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STAT+: Venture capitalists want to own hospitals. Can they do better than private equity?

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General Catalyst’s plan to take over a hospital in the coming months could be the first of many such deals, driven by financially strained hospitals looking for saviors, and venture capitalists convinced that they have the technology solutions for fixing the health care sector’s vexing problems.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

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”It’s imprudent and unwise and not the way forward, even for people who are very ill,” said Dr. Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at the NYU Langone hospital system in New York who chaired a university panel that studied the FDA’s compassionate use program.

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NHC Comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Discrimination on the Basis of Disability in Health and Human Service Programs or Activities

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Effective health care services encompass a broad spectrum of services including primary care, specialty care, hospital care, long-term care, palliative care, behavioral health care, rehabilitative services, health promotion, disease prevention, and public health.31 National Council on Disability. link] 15 FitzGerald, C. and Hurst, S.

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Legal challenges put off label use of gender affirming care drugs in jeopardy

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Dr. Barry DeCoster, PhD, an associate professor of bioethics at the University of Michigan, describes gender affirming care as “safe and effective” for most patients. Campo-Engelstein is the director of the Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.

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