Drug manufacturer Pfizer has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, a maker of migraine treatments, for $11.6 billion, the former said this week. Pfizer will also make payments at closing to settle Biohaven’s third party debt and for the redemption of all outstanding shares of Biohaven’s redeemable preferred stock. The boards of […]
The past two years have been difficult for nurses, and research from Nurse.com highlights the extent to which this is true: In the “Nurse Salary Research Report,” 29% of nurses said they were considering leaving the profession, a steep rise from the 11% who were considering such a move in the 2020 survey.
The Unblock Health patient advocacy movement focuses on the administrative efforts patients face after a chronic illness or cancer diagnosis, according to Grace Cordovano, founder of Enlightening Results.
As the United States closes in on a million deaths due to COVID-19, experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health on Tuesday weighed in on what’s next during “A New Phase of COVID-19: What Lies Ahead – from Surges to Long-Haulers.”
A shareholder at in-home healthcare service provider LHC Group, which UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum is set to acquire, is suing the latter and its board of directors over the proposed merger, court docu
The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other purchasers focused on healthcare safety, released the spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade today, finding an overall decline in patient safety measures the report considers “significant.”
Denise Scannell, chief scientist of health communication at MITRE says that getting factual health information facts through people’s “mental filters” is nearly impossible.
Between 5.3 million and 14.2 million low-income people could lose Medicaid coverage following the end of the public health emergency, KFF researchers find in a
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded telehealth coverage to patients across the country, and new data published in H