U.S. manufacturers of personal protective equipment are struggling to meet growing demand, hindered by high tariffs on Chinese imports, The New York Times reported April 23. Here are five things to know:
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Miami Beach, Fla.-based Mount Sinai Medical Center earned The Joint Commission’s Comprehensive Heart Attack Center Certification April 19, according to a LinkedIn post from the health system. The certification is the first for a hospital in Florida and the eighth…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, the largest public hospital in the New York City borough of Queens, opened the Women’s Heart Health Institute in February. The hospital’s cardiology department serves about 7,000 patients annually, 30% of whom are women, according to…
Cardiologists in Cincinnati earn the highest annual mean wage, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national annual mean wage for cardiologists is $432,490 and the national hourly mean wage is $207.93, without adjusting…
Some early-onset colorectal cancers may be caused by exposure to a bacterial toxin within the first 10 years of life, according to a study published April 23 in Nature. An international research team, led by Ludmil Alexandrov, PhD, from the…
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Gaithersburg, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare has named Allison Dichoso vice president and chief human resources officer, effective May 5. Ms. Dichoso will succeed Brendan Johnson, who transitioned in January to a medical center in Kansas, according to an April 23 news…
Columbus-based Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has appointed W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, as CEO. Dr. Rathmell will step into the role May 27, pending board approval,…
New York City-based NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital had the lowest rate of ED visits for cancer patients receiving outpatient chemotherapy between Jan. 1, 2023, and Dec. 31, 2023, according to CMS data published Feb. 19. CMS data reflects the rate of patients…
A blood test developed by researchers from Stanford (Calif.) Medicine is capable of detecting cancer and identifying how cancers might resist treatment. Here are four things to know about the test: Read the full study here.
For most screenable cancers, a pandemic-related surge of late-stage diagnoses in 2020 quickly returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2021, with the exception of cervical cancer. According to the National Cancer Institute’s “Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of…