(Reuters) – Fitch does not anticipate any credit impact on not-for-profit hospitals in the United States from the cyberattack at UnitedHealth’s tech unit Change Healthcare that caused disruption to pharmacies across the U.S., the ratings agency said on Monday. The agency said it does not see any negative rating implications tied to the hack if […]
Aid groups that visited a packed Gaza hospital described an “unimaginable” situation in which large open wounds were left untreated. An emergency medical team organised by three aid groups spent two weeks carrying out surgeries and other care at the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younis. The southern city has seen heavy fighting between Israeli […]
Aid groups that visited a packed Gaza hospital described an “unimaginable” situation in which large open wounds were left untreated. An emergency medical team organised by three aid groups spent two weeks carrying out surgeries and other care at the European Gaza Hospital near Khan Younis. The southern city has seen heavy fighting between Israeli […]
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces besieged two more Gaza hospitals on Sunday, pinning down medical teams under heavy gunfire, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, and Israel said it had captured 480 militants in continued clashes at Gaza’s main Al Shifa hospital. Israeli forces say hospitals in the Palestinian enclave where war has been […]
Hospitals and insurance giants are clashing over wildly popular Medicare Advantage plans as both sides try to protect their profits. Many seniors enrolled in these plans are caught in the crosshairs. More hospitals and healthcare providers are terminating agreements with insurers that provide these private-sector alternatives to Medicare, citing too many denials, delays, and refusals […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan doctors stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals on Thursday, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week. Thousands of doctors have stayed away from hospitals since last Thursday over poor pay and working conditions, despite a court order calling for talks between the doctors and the […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike Thursday, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union said they […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Doctors at Kenya’s public hospitals began a nationwide strike Thursday, accusing the government of failing to implement a raft of promises from a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2017 after a 100-day strike that saw people dying from lack of care. The Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union said they […]
By Hyunsu Yim SEOUL, March 11 (Reuters) – South Korea will start deploying military physicians and doctors from public health centres to strike-hit hospitals on Monday to help care for patients affected by the walkout of nearly 12,000 trainee doctors from 100 hospitals over government reform plans. Twenty military surgeons along with 138 public health […]
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (Reuters) – An escalation of fighting on Lebanon’s southern border would further strain hospitals already struggling with a lack of money in a national financial crisis, the Middle East chief of The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Wednesday. Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah party has been exchanging fire with Israel across […]
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. government said on Tuesday that it will accelerate Medicare and Medicaid payments to some hospitals hurt by the hack at UnitedHealth’s technology unit Change Healthcare. Still, U.S. doctors’ group the American Medical Association (AMA) said the support did not go far enough to protect individual physician practices […]
When your birthday only comes around once every four years, you might decide to take the day off. Instead, Dr. Larry Grossman, an OB/GYN at Virtua Voorhees Hospital in New Jersey, prefers to work so that he can be an “ambassador” to babies who share the same unique birthday. “Today I am 13,” said Grossman at […]