The opioid settlement funds provide a crucial opportunity to get increased state or municipal funding behind mail-based naloxone delivery. Through partnering with existing organizations that already have robust infrastructure in place and substantial experience in mail-based naloxone municipalities can scale efforts efficiently. The post Expanding Support for Mail-Based Naloxone Delivery appeared first on MedCity News.
Fact sheet examining proposed reorganization of U.S. global health programs as part of the Trump administration’s foreign aid review.
[Sponsored] The report, 60% of Healthcare Orgs Admit Email Security Failure, highlights what Paubox says is a broken infrastructure at the heart of this issue, exposing millions to preventable risks. It also offers recommendations to fix the problems. The post Report Highlights Data Breach Risks Email Vulnerabilities Pose to Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Amid sweeping cuts to federal government health agencies by the Trump Administration, much of the public opposes cuts to funding and staffing, including some Republicans. Support of many of these cuts is largely partisan, however, there is agreement across parties when it comes to opposing cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Food bank shortages caused by high demand and cuts to federal aid programs have some residents of a small community that straddles Idaho and Nevada growing their own food to get by. For those living in Duck Valley, a reservation of about 1,000 people that is home to the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes, there’s just one grocery…
Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad bowl of the world.” Reddy can’t match the salaries offered by larger health systems —…
As the Trump administration and Congress pursue broad cuts to federal health agencies and budgets, most of the public, including some Republicans, oppose deep budget and staffing cuts to federal health programs and agencies, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. Across a range of questions, large majorities of Democrats and independents oppose the Trump…More
Tom Knight is the Chairman of Healthcare Diversion, a nonprofit that is trying to educate about the topic of drug theft from facilities. This happens both because medical professionals are addicts (and victims themselves) and also because of organized crime and resale. The consequences are awful, with patients receiving water instead of analgesic drugs, getting…
April has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, AdventHealth and DexCare both named new CEOs, and Crozer Health and UNC Health have undergone CEO exits. There were also layoffs at organizations including Aetna, Sanford Health and Caribou Biosciences. The post Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of…
Regulus Therapeutics drug farabursen is a potential first-in-class treatment for a rare kidney disease whose only FDA-approved therapy introduces severe toxicity risks. Farabursen is joining a Novartis drug lineup spanning several therapies for rare renal disorders. The post Novartis Gets Phase 3-Ready Rare Kidney Disease Drug via $800M Regulus Acquisition appeared first on MedCity News.