often incorrect diagnosis that seems to come up every time an older person has some ill-defined health presentation but still lacks the most reliable symptom of painful urination.
To ensure growth, there are key aspects of telemedicine that still need improvement: eliminating regulatory barriers, achieving reimbursement parity, better technical interoperability, more data-based performance analysis, and expanded specialty care.
Cases in the ongoing measles outbreak have risen to 258 across Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and state health departments are urging more people to get the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. In an interview with Fox News, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that "people ought to be able to make that choice for themselves. And what we need to do is give them the best information and encourage them to vaccinate. The vaccine does stop the spread of the disease." But Kennedy also downplayed the safety of the vaccine and wrongly told Fox News' Sean Hannity that measles outbreaks could be driven in part by people who have waning immunity from the vaccine.