News from Ƶ Health
Ƶ Posts 7.5% Gains As Patient Services, Pharmacy Revenues Climb. (Crain's New York Business)
(4/30) “Ƶ Health hospitals earned a 7.5% operating margin in the second quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, due to continued upticks in patient volume and pharmacy sales, according to financial documents released Monday,” racking up “$2.4 billion in total revenue in the second quarter of its 2024 fiscal year, up 19% from the same time last year.” Steve Ritea, senior director, Media Relations, said “that the health system’s ‘disciplined fiscal management’ ensured that operating expenses in the first six months of the 2024 fiscal year grew by only 14.5% from the same time last year,” and “that the health system provides continued operating support to its two medical schools, the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and its partner institution on Long Island, which has weighed on its costs.”
Ƶ Health’s Digital Innovation Focuses On The Patient Experience. (Healthcare Finance News)
(4/30) Ƶ Health “plans to add AI and smart robotics as enabling technologies to further integrate intelligent connection between physician and patient, says Jonah Feldman, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Innovation.
Fitness Myths From TikTok You Should Immediately Stop Believing. (Health Digest)
(4/29) “According to Heather Milton, MS, clinical exercise physiologist, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Sports Performance Center (via The New York Times), ‘Each person has individual needs based on genetics, medical history, including injury history and body type.’”
The Best LED Face Masks To Target Fine Lines, Dark Spots And More. (Forbes)
(4/29) “Moorhouse also gathered key insight and guidance” for this article “from several industry professionals” including “Mary L. Stevenson, MD, associate professor, the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology.”
Are You A ‘Floor Person’? Why Lying On The Ground Feels So Good. (Straits Times (SGP))
(4/30) “If you are able to try it and want to give floor time a go, ‘focus on your breath, really turn inward’, said psychologist Rachel L. Goldman, PhD, clinical assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry.”
Early-Onset Cancer Diagnoses Up By Nearly 80 Percent Since 1990. (Fox News)
(4/29) “Fox News medical contributor Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine “explains possible reasons behind the increase in young people with cancer diagnoses and discusses the Biden administration’s move to delay a ban on menthol cigarettes.”
In a separate embedded video, (4/28) Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine “reacts to what is behind rising cancer cases among young adults and advises to eat a healthy diet, cut back on alcohol consumption, and get the HPV vaccine.”
In a separate article, (4/29)” Marc K. Siegel, MD, clinical professor, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and a Fox News medical contributor, was not involved in the drug’s development but commented on the potential of gold therapies,” saying, “Gold-containing analogies have long been treatments for rheumatoid arthritis – what is known as disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs.”
