The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act, though it remains unclear when oral arguments in the case could begin.
Government officials claim the proposed merger between Albert Einstein Healthcare Network and Jefferson Health could "lead to higher costs for patients," in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Utah.
Some individuals infected with the new coronavirus have no symptoms, but they can still transmit the virus—a phenomenon that presents a new obstacle to researchers that are trying to curb transmission of the virus.
Health officials over the weekend announced the first two U.S. deaths tied to the new coronavirus, which occurred among patients in the Seattle suburb of Kirkland, Washington, as well as the first known U.S. cases of the virus among health care workers who had treated coronavirus patients.
FDA on Tuesday announced that it added an unnamed drug to its shortage list after a manufacturer alerted the agency to issues at a site affected by the coronavirus outbreak.
Obesity is a complex condition that is influenced by a variety of factors, yet clinicians often struggle to properly treat obesity because the diagnostic codes they rely on are too narrowly defined, according to a paper published in Obesity last week, Kat Eschner reports for Popular Science.
