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01.10.2024 | Health | How North Carolina made its hospitals do something about medical debt | “It’s a model that the rest of the country could adopt,” said Jared Walker, founder of Dollar For, a national nonprofit that helps patients get financial aid from hospitals. “This is what we’ve been fighting for.”
North Carolina Department ... |
15.09.2024 | The Future of Health: How AI is Revolutionizing Wellness | In the realm of healthcare, change is the only constant. With 129 million Americans grappling with chronic diseases, the stakes are high. The financial burden is staggering, with $4.1 trillion spent annually on health-related issues. This i... |
15.09.2024 | The Vision Crisis: A Call to Action for Children's Eye Health | In the vast landscape of American healthcare, one issue often slips through the cracks: children's eye health. A new report from Prevent Blindness shines a spotlight on this pressing concern. It reveals startling statistics about children's... |
13.09.2024 | Как искусственный интеллект может преобразить здравоохранение | Огромное количество – 129 миллионов американцев – имеют как минимум одно серьёзное хроническое заболевание. При этом 90% ежегодных расходов на здравоохранение (а именно 4,1 триллиона долларов) уходит на лечение этих физических и психических... |
21.08.2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention | “In dollar terms, the biggest winners would be those in the top 0.1 percent of income, who make nearly $5 million or more,” Howard Gleckman, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center, wrote on Aug. 2. “They’d get an average tax cut of nearly... |
30.07.2024 | Marketplace Health Insurance Premium Costs to Arkansas Consumers Could Jump 84% if Enhanced Subsidies Expire | A new KFF analysis finds that health insurance premium payments for Arkansans buying coverage through the health insurance marketplace could increase by an average of 84% — or $828 in annual payments, an increase from $984 to $1,812 — if Co... |
25.07.2024 | The Dual Edge of Generative AI and Dental Therapy: Navigating New Frontiers in Work and Health**
** | ** In the modern landscape, two distinct yet interconnected themes emerge: the rise of generative AI in the workplace and the evolution of dental therapy in healthcare. Both fields reflect a shift in how we perceive contribution, capability... |
25.07.2024 | The Intersection of Politics and Public Health: A Delicate Balance**
** | ** In the world of public health, the surgeon general's role is akin to a ship's captain navigating treacherous waters. The captain must steer the ship through storms while keeping the crew and passengers safe. However, when politics enters... |
24.07.2024 | Health | Dental therapists, who can fill cavities and check teeth, get the OK in more states | Dental therapists are licensed to fill cavities, place temporary crowns, extract diseased teeth and provide other basic preventive dental care, working under a dentist’s supervision. They have more training than a hygienist but not the adva... |
19.07.2024 | National Politics | As public health becomes political, state surgeons general play delicate role | Elsewhere, Florida’s surgeon general has made headlines by helping Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis defy the medical consensus on COVID-19 vaccines, even appearing with him on the presidential campaign trail.
That model has raised questions abo... |
15.07.2024 | Nigeria: Pregnant Nigerian Women Need Faster Access to Hospitals - Technology Helped Us Calculate Travel Times | Nigeria contributes 28% of the 280,000 maternal deaths and about 10% of almost two million stillbirths that occur annually across the globe.
Evidence shows significantly higher odds of maternal deaths in urban Nigeria than in rural areas, e... |
06.07.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Céline Gounder and Craig Spencer: The decline in American life expectancy harms more than our health | In 1842, Edwin Chadwick argued in his landmark “Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain” that public health investments are crucial not only from a moral perspective, but also for economic productivity... |
05.07.2024 | Meet the startup using AI to slash healthcare’s trillion-dollar administrative burden | We want to hear from you! Take our quick AI survey and share your insights on the current state of AI, how you’re implementing it, and what you expect to see in the future. Learn More
Anterior, a healthcare technology startup founded by cli... |
01.07.2024 | National Politics | Battleground Wisconsin: Voters feel nickel-and-dimed by health care costs | Prelipp was serving beer at the Birnamwood Polka Days festival on a muggy June day. Pro-Trump hats peppered the crowd, and against the backdrop of cheerful polka tunes, peppy dancing, and the sweet smell of freshly cut hay, candidates for l... |
26.06.2024 | Testing Troubles: CDC's Bird Flu Missteps Leading to Concerns of a Repeat of COVID Testing Failures | The United States is currently grappling with a testing crisis in the midst of the bird flu outbreak, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has 1 million tests ready for deployment. However, experts are expressing deep con... |
25.06.2024 | Health | ‘We’re flying blind’: CDC has 1M bird flu tests ready, but experts see repeat of COVID missteps | “Clinical labs are part of the nation’s public health system,” said Alex Greninger, assistant director of the University of Washington Medicine Clinical Virology Laboratory. “Pull us into the game. We’re stuck on the bench.”
The CDC recogni... |
21.06.2024 | Gun Injury Rates in US Remain High After Pandemic, CDC Study Shows | By Quincy Jon
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Gun injury rates in the US have remained high for the fourth year since the outbreak, ac... |
21.06.2024 | Health | States struggle to help patients navigate insurance hurdle known as ‘step therapy’ | But patient advocacy groups and physicians say doctors, not insurers, are best qualified to know which drug or treatment is likely to be most effective. Delaying the implementation of that decision, they say, often harms patients.
At least ... |
20.06.2024 | "We're flying blind": CDC has 1 million bird flu tests ready, but experts see repeat of COVID missteps | It's been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health concern because of its potential to cause a pandemic, yet ... |
19.06.2024 | Business | Health worker for a nonprofit? The new ban on noncompete contracts may not help you | “Our rulemaking record includes powerful stories from health care workers who are employed by nonprofits about how noncompetes hurt patients and providers,” said FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, one of three Democratic commissioner... |
15.06.2024 | Health | Older men die by suicide at steep rates. Here’s how the VA is trying to change that | This might not be what you envision as “mental health” care, let alone “suicide prevention.” But at the VA, getting older veterans such as McCune together to hit the track is part of a broader push to improve their lives — and possibly even... |
10.06.2024 | National Politics | Presidential election could decide fate of extra Obamacare subsidies | Southern states have seen the biggest enrollment bump of any region. Ten of the 15 states that more than doubled their marketplace numbers from 2020 to 2024 are in the South, according to a KFF policy brief. And the five states with the lar... |
06.06.2024 | New research details changes needed to bolster public health workforce | New research from the Fairbanks School details the changes needed to bolster the public health workforce
The public health workforce is central to the public health infrastructure but has been underfunded and experienced a shortage of emplo... |
05.06.2024 | Guest opinion: Hannah Pfeiffer and Candace DeMatteis: Prescription Drug Affordability Board might not deliver savings to patients | The predictably devastating, and now insurer-validated, consequences the decision could have on patients’ health should concern us all.
Lowering patient costs is an important goal. But medications must also still be available. With the dist... |
31.05.2024 | Experts urge Georgia to reform health insurance system | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Health care researchers and advocates want Georgia to implement new policies across its health insurance system as the state concludes its yearlong process of redetermining eligibility for Medicaid an... |
17.05.2024 | America is hurtling toward a gray trap | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
It's little surprise that America is rapidly getting older — but now that we're at the brink of that demographic shift's major consequences, we're still completely unprepared.
Why it matters: It's not... |
30.04.2024 | Biden plan to reduce Medicaid appointment wait times faces pushback | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The Biden administration wants to make sure Medicaid enrollees don't have to wait too long to see a doctor, but state officials and health insurers that administer the program argue a new plan to spee... |
22.04.2024 | 96% Of Hospitals Share Sensitive Visitor Data With Meta, Google, and Data Brokers | I’ve mentioned more than a few times how the singular hyperventilation about TikTok is kind of silly distraction from the fact that the United States is too corrupt to pass a modern privacy law, resulting in no limit of dodgy behavior, abus... |
17.04.2024 | Health | To close racial gap in maternal health, some states take aim at ‘implicit bias’ | Nada Hassanein | Stateline.org (TNS)
Countless times, Kenda Sutton-El, a Virginia doula, has witnessed her Black pregnant clients being dismissed or ignored by clinicians.
One woman was told by doctors that swelling, pain and warmth in her ... |
05.04.2024 | CMS Final Rule Aims To Streamline Application, Renewal Processes for Medicaid, CHIP | (Original post published September 8, 2022)
On March 27, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a final rule to streamline the application and renewal processes for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).... |
25.03.2024 | Wellpoint Texas and IntellectAbility Address Health Equity for Texans with Intellectual Disabilities (IDD) | Texans with IDD experience preventable health disparities that result in poorer overall health. Clinician Education about IDD healthcare can help.
Physicians and other clinicians want to embrace and support people with disabilities, but mos... |
11.03.2024 | Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month Emphasizes Importance of Education to Remove Obstacles for Disabled Americans | Removing obstacles begins with improvements in training to ensure better health outcomes for people with developmental disabilities
If you aren't healthy, if you’re suffering from undiagnosed conditions, then you’re not going to be able to ... |
05.03.2024 | Bill aims to define "essential" hospitals | Reps. Lori Trahan and David Valadao want to create an "essential health system" designation in federal law that would make it easier for safety net hospitals to obtain federal funding.
Why it matters: The Reinforcing Essential Hea... |
20.02.2024 | Health | Rocky rollout for Colorado’s new EpiPen price cap as some pharmacies aren’t honoring $60 limit | Colorado’s EpiPen cost cap has proven trickier to implement than the state’s limits on insulin expenses, with some families struggling to find a pharmacy that will sell them the medical devices for the required $60.
One of the law’s main sp... |
19.02.2024 | Health | Patients see first savings from Biden’s drug price push, as pharma lines up its lawyers | Arthur Allen | KFF Health News (TNS)
Last year alone, David Mitchell paid $16,525 for 12 little bottles of Pomalyst, one of the pricey medications that treat his multiple myeloma, a blood cancer he was diagnosed with in 2010.
The drugs have... |
16.02.2024 | ePRO Symptom Monitoring Tools Empower Patients with Personalized Options that Bring Greater Clinician and Patient Satisfaction | Despite incredible treatment advances over the past several decades, no single phrase has more power to fundamentally transform people’s lives like “you have cancer.”
Even the most engaged patients can “tune out” after a diagnosis, retreati... |
15.02.2024 | New data reveals sustained inequities in maternal and infant outcomes, additional funding needed to address root causes | March for Moms Board Members analysis looks at the impact of National Center for Health Statistics data
WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, February 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Following the recent release of 2022 birth data... |
12.02.2024 | Views of Digital Health from the Oregon Trail | I’m too old to be a millennial. I’m too young to be a Gen X-er. Folks like me who were born in the late 1970s are better classified as the Oregon Trail Generation, named after the Apple II computer educational game many of us played in elem... |
08.02.2024 | Moving from crisis response to crisis prevention in U.S. mental health systems | Despite widespread promises of reform after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, in 2023, police killed at least 1,246 people — the most in more than a decade. This police violence is intertwined with a parallel public policy disaster: Ameri... |
06.02.2024 | What Primary Care’s “Barnes & Noble Moment” Means for the Future of Digital Health | Impossibly, it’s already been 25 years since Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks fell in love to the soundtrack of dial-up internet in the movie You’ve Got Mail. At the time, independent bookstores (“Shop Around the Corner” in the film) were under threa... |
02.02.2024 | Health | Where are the nation’s primary care providers? It’s not an easy answer | By Rae Ellen Bichell, KFF Health News
Clinicians at Valley-Wide Health Systems never know who will appear at their clinic in San Luis, a town of about 600 people in southern Colorado.
“If someone’s in labor, they’ll show up. If someone has ... |
01.02.2024 | Where do we go from here on digital therapeutics? | South Korea is the only country to officially recognize digital therapeutics as a category. Nevertheless, the concept of software-based tools designed to manage or treat medical conditions has received enormous attention in the U.S. as prop... |
31.01.2024 | National Politics | How fringe anti-science views infiltrated mainstream politics — and what it means in 2024 | Amy Maxmen | KFF Health News (TNS)
Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts about 250,000 kindergartners at risk for measles, which often leads... |
29.01.2024 | Bipartisan tax deal has big health implications | Beyond extending multiple tax breaks, the bipartisan tax agreement that could be brought up in the House this week has big implications for the health of children in low-income households.
Driving the news: The legislation unveiled earlier ... |
24.01.2024 | Health | America’s health system isn’t ready for the surge of seniors with disabilities | Judith Graham | KFF Health News (TNS)
The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition, or performing daily tasks such as bathing or using the bathroom — will soar in the decades ahe... |
24.01.2024 | GOP-led states revive push for Medicaid work rules as election nears | Republican-controlled states are making a fresh push to tie employment to Medicaid eligibility ahead of a presidential election that could usher in a new administration receptive to the idea.
Why it matters: Rules requiring some low-income ... |
16.01.2024 | Many doctors are in the dark about how FDA approves devices and drugs, survey finds | In her final presentation for health policy class at the University of Chicago, first-year medical student Robin Ji informed her classmates that the Food and Drug Administration does not require randomized controlled trials of most medical ... |
10.01.2024 | Congress faces pressure to reverse doctors' payment cuts — again | Congress is once again being urged to reverse a cut to physicians' Medicare payments, prompting calls for a broader overhaul of how the program reimburses doctors.
Why it matters: Congress is still stuck in an annual dance of being pressure... |
09.01.2024 | Health | Child care gaps in rural America threaten to undercut small communities | Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez | KFF Health News (TNS)
Candy Murnion remembers vividly the event that pushed her to open her first day care business in Jordan, a town of fewer than 400 residents in a sea of grassland in eastern Montana.
Garfield C... |
08.01.2024 | Study: Camden Coalition’s Complex Care Model Improves Access to Primary Care, Specialists, and Durable Medical Equipment | This new study demonstrates how our care coordination model successfully connects vulnerable individuals to ongoing care.”
— Kathleen Noonan, Camden Coalition CEO.CAMDEN, NJ, UNITED STATES, January 8, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- A new study ... |
08.01.2024 | It's time to talk about docs' payment cuts, again | Doctors are ramping up pressure on Congress to use the next government funding package to reverse cuts to their Medicare payments that took effect on Jan. 1.
Why it matters: Congress is still stuck in an annual dance of being pressured to i... |
08.01.2024 | Will We Close the Medicare Advantage Primary Care Gap in 2024? | The landscape of value-based healthcare in the United States is constantly evolving with Medicare Advantage (MA) playing an increasingly significant role. However, an alarming trend is emerging as greater number of MA members have become co... |
04.01.2024 | Rethinking Healthcare: Navigating the Uncomfortable Path of Value-Based Care | According to critics, a decade of value-based care (VBC) efforts have proven an abject failure, improving neither cost nor quality of healthcare. Over 50 VBC program implementations have collectively lost billions of dollars as compared to ... |
28.12.2023 | 3 health policies states are taking on in 2024 | For most states, the new year means a new legislative session. STAT’s taking a look at some of the recent health policy trends that states will start to implement in 2024.
As health care expenditures continue to grow nationally, states are ... |
22.12.2023 | Morning Rounds: Our newsroom’s favorite stories of 2023 | Understand how science, health policy, and medicine shape the world everyday. Sign up for our Morning Rounds newsletter here. Health data breaches set a record this year
“We’re writing to inform you of a cybersecurity incident”: If you’ve g... |
21.12.2023 | Why We Cannot Wait Any Longer: The Urgent Case for AI in Healthcare | Charles Aunger, Managing Director, Technology | Health2047
In Handel Jones’ literary alarm, “When AI Rules the World,” we are drawn to envision an age where AI doesn’t merely complement but dominates every strand of our societal fabric. One... |
21.12.2023 | Why haven’t health care cost increases exceeded inflation? There’s a very good reason | All Americans are worried about inflation. The prices for housing, clothes and food at the supermarket are eyepopping and threatening President Biden’s re-election. But there is one totally unexpected exception to inflation recently: health... |
15.12.2023 | Care Guidance: The Human-Enabled Tech Solution for Clinical Staff | Craig Parker, JD, CPA and CEO, Guideway Care
Hospitals, health systems and group practices nationwide are finding value and effectiveness by partnering with an outsourced care guidance resource to extend clinical staff and strengthen care m... |
13.12.2023 | Doctors call out ableism in cancer care: ‘The biggest accommodation is attitude’ | People with disabilities often spend a lot of time navigating bias and educating others about their condition. When it comes to cancer, assumptions made by their doctors can undermine their care even before it starts.
The potential for pitf... |
08.12.2023 | How IT Became So Integral in Healthcare in So Little Time | Historically, physician practices, hospitals and health systems hired IT vendors to manage their equipment, update business and clinical software, and support their clinicians and staff with tech problems. Those services were typically all ... |
08.12.2023 | Health | Biden wants states to ensure Obamacare plans cover enough doctors and hospitals | Julie Appleby | (TNS) KFF Health News
The Biden administration plans to push states to boost oversight of the number of doctors, hospitals and other health providers insurers cover in Obamacare plans, under rules proposed in November.
The a... |
30.11.2023 | Why a giant health insurer merger is probably destined to fail | Cigna CEO David Cordani Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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The giant health insurers Cigna and Humana are reportedly considering a merger.
While they offer different kinds of health insurance, the deal is likely to face antitrust scrutiny.... |
27.11.2023 | Health | The ‘doctor of nursing practice’ will see you now | Anna Claire Vollers | (TNS) Stateline.org
When Vernon Langford sees patients, he typically wears a white lab coat with his title — “Dr.” — and his credentials as a nurse practitioner stitched on the front.
“My credentials are on any jackets... |
27.11.2023 | The next Census could undercount the number of disabled Americans by 20 million | About 20 million disabled people will be erased if the U.S. Census Bureau moves forward with changes to disability data collection methods. That is because many disabled people will no longer be counted as disabled by the new questions the ... |
25.11.2023 | На крупнейшую медицинскую страховую компанию США подали иск из-за использования ИИ с 90%-ным количеством ошибок... | Для крупнейшей медицинской страховой компании UnitedHealthcare частота ошибок искусственного интеллекта - это не проблема, а особенность работы
UnitedHealthcare, крупнейшая медицинская страховая компания в США, предположительно использует г... |
17.11.2023 | Health | Many Americans facing financial ruin as costs soar for elder care | Reed Abelson, The New York Times and Jordan Rau | (TNS) KFF Health News
Margaret Newcomb, 69, a retired French teacher, is desperately trying to protect her retirement savings by caring for her 82-year-old husband, who has severe dementia, ... |
10.11.2023 | How pharmacy deserts are putting the health of Black and Latino Americans at risk | Pharmacies were once abundant in the South Side of Chicago. Now, residents living in the majority Black neighborhood often find themselves with few options when it’s time to get a prescription refilled or stock up on cold medicine.
Ladell J... |
08.11.2023 | Health | Children who survive shootings endure huge health obstacles and costs | Liz Szabo | (TNS) KFF Health News
Oronde McClain was struck by a stray bullet on a Philadelphia street corner when he was 10.
The bullet shattered the back of his skull, splintering it into 36 pieces. McClain’s heart stopped, and he was tec... |
06.11.2023 | Data backing prescription digital therapeutics found lacking in rigor, inclusivity | The fast-evolving world of digital therapeutics offers the promise of lowering barriers to accessing health care, but the companies behind these software-based tools face an uphill battle in convincing clinicians and insurers that their pro... |
06.11.2023 | A new study maps the lasting effects of gun violence on children and teens who survive their injuries | When Christian Pulcini was a pediatric emergency fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he witnessed firsthand the ways that gun violence affected children who survived it. He still remembers one young boy who had been shot in the n... |
03.11.2023 | State Prescription Drug Affordability Boards could end up limiting access to the life-saving cystic fibrosis medication Trikafta | I was living on the precipice of end-stage disease when I enrolled in the clinical trial that resulted in the historically fast Food and Drug Administration approval for the game-changing cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta. Five years later, the... |
02.11.2023 | Let’s leverage graduate medical education to increase Medicaid re-enrollment | Lately, we’ve seen two distinct lines at our hospitals. We would all be healthier if we brought the two lines together.
The first line forms every morning before the building opens. Mothers, children, and the disabled clutch passels of docu... |
30.10.2023 | Health | For people with sickle cell disease, ERs can mean life-threatening waits | Sara Hutchinson | (TNS) KFF Health News
Heather Avant always dresses up when she goes to the emergency room.
“I’ve been conditioned to act and behave in a very specific way,” said Avant. “I try to do my hair. I make sure I shower, have nice... |
26.10.2023 | Medical school on Cherokee Reservation will soon send doctors to tribal and rural areas | TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma — Ashton Glover Gatewood decided to give medical school a second try after learning about a new campus designed for Indigenous students like herself.
Gatewood is now set to be part of the first graduating class at Oklaho... |
25.10.2023 | Family Physicians with Value-Based Payment Models Relieve Burnout | What You Should Know:
– Independent research reveals family physicians with 75% revenue derived from value-based payment models decrease burnout symptoms, according to a new study from Elation Health, and American Academy of Family Physicia... |
18.10.2023 | Health | PrEP, a key HIV prevention tool, isn’t reaching black women | Sam Whitehead | (TNS) Kaiser Health News
Alexis Perkins thought her OB-GYN’s office in Atlanta would be just the place to get a prescription for the type of drug that reduces a person’s risk of contracting HIV.
But during a recent visit, th... |
16.10.2023 | Is there a nursing shortage in the United States? Depends on whom you ask | Hospitals are frustrated with a nationwide nursing shortage that’s only gotten worse since the pandemic. In 2022, the American Hospital Association quoted an estimate that half a million nurses would leave the field by the end of that year,... |
16.10.2023 | Studies highlight risks of excluding people with obesity from drug trials | People with obesity often go underrepresented in drug development trials, a critical gap that researchers say leaves drugmakers and doctors unsure of efficacy or risks in that patient population.
“Patients and providers are not aware of how... |
09.10.2023 | U.S. Healthcare Delivery Remains On A Collision Course With Failure, As Hospitals Continue To Flout Price Transparency Rules | SIMI VALLEY, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 27: (L-R) Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and U.N. ... [+] Ambassador Nikki Haley participate in the FOX Business Republican Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, ... |
02.10.2023 | The stability of $0 premiums in Medicare Advantage | You’re reading the web edition of Health Care Inc., STAT’s weekly newsletter following the flow of money through the health care system. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. Arbitration, the land where nobody is happy
After Congress offici... |
25.09.2023 | How MIPS Value Pathways will Prove the Value of Rehab Therapy | Physical therapists continue to fight an uphill battle to gain equality on the healthcare playing field—long considered ancillary providers rather than primary providers within the healthcare continuum. The profession is often misunderstood... |
09.09.2023 | Pharmaceutical Innovations Are Not Created Equal, As Medicare Will Soon Find Out As It Assesses First 10 Drugs It Selected For Price Negotiation | Pharmaceutical development is a complex and risky process. And If successful in terms of regulatory ... [+] approval, not all drug innovations are created equal. Innovativeness varies enormously.getty |
08.09.2023 | Addressing The Impacts Of Hospital Mergers | CEO, Atlas Surgical Group, one of the largest private ASC groups in the U.S., Author of "Success in Ambulatory Surgery Centers." |
30.08.2023 | ACOs Vs. MA Shows ‘Grab Them By The Wallet’ Central To Health Reform | ACOs, Medicare Advantage and other value-based care forms may look complex, but the bottom line is ... [+] still profitability.getty |
21.08.2023 | Nearly Half Of Americans Polled Want Weight Loss Drugs But Many Lose Interest After Reading The Fine Print | Copenhagen, Denmark: Packages of the weight-loss drug "Wegovy" from the pharmaceutical company Novo ... [+] Nordisk lie on the sales counter in a Danish pharmacy. Photo: Steffen Trumpf/dpa (Photo by Steffen Trumpf/picture alliance... |
17.08.2023 | The 30 young leaders who are forging a new future for the healthcare industry in 2023 | Your browser does not support the video element. This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
A new generation of leaders is transforming the healthcare industry.
They're developing ne... |
17.08.2023 | The definition of clinical trial diversity must include disabled people | There are people in your life who influence and shape how you see the world. For me, one of these people is Terry Moakley, a warm and welcoming family friend, a veteran of the Vietnam War, and a fervent advocate for people with disabilities... |
15.08.2023 | The best way for the NIH to reduce drug prices is to address drug spending | As STAT reported recently, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) has indicated that it will not consider the nomination of Monica Bertagnolli as director of the National Institutes of Health unless she pledge... |
09.08.2023 | Public pharma is the best solution to the ongoing problem of drug shortages | Drug shortages in the United States are at a record high. At least 14 essential generic cancer drugs are currently in shortage, forcing patients and doctors to make difficult decisions to delay or ration first-line treatments, or accept sec... |
08.08.2023 | Why insurers are paying double for the same procedure in the same hospital | Hospitals charge commercial health plans two to three times more than what they charge the same insurer's Medicare Advantage plans for the same procedure, a new study in Health Affairs found.
Why it matters: While it's well established that... |
08.08.2023 | Pentagon starts independent generic drug safety tests | The Pentagon is turning to the independent testing lab Valisure to assess the quality and safety of generic drugs given to service members and veterans amid supply chain issues and shortages of certain treatments.
The big picture: The contr... |
25.07.2023 | Study: Republican deaths in Florida, Ohio linked to COVID vaccine politics | Registered Republicans experienced a "significantly higher" rate of excess deaths than Democrats in Florida and Ohio in the months after COVID-19 vaccines were made widely available, a new study has found.
Why it matters: The Yale... |
20.07.2023 | I introduced the ADA 35 years ago. Now Congress needs to act to ban a practice that devalues disabled lives | Thirty-five years ago, I was proud to introduce the Americans with Disabilities Act in the House of Representatives, because I know firsthand what it is like to be devalued due to a disability — by society, potential employers, even my pare... |
20.07.2023 | Mass. General totes up its waste in a move to tackle climate change | On an August Thursday in 2021, deep into the pandemic, two Massachusetts General Hospital doctors stood gowned, gloved, bootied up and ready in a retrofitted lounge on the 21st floor of Phillips House, a 20-single-room, inpatient area with ... |
17.07.2023 | Value-Based Healthcare Battle: Kaiser-Geisinger Vs. Amazon, CVS, Walmart | Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, PA. Photo by Paul Weaver via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images |
13.07.2023 | Washington: Will You Let AI Make Us Healthier? | The world is amidst an AI-driven industrial revolution. As a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen recently wrote, AI will save the world. The United Kingdom just staked its claim on the AI frontier, challenging US policymakers to reaffirm America’s... |
13.07.2023 | Health
Health | Patients squeezed in fight over who gets to bill for pricey infusion drugs | Samantha Liss | (TNS) KFF Health News
Health insurers and medical providers are battling over who should supply high-cost infusion drugs for patients, with the tussle over profits now spilling into statehouses across the country.
The issue ... |
13.07.2023 | The Perilous Consequences of Inadequately Trained Interpreters in Healthcare | Noah Miller, Tech Times 13 July 2023, 10:07 am
(Photo : Piron Guillaume on Unsplash)
Imagine you're playing a high-stakes game of Telephone, where the message you convey could mean the difference between life and death. Scary, right? Now, w... |
12.07.2023 | Ending racial health disparities hinges on penalties, political will, experts say | The nation’s widespread racial health disparities won’t be erased without changes to how health care systems are funded and accredited, more public and financial accountability for poor patient outcomes, and more work to overturn the income... |
11.07.2023 | What does it mean to be ‘in recovery’? We need a better federal definition | “When I use a word,” one of 19th century British author and mathematician Lewis Carroll’s characters once said, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
Though he was a formidable philosopher and logician, Carroll l... |