Hospitality Associates improves service with Canary’s AI Guest Messaging

Hotel management and development company Hospitality Associates has adopted Canary Technologies’ AI Guest Messaging system to upgrade communications across its hotel portfolio. The technology allows staff to connect with guests through channels...

Medical Bulletin 29/September/2025

Here are the top medical news for the day: Meta-Analysis Confirms COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy Protects Both Mother and Baby Safely An analysis of data from over 1.2 million pregnant individuals found that those who received a COVID-19...

Medicaid standoff could put health care for many North Carolinians at risk

By Jaymie Baxley Efforts to prevent cuts that could significantly lower reimbursement to providers for services for North Carolinians on Medicaid stalled last week amid a three-way standoff between the state’s Senate, House of Representatives and...

Medicare open enrollment starts Oct. 15. Idahoans should check their plans, officials say.

As health insurance carriers change private plans for Medicare, Idaho officials are encouraging people to review their policies during open enrollment next month. Open enrollment for Medicare — when people can change their insurance coverage —...

Medical Device Network Excellence Awards 2025: Positron Corporation

Positron, a medical technology company, has won the Innovation Award in the PET-CT Imaging category in the 2025 Medical Device Network Excellence Awards for making a substantial impact on the evolution of hybrid imaging technology. The company’s...

Feds roll out AI pilot program for Medicare reviews in Washington

Medicare enrollees in Washington may soon need to get additional approval before undergoing some medical procedures, under a controversial new program the federal government will test in a half-dozen states. The six-year pilot program begins Jan....

Maternity care falls in rural Ore. hospitals

It was the middle of the night on April 2, 2024, when Teela Banister went into labor. She and her husband raced out the door of their rural home on the outskirts of Baker City in Eastern Oregon, hoping to make the hourlong journey to a hospital...

Women in medicine month, with Yalda Jabbarpour, M.D., and Annie Koempel, Ph.D., M.A., RDN, LD

As Women in Medicine Month comes to a close, Yalda Jabbarpour, M.D., director of the Robert Graham Center at the American Academy of Family Physicians and Annie Koempel, Ph.D., M.A., RDN, LD, qualitative scientist at the American Board of Family...

Understanding Medication Self-Management at Home Among Older Adults with Coronary Artery Disease: A Qualitative Study

Background The fast speed of ageing increases the burden of caring for older adults worldwide. Statistics indicate that there are one billion adults over 60 years old in 2020.1 China has the largest population of adults over 60 years old in the...

He needed urgent open-heart surgery. The hospital became their wedding chapel.

Hospital staff rallied to arrange a heartfelt impromptu wedding for a couple before the groom's urgent surgery. SAN ANTONIO — Inside a hospital room at Methodist Hospital Stone Oak, staff rallied to grant a San Antonio couple's wish to be married...

I Didn’t Dedicate My Career to Medicine to Manage Paperwork — And AI Scribes Won’t Fix That

Picture this. The patient in front of me had just endured a long and complicated hospitalization for congestive heart failure. But she didn’t understand what had happened to her or why she was taking so many new medications. As an...

Joel Mekler | Medicare Moments: Your Medicare questions answered straightforwardly and clearly

Medicare decisions are deeply personal, and there could be more questions about Medicare than there are beneficiaries — possibly even more. However, some questions tend to arise more frequently than others. × Javascript is required for you to be...

Experts stress the need for research and physician training to expand medical uses of cannabis in India

Cannabis and its derivatives are gaining attention in medical circles, but experts stress that their use must be cautious and evidence-driven. In India, clinicians say that while cannabinoids can help some patients, they are not a cure-all, and...

Denmark Healthcare Industry Market Databook 2025 | 300+ KPIs Covering Healthcare Infrastructure, Patient Demographics, Diagnostics, Public and Private Spending, Clinical and Non-Clinical Workforce - ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 29, 2025-- The "Denmark Healthcare Industry Market Size & Forecast by Value and Volume Across 300+ KPIs Covering Healthcare Infrastructure, Patient Demographics, Diagnostics, Public and Private Spending, Clinical and...

<![CDATA[Mayo Clinic Experts Present Key Radiation Oncology Fndings at ASTRO]]>

Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers will present their latest radiation oncology findings at the 2025 American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, scheduled to be held Sept. 27–Oct. 1 at the Moscone Center in San...

Limited Use of Medications for Alcohol Use Disorder in Emergency Departments Highlights Room for Growth

Newswise — Emergency departments may be missing opportunities to identify and treat people for problem alcohol use. A new study published in Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research found that less than one percent of emergency department...

Pennsylvania families fight Trump Justice Department subpoenas for their trans kids’ private medical records

In Pennsylvania, two federal judges appointed by President Barack Obama are now at the center of a fight over whether the U.S. government can seize the private medical records of transgender youth. The battle, two legal cases unfolding in both...

Gaps in state, federal oversight of hospitals can lead to critical health care risks

Editor’s note: Amy Goldstein, the author of this article, is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and led the Brookings team that conducted this analysis. The monitor that had been tracking Mearl Hodge’s heartbeat started to show an...

Health care providers and debt collectors are biting from people’s paychecks to cover old medical bills

Stacey Knoll thought the court summons she received was a scam. She didn’t remember getting any medical bills from Montrose Regional Health, a nonprofit hospital, after a 2020 emergency room visit. So she was shocked when, three years after the...

Alexandra Hospital to receive emergency ambulance cases from Oct 1

SINGAPORE – Alexandra Hospital (AH), which currently operates an urgent care centre that handles acute care cases but not emergency ambulance cases, will start receiving ambulance cases from Oct 1. The move is part of the hospital’s efforts to...