Top Stories of the Week

Top Stories of the Week

Here are eight developments that have marked the last week in healthcare, handpicked by Becker's editors. To receive curated articles like this in your inbox daily, sign up for the Hospital Review newsletter here.

  • Physicians and scientists are scrambling to determine why cancer diagnosis rates among people younger than 50 are rising. "We have to find out why," one American Cancer Society vice president said. "Otherwise, the progress we have made in the last 50 years may stall or reverse."?
  • Experts largely agree Eli Lilly's new direct-to-consumer platform will increase access to patients who may benefit from its new anti-obesity drug, but questions are being raised surrounding care coordination and the company's business model.?
  • Many companies are calling remote employees back to the office. At Cleveland Clinic, however, flexible work is gaining speed: More than 11,000 employees spend at least a portion of their week working online.
  • The University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia and Doylestown Health have signed a nonbinding letter of intent to explore if Doylestown will become part of Penn Medicine.
  • HCA Healthcare's Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., is at risk of losing CMS funding after inspectors found aspects of care that threatened patient health and safety.
  • The board that oversees Nassau University Medical Center, a tertiary care teaching hospital in New York, ousted Anthony Boutin, MD, as the hospital's CEO.
  • Nurse practitioner is No. 1 on U.S. News and World Report's best healthcare jobs list. Gene counselor, meanwhile, took the top spot on the publication's list of best healthcare support jobs.?
  • One list no one wants to appear on: the Lown Institute's Shkreli Awards, which spotlight "egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction." Here are the 10 individuals and organizations that drew comparisons to "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli.


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