Hamilton Medical announced the recall in July. To date, there have been no deaths associated with the issue. 

The CDC recently reminded hospitals and nursing homes about the hard-to-kill yeast’s penchant for preying on patients who have tubes, catheters or weakened immune systems.

Surgeons who not only operate on patients but also conduct impactful research and educate new surgeons tend to have something in common: They began their careers by graduating from a top-ranked medical school—and then stayed inside that rarified healthcare stratum for good.  

The ruling is a blow to insurance companies that were previously allowed to include “ghost rates” in reimbursement benchmarks. The court ruled that policy, put in place by HHS and other agencies, is unlawful.

The lawsuit touches on the common complaint of third-party tracking code being used on websites that in some cases captures sensitive information in patient portals and search forms. UCHealth denies the allegations.

When a doctor tells a patient that his or her symptoms are normal within some given context, the patient may ignore the contextualization and only hear “You’re normal.” As shown in a new study, the partially received message can be a problem. 

Tracking 12,519 cardiology patients taking semaglutide found a 58% lower risk of all-cause mortality.