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| Sep 24, 2025 | ‘Nightmare bacteria’ cases are increasing in the US | By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70% between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Related ... |
| Apr 30, 2025 | In first 100 days, Trump Vance Administration dismantles critical policies promoting LGBTQI+ health equity, racial and ethnic health equity, HIV/STI prevention and care | Fenway Health Logo
In its first 100 days in power, the Trump Vance Administration has effected a radical restructuring of the nation's public health, research, and foreign policy infrastructure.
BOSTON, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ... |
| Aug 22, 2024 | As Perceived Need for Personal Protection Spurs Record Levels of U.S. Adults Purchasing Firearms for the First Time, New PSA Emphasizes Need to Store Guns Safely | Brady and the Ad Council's new "End Family Fire" campaign offers critical education on safe storage at a moment when increased rates of new gun ownership meets alarmingly high numbers of injury and death from firearms
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| Aug 14, 2024 | The Symphony of Recovery: How Classical Music Aids Stroke Rehabilitation | In the realm of rehabilitation, a new melody is emerging. Classical music, long celebrated for its beauty, is now being recognized for its therapeutic potential. Recent research from France reveals that listening to composers like Mozart an... |
| Aug 12, 2024 | Классическая музыка смогла ускорить восстановление речи и улучшить работу после инсульта | Французские ученые обнаружили, что классическая музыка может помочь людям, пережившим инсульт, восстановить языковые навыки и улучшить мозговые связи. Пациентам включали Моцарта и Бетховена всего на два часа на протяжении двух недель. Иссле... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | A cancer researcher shares 2 supplements she takes for healthy aging — and how to decide if they work for you | Health A cancer researcher shares 2 supplements she takes for healthy aging — and how to decide if they work for you
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| Apr 11, 2023 | Clinically Proven Curriculum for Reducing and Preventing Physician Burnout Will be Taught at 12th Annual “Heart and Science of Yoga” Conference October 17-21 | 12th Annual "Heart and Science of Yoga" Physicians Conference “This was the best CME course I ever attended. I learned powerful and practical skills for myself and to help patients improve their lives.”Vi Quach MD, Internal Medici... |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Stop Taking Vitamin D Already! | Food Supplement, Vitamin D3. (Photo By BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images |
| Jun 12, 2020 | Innovation in substance use disorder treatment: 5 Keys to Impact | |
| May 21, 2020 | Calling health care workers ‘heroes’ harms all of us | Here’s an unjust fact: Some of the frontline health care workers we’ve been celebrating with social media likes, sidewalk chalk, and asynchronous concerts are getting pay cuts and losing their jobs.
And here’s an unwelcome observation: A wo... |
| May 14, 2020 | Gilead should ditch remdesivir and focus on its simpler and safer ancestor | In the midst of a pandemic like Covid-19, for which there are no FDA-approved drug treatments, hope is important. That’s one reason why remdesivir, an antiviral drug that Gilead Sciences originally made to fight Ebola, has been propelled in... |
| Apr 20, 2020 | Value-Based Care’s Story Will Turn in the 2020s | Daniel Kus, VP of Pharmacy Services at Henry Ford Health System Troy Polan, acting CEO of ExceleraRx Corp
Value-based care initiatives matured in recent years thanks to exciting new technology and influential policy changes. But the coming ... |
| Apr 17, 2020 | Influential Covid-19 model uses flawed methods and shouldn’t guide U.S. policies, critics say | A widely followed model for projecting Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. is producing results that have been bouncing up and down like an unpredictable fever, and now epidemiologists are criticizing it as flawed and misleading for both the public... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | New research examines wastewater to detect community spread of Covid-19 | A series of crucial setbacks in Covid-19 testing has made it difficult to keep up with the virus’ rapid spread, and has inspired some researchers to look to wastewater to help fill in the gap of measuring how prevalent SARS-CoV-2 is in a gi... |
| Apr 7, 2020 | USMLE Step 1 Is Now Pass/Fail - Who Benefits From This Big Change? | The USMLE (United States Medical Licensing Examination) Step 1 is a necessary hurdle that medical students must surpass, typically during their second year of medical school. The one-day exam tests students on basic science principles, spec... |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Coronavirus particles continue to live in phlegm, poop after recovery | A man coughs into his elbow.
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The new coronavirus typically spreads via airborne particles from an infected patient's coughs or sneezes.
But some research suggests the virus can spread via fecal matter - studies ... |
| Mar 14, 2020 | Medical students can help combat Covid-19. Don’t send them home | Last week, while seeing a patient in the emergency department of Stanford Hospital, I witnessed the well-orchestrated commotion that follows a suspected case of coronavirus. Masked nurses, doctors, and janitors quickly isolated the patient ... |
| Mar 11, 2020 | Researchers question cost-effectiveness of Gilead’s newly approved PrEP drug for preventing HIV | Foster City, California-based Gilead did not respond to a request for comment.
The purpose of the study was to estimate how much Descovy would provide clinical benefit and economic savings relative to Truvada and the highest price payers sh... |
| Mar 9, 2020 | A recently approved Gilead HIV prevention pill is not cost-effective and price should be cut in half, study says | The price of a Gilead Sciences (GILD) pill approved in the U.S. last fall to prevent HIV would have to be cut nearly in half in order to be cost-effective because it has questionable benefits over an older, similar pill that will face lower... |
| Mar 4, 2020 | The fake news ‘chemical imbalance’ narrative of mental health | Negative feelings are healthy because they teach us virtues that medications can't
[Editor's note: Future of Behavioral and Mental Health with BetterHelp, Headspace, Ginger.io, Providence Hospitals, UnitedHealthcare Optum, Khosla Ventures, ... |
| Mar 1, 2020 | Coffee drinkers have stronger bones than people who don't sip a daily brew, according to a new study | Justin Sullivan /GettyImages
A new study found people who regularly drink coffee tend to have stronger bones than those who don't.
Past research was inconclusive on whether java supported or detracted from bone health.
Other research has li... |
| Feb 28, 2020 | This AI Company Is Trying To Fix Physician Burnout - An Interview With Dr. Nathan Gunn, COO Of Suki.ai | Suki Exec Team, Image from Suki.aiImage from Suki.ai |
| Feb 28, 2020 | Women in medicine: unite (or at least stop repressing each other) | The #MeToo and #NeedHerScience movements have inspired women to take a stand against sexism in health care. What I see missing from the movements are women in medicine confronting their own discrimination toward other women.
I’m an orthoped... |
| Feb 24, 2020 | There's more evidence that taking supplements is a waste of money — and could be harmful to your health | Hollis Johnson/Business Insider
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Recent studies suggest nutritional supplements have no added health benefits for people who are already in good health.
A January study found high levels of vitamin B12 in a pe... |
| Feb 24, 2020 | HHS creates plan to make EHRs less painful for docs | “We will all be patients at some point in our lives and owe it to our dedicated clinical colleagues to improve the administrative, regulatory, and technological environment in which they work,” Dr. Donald Rucker, chief of the Office of the ... |
| Feb 14, 2020 | Disease modelers gaze into their computers to see the future of Covid-19, and it isn’t good | At least 550,000 cases. Maybe 4.4 million. Or something in between.
Like weather forecasters, researchers who use mathematical equations to project how bad a disease outbreak might become are used to uncertainties and incomplete data, and C... |
| Feb 9, 2020 | The Heartbreak Of The Deli Counter: More Thinly Sliced Data | A saleswoman takes meatloaf from a meat counter in a supermarket. Photo: Jan ... [+] Woitas/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images)dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images |
| Feb 5, 2020 | How U.S. Companies Can Set Up Shop In Canada | Photo:Getty |
| Feb 3, 2020 | The ACA gave more Americans insurance, but not the health care they need | The signing of the Affordable Care Act in 2010 ushered in the largest expansion in the number of Americans covered by health insurance since the implementation of Medicare and Medicaid more than 50 years ago. The ACA provided health new cov... |
| Jan 23, 2020 | Pain doesn’t stigmatize people. We do that to each other | In 2000, a truck rear-ended my friend Andrea’s car as she stopped at a crosswalk in a school zone. The truck was going at least 45 miles per hour when it slammed into her. The accident damaged muscles, nerves, and bones from the base of her... |
| Jan 8, 2020 | US Healthcare Industry Creating an Endless Shitstorm of Money-Grubbing Bureaucracy and Paperwork, Study Finds | Capitalist though it may be, the U.S. healthcare industry is a bureaucratic, inefficient and unnecessarily complicated mess, which has created a highly lucrative paper-pushing industry that is unnecessarily costing already-broke Americans h... |
| Jan 6, 2020 | A reality check on Artificial Intelligence: Are healthcare claims overblown? | Even the Food and Drug Administration which has approved more than 40 AI products in the past five years says “the potential of digital health is nothing short of revolutionary.”
Yet many health industry experts fear AI-based products won’t... |
| Nov 11, 2019 | Confidentiality orders in drug, device lawsuits harm patients and the public | In 2001, West Virginia became the first state to sue Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin (oxycodone ER). As part of the confidential exchange of documents during the litigation, Purdue disclosed something extraordinary: the company knew t... |
| Oct 8, 2019 | Beyond the Sacklers: Free-trade policies contributed to the opioid epidemic | The Sackler family was once celebrated for its philanthropy. Now the owners of Purdue Pharma are vilified daily as egregious contributors to the U.S. opioid epidemic, which has shattered so many lives. It’s now time to look more closely at ... |
| Sep 23, 2019 | What Cybercriminals Steal When They Hack Hospitals, New Study | professional young female hacker successfully using code designing virus system and raised hands ... [+] celebrating. Getty |
| Sep 11, 2019 | Ignoring millennials will worsen the coming crisis in health care leadership | Health care delivery in the United States is being led by practitioners who have ascended to leadership roles primarily through years of loyalty to their organizations. But as burnout worsens and affects the youngest clinicians to the detri... |
| Sep 10, 2019 | Reinventing the doctor - week 4 | How is tech enabling doctors? The cost of doctor burnout; Millennials don't trust their doctors
This week, Dr. Archana Dubey (HP), Mark Goldstein (UCSF Health Hub) and I will be hosting our third salon of the year, "Reinventing the doc... |
| Aug 16, 2019 | Medicare could have saved billions if older generics were prescribed, study finds | Medicare and its beneficiaries could have saved an estimated $17.7 billion earlier this decade on generic versions of older medicines instead of paying for newer, chemically similar but more expensive brand-name drugs that companies launche... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | With no dementia cure in sight, it’s time for communities to become dementia friendly | For baby boomers and their parents, there’s no biomedical solution in sight for preventing or curing dementia. That means we need to help people face the prospect of living with dementia and support families affected by it through dementia-... |
| Aug 6, 2019 | The Pros and Cons of the Vaping Business | Vaping is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. More and more smokers are switching to a safer alternative. Vaping gains and holds the buyers with the customization aspect – there’re hundreds of electronic smoking devices and ... |
| Jul 9, 2019 | Trustworthy data from consumer health devices can help solve stubborn health care challenges | Americans collectively spend more on pregnancy and childbirth than any other nation yet have the worst maternal and infant mortality rates in the developed world. The U.S. is the only developed country in which maternal mortality is rising.... |
| Jul 5, 2019 | How one medtech company is working on solving the data dilemma | (Image by Rishi Deep on Unsplash)
The electronic medical record was designed to better track patient care, but it has had unintended consequences. Physicians are bombarded with digital patient information all day long, reducing their patien... |
| Jul 1, 2019 | New guidelines aim to enlist primary care physicians in transgender care | In a move that reflects a growing acceptance of transgender individuals in the U.S., the American College of Physicians on Monday issued its first guidelines on caring for transgender patients.
This isn’t the first set of such guidelines. T... |
| Jun 20, 2019 | We were inspired to become primary care physicians. Now we’re reconsidering a field in crisis | Nearly three years ago, we began training as primary care doctors in two residency programs at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital. We understood the value of longitudinal patient-doctor relationships and wagered that primary care would ... |
| Jun 10, 2019 | Patients whose blood pressure only spikes at the doctor’s office are twice as likely to die of a heart attack or other cardiac event | For decades, doctors have been aware of a phenomenon known as “white coat hypertension” — when a patient gets higher blood pressure readings at the doctor’s office than they do at home, perhaps because they’re anxious in the clinic — but pr... |
| Jun 3, 2019 | Here’s what dagga actually does to your body and brain | Darrin Harris Frisby / Drug Policy Alliance
Marijuana's official designation in the US as a Schedule 1 drug - something with "no currently accepted medical use" - means it has been pretty tough to study.
Despite that, a growing bo... |
| May 21, 2019 | Ignoring evidence begot Medicare’s dangerous hospital readmissions penalty | Federal programs designed to cut costs and improve health by penalizing doctors and hospitals are failing at an alarming rate. Some of them actually harm patients, and many don’t cut costs. One in particular, the Hospital Readmissions Reduc... |
| May 8, 2019 | The ability to scale: Why just about everyone is talking about SDoH | If you’re in healthcare, you know social determinants of health (SDoH) are a very popular topic these days. It may be tempting to say, “Enough already,” but I urge you not to.
That’s because researchers believe social determinants drive mor... |
| May 7, 2019 | Patient-driven technology builds stronger connections | A recent study that asked patients what matters most when it comes to their healthcare experiences shows that 75 percent of consumers seek a partnership with their providers to determine the most effective treatment decisions. Patients want... |
| May 3, 2019 | Aim your baloney detector at the BS in health care | BS, what Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt once called a “lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are,” has probably been around since the beginning of language. It’s now common in American di... |
| Apr 29, 2019 | Fairness in liver transplants can be a constitutional issue | Liver failure is a terrible way to die: a painful belly full of fluid, vomiting blood, mental confusion, and repeated hospitalizations. The only cure is liver transplantation but, as is the case for all types of transplants, there aren’t ne... |
| Apr 26, 2019 | No more ‘shortcuts’ in prescribing opioids for chronic pain. Millions of Americans need nuanced care | Declarations from two federal agencies offer hope — and possible action — for people in pain who have lost access to prescribed opioids. These declarations come not a moment too soon for those who have been abandoned by their health care pr... |
| Apr 24, 2019 | Faced with an outcry over limits on opioids, authors of CDC guidelines acknowledge they’ve been misapplied | The authors of influential federal guidelines for opioid prescriptions for chronic pain said Wednesday that doctors and others in the health care system had wrongly implemented their recommendations and cut off patients who should have rece... |
| Mar 4, 2019 | It’s old news that vaccines don’t cause autism. But a major new study aims to refute skeptics again | A massive new study from Denmark found no association between being vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella and developing autism.
In science and public health circles, that issue has long since been considered settled, with multiple... |
| Feb 19, 2019 | Move clinical trial data sharing from an option to an imperative | Data from clinical trials have long been locked away, some in this principal investigator’s computer bank, some in that pharmaceutical company’s cloud. For years we have been talking about opening up those vaults and freeing these data. The... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | ‘We don’t have any data’: Experts raise questions about Facebook’s suicide prevention tools | Over the past few years, Facebook has stepped up its efforts to prevent suicide, but its attempt to help people in need has opened the tech giant to a series of issues concerning medical ethics, informed consent, and privacy. It has also ra... |
| Feb 4, 2019 | We’re missing the true point of hospital price transparency | Since New Year’s Day, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has learned the hard way that forcing hospitals to post their standard prices online brings as much confusion as insight to prospective patients. Rather than enlighten us ... |
| Nov 13, 2018 | A healthy lifestyle is the best prescription for healing | Google's new hire: Feinberg; Why sleep is important; Esther Dyson's Wellville
On December 13, HP and Vator are hosting our next quarterly salon at HP headquarters in Palo Alto. This time, we're focused on vitality, which is defined as "... |
| Oct 8, 2018 | Hey, doctors: Don’t be no-shows (again) on Election Day | Physicians do many things well. One thing they aren’t good at is showing up to vote. That bad habit starts early, and we believe it can — and must — be changed.
We don’t have data from recent elections, but studies from a decade ago show th... |
| Oct 3, 2018 | More research on ‘dying healthy’ will also help us live healthier | Helping people live longer has been a central goal of medicine for decades. The quest to extend life raises an interesting question: Should we keep investing in research aimed at adding even more years to the already impressive gains in the... |
| Sep 19, 2018 | A new report says pharma companies increased drug prices by nearly double during shortages - and it highlights the biggest debate in healthcare today | Unsplash/Freestocks.org
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Researchers looked at prices of drugs under shortage from 2015 to 2016 and found that manufacturers increased their prices almost double... |
| Sep 17, 2018 | How much? Drug prices rose twice as quickly as expected during shortages | Ongoing drug shortages are repeatedly blamed for contributing to rising prices, but a new analysis suggested that prices rose not only substantially, but twice as fast, for medicines that were in short supply than if there were no shortages... |
| Sep 13, 2018 | Saykara raises $5M as its AI voice assistant cuts time doctors spend on paperwork by 70% | Saykara now employs 18, with vets of Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Nuance on its team. (Saykara Photo)
If you are a doctor in the U.S., chances are you spend a lot of time doing paperwork — sometimes double the amount of time you spend seei... |
| Sep 12, 2018 | Although we’re running low on doctors, the solution may not be more doctors | Less than 5 percent of OB-GYNs practicing in Sacramento, Calif., are under age 40. West Texas can’t recruit enough psychiatrists to meet the region’s needs. All but two of Alabama’s rural counties need more primary care physicians.
For most... |
| Aug 17, 2018 | Y Combinator invests in non-invasive breast cancer screening bra EVA | According to a report by the American Cancer Society, an estimated 266,120 women will be newly diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year and (according to a 2016 estimate) can expect to pay between $60,000 and $134,000 on ... |
| Jul 29, 2018 | The wildly popular e-cig startup Juul is valued at $15 billion, but it faces a growing backlash of lawsuits and investigations | Pax Labs
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But despite the skyrocketing popularity of its devices, Juul Labs - which was recently valued at $15 billion - faces a growing back... |
| Jul 2, 2018 | Jails and prisons: the unmanned front in the battle against the opioid epidemic | If you have type 1 diabetes and wind up behind bars, you’ll get the insulin injections needed to control your blood sugar. If you don’t, there will be public outrage over this violation of your human rights. But if you have an opioid addict... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | Healthcare heats up with Google on FHIR | The list of billion-dollar companies turned healthcare disruptors in 2018 continues to grow. Alphabet recently joined the likes of Apple, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Chase, and Walmart to target the largest sector of the economy. ... |
| Jun 26, 2018 | Doctors Should Be Handing Out Addiction Meds on Demand | Burlington, Vermont, police chief Brandon Del Pozo—a former deputy inspector and nearly 20-year veteran of the statistics-driven NYPD—has a new vision for policing during an opioid crisis. His primary metric for success is reducing overdose... |
| Jun 1, 2018 | Another Cause of Doctor Burnout: Being Forced to Give Undocumented People Unequal Care | One patient’s death changed the course of Lilia Cervantes’ career.
The patient, Cervantes said, was a woman from Mexico with kidney failure who repeatedly visited the emergency room for more than three years. In that time, her heart had sto... |
| May 9, 2018 | Transparency on quality and price will transform medicine | Transparency is becoming a fashionable buzzword in many walks of life. In health care, it is rearranging the relationships between patients and those who care for them. Looking at health care from different vantage points, we believe that t... |
| May 1, 2018 | Suki Lands $20M to Create AI-Driven Alexa for Doctors Platform | Suki, an n AI-powered, voice-enabled digital assistant for doctors that lifts the burden of documentation has raised $20 million that comes from a Series A round led by Venrock with participation from First Round and Social Capital, as well... |
| Apr 6, 2018 | Everything We Know About E-Cigarettes So Far | Show of hands: Who’s heard an e-cigarette user say “it’s just water vapor”? Yeah, most of us. And as you can probably imagine, it's…not just water vapor.
“The hope for e-cigarettes was that they would give people an alternative way to inhal... |
| Apr 2, 2018 | Amgen’s money-back guarantee for its pricey cholesterol drug may not deliver | Over the past couple of years, drug makers have increasingly explored outcomes-based contracting as a way to convince payers to cover their medicines. Basically, this notion revolves around the idea that an insurer will get a drug at a lowe... |
| Feb 12, 2018 | How should physicians talk to patients about dying? | Lynn Black’s mother-in-law, who had lupus and lung cancer, was rushed into a hospital intensive care unit last summer with shortness of breath. As she lay in bed, intubated and unresponsive, a parade of doctors told the family “all good new... |
| Jan 30, 2018 | Pay for performance: a dangerous health policy fad that won’t die | Pay for performance, the catchall term for policies that purport to pay doctors and hospitals based on quality and cost measures, has been taking a bashing.
Last November, University of Pittsburgh and Harvard researchers published a major s... |
| Jan 10, 2018 | You Asked: Do I Really Need an Annual Physical? | A yearly check-in with a doctor seems undeniably prudent. He or she can listen to your heart, check your blood pressure and help you nip any looming health issues in the bud.
But while annual well visits are a familiar part of the health ca... |
| 2018 | Too much screening has misled us about real cancer risk factors, experts say | The best-known downside of cancer screening, such as PSA tests for prostate cancer and mammograms for breast cancer, is that they often flag cancers that pose no risk, leading to overdiagnosis and unnecessary, even harmful, treatment. But w... |
| Dec 27, 2017 | How AI can conquer the last data frontier | While there has been some promising medical device innovation, system-level healthcare innovation is truly lacking. If you walk into your doctor’s office, you will likely see clinicians sitting behind an old computer, typing notes or fillin... |
| Oct 31, 2017 | An integrative approach to managing chronic pain can help solve the opioid crisis | President Trump officially made opioid addiction a public health emergency last week. While some of the solutions he outlined will be helpful, his focus on restricting access to legitimately and appropriately prescribed opioids is the wrong... |
| Oct 25, 2017 | We are America’s future doctors. We support a Medicare-for-all health system | Underneath a heap of hospital blankets, Stephen seemed small for a 7-year-old. His chest rose and fell rapidly, a frightening rhythm given his history of asthma. His parents stood nearby as veteran witnesses — Stephen had been admitted to a... |
| Sep 14, 2017 | I’m the perfect person to price shop for an operation. But the process went terribly | After three months of using hot compresses to shrink the stye on my daughter’s eyelid, it wasn’t getting any smaller. My daughter is prone to this sort of growth, called a chalazion. This one would have to be removed surgically, like the on... |
| Sep 4, 2017 | A new study claims prostate cancer screenings significantly reduce deaths. Not everyone agrees | An analysis of two influential studies of prostate cancer screening concludes that the much-debated test “significantly” reduces deaths from the disease, suggesting that current recommendations against routine PSA screening might be steerin... |
| Jun 27, 2017 | Column:: How many people will die from the Republicans’ Obamacare repeal bills? Tens of thousands per year | |
| Jun 26, 2017 | In healthy patients, genome sequencing raises alarms while offering few benefits | For all the promises of genomics ushering in a new era in medicine, with scientists regularly urging people to get their DNA sequenced, it appears that the revolution will be postponed: A first-of-its-kind study published Monday found that ... |
| Jun 12, 2017 | When the patient is racist, how should the doctor respond? | The burden of discrimination can compound the stress of practicing medicine for physicians who are cultural and religious minorities. Hospitals have policies protecting against workplace discrimination at the hands of colleagues or supervis... |
| Apr 12, 2017 | After blowup, biotech vets regroup, bag $40M for NASH 2b | Frazier Healthcare Partners has once again installed a trio of biotech veterans at the helm and put up some of the cash they need to get through a vital trial. The executives, whose careers have crossed at companies including Laguna Pharmac... |
| Apr 11, 2017 | The new recommendations for prostate cancer screenings are a bad deal | That popping sound you may have heard on Tuesday was made by urologists opening the champagne bottles they had chilled in anticipation of the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) upgrading its recommendation about PSA scree... |
| Mar 30, 2017 | How Big Pharma Makes You Think You Have Sex Problems | At an American Urology Association conference in Las Vegas in 1983, 57-year-old Giles Brindley brought attention to impotence research by exhibiting that old age wasn't preventing him from getting it up.
For his presentation, Brindley was t... |
| Mar 23, 2017 | The doctor will hear you now | There’s absolutely no good reason why Sally should have been in the hospital. Not a day over 60, she had come to the emergency department for severe gastrointestinal pain and was then moved to a bed on the 10th floor of one of the hospital’... |
| Mar 21, 2017 | A pediatrician’s plea to lawmakers: Don’t cut Medicaid | Last week I saw a 10-year-old boy — I’ll call him Omar — with asthma in my primary care clinic. As I listened to his lungs and checked his breathing, I couldn’t help but think about what President Trump, his administration, and the Congress... |
| Mar 15, 2017 | Some hospitals taking novel approach to dealing with medical errors: Apologizing | Jack Gentry said he “went into the hospital a patient and came out a victim.” In 2013, the retired Baltimore police officer suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury during disk replacement surgery at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital that l... |
| Feb 21, 2017 | We need to move beyond the buzz in digital health to address practical realities of implementation | This year’s hot topics and buzz will likely be around data analytics, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and blockchain, among others. There is widespread recognition that turning massive health data into instant, actio... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | Five digital health trends investors are watching in 2017 | About the author: Skip Fleshman is a partner at Asset Management Ventures who has invested in companies such as Proteus Digital Health, WellDoc, HealthTap, Evidation Health, Reify Health, Lark and Welkin. You can follow him on Twitter @skip... |
| Feb 16, 2017 | Mammograms plus personalized treatment are the best options to fight breast cancer | Do mammograms make sense as an early-warning tool for most seemingly healthy women over age 40? I say yes — with some caveats — to this long and hotly debated question. Others, of course, say no.
Critics of annual mammograms point to the is... |
| Feb 3, 2017 | Watching the Super Bowl can literally make you sick. Here’s how | The Super Bowl is all fun and games — until someone double dips and spreads their stomach bug.
Turns out, Super Bowl Sunday brings a surprising number of public health woes, from the serious (more drunk driving and flu-related deaths) to th... |
| Jan 25, 2017 | Battle erupts over how to treat gout, no longer the ‘disease of kings’ | It was once seen as the disease of kings, afflicting only the lazy and gluttonous. These days, however, gout is everywhere — and a bitter battle has broken out among physicians about how best to treat it.
A form of arthritis, gout is charac... |
| Jan 16, 2017 | Loosened blood pressure guidelines stir immediate controversy | Watching your blood pressure? You may have more breathing room than you thought.
In the latest pendulum swing on what blood pressure older adults should aim for, two of the nation’s leading medical groups issued guidelines on Monday recomme... |
| Dec 27, 2016 | An Obamacare success: financial penalties reduce hospital readmission rates | The Affordable Care Act, often known as Obamacare, has caused a lot of controversy. Much of the act could be repealed soon. But in making decisions about future health policy, the act’s successes shouldn’t be overlooked. One of these is red... |