Rural hospital CEO urges providers to ‘get ready now’ as delta variant outstrips nursing resources

The delta variant of the novel coronavirus is gaining a frightening foothold in areas of the country with low vaccination rates, spurring the White House to mobilize “surge response teams” to combat the variant that threatens to undo the nation’s progress in beating back the pandemic. About 1,000 counties in the U.S. have vaccination rates… Read More »

Logan Paul’s Trainer Says He’d Like His Fighter to Take on Conor McGregor Next

Now that three weeks have past since Logan Paul‘s highly-anticipated fight against Floyd Mayweather, the YouTuber-turned-pro-boxer’s trainer, Milton Lacroix, has been reflecting on how his fighter fared. In an interview with the former Olympic boxer Tony Jeffries, Lacroix said that while he was pleased with Paul’s performance – claiming he won at least three of… Read More »

Matthew’s health care tidbits

Uncategorized Jul 3, 2021• Each week I’ve been adding a brief tidbits section to the THCB Reader, our weekly newsletter that summarizes the best of THCB that week (Sign up here!). Then I had the brainwave to add them to the blog. They’re short and usually not too sweet! –Matthew Holt In this week’s health… Read More »

Gap in Breast Cancer Survival for Black, White Patients Shrinks, But Not by Enough

By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 — Racial disparities in breast cancer survival have narrowed in recent years, but Black women with the disease still have double the death rate of white women. That’s according to a study that tracked breast cancer trends in Florida between 1990 and 2015. Overall, deaths from… Read More »