Citing the risk of losing liability insurance, West Suburban Medical Center will no longer allow midwives and family medicine physicians to deliver babies at the hospital, abruptly severing ties with a popular group of providers effective next week.
A new diagnosis of dementia is linked to a 40 percent increase in emergency department visits in the year around a diagnosis, with visits peaking shortly before a person is diagnosed, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Network Open.
Mehmet Oz, MD, has sown misinformation about COVID treatments, weight loss hacks and unproven supplements. He has invested in drug companies, even as he has publicly taken aim at Big Pharma, and has profited from a medical device that he helped invent but that has been subject to several recalls. Over roughly two decades in the public eye, Oz has drawn the ire of medical experts, members of Congress and even his own peers, including a group of 10 doctors who called for him to be fired from a faculty position at Columbia University, arguing he had shown a “disdain for science." The university quietly cut its public ties with Oz in 2022.
CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are suing the FTC, claiming that the agency's case against drug supply chain middlemen over high insulin prices in the U.S. is unconstitutional. The complaint is the latest move in a bitter legal fight between the three largest PBMs in the U.S. and the FTC. The FTC in September sued CVS's Caremark, Cigna's Express Scripts and UnitedHealth's Optum Rx in the agency's administrative court, accusing those PBMs and other drug middlemen of using a "perverse" rebate system to boost their profits while inflating insulin costs for Americans.
In healthcare—with patient well-being and lives at stake—the advancement of AI seems particularly momentous. In an industry battling staffing shortages and increasing costs, health system leaders need to consider all possible solutions, including AI technologies.
Pharmacy access is expanding in Rochester after Walgreens shut down five pharmacy stores in November. The four largest health systems in Rochester will now provide pharmacy services open to the public, not just their own patients. All pharmacy locations are in areas labeled a pharmacy desert, where Walgreens locations were recently closed.