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Healthcare Outlook 2026: Melinda Hancock, CFO, Sentara Health
Transcript CHAD MULVANY On today’s episode of “Achieving Health,” I’ll be joined by special guest Melinda Hancock, executive vice president and CFO at Sentara Health. Melinda will share her outlook for hospitals and health systems in 2026, including key industry trends, challenges, and growth drivers. Stay tuned. ANNOUNCER This is “Achieving Health,” a podcast from Forvis Mazars, where we delve…
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NRx submits 70,000-patient ketamine data to US FDA
NRx Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: NRXP) will submit real-world evidence from over 70,000 patients treated with intravenous ketamine or nasal S-ketamine to the FDA to support an Accelerated Approval application for NRX-100 (preservative-free ketamine) under Fast Track designation for treatment of suicidal ideation in depression, including bipolar depression. The RWE, supplied by Osmind, includes nearly 1 million treatment sessions, continuous…
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Breast milk shares beneficial bacteria with babies
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: New metagenomic evidence reveals how specific bacterial strains and resistance genes link breast milk to infant gut development, and challenging assumptions about how microbes are passed from mother to child. Study: Assembly of the infant gut…
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States race to prove they’ll use rural health funds wisely. Money for next year is on the line.
Imagine starting the new year with the promise of at least a $147 million payout from the federal government. But there are strings attached. In late December, President Donald Trump’s administration announced how much all 50 states would get under its new Rural Health Transformation Program, assigning them to use the money to fix systemic problems that leave rural Americans…
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The pharmacist who put rescue in reach
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 12, 2026) — On some winter mornings, Daniel Wermeling, Pharm.D., nurses his coffee and occasionally revisits the improbable idea that once kept him awake for more than a decade — that a medicine older than many of his students could be reborn in an easy-to-use form. When he recounts the story, he ticks through the pharmacology and the regulatory hurdles…
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Implanted vagus nerve stimulation device offers lasting relief for severe depression
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: About 20% of U.S. adults experience major depression in their lifetime. For most people, symptoms improve within a few treatment attempts, but up to one-third of patients have treatment-resistant depression, for which standard antidepressant medication or…
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U.S. health data is disappearing—with potentially serious consequences
Joel Gurin The work that we’re doing now is part of an effort being led by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which has become really concerned about the potential for some real disruptions to what you can think of as the public health data infrastructure. This is the data on all kinds of things, on disease rates, on social determinants…
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Will Semaglutide Prevent Heart Attacks, Strokes & Cravings?
, buOzempic for diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss are now familiar brand names for the pharmaceutical compound semaglutide. Seven years ago, when Ozempic was first introduced to treat type 2 diabetes, doctors expected it to help people maintain healthy blood sugar levels. Since then, we have learned that it can do far more than that. Recently, scientists have uncovered…
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Is choosing food and medicine based on naturalness a good idea?
Most of us love natural things: the taste of raw fruits and vegetables, the warmth of the sun on our skin, the sounds of waterfalls or waves at the beach. Some of us pay handsome sums of money to take vacations near parks, wildlife, and bodies of water. There is good reason for this attraction to nature. For example, exposure…
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Marie Harrison, Bayview Activist, Fought for Community’s Health
On May 16, 1998, the federal government used 600 pounds of explosives to destroy Marie Harrison’s home, Geneva Towers, the largest residential implosion in California history. It was one of three detonations that rattled her community and inspired her life’s work. The second came on June 18, 2008, when her activism helped light the fuse to implode San Francisco’s old…
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