An estimated 80 million people in this country suffer from some type of allergy and up to 40% of Americans have environmental allergies caused by substances such as hay fever, pet dander and dust mites. These common conditions can often be treated by over-the-counter remedies, prescription drugs and shots to build up resistance.
The House Ways and Means Committee has passed telehealth legislation to preserve flexibilities for virtual care introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Actress, writer and producer Kellee Stewart says one of the reasons she became a fertility advocate and associated with Evite and Progeny was that she realized that reproductive health was not part of sex education at school.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing a new mandatory model geared at improving access for kidney transplant patients, with the goal of helping hospitals increase the quality of the transplants they perform. The Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model aims to increase access to kidney transplants for all people living with end-stage […]
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, along with the Catholic Medical Association, is suing the Department of Health and Human Services over a new rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act meant to protect against discrimination against LGBTQI+ patients in healthcare.
Dr. Hunter Cherwek, VP of clinical services and technologies at Orbis International, is helping, in partnership with FundamentalVR, to train ophthalmic surgeons in low- to middle-income countries via a tool.
Ascension has reported a cybersecurity attack that has disrupted clinical operations.
Rural health clinics seeking Medicare reimbursement can now do so via a new accreditation program from the Joint Commission. The Joint Commission was granted the authority by CMS this week.
Steward Health Care will sell all of its 31 hospitals, according to documents submitted to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston on Tuesday.
Patient safety events, which are adverse events that could have been prevented, are altogether common in outpatient settings and speak to the need for improving safety in these settings, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Outpatient settings include primary care visits, specialty care appointments, day surgeries, visits to the emergency […]