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Health policy was working in silos before 2017, govt has made it holistic: Nadda

The Hindu

Government plans to expand Ayushman Arogya Mandirs to 1.75 lakh, enhancing access to comprehensive primary healthcare and wellness services for communities

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Pharmacy benefit managers raised prices by over 1,000% on specialty drugs

Association of Health Care Journalists

billion from 2017 to 2022, the FTC found, Walker and Whyte added. The pharmacy benefit managers are supposed to help keep drug costs low for employers and health insurers, they wrote. The markups helped the PBMs reap $7.3

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ISID Emerging Leader Jason Trubiano Receives ESCMID Young Investigator Awards for Research in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

20th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

He is the Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship (Austin Health) and Head of the Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research. Trubiano is a University of Melbourne Clinical Associate Professor and Emerging Leader of the International Society for Infectious Diseases.

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Long COVID cardiac studies: More questions than answers.

The Health Care Blog

These cohorts were followed longitudinally to estimate the risks and 12-month burdens of pre-specified incident cardiovascular outcomes in the overall cohort and according to care setting of the acute infection (non-hospitalized, hospitalized and admitted to intensive care).

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‘Hospital, Heal Thyself:’ Book shows few hospitals adopt beneficial methods

Association of Health Care Journalists

In 2017, Taylor decided to write the book highlighting Litvaks approach to address hospital overcrowding. I had this gnawing idea that a book about Litvak and IHO was needed to persuade health care providers, hospitals and policymakers to change their practices, save lives and money and improve the health system, Taylor said.

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Between Hope and Grief: A Medical Memoir of Father, Son, and Family

The Health Care Blog

On September 14, 2017, I was standing in a hospital room in Boston, when my previously healthy son, Patrick, then 29, received the shocking news that he probably had stage 4 colorectal cancer, which further tests confirmed. Worry, Bewilderment. Uncertainty. A call to action.

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How to overcome hospital price data reporting challenges

Association of Health Care Journalists

One source of such numbers is surveys the RAND Corporation has done since 2017 on behalf of a coalition of businesses in the state, the Employers Forum of Indiana , and other employer coalitions nationwide.