The Latest Breaking News from Health Care

World Pharmacist Day is observed every year on September 25 and highlights the important contribution of pharmacists in health care around the world. This is basically because of a resolution passed at the founding congress of the FIP in 2009. It, therefore, brings about awareness regarding the contribution of pharmacists…

People could previously get the nasal spray flu vaccine, called FluMist, from a health care provider, but now they can administer it themselves.

Last month, the Taliban passed a new “vice and virtue” law, making it illegal for women to speak in public. Under the law, women can also be punished if they are heard singing or reading aloud from within their homes.

The U.S. came in last in three of five categories—equity, health outcomes, and access to care—in addition to having the poorest overall ranking.

Members of a Senate committee looking into the bankruptcy of Texas-based Steward Health Care have adopted two resolutions designed to hold CEO Ralph de la Torre in contempt for not testifying before the panel

Midi has raised $103 million in total funding to provide virtual health care to middle-aged women.

Part Two: How Certificate of Need laws limit access to health care, and why those rules can be so difficult to dislodge.

Texas hasn’t increased Medicaid rates for inpatient health care at private hospitals in 16 years, falling behind other states.

“Canada accepts many refugees and many of them remain here. The more effectively the system takes care of [their] health and availability of services at the beginning, the healthier residents [Canada] will have.” — Yevheniia Ternova, member of the Refugee Health YYC Patient Advisory Committee