A Tampa hospital has announced plans to close, effective April 30. Kindred Hospital will shutter its location at 4555 S. Manhattan Ave. and lay off 143 workers. The nearly 150 employees are neither represented by a union nor are they eligible for transfer, reassignment or bumping rights. The Kindred Hospital Bay Area - Tampa is a 73-bed long-term acute care hospital.
When Mind Springs Health announced Monday that West Springs Hospital will permanently close on March 10, questions and concerns emerged from the community. From patients to former staff and law enforcement to hospital emergency departments, news that western Colorado's only psychiatric hospital will close left many scrambling to prepare for the fallout.
British tech company Skin Analytics has received regulatory approval for an AI skin cancer detection system that uses a smartphone. Spotting skin cancer in the early stages leads to very high survival rates. The tech, known as DERM, allows a technician to photograph a patient's lesion and receive an almost instantaneous diagnosis.
A new government report adds to evidence that the HPV vaccine, once called dangerous by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is preventing cervical cancer in young women. The report comes after Kennedy pledged to give a family member any fees he might earn from HPV vaccine litigation. In a 2019 video posted on the anti-vaccine nonprofit Children's Health Defense website, Kennedy called Gardasil "the most dangerous vaccine ever invented."
Saturday marks the beginning of the seventh month that the University of Florida Health system has been out of network with United Healthcare.
That means nearly 75,000 people in Gainesville, Jacksonville and Central Florida are paying substantially higher costs to access medical care if they are insured by United.
In a national study of 10 common abdominal surgeries, operations on patients who were overweight or obese tended to take longer as the patient's weight increased, as did the chances that they would develop serious complications.