July 2020 – Page 2 – medicarereport.org

VA ICU treatment improves patient outcomes

When Navy Veteran Ralph Gervasio Jr. was admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Nashville VA Medical Center in 2017 for

In the IRS recently proposed regulations dealing with direct primary care arrangements or more commonly known as “concierge care”, it

The Alzheimer’s Association finds nearly six million people in the United States have Alzheimer’s and their ranks are expected to

In the proposed Health, Economic Assistance, Liability Protection and Schools (HEALS) Act relief bill, there is a provision that would

(By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review) The FDA has placed certain brands of hand sanitizer on an import alert as more

(By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review) Drug lobbies have refused to send any representatives to a White House meeting scheduled

(By Elizabeth Cooney for STAT) Two new studies from Germany paint a sobering picture of the toll that Covid-19 takes

As we get older, many people develop age-related ailments and need more medical care and find themselves coping with increased

(Source – www.medicare.gov/blog) Hepatitis viruses cause more than 5,000 deaths each year in the U.S., and that number keeps growing.

(By Yuki Noguchi for NPR) Blake Blackmon and his fiance, Jessica Cournoyer, recently welcomed their second child, a cherubic-cheeked good