Health insurance broker GoHealth lays off 20% of employees
GoHealth’s net loss increased six-fold to $37.2 million during the second quarter.
GoHealth’s net loss increased six-fold to $37.2 million during the second quarter.
The U.S. is now allowing fractional doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine to be administered via an injection that delivers the dose between, rather than under, layers of skin — an effort that will stretch low vaccine supplies, according to federal health officials.
What You Should Know: – Teladoc Health recently added an at-home A1C testing program to its chronic care solution, making it easier for members to manage their diabetes while also bridging health equity gaps in chronic condition care. – Livongo by Teladoc Health members will have the option to receive at-home A1C tests provided by LetsGetChecked, a leading healthcare solutions company that enables providers to …
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Some patients can now skip the pharmacy line and pick up their prescriptions at kiosks in two physicians’ offices, thanks to AdventHealth, an Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based system with about 50 hospitals.
Nutritionists used to warn against eating eggs for health. Today, the opposite is true. Eggs are a good source of protein, with under 100 calories. One large hard-boiled egg has about 71 calories, with over 6 grams of protein and 5 grams of fat. Here’s how the different parts compare: Hard-boiled egg white: Hard-boiled egg yolk: …
Below are 10 hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers.
Several colleges and universities have launched nursing programs and partnerships to address persistent shortages around the country.
The pharmacy chain failed to properly investigate suspicious opioid orders, according to federal ruling Walgreens “substantially contributed” to San Francisco’s opioid epidemic by failing to perform due diligence on prescriptions that flooded into the city for 15 years, a federal judge has found. The city won what local media has called a “landmark trial” against …
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What You Should Know: – Cloudticity and Sapphire Health announced a strategic partnership to help hospitals and healthcare providers that use Epic EHR to undergo a seamless transition into the AWS Cloud. – This first-ever strategic alliance enables hospital systems to leverage cloud power to ensure their infrastructure can achieve high levels of availability, resilience, …
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Bridge Policy Think Tank, a legal research foundation which undertakes legislative and policy research, has been asked to do a comparative study of drug pricing policies of the UK, US, Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka Bangladesh, European Union, Thailand, China and South Africa, among other countries and regions.
This issue brief reviews accessibility of information for people with LEP and people with disabilities provided through state Medicaid websites and call center automated phone trees as of June 16, 2022. The analysis shows that while states have taken some steps to support access to information and applications for people with LEP and people with …
2022 Meeting Materials, Obstetrics, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee (formerly Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee)
Washington, D.C., has the highest amount of monkeypox vaccines per 100,000 people, but only accounts for 3 percent of the nation’s infections. New York, which has the second largest supply, has six times less.
Once again, the United States is messing up its approach to vaccines. Three months into its monkeypox outbreak, just 620,000 doses of the two-injection Jynneos shot—the nation’s current best immune defense against the virus—have been shipped to states, not nearly enough to immunize the 1.6 million to 1.7 million Americans that the CDC considers at …
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2019 Meeting Materials, Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee (formerly Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs (ACRHD))
As displayed in the Federal Register notice on August 1, 2018, FDA is conducting a Complex Innovative Designs (CID) Pilot Meeting Program to support the goal of facilitating and advancing the use of complex adaptive, Bayesian, and other novel clinical trial designs, as highlighted in the sixth iteration of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act …
About one-third of physicians see disparities in LGBTQ+ medical care due to patients’ sexual orientation or gender identity, according to a new Medscape report.
FDA’s CDER SBIA is hosting a three-day virtual conference regarding regulatory best practices for global access to medicines.
The Medicare Advantage insurer will cover seniors in a total of four states, pending regulatory approval.
Aaron Gillingham has a firsthand perspective on the advantages and potential problems hospitals and health systems may face with hiring teenagers.
A new virus has appeared to jump from animals to humans for the first time, infecting 35 people in China, according to a research letter published Aug. 4 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Pfizer’s $5.4 billion acquisition of Global Blood Therapeutics is expected to strengthen its sickle cell disease portfolio.
Two years into the pandemic, millions of people are living with long COVID-19, and there is still no proven treatment for the condition, Nature reported Aug. 9.
Removing moles and other growths on our skin isn’t a DIY project, and can be dangerous to try. There are no FDA-approved drugs for treating moles, seborrheic keratoses, or skin tags. But there are potentially dangerous products being sold claiming to help remove these lesions. Avoid these products.
Sartorius’ £415 million (US$429 million) acquisition of Albumedix is intended to bolster its portfolio with recombinant albumin-based solutions.
Value-based pricing could have shown us with more certainty the real level of effectiveness of Aduhelm. Maybe it is worth paying something for; and value-based contracts are the only way to figure that out.
This event is intended to help National Medicines Regulatory Authorities (NMRA) in LMICs gain a better understanding of the FDA’s role in international regulatory harmonization, USP and USAID’s PQM+ program’s role in supporting the strengthening of regulatory systems in LMICs, and more.
By placing the power to detect atrial fibrillation into the hands of 6 billion global smartphone users, validation of further physiological parameters will be expedited and the subsequent adoption of this technology into DTx will enable the low-cost tools required to remove barriers to care and improve heart health across the globe.
What You Should Know: – Nanopath, a molecular diagnostics company enabling high-quality molecular testing in minutes raises $10M in Series A funding, co-led by co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Medtech Convergence Fund, to develop a point-of-care diagnostics platform for women’s health screenings. – The company plans to use the latest round of funding to …
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A Georgia nurse practitioner has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution for her role in an orthopedic telemedicine fraud scheme, the Justice Department said Aug. 9.
What You Should Know: Health system ThedaCare announced it has invested $3M in Qventus and it also deploying the technology to drive operational efficiencies in inpatient and perioperative care settings and across its organization. Through the investment, ThedaCare will collaborate with Qventus to develop new solutions and innovations, as well as support Qventus in expanding its technology to additional …
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Cryo-electron microscopy is a technique that’s been coming on for years and is continuining to take new territory in the world of structural biology. But there’s a related (and even more intense) imaging method that’s coming up behind it. The advances in cryo-EM (sensitivity, contrast, deconvolution of the data, etc.) are all directly applicable to …
Here are five recent health equity donations over $1 million that Becker’s has covered since July 20:
The first two hospitals fined for price transparency violations now have “exemplary” disclosures, PatientRightsAdvocate.org Cynthia founder Fisher told USA Today in an Aug. 9 report.
The insurtech’s net loss quadrupled to $251 million during the second quarter and the company needs capital to to get to break even, CEO Mike Mikan told investors.
The Iowa Hospital Association is partnering with fintech company PayZen to offer no-interest patient loans within the association’s network of 117 community hospitals and 17 health systems.
The two-decadelong partnership between Mechanicsville, Va.-based healthcare solutions company Owens & Minor and Minneapolis-based Allina Health will refresh the health system’s supply chain resiliency platform.
Cipla Limited – Walk-In Drive for Freshers & Experienced On 17th Aug’ 2022 Job Description Company Profile Cipla Limited is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, headquartered in Mumbai, India. Cipla primarily develops medicines to treat respiratory, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, weight control and depression Walk-In Drive for Medical Representatives -Female Hiring-Guwahati Department: Medical Representatives Designation: Assistant Manager/ …
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A ransomware attack at a vendor exposed data on almost 2 million patients, according to a report submitted to the Health and Human Service’s breach portal.
Last weekend, the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act which includes dangerous price-setting provisions. The bill now heads to the House for consideration, where it is not too late for them to stand up for patients and medical innovation by opposing the bill.
The FDA said Aug. 9 tests of samples of a Merck diabetes drug detected substances that can cause cancer, and to avoid shortages, the department said it would allow increased levels of the carcinogen by nearly 150 percent.
An Austrian study led by MedUni Vienna showed a partial or complete regression of brain metastasis in breast cancer patients after treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-Dxd).
Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company Biogen is cutting office space and planning layoffs after its Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm proved unpopular with providers and insurers, the Boston Globe reported Aug. 9.
As the U.S. creeps toward 10,000 monkeypox cases, the HHS ordered $26 million worth of Tpoxx IV fluid, a monkeypox treatment that’s difficult for physicians to order, according to an Aug. 9 press release.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s Comprehensive Stroke Center created a digital platform aimed at increasing support for patients who suffer major health events such as strokes.
Innovare Labs-Walk-In Interview for Research Associate On 13th Aug’ 2022 Job Description Walk-In Interview for Research Associate On 13th Aug’ 2022 @ Innovare Labs Departments: PD Lab Designation: Research Associate Qualification : M.Sc Experience: 06 to 08 years Job Location: Atchutapuram, Visakhapatnam Date: 13th Aug’ 2022 Venue: Plot No. 23A, 23B, ATCHUTAPURAM Post, AP SEZ DENOTIFI, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, …
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Jodas Expoim Pvt. Ltd- Openings for FR&D (OSD/ Injectable)-Apply Now Job Description Greetings From Jodas!!! Openings for FR&D (OSD/ Injectable) @ Jodas Expoim Pvt. Ltd Department: FR&D (OSD/ Injectable) Role: RA I/ II/ III Qualification: B.Pharm/ M.Pharm/ M.Sc Experience: 03 to 06 years Work Location: Karkapatla, Hyderabad) Interested can send their resume to recruitment5@jodasexpoim.in & should …
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Arizona is the best state for long-term care, while the District of Columbia is the worst, a report published Aug. 8 by personal finance service ValuePenguin found.
Oncologists’ average income rose about 2 percent to $411,000 in 2022, according to Medscape’s “Oncologist Wealth & Debt Report,” published Aug. 5.
President Joe Biden will appoint Monica Bertagnolli, MD, as the new director of the National Cancer Institute.
Catalent will acquire Metrics Contract Services for $475 million to expand high-potent capabilities and oral development and manufacturing capacity.
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health is partnering with digital health companies Gozio Health and Well Health to release new features for its mobile application.
Members of the Washington State Nurses Association held an informational picket Aug. 9 outside Seattle Children’s Hospital for higher wages to retain nurses.
Despite layoffs and hiring freezes across the tech industry, technologists remain in demand in a variety of industries, including healthcare.
The FDA authorized a new plan that could lead to a five-fold increase in available doses. European health officials may follow the agency’s lead.
FDA has approved Coherus’ Cimerli (ranibizumab-eqrn) as an interchangeable biosimilar for all five indications of Lucentis.
IndyStar sued eight Indiana hospitals for allegedly violating state records laws by withholding information on how they are spending public funding they’ve received for their nursing homes, IndyStar reported Aug. 10.
Sanofi and Innovent have entered into a strategic collaboration to accelerate development of oncology medicines and expand their presence in China.
Watsonville, Calif.-based Pajaro Valley Health Care District is $6 million away from acquiring Watsonville (Calif.) Community Hospital, and its nurses are concerned, The Pajaronian reported Aug. 9.
NYU Langone Hospitals in New York City earned the No. 1 spot on U.S. News & World Report’s “2022-23 Best Hospitals for Neurology and Neurosurgery” ranking.
The BA.5 omicron subvariant has maintained its dominance since early July, accounting for 87 percent of U.S. COVID-19 cases for the week ending Aug. 6, according to the CDC’s latest variant proportions update.
We need to move toward a more value-driven health care system that centers around patients’ needs. Sound evidence can help guide us toward that, and we’re committed to developing tools to help patients, physicians and others make informed decisions.
Emcure Pharmaceuticals-Walk-In Interviews for QC/ QA/ Microbiology/ Production/ Packing On 13th Aug’ 2022 Job Description Emcure Pharmaceuticals, We are a fast-growing Indian Pharmaceutical company engaged in developing, manufacturing, and marketing a broad range of biopharmaceutical products globally. Emcure’s differentiated product portfolio lends and unparalleled competitive advantage establishing its presence in all major therapies in the …
Peoria, Ill.-based OSF Healthcare plans to move its PromptCare clinic to shuttered Galesburg, Ill.-based Cottage Hospital’s emergency department, The Register-Mail reported Aug. 10.
Sovah Health CEO and Market President Alan Larson will retire at the end of 2022, according to an Aug. 9 news release.
Tenet Healthcare and Steward Health Care System are battling in Delaware Chancery Court over whether Tenet can end information technology and data services to hospitals it sold to Steward last year, according to Law360.
The not-for-profit health system, which operates six day care centers, told employees in July it would end the program later this year, citing financial pressures and staffing issues.
Travis Capers was selected as president of Vanderbilt Regional Community Hospitals.
Two collection agencies have been added to the Washington attorney general’s lawsuit against 14 Providence-affiliated hospitals.
Hospitals pushed back on the Patient Rights Advocate report, which found that just 16% of hospitals were fully compliant with the price transparency law.
Biophore India Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd-Walk-In Interview for Freshers & Experienced On 11th to 13th Aug’ 2022 Job Description Walk-In Interview for Freshers & Experienced in R&D/ Project Management/ AR&D Departments @ Biophore India Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd Department: R&D-API (Male) (Synthesis/ Process/ CRO) Qualification: M.Sc Experience: 0 to 09 years Speaking: Good English / Telugu Department: …
BY ANISH KOKA A recent CNN article discusses approval of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for people ages 6-17. The CDC director acted after its vaccine advisers on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted unanimously to support the two dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for kids in this age group. The goal per CDC director Walensky was to …
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President Biden on Wednesday will appoint Monica Bertagnolli to lead the National Cancer Institute, making her the first woman to lead the organization as the White House puts a renewed focus on fighting cancer. Bertagnolli is currently a professor of surgery in the field of surgical oncology at Harvard Medical School. She previously served as …
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St. Augustine, Fla.-based Flagler Health+ announced that the board of trustees and leadership team began a formal process to explore joining a ‘like-minded health system,’ according to an Aug. 9 press release from the organization.
Credit-score provider VantageScore Solutions said it will stop factoring all medical debts that are in collections into its scores, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 10.
Like many Houstonians, Houston Methodist Vice President of Revenue Cycle Operations Lisa Schillaci began her career in the oil and gas industry, but when the opportunity came up to work in the healthcare industry, she jumped at the opportunity.
The average weekly travel nurse pay in July in the U.S. was $2,997, up 12 percent from $2,681 during the same time in 2021, according to a report from Vivian Health, a national healthcare hiring marketplace.
Beijing-based social media giant ByteDance has acquired one of China’s largest private hospital chains for about $1.5 billion, according to an Aug. 9 report from Bloomberg.
Wilson (N.C.) Medical Center will retain its Medicare contract following a state survey in May that identified immediate jeopardy to patients’ health and safety.
Vector BioPharma has launched from the biotech startup incubator of Versant Ventures, which is backing the company with a $30 million Series A financing. Vector is developing virus-like particles with the capability to deliver large payloads of genetic medicines to a wide range of tissues.
At the beginning of the pandemic, we were celebrated as heroes. Now the heroes are asking for help in addressing this new phenomenon of empathy fatigue. If we fail to ignore this crisis of compassion, patients and clinicians will continue to suffer.
Miruna Sasu is on a mission to use real world data to help wipe out cancer. She believes this audacious goal is within reach, and as president and CEO of COTA, she is inspiring her team to create a “path to care” for oncology patients.
A consultant’s view on how pharma companies should approach patient experience challenges when rolling out an autologous cell therapy.
Fewer Americans believe that the COVID-19 situation in the country is improving, according to a new Gallup poll. The poll, published on Wednesday, found that 41 percent of respondents said that the COVID-19 situation is getting better in the U.S., a percentage that is down 22 points from a similar poll published in April and …
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Cerner allegedly discriminated against qualified Black and Asian applicants, according to the Labor Department.
Hiring bias, which Cerner denies, resulted in a notable shortfall of Black and Asian hires for certain positions between 2015 and 2019, federal regulators allege.
Democrats approve curbs for Medicare plans, but not for commercial drug coverage.
Shots: Laurent spoke about the study design of its nanoparticle therapy to enhance the cancer-killing effect of radiation, which was presented at ASCO 2022 Laurent also highlighted how this nanoparticle therapy can be a potential radio enhancer in various tumor types and across lines of therapy The interview summarizes Nanobiotix’s vision to advance nanoparticles across …
Shots: The 1st patient has been dosed in the P-I/II study in which the P-I dose escalation study evaluates the safety of GDA-201 in patients with FL, DLBCL/HGBL, MZL & MCL whereas the P-II expansion study evaluates the safety & efficacy of GDA-201 in patients (n=63) divided into two groups with either FL or DLBCL …
Shots: Under the terms of the agreement, Just-Evotec will develop a commercial manufacturing process for Alpine’s ALPN-303 using its data-driven technology platform, J.DESIGN with the commercial development activities to be performed at its J.POD biomanufacturing facility The extension of the partnership was based on the 2020 collaboration under which Just-Evotech provided drug substance materials through …
Newly diagnosed patients will become the first to access systemic light chain amyloidosis treatment in the UK
Partnership will focus on the discovery of novel targets in Alzheimer’s disease
BY JESSICA DaMASSA How will the reversal of Roe v. Wade impact virtual care and digital health companies from a health data privacy standpoint, particularly as States crack down on the use of telehealth as a mechanism for obtaining abortions and begin to look at digital health data as potential evidence in criminal cases where …
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Shots: The P-II (CIBI112A201) study evaluating picankibart (50/100/200mg) vs PBO in a ratio (1:1:1:1:1) in 250 patients with mod. to sev. PsO The trial met its 1EPs i.e., 52.0% to 54.9% of patients achieved PASI 90 @16wks.; PASI 75 & 100 were significantly higher over PBO. At 28wks., long-term efficacy was observed with 61.2% to …
All children aged between one and nine in Greater London are to be offered a polio booster jab in a campaign likely to be spearheaded by GP practices after traces of the disease were found in sewage.
In a recent webinar, Carta Healthcare CEO Matt Hollingsworth shared how his health tech business is using AI for data mining in healthcare to transform the patient experience.
What You Should Know: – Biofourmis, a Boston-based global leader in virtual care and digital medicine, today announced that Intel Capital, the strategic investment arm of chipmaker Intel Corporation, has joined its Series D financing in an extension that brings the total funding raised in the round to $320M. – The initial Series D funding …
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Shots: The P-Ib (TROPION-Lung02) trial evaluating datopotamab deruxtecan (4 & 6mg/kg) + pembrolizumab (200mg) with/out Pt CT (carboplatin or cisplatin) in patients with advanced or metastatic NSCLC without actionable genomic alterations The results showed a promising clinical activity along with a tolerable safety profile. In an interim analysis, ORR in the overall population of 37% …
ROME, Ga. — The intake pumps that once drew 6 million gallons of water a day from the Oostanaula River now sit mostly dormant in this northwestern Georgia city. Local officials contend that years of contamination miles upstream sent toxic perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, into Rome’s water supply, rendering it potentially dangerous …
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gavin Newsom is fed up with Republicans for attacking abortion rights and blocking gun regulations — and with his own Democratic Party for failing to boldly and brashly take on the conservative right and push a progressive agenda. And as California’s first-term governor positions himself as the national Democratic Party pit bull, …
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“Nobody’s enforcing that law.” Rapper Fat Joe, in a TV ad about hospital price transparency requirements that began running this spring Rapper Fat Joe takes on hospital industry executives in an advertisement, contending that many hospitals are disobeying a law that requires them to publicly post the prices they charge cash-paying patients and insurance companies …
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He will continue to serve in his current position until the identification, selection and transition to the new leadership takes place in the company, it added.
Starting in 2025, Medicare recipients with prescription drug coverage will not have to pay more than $2,000 annually for medications, a significant savings for some.
Shots: Cerevance to receive a $25M up front & is eligible to receive ~$1.1B in development & commercial milestones along with royalties on sales of approved products that emerge from the collaboration The collaboration will use Cerevance’s NETSseq technology platform to identify novel targets for AD. Additionally, Cerevance will out-license one discovery-stage program to Merck …
Shots: Cerevance to receive a $25M up front & is eligible to receive ~$1.1B in development & commercial milestones along with royalties on sales of approved products that emerge from the collaboration The collaboration will use Cerevance’s NETSseq technology platform to identify novel targets for AD. Additionally, Cerevance will out-license one discovery-stage program to Merck …
Shots: Mersana to receive $100M up front. If GSK exercises its option, Mersana will eligible to receive ~$1.36B in option exercise, development, regulatory & commercial milestones Mersana also holds options for US profit-sharing & co-promotion of XMT-2056 in the US. If it exercises its option, Mersana will receive tiered royalty in Ex-US markets. If not, …
Submissions are now open to give feedback about the Child Dental Benefits Schedule to improve the service.
What You Should Know: – Cybercriminals are leveraging illegal bots to steal pharmacy accounts and resell prescriptions on a secondary market for in-demand substances, like Oxycodone, according to recent research from Kasada’s threat intelligence team. has recently shared research by its threat intelligence team about a new, illegal use of bots -. – Researchers have …
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This chart shows the companies which have received the most New Product exclusivities in the past five years. New Product Development is one of the categories for which the FDA… The post Pharmaceutical companies with the most ‘New Product Exclusivity’ drugs appeared first on DrugPatentWatch – Make Better Decisions.
Justin Jacobson, VP & General Manager, Patient Engagement Solutions at Nuance Communications When patients contact their healthcare providers, they look for efficiency, convenience, and compassion. But often, the reality is far more clunky and impersonal when they find that an out-of-date phone system or a long hold queue are their only options. The secret to …
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As promised in our earlier post (see "Professor Sarnoff Provides His Perspective on Tillis Bill"), here we turn to Professor Joshua Sarnoff’s thoughts on the portions of Senator Thom Tillis’ (R-NC) bill regarding diagnostic method patents. Those thoughts were presented in abbreviated form in the earlier post because we did not have the space the …
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Montana’s Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling that temporarily blocks further restrictions on abortion. Planned Parenthood in a statement Tuesday announced that the Montana Supreme Court blocked three separate laws that were enacted during the state’s legislative session last year from taking effect. One of the laws would have banned abortion after 20 …
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[Federal Register Volume 87, (Wednesday, August 10, 2022 )] [Notice] [Pages 48694-48695] National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH): Notice of Meeting
Researchers have shown that an experimental nanoparticle-based drug therapy protects mice from sudden death due to the rupture of a major blood vessel in the abdomen, pointing the way toward a new strategy for treating deadly abdominal aortic aneurysms.
Researchers have identified a molecular pathway responsible for the spread of glioblastoma to surrounding tissue in the brain, as well as an existing drug that curbed tumor growth in animal models. The findings have led to a clinical trial that could offer new hope to patients with glioblastoma, the most common form of brain cancer …
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Tonight, we’ll get to see the last supermoon of 2022, called the “Sturgeon Supermoon” because it’s around this time that it’s easiest to catch sturgeon in the Great Lakes. So either grab your telescope or your fishing pole. In health news, a new monkeypox vaccination strategy will quintuple the available doses, but there are concerns about whether it …
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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association faces additional legal challenges from providers and patients who opted out of the deal.
Regulators continue to adjust prior authorizaiton guidelines as they try to boost high-value procedures and limit administrative burden.
Atropos Health, a startup spun out of Stanford University that provides point-of-care physician consults, recently raised $14 million in Series A funding. The company will use the money to further develop the oncology consult product it is building with ASCO, as well as grow its commercial team.
Cerner has agreed to pay $1.8 million in back pay and interest over claims it discriminated against Black and Asian applicants, according to an Aug. 9 U.S. Labor Department news release.
A U.S. appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit in Puerto Rico against Allscripts, but noted that the EHR vendor is open to being sued in the U.S. territory, Law360 reported Aug. 8.
The FDA on Aug. 9 issued an emergency use authorization for a strategy that will expand the nation’s supply of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine and allow high-risk children under the age of 18 to receive it. The move comes as confirmed U.S. cases near 9,000.
Commercial insurers’ practices, such as prior authorization and white bagging, are needed to reduce costs for patients, said Kristine Grow, senior vice president of communications at AHIP.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. in 2020 life slowed down for many people, but for health system CIOs things sped up. With new technologies needed to solve healthcare challenges, health systems CIOs learned to produce quality work in record time, to embrace change and that their teams were invaluable.
More often than ever, professionals from other sectors are changing course, entering the home care industry and jump starting their careers by becoming franchisees. This new class of home care franchise owners brings with them backgrounds in law, hospitality, public relations and other areas. Since moving into the home care sector, many have been able …
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It seems like everything just gets more and more expensive. But are prices for medical care declining? Cutler et al. (1998) found in seminal paper “Are medical prices declining? Evidence for heart attack treatments” that while unadjusted prices of medical care were in fact rising, quality-adjusted health care costs actually were falling. In my own …
Sherron Rogers has been named St. Petersburg, Fla.-based John Hopkins All Children’s Hospital’s new CFO.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Cigna recently announced they plan to heighten oversight of evaluation and management claims that include modifier 25.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Cigna recently announced they plan to heighten oversight of evaluation and management claims that include modifier 25.
The following hospital and health system CEO moves have been reported since Aug. 3:
The Justice Department sued Idaho last week over the state’s strict abortion ban, saying it would force doctors to violate the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
With the expansion, pending CMS approval, Long Beach, California-based SCAN will reach nearly 7 million potential customers across four states, including California and Arizona.
Two large private equity firms have made under-the-radar investments in the self-directed, at-home care enabler Public Partnerships (PPL). That’s according to a new report from Axios, which said that “few other details are known about transaction.” The two backers are the Park City, Utah-based DW Healthcare Partners and the Chicago-based Linden Capital Partners. Other details …
Though the Pennant Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PNTG) has entered into a new era of leadership, the company is doubling down on its core strategy and operational principles. “Our differentiators are, one, our innovative operating model focused on empowering and developing strong local leaders,” Pennant CEO Brent Guerisoli said during a second quarter earnings call Tuesday. …
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Cheryl Sadro serves as CFO at Sacramento, Calif.-based UC Davis Health.
Members of the Communications Workers of America and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East plan to hold a public informational picket Aug. 18 at two Kaleida Health campuses in Buffalo, N.Y.
The Penn Medicine-Wharton Fund for Health, Penn’s venture fund focused on social determinants of health, recently announced investments in its fifth and sixth companies. The fund invested in two Philadelphia-based startups, Fabric Health and Stimulus, bringing its total amount of invested capital to $1.35 million.
Dozens of hospital and health system CEOs have retired in the past six months, kicking succession plans into overdrive.
Chinese manufacturer Haimen Shengbang Laboratory Equipment recalled 4.1 million viral transport media containers and swabs, the FDA said Aug. 9.
Manufacturing company Azenta entered into a definitive agreement to acquire B Medical Systems, a global distributor that supplies products designed to store and transport goods that require cold temperatures, such as some of the COVID-19 vaccines.
With physicians hesitant to prescribe drugs that may have the side effect of terminating a pregnancy after the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, here are five medications that have been or could soon be targeted, according to The Washington Post:
The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new strategy to stretch the limited available doses of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine by changing how the vaccine is injected. The new method would split up the doses and use one-fifth as much vaccine per shot. The partial dose of the vaccine would be injected into the upper …
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HHS is investing $60 million in programs aiming to grow the healthcare workforce and increase access to care in rural communities.
This policy watch provides an update on the status of state adoption and implementation of the Medicaid 12-month postpartum coverage extension option as states wrap up their 2022 legislative sessions.
On Aug. 9, President Joe Biden signed into law the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, which provides $52 billion to boost the U.S. semiconductor sector. The global chip shortage has affected a variety of industries over the past two-plus years, including healthcare.
All but two of the seven largest insurers saw profits climb in the second quarter as hospital operators continued to struggle with weak volumes and higher labor costs amid record-high inflation.
Black Book Research recently named TruBridge the No. 3 revenue cycle management software vendor for hospitals with 100 beds or more and No. 2 for hospitals with fewer than 100 beds.
Twenty-eight civil rights and health care groups announced Tuesday they have requested that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) address “dietary racism” in national school lunch programs, raising concerns to the federal agency about forcing millions of minority children to drink cow’s milk without allowing them a healthier alternative. In a letter to the USDA’s …
Huntington Memorial Hospital (now known as Huntington Health) in Pasadena, Calif., has settled allegations that it brought up the education of and then wrongfully fired a registered nurse who complained about discrimination and retaliation, according to a City News Service report published Aug. 8 in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.
Monroe, Ga.-based Piedmont Walton Hospital has named emergency medicine physician Steven Durocher, MD, chief medical officer. He is the acting chief of staff at the hospital.
Little Sisters of the Poor-Mullen Home in Denver is set to close after 105 years of operation in the area, the organization said Aug. 3.
Below are five hospitals, health systems or hospital operators that have recently posted job listings seeking post-acute care talent.
If the nursing home industry continues to fill staffing gaps at its current rate, it will take until at least 2026 to return to pre-pandemic levels without assistance, an Aug. 8 report from the National Healthcare Association/National Center for Assisted Living found.
Scientists have developed a new mathematical model that may help clinicians decide on the best combination of osteoporosis medications for patients and the order in which they should be taken.
A common method of administering drugs is orally, by swallowing a pill or capsule. But oral administration is the most complex way for the human body to absorb an active pharmaceutical ingredient, because the bioavailability of the drug in the gastrointestinal tract depends on the medication’s ingredients and the stomach’s dynamic physiological environment. Researchers have …
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A new techniques enable unprecedented versatility in the design of drug molecules.
In a proof-of-concept study, researchers have shown that microrobots can access the difficult to reach surfaces of the root canal with controlled precision, treating and disrupting biofilms and even retrieving samples for diagnostics, enabling a more personalized treatment plan.
Mike Morris is the president and chief executive officer at Hendersonville, Tenn-based Xtend Healthcare.
The trifecta of increasing consumerism, staff burnout, and deferred care is a fundamental and new challenge that every healthcare provider in the country must overcome. The solution needs to start at the very start of the care journey when patients are still formulating an opinion of their provider and the care they are likely to …
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What if you could take a pill that would slash your cravings for brownies, cookies, and ice cream? Yup, such a pill exists — and people are taking notice. Read on to find out more about sugar craving pills, how they are said to work, and whether or not they’re safe and effective. Why …
Manav Sevak is the (young and very smart) CEO of Memora Health. I must admit to thinking that their service was just a patient chatbot, but it’s a lot more than that. It’s digitizing care workflows that touch both patients and of course the clinical care teams that support them–especially outside the walls of the …
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Estimates suggest nearly 20% of adults over 65 will experience some form of mental health challenge, and nearly 5% will have a severe mental illness.
After losing out to Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare for a hospital in Buncombe County, N.C., in 2017, Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health is again attempting to build a new hospital in the county, Citizen Times reported Aug. 8.
I was just talking here about targeted protein degradation, not for the first time, and in almost every case when you’re talking TPD you’re talking ubiquitination. Ubiquitin, as the name indicates, is indeed all over the place. It’s a small protein (76 amino acids), but it doesn’t quite qualify for being one of those “microprotein” …
Las mismas técnicas de vigilancia de aguas residuales que se han convertido en una herramienta crítica en la detección temprana de brotes de covid-19 se están adaptando para monitorear la alarmante propagación de la viruela del simio en el Área de la Bahía de San Francisco y en otras comunidades de Estados Unidos. Antes de …
Merck is paying $25 million to kick off a research partnership with Cerevance, a startup that analyzes donor brain tissue to find novel targets for new neurological disorder drugs. While Cerevance’s lead program is a Parkinson’s disease drug, Merck is wants to see if the startup’s technology can help it discover and develop new Alzheimer’s …
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With the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, hospitals are concerned about additional challenges when it comes to recruiting and retaining medical staff, Bloomberg Law reported Aug. 9.
Peter Fine, president and CEO of Phoenix-based Banner Health, joined the board of virtual interpretation platform Jeenie.
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The cost of an attack on a healthcare system has risen about 10% to more than $10 million.
Two infectious disease experts from Houston-based Texas Children’s Hospital were recognized among Fast Company’s 14th annual list of the most creative people in business.
The University of New Mexico on Aug. 8 broke ground on a $43.3 million facility to house and consolidate its college of nursing and college of population health, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is using software standardization, development processes and technology to generate AI use cases more rapidly, according to an Aug. 8 MIT Sloan Management Review article.
When the U.S. government declared monkeypox a public health emergency Aug. 4, nothing was said about whether pharmacists would aid the vaccination effort. The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is looking to fix that.
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System is launching CastleVax, its own vaccine company, to meet “future pandemic threats,” according to an Aug. 9 press release.
After two decades of no available Lyme disease vaccine, Pfizer is vying to enter the market with a $25 million phase 3 trial for its candidate.
A new, physician-created, low-tech care strategy cut cardiac arrests in pediatric intensive care units by 30 percent, according to a study published July 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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A GP practice in Somerset has become the first in England to operate as a John Lewis-style employee-owned trust.
CMS’ enforcement of its hospital price transparency law is “lukewarm,” and the agency needs to get tougher, Johns Hopkins University professor of accounting and health policy and management Ge Bai, PhD, told USA Today in an Aug. 9 report.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston earned the No. 1 spot on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-23 Best Hospitals for Obstetrics and Gynecology ranking released July 26.
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Centennial, Colo.-based Centura Health has named two physicians to leadership positions, including the health system’s first chief transformation officer.
Despite the pandemic increasing the number of people who work remotely, traditional tech hubs still lead in average salaries for technologists, though some up-and-coming areas have seen pay growth, according to a 2022 salary report from career website Dice.com.
Physical security is a major concern for hospitals, as threats of violence put patients and providers at risk. A 2022 report from video surveillance company Pro-Vigil reveals that 28 percent of respondents experienced a general increase in physical security incidents in 2021, up from 20 percent in 2020. Additionally, about 27 percent anticipate such incidents …
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The health system and the healthcare conglomerate plan to collaborate on nurse training, technology and Black cancer patients.
The healthcare industry is increasingly going digital, with artificial intelligence helping diagnose conditions and patients with wearable smart devices being cared for at home.
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (Fla.) began site work on its $233 million integrated oncology building, The Jacksonville Daily Record reported Aug. 8.
Medicine shortages have become worse during the past year, leading to increased GP workload and causing adverse effects in patients.
Hiring is getting less challenging on some level, even amid a tight labor market, several employers said, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Officials in New Hampshire are investigating whether the decision of a local hospital to end labor and delivery services meets state guidelines, according to an Aug. 8 press release from the office of Attorney General John Formella.
Health system chief innovation officers literally have the word “innovation” in their titles — and not for nothing. These executives develop and sometimes commercialize technologies that treat patients in their hospitals and beyond.
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St. Albans, Vt.-based Northwestern Medical Center terminated an employee who accessed its EHR without authorization to obtain the protected health information of patients, Saint Albans Messenger reported Aug. 8.
After scientists and reporters raised red flags about a study, Cassava Sciences is being accused of falsifying data in pursuit of an Alzheimerâs treatment.
Amgen’s acquisition of Chemocentryx includes the autoimmune disease drug Tavneos (avacopan).
Will Patterson is the founder and chief executive officer at Los Angeles-based CareRev.
HHS awarded nearly $90 million to nearly 1,400 community health centers across the country Aug. 8 to advance health equity through data collection and reporting.
Two nurses are suing Danville, Ind.-based Hendricks Regional Health, alleging that the system has chronically underpaid hourly staff members for time spent preparing for their shifts, the Indianapolis Business Journal reported Aug. 8.
Morphogens are the secreted molecules that pattern embryonic tissues. These molecules are important not only for the embryo during development, but also for the adult during tissue repair. However, the way these morphogens are distributed to ensure patterning occurs is still not fully understood. Using a combination of experiments and mathematical modeling, researchers learned more …
A historically overlooked rod-like projection present on nearly every cell type in the human body may finally be getting its scientific due: A new study has found that these appendages, called cilia, on neurons in the brain have a key role in ensuring a specific dopamine receptor’s signals are properly received.
Phoebe Yang, who led Amazon Web Services’ non-profit healthcare business, said she will be leaving her role in a Aug. 5 LinkedIn post.
The CDC has sent a team to New York to assist the state’s health department with its investigation of a recent polio case in an unvaccinated man in Rockland County, ABC News reported Aug. 8.
The European Commission has approved AstraZeneca and Merck’s Lynparza (olaparib) as an adjuvant treatment for BRCA-mutated HER2-negative high-risk early breast cancer.
Unwarranted variation in healthcare leads to greater cost without better outcomes for a member’s health—but it’s not always easy to catch. For example, a procedure might appear to be high quality on the surface, but perhaps that procedure never needed to happen. Similarly, a drug that was prescribed could be low cost, but never needed …
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Stacy Bratcher is the vice president and general counsel at Santa Barbara, Cali-based Cottage Health.
The COO of Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Health System is calling for an end to the “ugly epidemic of violence” against healthcare workers and civility from the public following a recent attack on an emergency room nurse.
Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health is laying off 52 employees. The layoffs began last month, according to a notice filed with state regulators.
The two companies are collaborating to generate subject data sets designed to help users find insights that can speed up research and improve patient care.
The latest funds build on $16 billion invested by the Biden administration to bolster rural healthcare last year, according to the HHS.
The Oakland, California-based integrated health system attributed the setback in its quarterly results to market investments.
The number of Americans hospitalized with COVID-19 is seeing its first downward tick after steadily increasing from April through July.
A New Jersey hospital’s marketing director was arrested after police found more than three dozen guns hidden inside an unlocked closet at the hospital, according to the Secaucus Police Department.
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare will partner with Johnson & Johnson to work on data-driven programs to promote health equity.
BY KIM BELLARD Things are tough all over the job market. With a jobless rate at 3.5%, and with millions of people who left the job market in 2020 opting to not return to work, employers are having a hard time finding workers. Your favorite restaurant or retail store probably has a “Help Wanted” sign …
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Monday night that he is going to bring a $35 cap on patients’ insulin costs back up for a vote this fall after Republicans blocked it over the weekend. “They blocked a $35 price for insulin for non-Medicare people,” Schumer said on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.” …
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A Northwestern Medicine spokesperson told Becker’s the Chicago-based health system is anticipating hiring nearly 200 workers as it brings jobs performed by an outside revenue cycle management vendor in-house.
As more health systems and hospitals across the country invest in digital health resources, initiatives have been launched in an attempt to ease all aspects of patient care.
Dennis Delisle is the executive director at Columbus, Ohio-based University Hospital & Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital.
One of the single greatest social determinants of health is where a patient lives. It can determine their risk factor for a specific illness or chronic disease, such as asthma, and can also affect much broader measures of well-being and life expectancy. Thus, our ability as healthcare professionals to measure and act on such factors …
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What You Should Know: – One of the nation’s largest real-time health information networks Availity announced an agreement to acquire Diameter Health, a national leader in clinical data quality and interoperability. – This strategic deal expands Availity’s clinical portfolio to deliver the strongest integrated clinical and claims data network and interoperability platforms in healthcare. Streamlining Clinical Data Interoperability …
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Jay Krishnaswamy was selected as the new CEO of Doctors Medical Center in Modesto, Calif., part of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare.
University Health in San Antonio announced it is one year away from the opening of the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, according to an Aug. 5 press release from the health system.
What You Should Know: – Vision Loss Rehabilitation Canada (VLRC) and Eyenuk, Inc. launches of VLRC’s Eye Health Screening Initiative to screen rural, remote and Indigenous populations in Northern and Eastern Ontario for diabetic retinopathy (DR), the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults, using Eyenuk’s autonomous AI technology. – VLRC is training local community …
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Healthcare technology firm Koneksa will carry out a study to evaluate whether digital biomarkers can be used to track the progression of Parkinson’s disease – thanks to a grant from the Michael J Fox Foundation. Quantitative tools for measuring progression are lacking in Parkinson’s disease and other neurological disorders, with clinicians relying on subjective measures …
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What You Should Know: – Evidence Partners has announced a growth financing round, their first ever, for $20M, led by Thomvest Ventures. – With their new AI product DistillerSR, Evidence Partners are changing the way Literature Reviews are conducted, making them efficient, accurate, and less labour-intensive. AI-Driven Literature Review Software DistillerSR is a web-based platform …
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With cyber attacks on a steady incline, something needs to be done so that similar fates can be avoided and patient trust can be prioritized. There are four key best practices that, with the right data access technology in place, can protect healthcare companies from hacks and attacks
With Andrew Hall at its helm, IMV has evolved an animal contraceptive into a unique drug delivery platform aimed at creating targeted cancer immunotherapies for humans.
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The dependability of digital technology has augmented through a variety of industries, including communication, transportation, manufacturing, medical, and pharmaceutical companies. Development in technologies has made it possible to merge medical science with digital platforms, allowing for the individualised delivery of services to a large population, making therapy more effective and convenient. Today, technology has become …
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In a call with investors, incoming chief executive Andrew Toy said the path to profitability is “a huge focus” for Clover, and pointed to shrinking its medical loss ratio and controlling operating expense growth as key strategies.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phase 3 study shows statistically significant improvements in lung function
Patents show potential of innovative Arestat technology and the development of enhanced formulations
According to the most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 8.8% of Americans are without health insurance. While this has dipped since the pandemic high of 10.3% towards the end of 2020, it still leaves nearly 30 million people facing the often-difficult decision of what to do when they need …
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The CHIP program (now called Pivio) has attempted to take the pioneering lifestyle medicine work of Pritikin and Ornish and spread it out into the community. England has been keeping mortality statistics since 1665 when one person was “killed by a fall down stairs at St. Thomas Apostle.” That same week, though, nearly 4,000 people …
Virtual care comes in many forms and the term covers a multitude of use cases and workflows. We find that providers can deliver better remote care, at lower cost, when they standardize on a virtual care platform with the ability to support all core use cases. At Cisco, we’ve taken a full-stack platform approach that …
Clinicians used to wonder if there was a role for mindfulness meditation in healthcare. But after the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the overwhelming need for practical solutions in behavioral health, the question has shifted to what role it can play.
UK-based Verona Pharma has scored a key win in a phase 3 trial of its chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) drug ensifentrine, setting up regulatory filings in the first half of next year. The drug was administered twice-daily using a nebuliser as a chronic maintenance therapy for people with COPD in the ENHANCE-2 study, cutting …
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Climate has received most of the attention. But the Senate bill brings big changes to health care, too.
The climate change and prescription drug law has revived a set of party goals that were widely thought to be dead.
EGFR inhibitors like AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso have been hugely successful in treating EGFR-positive lung cancer, but the durability of treatment is often reduced by resistance mutations. Now, a combination of Tagrisso with another drug looks like it may help tackle that issue. The most common biomarker among people with EGFR-mutated lung cancer who develop resistance to …
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology specialist Bot Image has won FDA approval for its artificial intelligence-powered software ProstatID, used for the detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer. The software is combined with traditional MRI scanning to improve the “accuracy and speed” of prostate cancer diagnosis by improving the diagnostic resolution of images, according to the …
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AI could address the most significant issue in drug discovery, finds Ben Hargreaves, and also offers the potential to use tissue samples to create precision medicine for specific patient groups. The scale of the challenge Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, according to the …
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Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. The transcript for this segment is being processed. We’re working to post it four to five days after the episode airs. Episode 10: “Stewardship Over Biodata Rebuilds Trust” Mending broken trust may be a first step for investigators who want to increase the participation of Native …
The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in early detection of covid-19 outbreaks are being adapted for use in monitoring the startling spread of monkeypox across the San Francisco Bay Area and some other U.S. communities. Before the covid pandemic, wastewater sludge was thought to hold promise as an early …
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The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he’d inhaled from the 10-acre burn pit at Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq. Along the way, Le Roy would lose the job he loved as …
To stay competitive in R&D, it is critical to keep abreast of all the latest findings and innovations. Preprints are offering a new way to remain ahead of the curve, allowing a look into new research prior to the peer-review process. Preprints are early versions of scholarly papers that are made available on public preprint …