Category: Surgery
Hospital ads play on fear and fun
Hospitals are using dramatic TV spots to attract lucrative patients into their hospitals as health care costs and industry competition escalate.
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Trump Administration Proposes Weakening Rules Governing Organ Transplant Centers
The rules, said to be proposed to reduce “burdensome” regulations, would no longer penalize hospitals if too many of their patients die following transplants.
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New Hepatitis C Drugs Mean More Organs for More Transplants
New drugs that promise a cure for the 3.5 million Americans with chronic hepatitis also are benefiting another category of patients: those awaiting life-saving organ transplants.
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Hospitals Battle For Control Over Fast-Growing Heart-Valve Procedure
“It’s all about the money,” says one surgeon of the battle over which hospitals can perform transcatheter aortic valve replacement, also known as TAVR.
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As Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives
The centers started as low-cost alternatives for minor surgeries. They now outnumber hospitals, and regulators OK’d ever-widening array of outpatient procedures
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