2023 Elections, Healthcare & Local Journalism in the 1970s: Jeff Proctor chats with Santa Fe Reporter Editor and Publisher Julie Ann Grimm about the capital city's 2023 election results. New Mexico is grappling with a shortage of medical professionals, e
The Early Days of VITAS Healthcare In the 1970s, Hugh Westbrook and Esther Colliflower were teachers at a community college in South Florida. They went on to start the organization that would become VITAS Healthcare. Learn how they did it. A Letter from Senator Bill Nelson U.S. Sen. Bil...
In the 1920s, we had the discovery of penicillin and in the 1970s, we had RCT. Going into 2020, there are so many more advancements just waiting to be launched, benefiting patients and medical professionals alike. Here are some really interesting sectors of tech and healthcare, and what w...
From the women's health movement in the 1970s to the HIV/AIDS advocacy movement that emerged a decade later, people have long fought to have access to healthcare information that could affect their lives — or, as some HIV/AIDS organizers put it, have "meaningful involvement" in important ...
Since the 1970’s UnitedHealthcare has been serving Americans insurance needs nationwide. As a carrier, UnitedHealthcare is one of few to have at least one Medicare Supplement (Medigap) option available in each state nationwide. Find Medicare Plans in 3 Easy Steps Let us help you navigate ...
fixed fee. These plans became popular in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, with the rise ofhealth maintenance organizations(HMOs). HMOs used capitation to pay primary care physicians, who were then responsible for providing and coordinating all of the healthcare services for their ...
JIN TAO Vice President of West China Tianfu Hospital, Sichuan University "The medical levels in Mozambique are equivalent to that of China in the 1960s and 1970s, so I wondered if we might build a remote platform so local people could have high-quality medical services." ...
Individuals born in the 1970s and 1980s, also known to researchers as the "social reform generation," are perceived as more pragmatic, more likely to pursue economic success, and more conservative in their political views [20]. Consequently, this generation may have a negative perception of ...
1 In 1970, the code set expanded in a second edition, which added codes for medical and therapeutic procedures and was the first five-digit code set, the code length that is still used today. In 1983, the Health Care Finance Administration (now CMS) established the HCPCS and mandated use...
Since the 1970s, the establishment and development of the biotech industry has improved exponentially, allowing the commercial production of biopharmaceutical proteins. Nowadays, new recombinant protein production is considered a multibillion-dollar market, in which about 25% of commercial pharmaceuticals ar...