Nearly 8 in 10 U.S. adults in a recent Harvard/SSRS poll said parents should be required to have children vaccinated against preventable diseases like measles, mumps and rubella to attend school — ...

The White House has asked Congress to extend government funding until Jan. 31, a four-month delay that would keep agencies running at current levels past the Sept. 30 expiration, Politico reported ...

A study found that GLP-1 drugs are associated with a lower risk of fractures, including hip and osteoporotic fractures. The research, led by scientists from China and published in Acta Diabetologica, ...

The average tenure of healthcare CEOs is slightly shorter than the average across industries, according to a recent report from executive search firm Crist Kolder Associates. Healthcare CEOs serve an ...

The Make America Healthy Again Commission, a newly created advisory body under HHS, published a report on chronic disease and children’s health Sept. 9.  The commission’s “Make Our Children Healthy ...

Novartis is acquiring biopharmaceutical company Tourmaline Bio for $1.4 billion to boost its cardiovascular pipeline. Tourmaline develops pacibekitug, a drug used to treat atherosclerotic ...

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health has built a 70-person “sales team for tech” that helps with all things Epic and clinicians can’t do without, the health system’s CIO told Becker’s. The 47-hospital ...

Craig Albanese, MD, is leaving Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System to join Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Albanese became Duke’s vice president and COO in January 2022 and was appointed CEO in ...

Clinician burnout remains one of the most urgent challenges in healthcare. In recent years, hospitals have turned to tools such as ambient documentation and virtual nursing, betting that AI could ...

Medline has entered into a multi-year vendor agreement with West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur, La. Under the agreement, the hospital will source a range of medical and surgical supplies from ...

Infusion volumes at Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Fla., have more than doubled since 2019, surpassing 39,000 annual visits, without adding a single chair. This growth, which ...

Imagine a future where some cancers are caught before symptoms appear, before they spread, before lives are disrupted. That’s the potential of multi-cancer early detection (MCED), a transformative ...