Ending a 31 year stint, College Station (Texas) Medical Center stopped providing labor and delivery services July 16, according to a KBTX news report.
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Bill Gates will join a coalition of philanthropists who are donating $30 million to create a venture fund, Diagnostics Accelerator, to jumpstart research on a "reliable, affordable, and accessible" diagnostic test for Alzheimer's, according to CNN.
As mounting financial pressures leave some hospitals with no option but to close, patients become the real victims, traveling significant distances across "hospital deserts" for care, according to KQED News.
Catholic Health Initiatives collaborated with several healthcare organizations to develop and secure ICD-10 codes to help providers document sex and labor exploitation for the first time, the Englewood, Colo.-based health system announced July 17.
Residents of Detroit have the highest stress of any city in the U.S., according to an analysis by WalletHub.
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TriHealth, a five-hospital system in Cincinnati, and St. Elizabeth Healthcare, a six-hospital system in Covington, Ky., will collaborate with Mutual of Omaha and Lumeris on a value-based Medicare Advantage product.
In a recent blog post, Medecision discussed population health management.
In a recent press release, Boehringer Ingelheim announced positive top-line Phase III data results for empagliflozin as adjunct to insulin in type 1 diabetes.
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In the roughly one year since Amazon purchased Whole Foods, the e-commerce giant has begun offering Prime members discounts on fresh produce, suggesting its venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase may involve subsidizing healthy foods for its employees,…