Medications

How new model boosts supply and lowers prices for generic drugs

Civica Rx, a not-for profit drug manufacturer founded by seven US health systems and three philanthropic organizations, increased supply security and lowered cost on aggregate for 20 drug products, according to the first ...

Medical research

Clinicians grapple with decisions in crisis-care simulation

The COVID-19 pandemic has led healthcare organizations to draft plans for critical patient care in the event of shortages of resources such as ventilators. Invoking "crisis-care" standards at a hospital would prompt the deployment ...

Surgery

Study estimates incidence of surgical never events

(HealthDay)—Wrong-site surgery and retained surgical items still occur, and evidence for interventions to prevent these is limited, according to a review published online June 10 in JAMA Surgery.

Health

Breastfeeding tips women share intrigue doctors

Breastfeeding can be a difficult time for both mother and baby, so using cabbage leaves and tea bags to ease pain or eating oatmeal to increase milk production are among the folk remedies that women pass along to new mothers ...

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