Industry Wire 209

September 11, 2024 Jake Fishman 0 min read
  1. MGB unveils unified cancer care strategy.
  2. Apple adds sleep apnea to Apple Watch, hearing aid to AirPods Pro.
  3. NYU Langone performs first fully robotic lung transplant. 
  4. Over 1k U.S. counties have no birthing facilities or obstetricians.
  5. Allegheny Health serves as backdrop for TV drama, The Pitt.
  6. UVA faculty demands removal of CEO and dean, leaders push back.
  7. Researchers propose replacing BMI with body roundness index.
  8. One-fifth of COVID deaths attributed to strained hospital caseloads.
  9. Modesto’s Stanislaus Surgical Hospital to close after Medicare removal.
  10. Nearly 50M people have been insured through the ACA exchanges.
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