Nashville General Hospital Earns Trauma Level III Designation

Jun 27, 2023 at 11:38 am by Staff

  Tennessee Health Facilities Commission granted NGH’s request for enhanced designation   Nashville General Hospital (NGH), a national leading public safety.... Read More

Unveiling the Dire Consequences of the Nationwide Nursing Shortage

Jun 27, 2023 at 11:32 am by Staff

  By NURSE JESSICA SITES    The current state of the nursing shortage in the United States is reaching a critical and potentially catastrophic level. While i.... Read More

Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West Receives Recognition as a Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center

Jun 27, 2023 at 11:09 am by Staff

  Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West has received the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award from the American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation for a.... Read More

FDA Approves New Class of Medicines to Treat Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:49 am by Staff

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jardiance (empagliflozin) and Synjardy (empagliflozin and metformin hydrochloride) as additions to diet and exercise to.... Read More

FDA Issues First Draft Guidance on Clinical Trials with Psychedelic Drugs

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:44 am by Staff

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published a new draft guidance to highlight fundamental considerations to researchers investigating the use of psychedelic drug.... Read More

Malpractice Lawsuits Over Denied Abortion Care May Be on the Horizon

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:35 am by Staff

  By Harris Meyer, KFF Health News  A year after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, many physicians and hospitals in the states that have restricted abortion rep.... Read More

Black, Rural Southern Women at Gravest Risk From Pregnancy Miss Out on Maternal Health Aid

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:18 am by Staff

  By Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News    As maternal mortality skyrockets in the United States, a federal program created to improve rural maternity.... Read More

Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:13 am by Staff

  By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News    On Nov. 22, three FDA inspectors arrived at the sprawling Intas Pharmaceuticals plant south of Ahmedabad, India, a.... Read More

Medical Exiles: Families Flee States Amid Crackdown on Transgender Care

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:07 am by Staff

  By Bram Sable-Smith and Daniel Chang and Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez and Sandy West, KFF Health News Hal Dempsey wanted to “escap.... Read More

Haynes Named VUMC’s Chief Patient Experience Officer

Jun 26, 2023 at 11:00 am by Staff

  by John Howser David Haynes, MD, MMHC, professor of Otolaryngology, Neurosurgery and Hearing and Speech Sciences, and Vice Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-H.... Read More