A federal court in Texas has bolstered Novo Nordisk’s efforts to limit the production and sale of compounded versions of its GLP-1 drugs, Wegovy and Ozempic. Here are five notes: ...

States in the Midwest and the South had the highest wages for physicians. Becker’s used the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics salary data, released April 18, to determine the hourly pay rate by state ...

Some scientists and inspections staff at the FDA have been informed by their supervisors that their layoffs will be reversed, CBS News reported April 28. The White House had previously laid off more ...

West Palm Beach, Fla.-based HCA Florida JFK North Hospital has expanded its interventional services department with the addition of diagnostic cardiology care. The department also offers ...

At Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, an 11-year-old girl with severe beta thalassamia, became the first pediatric patient to receive Zyntelgo, the first FDA-approved gene therapy for ...

Watertown, N.Y.-based Samaritan Medical Center has selected  Kopp Billing Agency to manage its patient billing services.

Traditionally, goals-of-care conversations are reserved for end-of-life care, but The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is changing that. MD Anderson launched the Center for Goal ...

Ambience Healthcare and Houston Methodist are teaming up to bring AI-driven documentation to emergency and inpatient care. By ...

A team from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the first in the world to study the use of genetically engineered pig hearts for infants waiting for heart transplantation.  The study was led by John ...

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Hoag has appointed Steven Grossman, MD, PhD, as executive medical director for the Hoag Family Cancer Institute. Dr. Grossman previously served as physician-in-chief and ...

Provider shortages are widespread, longstanding and not abating anytime soon. To slow the exodus of highly qualified clinicians and cope with growing demands for care, many health systems need to ...

Tyler, Texas-based Christus Mother Frances Hospital had the lowest readmission ratio for coronary artery bypass graft surgery between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data published ...