Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday.
The nation's second-largest city called off its New Year's Eve celebration Monday, and its smallest state re-imposed an indoor mask mandate as the omicron variant leaped ahead of other variants to become the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S.
Just a couple of weeks ago, New York City seemed like a relative bright spot in the U.S. coronavirus struggle. Now it's a hot spot, confronting a dizzying spike in cases.
Rural Kansas hospitals are struggling to transfer patients as COVID-19 numbers surge, with some patients left stranded in emergency rooms for a week while they wait for a bed.
Resources arriving at U.S. ports this holiday season likely won't be delivered until February, the Health Industry Distributors Association reports.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) says he won't vote for President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act, jeopardizing an array of healthcare proposals.
The data and research firm PitchBook predicts even more private equity-backed healthcare providers will go public in 2022, even after a record-breaking 2021.
If Medicare decides to cover the controversial Alzheimer's drug, the price drop could benefit program costs.
Hospital chaplains have a calling to provide spiritual care to patients and their families—as well as staff. But that's not the only critical job they perform.
Oracle wants to purchase Cerner for $95 per share.
For more than a year antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly have been the go-to treatments for early COVID-19, thanks to their ability to head off severe disease and keep patients out of the hospital. But laboratory testing suggests the drugs will be much less potent against omicron.
Mount Sinai Health System’s emergency departments are seeing about 20% more patients — with all conditions — in recent days, but so far they're seeing more "treat-and-release" coronavirus patients than in earlier waves.
The federal agency separately said there would be no citations of companies regarding its testing requirements before Feb. 9.
The CDC decided to more firmly embrace the approach, already used by many school districts, after research of such policies in the Chicago and Los Angeles areas found COVID-19 infections did not increase when using the approach.
Before the pandemic, all the ambulances would be simultaneously out on 911 calls or IFTs less than 10 times a year. Now, it is happening with greater frequency.
Healthcare providers, insurers and their business associates have submitted 664 breach reports to the federal government so far this year. Altogether, the 664 breaches have compromised data on an estimated 42.8 million patients.
