12 Jun Scripps – Mutation could make coronavirus more infectious, study suggests
Researchers in Florida say they believe they have shown that the new coronavirus has mutated in a way that makes it more easily infect human cells....
10 Jun MSU and Henry Ford Health plan to partner for healthcare, cancer research
The partnership plans to build a joint research institute in Detroit to focus on health inequities and disparities, social determinants of health, primary care, implementation sciences, and precision health and cancer....
09 Jun Scripps – As reopening continues, hospitals and researchers worry about a COVID resurgence
Tuesday brought significant contrast to San Diego County on the coronavirus front. As beach parking lots and piers reopened, Scripps Health stopped taking new COVID-19 transfers amid a rash of severe symptoms that left one of the region’s largest health providers with just a half-dozen...
09 Jun Partners – Special Report: COVID deepens the other opioid crisis – a shortage of hospital painkillers
As opioid pills and patches fueled a two-decade epidemic of overdoses in the United States, hospitals faced chronic shortages of the same painkillers in injectable form - narcotics vital to patients on breathing machines....
08 Jun The Keckley Report – Charity Care: Do For-Profit Hospitals Do their Fair Share?
According to the American Hospital Association, 57% of the 5198 non-federal, short-term community hospitals in the U.S. operate as private, nonprofit organizations. 25% operate as for-profit and 19% are owned and operated by state and local government. To maintain their tax-exempt status which relieves them...
04 Jun VIDEO | Bill Russell Field Report: Michigan Medicine with CIO Andrew Rosenberg
We sit down with Andrew Rosenberg MD, CIO for Michigan Medicine. ...
03 Jun Tampa General executive warns against COVID complacency
A spike in new cases of COVID-19 in recent days has renewed concerns about community spread of the illness, including among large gatherings of protesters....
03 Jun BayCare taking part in several clinical trials to find treatments, cure for COVID-19
Local doctors are working to find treatments and a cure for COVID-19....
03 Jun Banner Health launches telehealth in all hospital COVID-19 units
In a rapid, yet expansive, deployment of “telehealth” in the acute-care setting, hospitalists and specialists at all 28 Banner Health hospitals now can conduct virtual patient visits on COVID-19 units. This greatly preserves personal protective equipment (PPE) and allows for greater efficiency and patient and...
03 Jun Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center – How long does the coronavirus last inside the body?
Researchers are narrowing down how long the virus persists inside the body and whether people can be quickly re-infected....