COVID-19 Surge Threatens Hospital Finances

Hospital operating margins are poised to fall as COVID-19 cases increase, new data show. Although the federal relief funding buoyed hospitals, the median hospital operating margin still dropped 1.2 percentage points (8.5%) year over year, and 1.7 percentage points (18.7%) for January through

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FDA Allows Emergency Use Of Antibody Drug Trump Received

U.S. health officials Saturday agreed to allow emergency use of a second antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental medicine that President Donald Trump was given when he was sickened last month.

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Astra-Oxford Vaccine Found Effective in Preventing Covid

A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc prevented a majority of people from getting the disease in a large trial, another promising development in the quest to end the pandemic, and the rollout could begin next month.

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After Two COVID-19 Exposures, Newsom And His Family Will Quarantine Until Dec. 5

Gov. Gavin Newsom and his family will spend Thanksgiving in quarantine after his children were exposed in two separate incidents to someone who tested positive for COVID-19, cases that the governor said Monday prompted an informal lockdown of his Fair Oaks estate over the weekend.

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What Amazon’s Big Pharmacy News Means For US Health Care

Amazon and American health care look, at first glance, like a mismatch. Yet the 21st century’s most ruthlessly efficient retailer has been trying for several years now to gain a bigger foothold in the bloated, borderline nonsensical health system of the world’s richest nation.

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Trump’s New Drug-Pricing Plan Overhauls Outpatient Drug Pay Starting Jan. 1

The Trump administration is trying to overhaul some providers' payments for outpatient drugs in six weeks as it makes a last-ditch attempt to finalize drug-pricing policies that have languished in regulatory limbo.

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