Drug Channels

JUNE 4, 2024

Meanwhile, employment and salaries in non-retail settings—hospitals, physician offices, outpatient centers, and home healthcare—continued to grow. What’s ahead for 340B-eligible hospitals? These settings now employ one in three U.S. pharmacists. Greener grass—or just different soil?

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Perficient: Drug Development

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. Congratulations to Ryman Hospitality Properties and their entire staff! ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning Migration to the Cloud – July 2023 Go Live! Contact Matt Makowsky at Perficient for more introspection of this phenomenal achievement. www.oracle.com www.perficient.com

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Drugs.com

APRIL 4, 2024

THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 -- Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home Wednesday after faring so well that he was released from the hospital just two weeks after his groundbreaking.

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Drugs.com

MAY 21, 2024

TUESDAY, May 21, 2024 -- Heat waves and heat domes are particularly dangerous to kids with asthma, a new study finds.Daytime heat waves are associated with 19% increased odds that a child with asthma will wind up in the hospital, researchers.

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Drugs.com

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

20, 2023 -- How big is a hospital bed’s carbon footprint? One hospital bed alone was roughly equivalent to the carbon footprint of five Canadian households, according to researchers studying a. WEDNESDAY, Sept. Pretty big, new research shows.

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Drugs.com

JANUARY 3, 2024

3, 2024 -- The average cost of hospital care for COVID-19 patients skyrocketed during the pandemic, outstripping what might be expected under inflation, a new study shows.Average hospital costs for COVID patients increased five. WEDNESDAY, Jan.

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Hospitals 98

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

DECEMBER 22, 2023

People who maintain or increase their aerobic fitness are at less risk of being hospitalized in future, particularly if they were hospitalized previously. These are the findings of a study conducted at the University of Gothenburg. Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

27, 2023 -- When hospitals support trauma survivors' mental health during and after treatment, patients are less likely to return in crisis, researchers report.There's no uniform guidance on how to offer mental health services to. WEDNESDAY, Dec.

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Drugs.com

JANUARY 9, 2024

9, 2024 -- It's an approach that's becoming more widespread: Receiving hospital-level care in the home.A new study finds that folks "hospitalized" at home tend to do at least as well as if they’d been checked into a hospital for. TUESDAY, Jan.

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Hospitals 98

Drugs.com

DECEMBER 19, 2023

19, 2023 -- Hospital coffee machines have received some side-eye as a potential source of spreading infection, but a new study debunks the belief.“To TUESDAY, Dec. To our great relief…a general ban on coffee makers doesn’t seem necessary,”.

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Drug Channels

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

As many of you know, hospitals and health systems have emerged as significant participants in the specialty pharmacy industry. A new American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) survey provides fresh insights into these specialty pharmacies. I then highlight how hospitals steer prescriptions to their internal specialty pharmacies.

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Drugs.com

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

12, 2024 (Healthday News) -- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III, who spent time in intensive care last month for complications related to prostate cancer surgery performed in December, has returned to the hospital with bladder issues, MONDAY, Feb.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

DECEMBER 13, 2023

. – Ochsner Health announces plans for The Gayle and Tom Benson Ochsner Children’s Hospital, made possible through a transformational gift from Mrs. Gayle Benson. Ochsner Health announces plans for The Gayle and Tom Benson Ochsner Children’s Hospital, made possible through a transformational gift from Mrs. […]

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Hospitals 95

Drugs.com

AUGUST 16, 2023

16, 2023 -- New hospitalizations for Americans with severe COVID are climbing once again. The number of patients being admitted to hospitals has grown for each of the past four weeks, U.S. WEDNESDAY, Aug. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CLEVELAND—University Hospitals (UH) Brain Health & Memory Center is now treating patients with LEQEMBI® (lecanemab), a Food and Drug Administration-approved medication for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Increased use of Paxlovid, the antiviral drug used to treat COVID-19, could prevent hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and save tens of billions of dollars a year, according to a new epidemiological model published by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Drugs.com

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

20 , 2023 -- Salmonella-tainted cantaloupe has landed 17 people in the hospital, warns the U.S. MONDAY, Nov. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 43 people across 15 states and Canada have been sickened in the outbreak, which are.

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Drugs.com

DECEMBER 19, 2023

19, 2023 -- A person’s toothbrush could be a true lifesaver if they land in a hospital ICU, according to new evidence review.Regular toothbrushing is associated with lower rates of death in the intensive care unit (ICU), shorter. TUESDAY, Dec.

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Hospitals 105

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APRIL 1, 2024

MONDAY, April 1, 2024 -- In a letter sent to teaching hospitals and medical schools across the country, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that written consent must be obtained from patients before performing sensitive.

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FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

MAY 16, 2024

Houck — Employee diversion of controlled substances from hospitals has been an issue since at least 1986 when I became a diversion investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). The Kentucky hospital resolved the allegations for $4,394,600 and entered into a three-year MOA in November 2021.

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Drugs.com

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

21, 2023 -- Peaches, nectarines and plums tainted with Listeria have caused one death and put 10 people in the hospital with food poisoning across seven states, federal officials say. TUESDAY, Nov. The Listeria outbreak also has caused one.

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Hospitals 116

Drugs.com

JANUARY 16, 2024

16, 2024 -- Following two weeks of hospital care for complications from prostate cancer surgery, U.S. TUESDAY, Jan. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been released from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Pentagon announced.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Toronto, ON, December 4, 2023 – There was a disproportionate rise in pediatric eating disorder hospitalizations among males, younger adolescents, and individuals with eating disorder diagnoses other than anorexia or bulimia, according to a new study from researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and ICES.

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Hospitals Research 84

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

CLEVELAND – Jeanne Lackamp, MD, DFAPA, FACLP, has been selected to serve as Chair of Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatrist in Chief for University Hospitals (UH), and Director of the UH Behavioral Health Institute.

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Hospitals 67

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

JULY 9, 2024

NIOSH’s Impact Wellbeing™ campaign gives hospital leaders evidence-informed solutions to reduce healthcare worker burnout and sustain wellbeing. It helps hospital leaders go beyond individual resilience efforts and encouraging self-care to instead focus on systems-level improvements.

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Hospitals 52

Drugs.com

OCTOBER 4, 2023

An infant given probiotics at an undisclosed hospital has died, U.S. TUESDAY, Oct. 3, 2023 -- Federal regulators are cautioning doctors not to give probiotics to preterm infants. Food and Drug Administration officials said in a recent warning.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

On December 11, 2023, UC San Diego Health successfully completed the purchase of Alvarado Hospital Medical Center from Prime Healthcare.

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Hospitals 89

Drugs.com

DECEMBER 8, 2023

8, 2023 -- As the war in the Ukraine rages on, new research shows that hospitals there are waging a battle of their own against a different kind of enemy: antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" that are spreading at an alarming rate.In FRIDAY, Dec.

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Drugs.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Food and Drug Administration has received at least three reports of people being hospitalized after taking counterfeit versions of the wildly popular weight-loss drugs known as semaglutides. WEDNESDAY, Nov 8, 2023 -- The U.S. At least one of these.

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

AUGUST 31, 2023

DETROIT – All five of Henry Ford Health’s acute care hospitals have earned a full three-year reaccreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a quality program administered by the American College of Surgeons.

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Drug Channels

APRIL 4, 2024

For updated data on hospital-owned specialty pharmacies, see Chapter 3 of DCI's new 2024 Economic Report on U.S. As many of you know, hospitals and health systems have emerged as significant participants in the specialty pharmacy industry. I then highlight how hospitals steer prescriptions to their internal specialty pharmacies.

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Drugs.com

MARCH 11, 2024

FRIDAY, March 8, 2024 -- Real-world data show that a shot that protects babies against RSV is 90% effective in keeping them out of the hospital. Those numbers outstrip what had been expected of Beyfortus (nirsevimab), which in clinical trials had.

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Drug Channels

JUNE 12, 2024

pharmacy industry—act as contract pharmacies for the hospitals and federal grantees that participate in the 340B program. Federal grantees are aligned primarily with the vertically intergated organizations' retail pharmacies, while hospitals rely on mail and specialty pharmacies.

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Drugs.com

JANUARY 31, 2024

31, 2024 -- For people with schizophrenia hospitalized after a psychotic episode, getting a long-acting antipsychotic injection works far better than pills to keep them from returning to hospital care.That's the finding of a new. WEDNESDAY, Jan.

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Hospitals 69

Drugs.com

AUGUST 8, 2023

8, 2023 -- Most people know that even though vaccination doesn't eliminate their risk of getting COVID-19, it does lower their odds for severe illness -- including their risk for hospitalization and death. TUESDAY, Aug. Now scientists believe they.

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Drugs.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are expected to approve new draft guidelines for hospital infection control this week, the first update since 2007. FRIDAY, Nov. 3, 2023 -- Advisors to the U.S. But healthcare workers worry whether the.

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Drugs.com

MAY 14, 2024

TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 -- Having private insurance may not be all it is cracked up to be when it comes to hospital bills, new research warns.In a report published Monday by the nonprofit research institute RAND Corp., researchers discovered that.

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