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Healthline: St. Luke’s opens new wound care & hyperbaric medicine center in Lehighton | Times News...
Times News· 5 days agoPhysician assistant Cally Richardson, PA-C, entered wound care as an ode to her grandfather, who had diabetes and non-healing wounds. The pair leads the team at St. Luke’s newest Wound Care ...
Drug names: How companies and regulators come up with hundreds of new names every year
Quartz· 4 days agoEverything you need to know about the art and science of drug naming in five minutes or less,...
Replacing registered nurses in high stakes hospital care is dangerous to patients, research suggests
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoA study published in Medical Care shows that substituting registered nurses (RN) with lower-wage staff (e.g. licensed practical nurses, unlicensed assistive personnel) in hospital care is linked ...
Cost may not keep many people from filling opioid addiction treatment prescriptions
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoWhen people get a prescription for the opioid addiction medication called buprenorphine, they almost...
Overpaying for Medicine
New York Times· 2 days agoYou probably already know some of the reasons prescription drugs are so expensive. Health insurers and the government haven’t reined in prices. Your pharmacy benefit manager is often invisible ...
‘I prayed for a bed’: the fight for my father in the US healthcare system
The Guardian via Yahoo News· 5 days agoMy dad’s stroke marked the beginning of the rest of our lives. Navigating his health, a web of...
Rep. Arrington discusses legislation to breakup healthcare monopolies & bill to fund Dyess AFB
KTAB Abilene via Yahoo News· 7 days agoBIG COUNTRY, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — In this week’s episode of Big Country Politics, Jodey Arrington,...
InnovationRx: Health Officials Brace For West Nile Virus
Forbes· 5 days agoInnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. Across the United States, health officials...
New HIPAA Requirements Place Additional Privacy Obligations on Covered Entities and Patients in an...
The National Law Review· 2 days agoOCR’s issuance of the Final Rule represents part of the Federal government’s regulatory response to...
Anesthesia workforce shortage poses threat to health care: Study
Medical Xpress· 5 days agoGrowing imbalance in the supply versus demand for anesthesia care providers poses difficult...