Medical Properties Trust selling spree continues, Utah deal closes
None Medical Properties Trust has sold the majority of its interests in five Utah hospitals for $886 million, the hospital landlord said Friday. The hospitals included in the deal are currently leased to a subsidiary of CommonSpirit Health. • None The buyer is an unspecified investment firm’s…#utah #commonspirithealth #mpt #primehealthcare #birmingham #dallas #stewardhealthcares #steward #edwardkaldagjr #aldag (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
MICI Q2 2024: Radiology administrators remain optimistic about growth
Radiology administrators are confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) new report for the second quarter of 2024.
They're also confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology volumes will grow monthly. But they're less sure that their departments will receive adequate Medicare reimbursement for exams and that internal operating expenses and staff costs will remain constant compared to fourth-quarter MICI results.
The MarkeTech Group generates the MICI report from survey responses by r...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
Woman, 45, suffers horrific and rare reaction to IBUPROFEN - causing snake-like scales on her face and discharge to ooze from her EYES
The patient was rushed to hospital where she was told she had suffered a severe adverse reaction to ibuprofen. From Iraq, doctors told her that the reaction was extremely rare. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
It's the First Drug Shown to Slow Alzheimer's. Why Is It Off to a Slow Start?
(MedPage Today) -- The first drug shown to slow Alzheimer's disease hit the U.S. market over a year ago, but sales have lagged, major hospital systems have taken months to start using it, and some insurers have rejected coverage.
Doctors also... (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - April 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Age UK ’s blueprint for improving the lives of older people
This report, published with the coming UK general election in mind, contains 52 separate policy recommendations covering many different aspects of later life. The nationally representative polling that informs the report shows keeping the Triple Lock on the state pension, improving GP access and reducing hospital waiting lists were top priorities for older people aged 65 and above.ReportPress release (Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection)
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - April 15, 2024 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Source Type: news
Abusive patients told ‘we have the right not to treat you’
A trust’s CEO has warned patients they could be refused treatment and asked to leave if they become abusive towards hospital staff. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - April 15, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Patient Abandoned By Children in Hospital Goes Unruly, Messes Up Ward With Urine
[Vanguard] The management of Babcock University Teaching Hospital (BUTH), Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, is seeking to locate the relatives of one of its patients, Mr. Maurice Okpenyong, who has gone unruly and "urinates on the floor and the whole place smells" after being abandoned at its medical facilities. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 15, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
CEO named for new West County rehab hospital
A chief executive has been named for a new rehab hospital that is slated to open next month. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - April 15, 2024 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Diana Barr Source Type: news
Medical Properties Trust shares rally on Utah hospital deal
Shares of beleaguered hospital real estate owner Medical Properties Trust soared in preopen trade on Monday after the company agreed to sell Utah hospital properties.#utah (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GE, LG, Microsoft tie up for smart hospital project in Korea
They will also propose joint operating models for next-generation AI medical solutions. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - April 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
UnitedHealth hack looms over first-quarter earnings report
UnitedHealth is expected to record higher medical costs in its first earnings report since a cyberattack disrupted its technology systems including those that manage prescription and medical claims, analysts said. The attack, disclosed on Feb. 21, affected hospitals, clinicians, and pharmacies…#clinicians #unitedhealth #gerritsmit #stonehagefleming #pipersandler #jessicatassan #medicare #tdcowen #garytaylor #medicareadvantage (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Swiss Research Study into Long COVID Promises New Diagnostic and Therapeutic Possibilities
New biomarker may lead to new clinical laboratory testing and treatments for long COVID Researchers studying long COVID at the University Hospital of Zurich (UZH) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), both in Switzerland, have discovered a protein biomarker in blood that indicates a component of the body’s innate immune system—called the complement system—remains […]
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Source: Dark Daily - April 15, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: International Laboratory News Laboratory Instruments & Laboratory Equipment Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory Resources Laboratory Testing AIGHD Amesh Adalja MD Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development anatomic p Source Type: news
Great-grandmother, 78, has leg amputated after 'four-day wait on trolley in hospital corridor'
Geraldine Newing, 78, was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent with a septic foot infection on Good Friday, March 29. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
IMV: Nuclear medicine procedure volumes decrease
Davin Korstjens of IMV Medical Information Division.Total nuclear medicine patient study volumes decreased by 5.7% between 2021 and 2023, with a 10.7% decrease in hospital-based studies and a 2.5% increase in nonhospital-based studies, according to the newly published IMV 2024 NM Market Outlook Report.
Two-year compound annual growth rates (CAGR) between 2021 and 2023 show an overall average 2.9% decrease in total procedures each year, with hospital-based procedures declining by 5.5% and non-hospital procedures increasing by 1.2%. Specifically considering cardiovascular nuclear medicine procedures, total procedures have d...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Davin Korstjens Tags: Nuclear Radiology Source Type: news
FAPI-PET shows promise in patients with lung cancer
FAPI-PET imaging could emerge as a new tool for assessing patients with single pulmonary tumors, especially in those with negative results on other scans, according to a study published April 11 in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
A group at University Hospital Heidelberg in Germany assessed the approach in 19 patients referred by their treating physicians because of inconclusive lung cancer findings on CT and F-18 FDG-PET. FAPI-PET either confirmed or ruled out the disease in all cases, the group found.
“Our results suggest that supplemental Ga-68 FAPI-46 PET may improve the noninvasive assessment of primary pulmonary...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 15, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
