HE homepage

Vintage neon drug sign at the Walgreens pharmacy on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans.

Sycamore Partners will be purchasing the struggling pharmacy chain for $11.45 a share and putting its VillageMD clinics up for sale. 

Tasha Saunders, 44, pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid in a scheme that involved creating fake patient records and forging the signatures of unwitting providers at a psychiatric rehabilitation center. 

AI and DEI in healthcare

If U.S. healthcare is to help advance responsible and ethical AI for all communities, it very much needs to continue prioritizing DEI initiatives. 

artificial intelligence AI can lower healthcare costs

The people who can least afford healthcare are often among those who need healthcare the most. 

johnson & johnson branding

Drug distributors AmerisourceBergen (Cencora), Cardinal Health, McKesson, Johnson & Johnson, Teva and Allergan do not admit to wrongdoing. However, they have agreed to a settlement which will compensate providers for opioid abuse treatments. 

elerly nursing home patient

After a bout of COVID-19, an 81-year-old woman developed bed sores that became infested with maggots. A lawsuit claims the facility failed to take proper action to treat the injury.

Around the web

Patients with coronary artery disease and severe aortic stenosis often undergo PCI before TAVR. According to new data presented at ACC.26, however, deferring PCI is associated with comparable outcomes as well as a reduced bleeding risk.