According to Amy Zhang, Alger's executive vice president and small cap portfolio manager, Genedx may have more room to run with suspicious profits over the past year. She joined CNBC's “Power Ranch” on Wednesday, offering insights into the name of healthcare and two more radar stock stories on Wall Street. This is what Zhang said during his “Three Strains Lunch” that day. Genedx's stock in Genedx has skyrocketed by 1,000% over the past 12 months, and Zhang considers it to be an outstanding name for a space where genetic testing companies could grow even further. “They can do it faster…
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LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) – An employee at a Longview nursing home was arrested after police said they tied the resident to a bed with leggings.Simone Monique Burns, 34, of Longview, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of illegal detention. Arrest affidavit KLTV, requested in Greg County, says Burns is believed to have left a woman tied up in bed for about five hours.The document says the investigation began after a 55-year-old resident was tied up with a pair of black leggings by the Dayhift Certified Nurses Assistant (CNA) at the Whisper Pines Lodge Nursing Home on Alpine Road at around 8:15am…
Nursing and other health leaders have said they are concerned about the impact cuts to welfare may have on demand for NHS services. Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, delivered her spring statement today, ahead of the end of the 2024-25 financial year. “The NHS is not an island” Sarah Woolnough In it, Ms Reeves confirmed previously mooted cuts to welfare were on the horizon, and reiterated the government’s hopes that dissolving NHS England would save money. Last week, the government announced that it was hoping to save around £5bn by changing the way benefits were allocated. Proposed changes included…
overviewThe concept of PHC has been repeatedly reinterpreted and redefined since 1978, leading to confusion over the term and its practice. Clear and simple definitions have been developed to promote coordination and guide implementation of future PHC initiatives at the global, national and local levels.”PHC is a society-wide approach to health aimed at ensuring the best possible health and well-being and its equitable distribution by focusing on people's needs, in line with the continuity from health promotion and disease prevention to treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, and close to people's daily environments.” Vision of primary healthcare for the 21st century:…
The expertise of the 4,000 nurses working at NHS England and in integrated care boards (ICBs) must be retained amid the reforms and cuts taking place, a nursing leader has urged. Professor Nicola Ranger also raised concerns about frontline nursing posts being lost due to pressures on providers to save money and about student nurse graduates being unable to find jobs. “I know posts are being [looked] at to take frontline nursing out” Nicola Ranger Professor Ranger, the chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), made the comments as part of her evidence today to…
Rajan Kohli, CEO of CityStec. It stimulates new possibilities for a health ecosystem with technology and human ingenuity. Getty One emotion echoes in conversations with medical executives and innovators across the healthcare industry. The challenges of healthcare are as complicated as the opportunities are enormous. I have given leaders a story of relentless pressure, from operational inefficiencies to surges in patient demand, to how these can be exacerbated by labor shortages and rising chronic diseases. Space racing innovators to develop solutions faster than regulations can adapt. Life sciences companies face unrelenting demand for spiral R&D costs and speed in drug…
Dublin, March 25, 2025 (Globe Newswire) – “Healthcare Market Industry Trends and Global Forecasts for 2035” report has been added to the offer of ResearchAndmarkets.com. The global metaverse of the healthcare market size is estimated to grow from USD 14.6 billion this year by 2035 to USD 219.1 billion by 2035. Ongoing advancements in virtual reality and augmented reality tools allow surgeons to perform complex medical procedures in a controlled virtual environment, helping to reduce errors and improving overall surgical outcomes. Furthermore, it is important to emphasize that in recent years these cutting-edge technological advances have attracted great attention from…
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital has announced the upcoming closure of its Geropsychiatry unit.The department provides mental health services to seniors, but McLaren said the unit will be closed on April 11th due to ongoing challenges.According to an internal memo obtained by News 10, the unit's nursing staff were notified on March 24th of the closure and its collective layoffs. The memo came from the hospital's chief nursing officer and said the closure was the result of “the very realistic changes that healthcare providers are undergoing and the need for McLaren to maintain strong economic stability.”The announcement…
The leaders of the PACS Group (NYSE: PACS) are facing shareholder lawsuits in connection with an alleged scheme to file false Medicare claims. Five PACS executives, including CEO Jason Murray and CFO Derick Apt, have been appointed defendants in a currently integrated federal securities fraud class lawsuit. According to a complaint filed on March 21, these PACS executives allegedly did not warn investors that false claims were a major factor in the company's revenues between 2020 and 2023, and that the company abused its COVID-era exemptions to inappropriately access the skilled nursing Medicare benefits of thousands of patients. Since its…
Have you ever felt your nursing home struggles are totally blind to the general public? For those dealing with frustrated families trying to find a place for their loved ones, I think their “surprise” at learning about the lack of nursing home beds is a reminder that warnings about your level of access are often deaf. Now, new rankings for the state based on “Access to high quality nursing homes” threaten to drown your concerns even more. In part, the ranking appears to demonstrate access using Medicare bed count and occupancy data. Whether these beds are empty due to understaffing…