Kennedy Jr., nominated to lead HHS under President Donald Trump's second term, holds a range of positions on healthcare issues. Here are five positions of RFK Jr: 1. Mr. Kennedy plans to prioritize ...

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison has been awarded a $5.7 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to study the long-term effects of vaping on heart ...

Here are 13 states that currently allow optometrists to perform eyelid surgeries, according to a Jan. 6 report from the American Medical Association: The states that let optometrists perform laser and ...

Central California Hospital Medicine Group filed a lawsuit Dec. 23 against the hospital, alleging it had violated unfair competition laws in the state, Medi-Cal laws and its own internal bylaws when ...

In passing the law, Illinois became one of four states to widen colonoscopy coverage beginning Jan 1. According to data from the National Cancer Institute reported in 2023, colon cancer was ...

Maryland Heights, Mo.-based Sentio Biosciences has earned a contract from API Innovation Center, a St. Louis nonprofit focused on strengthening the U.S. supply chain, to develop and produce two ...

Bruce Feldman. Administrator of Eastern Orange Ambulatory Surgery Center in Cornwall, N.Y. I believe cardiovascular procedures will be amongst the most common procedures to migrate from the hospital ...

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the U.S., with 56,000 employees, will continue to serve Marshfield's patients in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The new partnership will ...

Here are several states that saw changes in CRNA policies in the past year, from reimbursement declines to alleviated supervision requirements: Ohio- based insurer Medical Mutual announced plans to ...

A judge in Connecticut dismissed a 2021 appeal by Day Kimball Healthcare against the state and Hartford HealthCare over approval of a Plainfield, Conn.-based ASC, according to a Dec. 31 report from ...

Eleven orthopedic surgeons had previously left SSM and founded their own practice, Orthopedic and Spine Centers of Wisconsin, also based in Madison. The surgeons were previously bound by a noncompete ...

Here are 10 recent changes to colonoscopy laws, reimbursements and recommendations from 2024 that physicians should watch going into 2025: Beginning Jan. 1, Nebraska, Illinois, Kentucky and Vermont ...