Texas on Track to Become First State to Explicitly Back Stem Cell Therapies
For years, clinics across the country have been offering experimental stem cell therapies, but no state has given them legal validation—yet.
New FDA Commissioner Gottlieb Unveils Price-fighting Strategies
The FDA can’t regulate drug prices, but it can implement measures aimed at deterring the types of price hikes that have made so many headlines over more than a year.
Millennial Physicians Sound off on State of Medicine Today
Some concerns relate to excessive paperwork, administrative burdens, EHR issues, bureaucratic issues, and government regulations, and medical school debt.
Mindfulness Is the Key to Physician Burnout
Researchers have turned their attention on mindfulness benefits on physician burnout and physician stress relief and are finding promising results.
OH Expands Prescriptive Authority for Certain APRNs
This new “exclusionary” formulary applies to Ohio’s certified nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and certified nurse midwives.
This Month, Everything Changed for PAs
After days of debate and years of dreaming, collaboration and study, an entire profession has embraced their future.
What Data-driven Healthcare Orgs Have in Common
It’s up to the analytics team to break the C-suite out of its old ways and get them engaged in the data.
Rural Americans, Hospitals Disproportionately Hurt by ACHA
Medicaid expansion was associated with a 4-percentage point increase in operating margins for rural hospitals.
Physician-owned Hospitals Have Positive Impact on Communities
As Congress grapples with the issues of the most expensive health care system in the world, we work to find solutions to reduce health care costs while improving value.
Physicians’ Age Linked to Patients’ Mortality Risk
Hospitalized patients have a slightly higher risk of dying when treated by older hospitalists.