David Stevenson, PhD, MS by Jill Clendening David Stevenson Jr., PhD, MS, professor of health policy, has been named interim chair of the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He succeeds Melinda Buntin, PhD, the Mike Curb Professor and founding department chair, who joined Johns Hopkins University to establish a Center for … Read more
Long-Term Residential Mental Health Center, artist rendition (CNS): The opening of the long-awaited long-term residential mental health facility in the East End has been delayed for a further three months. Although she said less than two months ago that the project would finish in June, Health Minister Sabrina Turner has now said the facility won’t … Read more
Don’t be surprised if the next time you’re at Edward Hospital you hear a jazz tune coming from the heart hospital management. NaperVoice founding director Philip Spencer spends Tuesdays and Thursdays tickling the ivories of a grand piano tucked away in the atrium. Sometimes, David Kim, a cardiologist at Naperville hospital, stops by to sing … Read more
A UK-based fitness instructor seen by millions around the world defacing the 2,000-year-old Colosseum has apologized to police for his wanton vandalism. Ivan Dimitrov, 27, who also goes by the name Ivan Hawkins, has been identified exclusively by MailOnline, along with his girlfriend Hayley Bracey, 33, after an outraged tourist filmed him carving their names … Read more
A group of Democratic senators is calling on the nation’s consumer credit regulator to take action against medical credit cards like CareCredit, saying the use of these cards can result in patients paying significantly more for their care medical than they should. FILE – Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a hearing of the Senate … Read more
The European Commission (EC) has approved nivolumab (Opdivo) in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy for the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at high risk of recurrence with PD-L1 expression in cells tumors of at least 1%.1 The regulatory decision was supported by data from the Phase 3 CheckMate 816 study … Read more
OHS Executive Director Deidre Gifford Credit: Mike Savino’s photo State officials have tried to get a better look at what’s driving health care costs soaring, but a Wednesday hearing raised largely more questions than answers. The Office of Health Strategy held its first-ever hearing to review some of the findings from its March report that … Read more
Some patients may experience vivid and detailed sexual hallucinations during anesthesia with sedative-hypnotic drugs such as propofol, midazolam, diazepam, and nitrous oxide. Some make suggestive or sexual comments or act out, such as grabbing or kissing medical professionals or touching themselves sexually. Others wake up mistakenly believing they have been sexually assaulted. Why does this … Read more
Its social impact is too great to ignore and will increase once online gambling is legalized Malaysian anti-gambling activists protest during a campaign to ban all forms of gambling in the country at the National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur July 3, 2010. (Photo: AFP) Published: 20 June 2023 11:35 GMT Updated: June 20, 2023 11:39am … Read more