Encompass Health announced Friday its 50-bed inpatient hospital has opened in Lakeland.   The Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital at 1201 Oakbridge Parkway serves patients recovering from debilitating illnesses and injuries, including strokes and other neurological disorders, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, amputations and complex orthopedic conditions, […]

Executives at contract vaccine manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions covered up quality control problems that led to more than 400 million doses of coronavirus vaccines needing to be trashed, congressional investigators said in a report Tuesday. The number of destroyed doses was far higher than previously thought, […]

Proper mental health care has been at a deficit for decades in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and now it’s part of the county’s focus as it improves its overall healthcare system. U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) attended the opening Tuesday of a behavioral health unit […]

Health Tech By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Big news coming out of Vida Health today as the chronic condition care startup announces that it will now be able to prescribe meds, med devices, lab tests, and more to its members. This puts Vida Health among […]

The head of the World Health Organization called on Pfizer to make its COVID-19 treatment more widely available in poorer countries, saying Tuesday that the pharmaceutical company’s deal allowing generic producers to make the drug was insufficient. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a […]

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The city of Shanghai is doubling down on pandemic restrictions after a brief period of loosening up, frustrating residents who were hoping a more than monthlong lockdown was finally easing as the number of new cases falls in China’s financial center. On Tuesday, service was […]

May 10, 2022, 12:44pmUpdated 47m ago By: Sandrina Rodrigues, Senior Digital Producer Mental Health Awareness Month has been observed in May in the United States since 1949. If you, or someone you know, is struggling and needs help – below are some resources available in […]

Mikan saw the second-highest growth in total compensation among health insurer chiefs. Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser got the largest increase, with stock awards issued last August driving his compensation up 10,674% to $60.8 million in 2021. Ninety-nine percent of his compensation was in stock. […]

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – A Lowcountry nonprofit working in Title I schools is kicking of a fundraising event Tuesday for a new mental health program for the hundreds of students they serve. Charleston Hope serves Lowcountry Title I schools that have a student population rate […]