OSHA analysis determined that healthcare workers are in “grave danger” from COVID-19, but did not broach the controversial subject of vaccine mandates some hospitals are adopting.
“There are 38 million people living with HIV worldwide and only 26 million of them have access to antiviral therapy. I know that is called a success — I call that a total failure. Knowing that in the world we have 12 million people who don’t have HIV therapy — that we have had since 1996 — I call that a massive failure.” Monica Gandhi, MD, an HIV specialist at UC San Francisco
"A person who witnesses an adverse event may become nervous and experience an anxiety-related event themselves, especially if that person is needle-phobic. When this occurs at mass vaccination sites, it can cause a chain reaction."
Despite increasing vaccinations, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
could argue that a standard now would protect workers in the next pandemic, as CDC guidelines were ignored and politicized when the COVID-19 hit in the United States in 2020.
Black patients are far more likely than white patients to be admitted to lower-quality hospitals, signaling an urgent need to address these disparities.
Nearly 68 million people had a sexually transmitted infection in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signaling a worsening epidemic.
Usually, a head CT is not necessary for diagnostic purposes in children with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), according to new guidelines from the CDC. Instead, these recommendations suggest clinicians use validated clinical decision rules to identify children with mTBI at low risk for intracranial injury, as well as those at higher risk for the condition who require a head CT.
In a new study, researchers from the Department of Veterans Affairs offer insight into which patients are most likely to end up in the ED because of hypoglycemia stemming from prandial insulin use.
When a young woman with few conventional atherosclerotic risk factors presents to the ED with possible cardiac symptoms, clinicians are urged to consider spontaneous coronary artery dissection, according to a recent American Heart Association scientific statement.
A new study conducted at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center sought to determine the causes of anaphylaxis at that facility and how etiologies and episodes have evolved.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently proposed a change to the Medicare Shared Savings Program. The goal is to move accountable care organizations toward a system in which they share in savings they generate but also are responsible for repaying shared losses.
Medical device manufacturer AngioDynamics Inc. will pay the federal government $12.5 million to resolve allegations that it used misleading statements to promote two of its products, causing healthcare providers to submit false claims to federal healthcare programs.
The Detroit-based William Beaumont Hospital system has agreed to pay the federal government $84.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it fostered improper relationships with eight referring physicians, violating the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Law.
Prime Healthcare Services Inc. (along with Prime Healthcare Management Inc. and Prime Healthcare Foundation Inc.) will pay the federal government $65 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that 14 of its California hospitals admitted patients who could have been treated as outpatients.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule under which Medicare payments and quality reporting would change for home health agencies.
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