The FDA has flagged patient safety risks tied to nine products sold through Amazon that the agency said are unapproved new drugs marketed to treat sexually transmitted infections or their symptoms. The agency identified the violations after reviewing labeling for…
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The FDA has approved AbbVie’s Juvmo (tavapadon) tablets for adults with Parkinson’s disease, making it the first and only selective D1/D5 receptor agonist approved for adults with the condition. The once-daily treatment can be taken with or without oral levodopa…
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Health System has appointed Brian Fritz president and CEO of three recently acquired Pennsylvania hospitals: Westmoreland Hospital in Greensburg, Latrobe (Pa.) Hospital and Frick Hospital in Mount Pleasant. Mr. Fritz brings more than 20 years of healthcare…
Health systems are stretched thin. Budgets are tight, turnover is high, and workflow changes arrive faster than education teams can keep up. Yet many training programs still rely on approaches built for a different era: time-intensive, expensive to maintain, and…
Buffalo, N.Y.-based Kaleida Health will close its Golisano Children’s Hospital of Buffalo Children’s Psychiatry Clinic-Amherst Satellite location and relocate its pediatric ENT clinic at the McKinley Pediatric Outpatient Center in Blasdell, N.Y., pending approval from the New York State Department…
Nearly three decades after researchers first documented that surgeons are paid more for male-specific procedures than comparable female-specific ones, the gap has barely narrowed, and experts say it is now shaping how hospitals allocate operating room time, Vox reported Oct.…
In this episode, Shea Swick, Lead Pharmacist, RxCare Charitable Pharmacy, OhioHealth Riverside Community Medicine, discusses how pharmacist-led remote blood pressure monitoring is improving hypertension control through medication management, patient education and personalized outreach. She also shares the program’s clinical and…
UnitedHealthcare recently sent letters to members across the country mistakenly informing them that eight physicians had died, as first reported by The Minnesota Star Tribune on Oct. 7. According to the report, letters claiming the deaths of two Minnesota physicians…
Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health and technology companies announced an expansion of an international effort to generate open biological datasets for predictive AI models. The effort represents $1.8 billion in funding, data, computing resources…
Arlington-based Texas Health Resources is shifting its revenue cycle team away from working insurance denials one at a time and toward identifying large-scale payer patterns it can resolve in bulk. Jamie Williams, associate vice president of professional billing at Texas…