Retailers join the fight against Boston Children's $1 billion expansion | Boston Business Journal
The Retailers Association of Massachusetts and the National Federation of Independent Business told the state that the planned $1 billion expansion at Children's Hospital, “raises legitimate concerns that healthcare costs will increase, with no correlating direct improvement or change in the overall quality of care.”
Company to halt sale of teething medicines after FDA warnings | Stat
Hyland's cited the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's warning last month against the use of homeopathic teething tablets and gels. The FDA says such products - not Hyland's, specifically - have been linked to more than 400 reports of adverse events in infants, such as seizures, fevers, vomiting and shortness of breath.
Atlanta hospital pioneers use of cancer detection tool | Atlanta Business Chronicle
Northside Hospital has become the first facility in the U.S. to commercially use a new tool designed to detect the recurrence of prostate cancer. Axumin is used with positron emission tomography imaging. The tool uses synthetic amino acids to spot prostate cancer cells.
Dallas-area employers have insurance data, and they want providers to explain themselves | D Healthcare Daily
Dallas-Fort Worth's largest employers have teamed up to eliminate wasteful healthcare procedures in an effort to force providers to establish best practices and prove that they're sticking to them when they're treating patients. And for the providers that don't, the employers say they will send their people somewhere that will.
Health care executives bought Rolex watches and vacation homes in fraud scheme, prosecutors say | Indianapolis Star
Private planes, vacation homes and gold bars are just a few of the items that federal prosecutors say were purchased by four American Senior Communities executives in a fraud scheme that netted $16 million.
Contract vote begins for striking Allina nurses | (Minneapolis) Star Tribune
Striking nurses have begun voting on a contract proposal that could settle their 36-day walkout against Allina Health hospitals in the Twin Cities. Voting began at 8 a.m. Thursday and was scheduled to last until 8:30 p.m.
