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trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
During 2022, drugmakers substantially raised prices on eight widely used medicines without any new clinical evidence to justify the increases, leading patients and health insurers in the U.S. to spend an additional $1.2 billion last year, according to a new report.
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The 2022 rise was mainly due to the waning pandemic, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers said Wednesday. NEW YORK — U.S. life expectancy rose last year — by more than a year — but still isn’t close to what it was before the Covid-19 pandemic. But even with the large increase, U.S.
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billion combined last year, compared with $4 billion in 2022. million in 2022. But the biggest names in health care still made $3.5 The average chief executive brought home $11 million, while the median was $4.1 Those figures compared to an average of $13 million and median of $4.3
recorded 107,941 drug overdose deaths in 2022, according to a new federal report — a total that marks an all-time record but also shows signs that the country’s overdose rate may finally be leveling off after years of steady increase.
The number of cases of congenital syphilis in 2022 was more than 10 times the number recorded in 2012, the agency said, noting that most of the 3,761 cases reported in 2022 could have been averted, if the babies’ mothers had been adequately tested and treated. Read the rest…
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We live in a time where the rate of medical and superlative scientific advances is accelerating — by more than 1,300% since 1985, according to one recent estimate.
Researchers compared survey data from 2018 and 2022, finding that health workers experienced poorer mental health outcomes post-pandemic. Of those surveyed, 46% of health workers reported feeling burnout often or very often in 2022, compared to 32% in 2018. Read the rest…
drug overdose deaths, according to preliminary statistics released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, roughly a 3% drop from 2022. Last year saw 107,543 U.S. Read the rest…
This represents 4% of the 1,444 pharmacies eligible to claim funding under the scheme set up to 'capture the pharmacies that are most important for patient access, those […] The post More than 50 Access Scheme pharmacies have closed since 2022, NPA claims appeared first on The Pharmacist.
lower than 2022. Heart disease and cancer remained the first and second leading causes of death, followed by unintentional injuries as No. Overall, deaths in 2023 were 6.1% Read the rest…
A new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appears to show that Lyme disease cases in the United States rose by 69% in 2022 over previous years. The change, an attempt to lift a crushing reporting burden off the shoulders of states where Lyme disease infections are common, went into effect in 2022.
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in 2022, breaking a decade-long trend of nearly continuous annual increases in the share of graduates headed for the private sector. in 2022 to 22.1%. in 2022 and 66% in 2021. in 2022 and 66% in 2021. That’s a sizable dip from 66.5% That trend suggests that among Ph.D.
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Federal officials, medical organizations, and reproductive health advocacy groups have expressed outrage in response to STAT’s recent investigation revealing that women with sickle cell disease have felt pressured into sterilizations as recently as 2017 and 2022.
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In 2022, the American Hospital Association quoted an estimate that half a million nurses would leave the field by the end of that year, bringing the total shortage to 1.1 Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic.
Here, we share the self-reported gender and racial/ethnic demographics of our staff from STAT’s inception in 2015 through 2022. In 2022, they made up a majority of the company and management. The percentage of managers who are people of color remains the same in 2022 as it was in 2015, at 20%. population.
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