Gaza’s Health Care System Collapses

A World Health Organization official who recently returned from the Gaza Strip said on Wednesday the health care system is rapidly deteriorating, and more staff, supplies and access are urgently needed.

“I’ve seen the health care system collapsing before my eyes,” Sean Casey, WHO Health Emergency Officer, told reporters at the United Nations.

Casey spent five weeks in Gaza, starting in early December, and he met with medical professionals and patients across the territory.

“I saw patients in hospitals every day with severe burns, with open fractures, waiting hours or days for care, and they would often

Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis sentenced to 40 months in prison for defrauding NBA’s healthcare plan

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Former NBA big man Glen “Big Baby” Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Thursday after it was determined that he defrauded the NBA’s healthcare plan. Davis, 38, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release in addition to the 40-month prison term.

In November 2023, Davis was found guilty of health care fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to make false statements, and conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud. As a result of those charges, the former NBA power forward was facing up to 20 years in prison.

Davis, along with several other former

Ascension hospitals hit by cyberattack; investigating data breaches

Ascension hospitals in Michigan and across the US were hit Wednesday by a cyberattack that disrupted its computer network which continued to affect its clinical operations Thursday morning, leading the non-profit, St. Louis-based health system to urge its business partners to server online connections to its system.

“We detected unusual activity on select technology network systems, which we now believe is due to a cyber security event,” Ascension said in a statement posted on its website. “At this time we continue to investigate the situation. We responded immediately, initiated our investigation and activated our remediation efforts. Access to some systems