Category: Press Release

CVS Health reported less than $1.8 billion profit in 2025, down 61.8% year over year, according to a Feb. 10 earnings release. Fourth-quarter net income attributable to CVS Health was $2.9 billion, up about 80% from the same period the previous year. The company faced a $5.7 billion goodwill impairment charge and roughly $1.2 billion of legacy […]

Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine and Siemens Healthineers have initiated a multiyear strategic collaboration to accelerate innovation in radiology and oncology. The organizations said they will focus on improving imaging, theranostics, interventional radiology and radiation oncology workflows, according to a Feb. 9 Siemens news release. The collaboration aims to establish a global center of excellence for theranostics […]

Lufkin, Texas-based St. Luke’s Memorial Hospital launched a virtually integrated care program Feb. 9 to enhance bedside support with 24/7 remote nursing, ABC affiliate KLTV reported. The program aims to enable virtual nurses to assist with administrative tasks, patient education and real-time communication through digital systems. Patients can speak with a remote nurse via video […]

The Cigna Group is cutting approximately 2,000 jobs globally by the end of February, representing less than 3% of its workforce. “As we drive greater efficiency across our business, we have made the difficult decision to reduce roles in our workforce,” a spokesperson for The Cigna Group told Becker’s. “This decision was made with deliberate […]

Nisha Morris has been promoted to senior vice president and chief marketing and communications officer at Duarte, Calif.-based City of Hope. In the role, Ms. Morris will oversee enterprise and regional strategy for brand, marketing and external communications, the organization said in a Feb. 4 news release. She previously served as senior vice president and […]

Fifty percent of executives say staff shortages have moderately or significantly reduced capacity to serve patients, a Covista report found. The healthcare infrastructure company polled 167 healthcare executives and 1,347 healthcare clinicians across disciplines and geographies between Nov. 4 and Nov. 21. Questions focused on the state of staff shortages and staffing issues across healthcare. […]

More Americans than expected enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans for this year, after premium subsidies were dramatically cut — but it remains to be seen whether they’ll keep the coverage as their costs mount. It’s all part of a drama that roiled the ACA’s 2026 open enrollment period. Congressional debate over whether […]

The National Cancer Institute, the federal research agency charged with leading the war against the nation’s second-largest killer, is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official. “There are enough reports of it, enough interest in it, that we actually did — ivermectin, in particular — did engage in sort of […]

Cuando su médico falleció repentinamente en agosto, Tammy MacDonald se sumó al grupo de aproximadamente 17% de adultos en Estados Unidos que no tienen médico de atención primaria. MacDonald quería encontrar un nuevo doctor de inmediato. Necesitaba que le renovaran la receta de sus medicamentos para la presión arterial y quería agendar una cita de […]