With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a number of bills that could widely expand veterans' access to the private health care system, setting up the latest battle over VA's reliance on what's known as community care. Efforts to reform how the VA provides healthcare to millions of veterans are heating up in 2025 as pressures to bring down costs and lower wait times for care mount.
The 159 nurses now on strike at Wilcox Medical Center, the largest medical center on Kaua‘i, say five minutes of delayed care can be a matter of life and death.
That is why they are striking, after the latest round of negotiations between the Hawai‘I Nurses’ Association and Wilcox management failed to reach an agreement regarding better staffing ratios of nurses to patients.
The three-day strike began at 7 a.m. Tuesday and is set to conclude early Friday morning.
Thousands of registered nurse members of National Nurses United, including many in Northern California, will be participating in marches and rallies on Thursday demanding safe staffing levels and patent safeguards with the introduction of artificial intelligence, the NNU says.
The FDA's decision to ban the synthetic dye Red 3 is being hailed by health experts as a step toward improving the nation's food safety. Many insist it's only the beginning of much-needed reform.
NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli will resign on Jan. 17, she told staff this week, ending her tenure as the head of the $48 billion biomedical research agency after only a year. The NIH has typically been an agency with bipartisan support. But lingering Republican anger over the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed NIH squarely into partisan crosshairs.
Artificial intelligence models are ever-hungry black boxes that need boatloads of bits and bytes from a wide stream of real-world data in order to produce insights about patients and their care. To satisfy this need, a trove of companies have popped up to buy patient data from hospitals and sell it to those wanting to train AI or do research.