Temp Nurses Cost Hospitals Big During Pandemic. Lawmakers Are Now Mulling Limits.
To crack down on price gouging, proposed legislation in Missouri calls for allowing felony charges against healthcare staffing agencies that substantially raise their prices during a declared emergency. A New York bill includes a cap on the amount staffing agencies can charge healthcare facilities. And a Texas measure would allow civil penalties against such agencies. […]
Drug-resistant bacteria found in the guts of lemurs who live around humans: The more human interaction they had, the higher the proportion of resistant bugs
Antibiotic resistance, which the CDC calls one of the world’s most urgent public health crises, is now being found in the guts of lemurs, our distant primate cousins. In a new study appearing Aug. 9 in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Duke researchers have found evidence for antibiotic resistance in the microbiome of […]