Stepping into the fray on broad societal issues “takes physicians into realms where they have no expertise—and thus risks eroding public trust in the medical profession,” a distinguished physician suggests.

Unless there’s a turnaround from the high costs and low revenues of the COVID healthcare economy, more than 70% of nursing homes and 64% of assisted living communities will not be here a year from now.  

It's believed to be the first such facility to implement a rapid testing program and is powered by Dignity Health St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco and GoHealth Urgent Care.

The authors suggest requiring drugmakers, hospitals and doctors to refund CMS and/or making pharma companies right-size drug containers.

That’s according to the latest every-other-year survey out of the Physicians Foundation, released Tuesday. 

Nearly 95% of around 500 healthcare executives working for provider organizations believe concentrating on population health is key to ensuring long-term success. But only a small slice of them have been turning intentions into actions.

One imaging physician with the National Health Service said the speciality comes into contact with all COVID-19 patients and that the government has forgotten about workers such as herself.

Chemists have uncovered a new technique that could make it possible to heal a patient’s damaged heart tissue after a myocardial infarction (MI).

The study's authors explored data from more than 28,000 patients.