Did you know that 1 in 5 emergency department visits involved care from an out-of-network physician? Surprise medical bills occur when providers are not in the insured’s network although the healthcare delivery system participates. A draft senate bill propose to protect patients in both insured and self-insured plans from these surprise out-of-network bills. Read [...]
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Are pharmaceutical “nurse educators” blurring the line between caregivers and marketers? Are there ethical questions regarding nurses who deliver the care and the pharmaceutical companies that pay their salaries? Recently, whistle-blowers have raised questions regarding whether the use of nursing ambassadors is medically appropriate or a violation of public trust. Read more about these [...]
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recently published a very rare adverse effect in CAR-T therapies. A lentiviral vector bonded to the wrong cell and subsequently, the patient suffered a fatal relapse, with all of the leukemic cells carrying the chimeric antigen receptor. While the risk of similar incidents happening today has decreased, they are [...]
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