Category: Press Release

Vinay Prasad, MD, the FDA’s top regulator of vaccines and cell and gene therapies, will step down at the end of April, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s.  Dr. Prasad joined the agency in 2025 on a one-year sabbatical from the University of California, San Francisco. During his tenure as director of the federal government’s […]

KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed excited delirium on Vox Media Podcast Network’s Criminal on March 6. Click here to hear Rayasam on Criminal. Read Rayasam’s “As More States Target Disavowed ‘Excited Delirium’ Diagnosis, Police Groups Push Back.” On CBS News’ CBS Mornings on March 5, Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for […]

Although some resident physicians experience more stress the more hours they work per week, a recent study found no significant association between burnout and weekly average hours worked in their programs.  In a clinical trial that assessed well-being interventions among resident physicians, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison tested how an increase in weekly work […]

In the four weeks after President Donald Trump and federal health agencies raised unfounded risks about using Tylenol (acetaminophen) during pregnancy, orders for the pain medication declined 10% in emergency departments, according to a new study.  At the same time, outpatient prescriptions for leucovorin, a drug approved for chemotherapy side effects that the Trump administration […]

By 2036, the U.S. is projected to have 39,600 cardiology physicians available to meet a demand of 46,600, leaving a shortfall of about 7,000 physicians nationwide, according to projections from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration. Most states are projected to fall below full adequacy, with many meeting less […]

Opelousas (La.) General Health System is expanding a shared technology infrastructure model designed to help rural hospitals access advanced IT capabilities without increasing costs. The health system partnered with technology solutions firm Triad Executive Advisors in 2025 to modernize its technology environment and build infrastructure that could support other rural hospitals. More than a year […]

The Centurion Foundation, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization, has completed its long-awaited acquisition of Providence, R.I.-based Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital from Prospect Medical Holdings, marking the end of a multiyear process involving regulatory reviews and financial negotiations. The transaction establishes a new nonprofit system, CharterCARE Health of Rhode Island, which […]

Greensboro, N.C.-based Cone Health’s newly appointed chief pharmacy officer is focused on expanding the system’s enterprise pharmacy strategy and positioning pharmacy as a key driver of value-based care. Kristen Kruszewski, PharmD, recently stepped into the systemwide role and said one of her first priorities is evaluating how pharmacy services can better support Cone Health’s participation […]

CHS is continuing to shrink its hospital portfolio and Providence struck a deal to sell a California hospital.  Here are eight hospital  M&A deals that Becker’s reported during the week of March 2:  1. The Centurion Foundation, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization, completed its long-awaited acquisition of Providence, R.I.-based Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady […]

Primary and urgent care providers represented by Doctors Council Service Employees International Union at clinics operated by Minneapolis-based Allina Health have authorized an open-ended strike. If scheduled, the strike would be “of whatever duration the bargaining team feels necessary to win the best possible contract,” Matt Hoffman, MD, a family medicine physician at Allina Health […]