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...Envision Healthcare, a KKR-owned company that employs doctors who staff emergency rooms and anaesthesiology departments in hundreds of US hospitals, sued UnitedHealthcare in 2018 in a dispute over billing...
...“Our Paxlovid serves patients with end-stage cancer and kidney failure and there are a lot of them,” said a doctor at state-backed Peking Union Medical College Hospital....
...Even distribution is critical,” said Dr Seth Martin, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital....
...Maternal care and family planning were the first services to be scaled back or axed when hospitals were forced to redirect resources to the Covid response....
...Medicare pays doctors a fee of 6 per cent of the price of the drug, plus infusion and visit fees....
...The study of 9,000 healthcare workers, conducted by Israel’s Sheba Medical Center, a leading research hospital, found that a single dose reduced the number of people developing symptomatic Covid-19 by 85...
...Arnon Afek, the associate director-general of the hospital chain....
...Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease doctor and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins, said the drug was being prescribed less at his hospital....
...This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 25 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...“It’s a Cinderella story,” said Stacey Schultz-Cherry, an infectious disease specialist at St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee....
...The US emergency approval says remdesivir is for patients already in hospital with serious illness. However, some doctors are sceptical of prioritising the worst cases....
...Two Point Hospital, ported to Switch last month, is a hospital management simulator and spiritual successor to 1997’s beloved Theme Hospital....
...Admitted to hospital for hyper-sedation, physicians recommended she stop using the spray — but her doctor continued to prescribe it....
...The annual bill for tackling the epidemic is estimated at $79bn by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
...Doctors in Chicago are taking lessons from Cuba's health system....
...More than 183,000 Americans died from an overdose involving a prescription opioid between 1999 and 2015, and the number of annual fatalities has quadrupled over the same period, according to the US Centers...
...WilI investors’ view of the risks diverge from those of scientists and doctors?...
...Healthcare IT and communications company Imprivata sells identification software to 1,500 hospital systems, providing ways for doctors to have secure access to data....
...New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, one of the leading US cancer hospitals, last year launched an online tool called DrugAbacus to help healthcare providers assess the value of cancer drugs...
...The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month announced a partnership with uBiome, a Californian start-up, to sequence 10,000 stool samples in search of ways to control hospital infections...
...In 1947, Sidney Farber, a pathologist working in a tiny hospital laboratory in Boston, gave an experimental cocktail of “anti-vitamins” to children with terminal cancer....
...Peter Bach, a doctor and director at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, reflects the views of many in his profession when he accuses it of “corrupting behaviour”....
...They encompass the $300bn the US spends each year on pharmaceuticals, as well as other costs such as hospital overheads, doctors’ fees and blood tests....
...The worst flu outbreak in the US in a decade will cost businesses an estimated $10.4bn this year as workers call in sick, the Centers for Disease Control said on Friday....
...The committee suggested the companies, which produce powerful pain drugs, have improper financial ties with doctors and hospitals and that “dubious” marketing practices could be behind the recent surge in...
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