Coronavirus is not solely to blame. Preliminary CDC data also shows the crude death rate for cancer rose slightly, and rates continued to increase for diabetes, chronic liver disease and stroke.
According to the settlement, one the surgeons was a top-producing neurosurgeons in the entire Providence system at the time, and made between $2.5 and $2.9 million a year.
“FDA approval is a critical way for government medical programs to ensure patients get appropriate medicines and devices,” Nick Brown, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, said in the release.
More than 3,000 lawsuits have been filed by state and local governments, Native American tribes, unions, hospitals and other entities in state and federal courts over the toll of opioids.
The center will join a handful of others nationwide using proton therapy to treat cancer, though the effectiveness of the centers' treatment over traditional photon radiation therapy is still widely undecided.
A safety-net hospital is fighting Duly Health & Care's plan for a competing facility, taking aim at its financial backer.
With a focus on forcing positive cases and close contacts into designated collective quarantine facilities, the costs of zero-COVID may be outweighing the risk of getting sick.
Military medical teams' experience during COVID-19 will help shape the size and staffing of the military’s medical response so the Pentagon can provide the right types and numbers of forces needed for another pandemic, global crisis or conflict.
