Family plea to ‘take action’ over ambulance delay deaths

Business & FinanceDealsHealth 23 August 2023, 2:10 pm 1 minute Reuters exclusively reported that NextGen Healthcare (NXGN.O), a provider of software that helps manage patients’ records, is exploring options that include a sale of the company.  Market Impact NextGen shares rose 10% to $18.01 on the news in afternoon trading in New York on Wednesday,…

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A record number of high school teens died of drug overdoses in 2022 in an alarming trend driven primarily by fentanyl poisonings from counterfeit pills, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Boston researchers found that an…

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long figured there were lots of these microscopic plastic pieces, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers universities did their calculations they never…

Activists protest the price of prescription drug costs in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) building on October 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images U.S. patients and drugmakers will get a first glimpse of how much Medicare can negotiate down drug prices in 2024, setting the…

Aaron James lost his nose, mouth and left eye in a work-related accident. Surgeons in New York successfully performed the reconstruction that included a whole-eye implant. His vision was not restored, but the first-of-its-kind procedure may help advance transplant medicine. “If some form of vision restoration occurred, it would be wonderful, but… the goal was…