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How Health Systems Leaders Use Strategic Planning And Marketing In Healthcare Systems
Operating a healthcare facility is complicated. Without careful planning, problems can arise that impact the quality of care offered. Health systems leaders use a variety of tools and tactics to ensure that operations are well-managed and streamlined. Good planning...
Are There Any Prescription Eyelash Serums
Eyelashes have long been revered for their aesthetic appeal and role in framing the eyes. In recent years, the beauty industry has witnessed a surge in the demand for longer, fuller lashes. To cater to this demand, numerous cosmetic products have flooded the market,...
Car Accidents: What Is the Typical Settlement You Can Expect?
When a person asks how much they will get in a car accident settlement, attorneys cannot definitively answer this question. Many factors play a role in how much a person can expect to receive, and no two accidents are identical. The settlement is based in large part...
Renting is Cheaper than Buying, Even Among Rising Rent Prices
During the pandemic housing prices increased dramatically across the country. This was perhaps the result of record low interest rates and a limited housing inventory, as many housing projects were put on hold during uncertain times. Understanding the Pandemic’s...
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New hope for sisters trapped in their bodies
Penny TaylorBy Sharon BarbourHealth Correspondent, BBC Look NorthNeuroferritinopathy is a rare brain condition that traps people in their bodies and seems to largely affect descendants of one family. As a university launches a drugs trial in a hope of reversing its...
NHS AI test spots tiny cancers missed by doctors
By Zoe KleinmanTechnology editorAn AI tool tested by the NHS successfully identified tiny signs of breast cancer in 11 women which had been missed by human doctors.The tool, called Mia, was piloted alongside NHS clinicians and analysed the mammograms of over 10,000...
Letby inquiry: NHS staff want their voices heard
SWNSBy Michael BuchananSocial affairs correspondent, BBC NewsA group representing hundreds of clinicians has applied to contribute to the inquiry set up after the Lucy Letby killings.NHS Whistleblowers say their experiences should inform the inquiry.Letby murdered...
Junior doctors vote to continue strike action
PA MediaBy Nick TriggleHealth correspondentJunior doctors in England have voted in favour of continuing strike action in their pay dispute.Some 98% of members of the British Medical Association who voted backed further walkouts on a turnout of 62%.There have been 10...
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirements Costing Taxpayers Millions Despite Low Enrollment
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s plan for a conservative alternative to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion has cost taxpayers at least $26 million so far, with more than 90% going toward administrative and consulting costs rather than medical care for low-income people. Kemp’s...
Watch: Many Americans Are Unaware of HIV Prevention Medication
[embedded content] Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, explained on “CBS Mornings” why many at-risk Americans do not know about medication to prevent HIV infection through sexual contact or do not have access to it. Only one-third of...
Needle Pain Is a Big Problem for Kids. One California Doctor Has a Plan.
Almost all new parents go through it: the distress of hearing their child scream at the doctor’s office. They endure the emotional torture of having to hold their child down as the clinician sticks them with one vaccine after another. “The first shots he got, I...
‘Pay dentists 25% more for NHS work’ to stem exodus
Getty ImagesBy Nick TriggleHealth correspondentPaying dental practices 25% more to see patients would help keep dentists in the NHS, the profession's leaders say.The British Dental Association said increasing the activity rate from £28 to £35 in England would be just...
Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Four years after hospitals in New York City overflowed with covid-19 patients, emergency physician Sonya Stokes remains shaken by how unprepared and misguided the American health system was. Hospital leadership instructed health workers to forgo protective N95 masks...
How National Political Ambition Could Fuel, or Fail, Initiatives to Protect Abortion Rights in States
ST. LOUIS — In early February, abortion rights supporters gathered to change Missouri history at the Pageant — a storied club where rock ’n’ roll revolutionary Chuck Berry often had played: They launched a signature-gathering campaign to put a constitutional amendment...
Amid Mental Health Staffing Crunch, Medi-Cal Patients Help One Another
VALLEJO, Calif. — Three people gathered in a classroom on a recent rainy afternoon listened intently as Derrick Cordero urged them to turn their negative feelings around. “What I’m hearing is that you’re a self-starter,” he told one participant, who had taken up...
Doctor sorry for toddler’s ‘sub-standard’ care
Kelum RupasingheBy Brian FarmerBBC News, EssexThe grieving parents of a toddler have said they will discuss their next move with a lawyer after a hospital admitted she had received "sub-standard" care.A consultant at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex,...