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Alaska Health Centers Receive Extended Funding to Enhance Local Healthcare Services

Alaska Health Centers Receive Extended Funding to Enhance Local Healthcare Services

FILE PHOTO – Female nurse checks patient’s vital signs The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is extending the performance period for health center grantees from 3 to 4 years, impacting several health centers in Alaska. Bethel...

COVID BOOSTERS make you FLU-STYLE SICK according to Swiss study of 1,700 healthcare workers

COVID BOOSTERS make you FLU-STYLE SICK according to Swiss study of 1,700 healthcare workers

COVID BOOSTERS make you FLU-STYLE SICK according to Swiss study of 1,700 healthcare workers Want to get sick like the flu? It’s easy, just go get a Covid booster jab and you’ll feel horrible for days, or weeks, or months, or years, or maybe even...

Improving Cybersecurity Training for Healthcare Staff

Improving Cybersecurity Training for Healthcare Staff

According to a 2024 Proofpoint report, 71% of workers admitted to acting in a way that put security at risk, such as clicking links from unknown senders or sharing credentials with an unconfirmed source. So, why not just tell employees to reduce...

Chuck Grassley discusses energy policy and rural healthcare during Iowa county visits

Chuck Grassley discusses energy policy and rural healthcare during Iowa county visits

Senator Chuck Grassley posted a series of updates on August 13, 2025, covering energy policy and his ongoing meetings with constituents in Iowa. The posts highlighted both his advocacy for diverse energy sources and his engagement with local...

Middle schoolers get lessons in healthcare careers

Middle schoolers get lessons in healthcare careers

LE MARS — Middle school students got an up-close and personal look at healthcare careers at Floyd Valley Healthcare Wednesday, Aug. 13. The hospital hosted its 3rd Annual Experience Health Day for middle school students going into seventh or...

Trump-GOP Medicaid Cuts Already Causing Healthcare Havoc in Multiple States

Trump-GOP Medicaid Cuts Already Causing Healthcare Havoc in Multiple States

The cuts to Medicaid contained in the recently passed Republican budget law are already having a damaging impact in multiple states, as both local hospitals and state governments struggle financially to make up funding gaps. As NC Newsline...

500+ Healthcare Devices in Morocco Found Exposed Online with Patient Data

500+ Healthcare Devices in Morocco Found Exposed Online with Patient Data

Rabat – More than 500 healthcare systems and devices in Morocco are exposed online, putting patient data at serious risk, according to research by cybersecurity firm Modat. The findings, shared with Morocco World News, reveal a worrying trend...

Caring Foundation offers healthcare scholarships to help with shortage

Caring Foundation offers healthcare scholarships to help with shortage

MINOT, N.D. (KMOT) - A North Dakota foundation is awarding scholarships to help alleviate health care worker shortages. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Caring Foundation began offering scholarships eight years ago. Executive Director Amber Blomberg...

Chakwera pledges more healthcare facilities in Salima for quality delivery services

Chakwera pledges more healthcare facilities in Salima for quality delivery services

SALIMA-(MaraviPost)-President Chakwera pledges continued health care boost in Salima, through construction of more health facilities in the district if re-elected. He was Speaking during a whistle stop at Thavite Trading Centre in the area of...

NESG Champions Catalytic Capital to Transform Nigeria’s Healthcare System

NESG Champions Catalytic Capital to Transform Nigeria’s Healthcare System

By Sheriff Aderibigbe On Thursday, 14th August 2025, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), through its Health Policy Commission, convened a high-level Pre-Summit dialogue themed “Catalytic Capital for Healthcare: Bridging Nigeria’s Systemic...

Analysis of Healthcare Changes Under the 2025 Tax Legislation

Analysis of Healthcare Changes Under the 2025 Tax Legislation

Key Takeaways The Legislation combines spending and policy priorities from 11 congressional committees and will reshape federal policy across nearly every sector of the U.S. economy. With respect to healthcare, more than 35 provisions relating to...

Employment Law Update: Home Healthcare Companionship Exemption – Is It Back?

Employment Law Update: Home Healthcare Companionship Exemption – Is It Back?

Home healthcare employers – take note. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2025-4 on July 25, 2025 (FAB), announcing that it will immediately stop enforcing the 2013 regulations that...

Healthcare focused startup Arintra raises $21 million in funding round led by Peak XV Partners

Healthcare focused startup Arintra raises $21 million in funding round led by Peak XV Partners

GenAI-native autonomous medical coding platform Arintra, headquartered in Texas, has raised $21 million in its Series A round of fundraising, which was led by Peak XV Partners. The round also saw Endeavor Health Ventures, Y Combinator, Counterpart...

Londoners using ‘digital front door’ to access NHS healthcare

Londoners using ‘digital front door’ to access NHS healthcare

The NHS in London continues to drive forward the shift from analogue to digital healthcare services, with more patients accessing services through the NHS ‘digital front door’. Latest NHS data* shows around 61% of the capital’s patients (over the...

Senator Umar Insists On Citizens’ Rights To Quality Healthcare

Senator Umar Insists On Citizens’ Rights To Quality Healthcare

1 Kingsley Joshua The Senator representing Kwara North, Senator Sadiq Suleiman Umar, has emphasized the right of citizens to quality healthcare provision. He said nobody should be denied quality healthcare services due to lack of money. The...

Rep. Chip Roy Press Office addresses healthcare, stock trading reform, and immigration enforcement

Rep. Chip Roy Press Office addresses healthcare, stock trading reform, and immigration enforcement

Healthcare workers could be colluding with Operation Dudula

Healthcare workers could be colluding with Operation Dudula

HEALTHCARE workers allegedly colluding with members of Operation Dudula in preventing healthcare users suspected of being undocumented foreign nationals from accessing healthcare facilities are in violation of the constitution, the National Health...

Pennsylvania lawmakers seek to regulate AI in healthcare

Pennsylvania lawmakers seek to regulate AI in healthcare

A proposed bill would provide new regulations for how AI is used and reported by insurers, hospitals and clinicians. State Representatives from Pennsylvania are seeking to regulate artificial intelligence in healthcare through new legislation that...

The Next Battle in Healthcare Reform: Tackling Medication Mismanagement

The Next Battle in Healthcare Reform: Tackling Medication Mismanagement

Ever notice how health discussions tend to orbit around insurance premiums or hospital wait times, while prescription chaos quietly keeps piling up behind the scenes? Medication mismanagement is one of those stealth issues that doesn’t make...

Sauk Prairie Healthcare Foundation adds new members to Board

Sauk Prairie Healthcare Foundation adds new members to Board

Sauk Prairie Healthcare Foundation welcomes three local leaders to its board of directors. The new board members are Shane Been, Jesi Betley and Dan Muxfeld. Shane Been Full text available to subscribers only. If you are a current subscriber,...

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