Simulations Show Weak Electrical Pulses Could Treat Atrial and Ventricular Fibrillations

Dec 13, 2022 at 10:15 am by Staff

Atrial and ventricular fibrillations are dangerous heart arrhythmias that claim millions of lives each year. Current treatment for them is a high-energy defibrillati.... Read More

How Medicare Advantage Plans Dodged Auditors and Overcharged Taxpayers by Millions

Dec 13, 2022 at 10:04 am by Staff

  By Fred Schulte and Holly K. Hacker, Kaiser Health News  In April 2016, government auditors asked a Blue Cross Medicare Advantage health plan in M.... Read More

VUMC well represented at Association of American Medical Colleges annual meeting

Dec 12, 2022 at 09:37 pm by Staff

by Bill Snyder Disrupt the status quo. Inspire action. Redefine what it means to be a physician. Those were among the messages delivered by Vanderbilt University Medical Cen.... Read More

Lovly receives Asclepios Award from GO2 for Lung Cancer

Dec 12, 2022 at 09:36 pm by Staff

  The GO2 Foundation for Lung Cancer has recognized Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research and associate professor of Medicine, with the.... Read More

In Rural America, Deadly Costs of Opioids Outweigh the Dollars Tagged to Address Them

Dec 12, 2022 at 09:27 pm by Staff

  By Aneri Pattani and Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News Tim Buck knows by heart how many people died from drug overdoses in his North Carolina count.... Read More

Investigation: The System Feds Rely On to Stop Repeat Health Fraud Is Broken

Dec 12, 2022 at 09:22 pm by Staff

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Lauren Weber, Kaiser Health News  The federal system meant to stop health care business owners and executives from repeatedly bi.... Read More

Hospital Financial Decisions Play a Role in the Critical Shortage of Pediatric Beds for RSV Patients

Dec 12, 2022 at 07:13 pm by Staff

  By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News  The dire shortage of pediatric hospital beds plaguing the nation this fall is a byproduct of financial decisions made by h.... Read More

More States to Consider Extending Postpartum Medicaid Coverage Beyond Two Months

Dec 12, 2022 at 07:04 pm by Staff

By Matt Volz, Kaiser Health News  Lawmakers in several conservative-led states — including Montana, Wyoming, Missouri, and Mississippi — are expected to.... Read More

For Patients with Sickle Cell Disease, Fertility Care is About Reproductive Justice

Dec 12, 2022 at 07:00 pm by Staff

By Farah Yousry, Side Effects Public Media, Kaiser Health News Teonna Woolford has always wanted six kids. Why six? “I don’t know where that number came fro.... Read More

Paxlovid Has Been Free So Far. Next Year, Sticker Shock Awaits.

Dec 12, 2022 at 06:56 pm by Staff

  By Hannah Recht, Kaiser Health News    Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pil.... Read More