April 11, 2025- The American Hospital Association’s 2025 Health Care Workforce Scan offers important insights into the current state of the health care workforce and outlines potential approaches to address both present and future staffing challenges. In this recent American Hospital Association (AHA) podcast on facilitating a stronger healthcare workforce, healthcare leaders … [Read more...]
CME Corp. on the current state of dialysis treatment
April 11, 2025- The landscape of dialysis treatment continues to evolve as the number of patients suffering from kidney disease rises globally, according to CME Corp. Dialysis is a life-sustaining treatment for individuals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and the overall success of dialysis treatment depends on multiple factors, including facility management, medical … [Read more...]
Baxter launches new room temperature Hemopatch Sealing Hemostat for rapid surgery application
April 11, 2025- Baxter International Inc. announced the introduction of Hemopatch Sealing Hemostat with room temperature storage. The evolution of the product optimizes accessibility in the operating room, delivering an immediate solution for surgeons to control bleeding or prevent leakage. The product is now available to order throughout … [Read more...]
BD receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for advanced microbiology solution
April 11, 2025- BD announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for BD Phoenix™ M50 and BDXpert™ System on the BD Synapsys™ Informatics Solution, leveraging rapid identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) algorithms to assist in the interpretation of complex diagnostic data to help ensure accurate and reliable diagnoses related to … [Read more...]
Tariff turmoil: Hospitals, device makers welcome pause, but fear long-term pain
April 11, 2025- A week after declaring “Liberation Day” and levying hefty tariffs on most of the country’s trading partners, President Donald Trump reversed course on Wednesday, announcing he will pause most reciprocal tariffs for 90 days. While U.S. President Donald Trump paused import taxes this week for other countries, he raised tariffs on China and … [Read more...]
Trump puts 90-day pause on higher tariffs, but hikes China rates
April 10, 2025-President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was pausing higher targeted tariffs for 90 days for most countries, a stunning reversal in his trade war that has sent markets reeling, according to NBC News. U.S. stocks dropped 2% at the open, as investors sort through a global economic outlook that has improved drastically over 24 hours but remains uncertain, according … [Read more...]
Owens & Minor announces major innovations to Products & Healthcare Services Network
April 10, 2025- Owens & Minor, Inc. announced important milestones in advancing the medical distribution capabilities of its Products & Healthcare Services (P&HS) business segment, which provides essential products and services to thousands of healthcare customers. These milestones are the result of recent company investments in new technology, automation and … [Read more...]
New AHA, CHA report shows how hospitals meet their communities’ unique needs
April 10, 2025- The American Hospital Association (AHA) and Catholic Health Association of the United States released a new report showing the value of benefits that nonprofit hospitals and health systems deliver to their communities. The findings reinforce that the entire hospital field goes above and beyond to advance health by meeting the unique needs of their communities — … [Read more...]
Henry Schein to webcast First Quarter 2025 Conference Call
April 10, 2025- Henry Schein, Inc. announced that it will release its first quarter 2025 financial results before the stock market opens on Monday, May 5th, 2025, and will provide a live webcast of its earnings conference call on the same day beginning at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time. Speakers on the call will include Stanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive … [Read more...]
Cepheid and Oxford Nanopore Technologies partner to advance automated sequencing-based solutions
April 9, 2025- Cepheid, and Oxford Nanopore Technologies, the company behind a new generation of sequencing-based molecular analysis technologies, announced a strategic collaboration to develop and commercialize a seamless end-to-end workflow that combines Cepheid's GeneXpert system for pre-sequencing sample and library preparation with Oxford Nanopore's rapid, information-rich … [Read more...]