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U.K. regulators have launched a study into a possible genetic link between use of GLP-1s, such as Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy, and acute pancreatitis. Yellow Card Biobank, a joint initiative of ...
Amid ongoing industry shifts, many hospitals and health systems are experiencing significant financial strain, prompting them to make difficult decisions such as laying off employees. Here are the six ...
CVS Caremark Corp. has been ordered to pay $95 million after a federal judge found the pharmacy benefit manager improperly inflated Medicare drug prices by failing to report required pharmacy ...
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board voted 7-1 on June 24 to allow Advocate Health Care to move forward with a new hospital project in Chicago, the board confirmed to Becker’s.
After three years, only about 1 in 12 individuals taking GLP-1s to treat obesity remained on the therapy, according to a Prime Therapeutics study published on June 25. Prime is owned by 19 Blue Cross ...
Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health has built AI to filter patient portal messages and respond to patients. Clinicians from the health system worked with Dartmouth computer science researchers and an ...
Healthcare has become the most targeted U.S. critical infrastructure industry by hackers. But which states have been impacted the most by the breaches? Here are the 10 states with the highest number ...
A 58-year-old man has been arrested and charged after police said he threatened the CEO of Bristol (Conn.) Health on social media. Bristol Police said in a Facebook post that they located and arrested ...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs secretary is asking for an additional $3.5 billion for the agency’s Oracle Health EHR project, MeriTalk reported. However, President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 ...
Provisions in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” would limit the amount of federal student loans medical students can borrow, and critics worry this could worsen physician shortages across rural areas ...
The FDA has approved required updates to the labeling of Pfizer’s Comirnaty and Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccines to include revised warnings about the risk of myocarditis and pericarditis ...
John Whitlock has been named CFO of Lawrence, Mass.-based Lawrence General Hospital and Mathuen, Mass.-based Holy Family Hospital, according to two June 25 LinkedIn posts. In October, Lawrence General ...