Category: NIH

How Fauci and the NIH Got Ahead of the FDA and CDC in Backing Boosters

CDC, COVID-19, FDA, NIH, public health, Vaccines / September 16, 2021 September 16, 2021

In January — long before the first jabs of covid-19 vaccine were even available to most Americans — scientists working under Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases were already thinking about potential booster shots. A month later, they organized an international group of epidemiologists, virologists and biostatisticians to track …

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Microbiome Startups Promise to Improve Your Gut Health, but Is the Science Solid?

Health Industry, NIH / August 25, 2021 August 25, 2021

After Russell Jordan sent a stool sample through the mail to the microbiome company Viome, his idea of what he should eat shifted. The gym owner in Sacramento, California, had always consumed large quantities of leafy greens. But the results from the test — which sequenced and analyzed the microbes in a pea-sized stool sample …

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Rendever Awarded $2M NIH Grant to Research Impact of Virtual Reality on Aging Population

Aging Care, digital health, NIH, senior care, Therapeutic Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality / August 18, 2021 August 18, 2021

What You Should Know: – Rendever, a Boston-based virtual reality (VR) platform built to help seniors overcome social isolation through shared experiences, announces that it has been awarded a $2M Phase II Grant from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). – This grant will fund a …

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More malaria hope as antibody protects against infection

antibody, Infectious Disease, Malaria, News, NIAID, NIH, parasitology, R&D / August 12, 2021 August 12, 2021

A single dose of a monoclonal antibody developed by scientists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has provided protection for people exposed to malaria parasites for up to nine months. The results of the phase 1 trial suggest that antibodies could be used to protect travellers, military personnel and health care workers traveling …

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NIH digital tool aims to boost enrolment into Alzheimer’s studies

alzheimer's disease, Clinical Trials, digital, digital health, News, NIH, Patient Retention, Recruitment / July 30, 2021 July 30, 2021

With a string of new drugs for Alzheimer’s disease making their way through late-stage clinical testing, the demand for suitable subjects to enrol into trials is running at an all-time high – and threatens to outstrip supply. Now, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) – part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) – …

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Paying Billions for Controversial Alzheimer’s Drug? How About Funding This Instead?

aging, Alzheimer's, Cost and Quality, drug costs, FDA, Long-Term Care, Medicare, Navigating Aging, NIH, Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Drugs / July 6, 2021 July 6, 2021

If you could invest $56 billion each year in improving health care for older adults, how would you spend it? On a hugely expensive medication with questionable efficacy — or something else? This isn’t an abstract question. Aduhelm, a new Alzheimer’s drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration last month, could be prescribed to …

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Fauci Thanks US Health Workers for Sacrifices but Admits PPE Shortages Drove Up Death Toll

COVID-19, Doctors, Health Industry, Lost On The Frontline, NIH, Nurses, public health / April 9, 2021 April 9, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci thanked America’s health care workers, who “every single day put themselves at risk” during the pandemic, even as he acknowledged that PPE shortages had contributed to the deaths of more than 3,600 of them. This story also ran on The Guardian. It can be republished for free. “We rightfully refer to these …

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COVID Exposed The Dire Need for Real-Time Healthcare Data Sharing

AI, apple, Apple Watch, big data, blockchain, cancer, Caregivers, Coronavirus (COVID-19), DexCom, diabetes, Health IT, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Supply Chain, HIM, Interoperability, Life Sciences, Medtronic, Most Popular, NIH, Opinion, Patient Care, Payers, Portal, primary care, Quantified Self, Uber, Uber Health, Vital / March 31, 2021 March 31, 2021

Birju Shah, Head of Product for Uber Health & Communities Nick Jordan, Founder and CEO, Narrative In a world where technology and Big Data can provide us with instantaneous access to our banking transactions, and our financial information and credit reports can be retrieved with a few keystrokes when applying for a mortgage — trying to …

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Medicamentos ya conocidos, y baratos, podrían ser clave para tratar covid

California, Cost and Quality, COVID-19, FDA, Health Industry, NIH, Noticias En Español, Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Drugs, public health / March 29, 2021 March 29, 2021

¿Podría un antidepresivo que se usa desde hace décadas ser un arma secreta contra covid? Algunos científicos creen que sí, después de que dos pequeños estudios demostraran que la fluvoxamina, que se suele recetar para el trastorno obsesivo compulsivo (TOC), evitara que los participantes desarrollaran una forma grave de la enfermedad. Sería algo impresionante. Un …

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Scientists Seek Covid Treatment Answers in Cheap, Older Drugs

California, Cost and Quality, COVID-19, FDA, Health Industry, NIH, Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Drugs, public health / March 29, 2021 March 29, 2021

Could a decades-old antidepressant be a secret weapon against covid? A few scientists think so, after two small studies showed that fluvoxamine, typically prescribed for obsessive-compulsive disorder, prevented serious illness in all participants who took the pills soon after developing symptoms. This story also ran on San Francisco Chronicle. It can be republished for free. …

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The Great Undoing: Which of Trump’s Policies Will Biden Reverse?

Abortion, Contraception, Cost Transparency, Courts, drug costs, Georgia, Health Care Costs, Health Industry, HHS, hospitals, Immigrants, Insurance, Insurers, Medicaid, Multimedia, NIH, Obamacare Plans, Open Enrollment, Pharmaceuticals, Premiums, Prescription Drugs, public health, States, Tennessee, The Health Law, womens health / March 25, 2021 March 25, 2021

KHN has put together an interactive tool of significant health policies implemented by the Trump administration using its own authority — executive orders, agency guidance or formal regulations — and is tracking Biden administration and court actions. We will update this chart as actions are taken. Topics: Affordable Care Act | HHS Operations | Immigration …

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Government Money: The most effective weapon in the fight against Covid-19

Daily, government funding, MedCity Influencers, NIH, Opinion, SYN, Top Story / March 12, 2021 March 12, 2021

Many people complain about the government – probably with good reason – but the policies surrounding non-dilutive life science R&D are policies that deserve praise, and are the ones that all politicians and leaders, no matter their party affiliation, will support.

NIH abandons convalescent plasma trial in mild COVID

convalescent plasma, coronavirus, COVID-19, immunology, News, NIH, patients / March 3, 2021 March 3, 2021

Another trial of convalescent plasma in people with COVID-19 has missed the mark, this time in mild to moderate disease, further dashing hopes that the therapy could have an impact on the infection. Convalescent plasma taken from recovered COVID-19 patients is laden with antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, and the hope was this could be used to …

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VR and AR Simulation Medical Training Can Reduce Medical Errors

Augmented Reality, f, MD, medication, model, NIH, Opinion, patient safety, Physicians, risk, Virtual Reality / February 23, 2021 February 23, 2021

Adam Dougherty, MD, MPH Chief Medical Officer, SimX Human error is an inevitable event in the practice of any trade, including healthcare and medicine. The errors made in medicine can have many negative effects for patients and healthcare providers. A study out of Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors accounted for over 250,000 …

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How Automation is Key to the Future of Healthcare Operations

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Box, CAQH Index, Charge Capture, cloud, Data Analytics, data management, Definitive Healthcare, digital health, Digital Transformation, global healthcare, Life Sciences, Machine Learning, NIH, Opinion, Patient Care, patient experience, Prior Authorization, Public Cloud, rcm, revenue cycle, Revenue Cycle Management, revenue cycle operations, Robotic Process Automation, Vital / January 27, 2021 January 27, 2021

Giri Rajaiah, Executive Leader, Vice President, Healthcare & Life Sciences, DISYS As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. A similar correlation is seen in the quest to leverage innovation and out-of-the-box thinking to address key problems facing the healthcare industry. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has brought the immense pressure the U.S. healthcare …

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Many US Health Experts Underestimated the Coronavirus … Until It Was Too Late

CDC, COVID-19, Global Health Watch, NIH, public health / December 21, 2020 December 21, 2020

Use Our Content It can be republished for free. A year ago, while many Americans were finishing their holiday shopping and finalizing travel plans, doctors in Wuhan, China, were battling a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia with no known cause. Chinese doctors began to fear they were witnessing the return of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or …

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Lie of the Year: The Downplay and Denial of the Coronavirus

CDC, COVID-19, NIH, public health, Trump Administration, Vaccines / December 16, 2020 December 16, 2020

This story was produced in partnership with PolitiFact. It can be republished for free. A Florida taxi driver and his wife had seen enough conspiracy theories online to believe the virus was overblown, maybe even a hoax. So no masks for them. Then they got sick. She died. A college lecturer had trouble refilling her …

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Voz de un experto: los niveles de seguridad que propone Fauci durante COVID

COVID-19, NIH, Noticias En Español, public health / November 19, 2020 November 19, 2020

Como periodista de salud, médica y ex corresponsal que vivió el SARS en Beijing, recibo preguntas de amigos, colegas y personas que ni siquiera conozco sobre cómo vivir durante una pandemia. ¿Creo que es seguro planear una boda en persona el próximo junio? ¿Enviaría a mis hijos a la escuela con las precauciones adecuadas? ¿Cuándo …

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Take It From an Expert: Fauci’s Hierarchy of Safety During COVID

COVID-19, NIH, public health / November 19, 2020 November 19, 2020

As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I often get questions from friends, colleagues and people I don’t even know about how to live during the pandemic. Do I think it’s safe to plan a real wedding next June? Would I send my kids to …

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: What Would Dr. Fauci Do?

COVID-19, KHN's 'What The Health?', Multimedia, NIH, Podcasts, public health / November 19, 2020 November 19, 2020

Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. Since the mid-1980s, whenever there’s been a public health crisis, America — and six U.S. presidents — have turned to Dr. Anthony Fauci. As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (one of the National Institutes of Health), Fauci has helped guide …

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Government-Funded Scientists Laid the Groundwork for Billion-Dollar Vaccines

COVID-19, Health Industry, NIH, Pharmaceuticals, public health, Vaccines / November 18, 2020 November 18, 2020

When he started researching a troublesome childhood infection nearly four decades ago, virologist Dr. Barney Graham, then at Vanderbilt University, had no inkling his federally funded work might be key to deliverance from a global pandemic. Yet nearly all the vaccines advancing toward possible FDA approval this fall or winter are based on a design …

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To Solve Healthcare Interoperability, We Must ‘Solve the Surround’

AI, API, apple, Clinical Trials, cloud, CMS, EHR Incentives, Electronic Medical Records, Final Rule, foundational, health information exchanges, Health Information Technology, Health IT, Health IT Interoperability, Healthcare Interoperability, HIE, HIEs, Interoperability, MD, medical records, Microsoft, model, NIH, ONC, Patient Care, Philips, Portal, Precision Medicine, public health, risk / November 9, 2020 November 9, 2020

Peter S. Tippett, MD, Ph.D., Founder & CEO of careMesh Interoperability in healthcare is a national disgrace. After more than three decades of effort, billions of dollars in incentives and investments, State and Federal regulations, and tens of thousands of articles and studies on making all of this work — we are only slightly better …

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FDA Grants AppliedVR Breakthrough Designation for Virtual Reality Chronic Pain Treatment

AppliedVR, Augmented Reality, cancer, Cleveland Clinic, Clinical Trial, Clinical Trials, diabetes, digital health, Digital Medicine, Digital Therapeutics, FDA, Heart, heart disease, NIH, opioid epidemic, Pain Management, Payers, SAN FRANCISCO, Therapeutic Virtual Reality, UCSF, Virtual Reality / October 21, 2020 October 21, 2020

What You Should Know: – FDA awards AppliedVR Breakthrough Device designation for treating treatment-resistant fibromyalgia and chronic intractable lower back pain – AppliedVR’s EaseVRx program helps patients learn self-management skills grounded in evidence-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) principles and other behavioral methods. AppliedVR, a pioneer advancing the next generation of digital medicine, today announced its EaseVRx …

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¿Pueden los pacientes de COVID tener el tratamiento de Trump? Está bien preguntar

Clinical Trials, COVID-19, NIH, Noticias En Español, public health / October 20, 2020 October 20, 2020

Cuando Terry Mutter se despertó con dolor de cabeza y músculos adoloridos, el levantador de pesas amateur lo atribuyó a un entrenamiento duro. Sin embargo, ese miércoles a la noche tuvo 101 grados de fiebre y estaba claramente enfermo. “Me sentía como si me hubiera atropellado un camión”, recuerda Mutter, que vive cerca de Seattle. …

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Can Ordinary COVID Patients Get the Trump Treatment? It’s OK to Ask

Clinical Trials, COVID-19, NIH, public health / October 20, 2020 October 20, 2020

When Terry Mutter woke up with a headache and sore muscles on a recent Wednesday, the competitive weightlifter chalked it up to a hard workout. By that evening, though, he had a fever of 101 degrees and was clearly ill. “I felt like I had been hit by a truck,” recalled Mutter, who lives near …

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NIH Funds First Nationwide Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network

diabetes, diabetes management, digital health, Geisinger Health System, Genomic Sequencing, National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIH, Partners, Physicians, type 1 diabetes, Type 2 Diabetes, WASHINGTON / October 2, 2020 October 2, 2020

What You Should Know: – NIH awards funding for Rare and Atypical Diabetes Network, or RADIANT that will seek to discover the cause of several unusual forms of diabetes. – RADIANT plans to screen about 2,000 people with unknown or atypical forms of diabetes that do not fit the common features of type 1 and …

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NIH Taps PhysIQ to Develop AI-Based COVID-19 Digital Biomarker

AI, Biosensors, cancer, Caregivers, cloud, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Digital Biomarkers, digital health, Digital Medicine, FDA, MD, NIH, Personalized Medicine, PhD, PhysIQ, public health, risk, Scripps, urgent care, Vital / September 30, 2020 September 30, 2020

What You Should Know: – physIQ has been selected by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to develop an innovative AI-based COVID-19 digital biomarker solution to address the COVID-19 pandemic. – Early detection of COVID-19 decompensation in patients is complicated by infrequent and non-specific clinical data. The first-in-kind tool will collect and analyzes continuous physiologic …

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Report: FDA halted move to authorize convalescent plasma for Covid-19 over evidence concerns

Anthony Fauci, BioPharma, biopharma nl, convalescent plasma, coronavirus, COVID-19, Daily, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Francis Collins, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, NIAID, NIH, Policy, SARS-CoV-2, SYN, Top Story / August 20, 2020 August 20, 2020

The New York Times reported that the FDA was prepared to issue an emergency use authorization for the treatment last week, but NIH Director Francis Collins and NIAID Director Anthony Fauci intervened, arguing that data were too weak.

Turning Anger Into Action: Minority Students Analyze COVID Data on Racial Disparities

California, COVID-19, mental health, Michigan, NIH, public health, Race and Health, States, Study / August 13, 2020 August 13, 2020

As the coronavirus swept into Detroit this spring, Wayne State University junior Skye Taylor noticed something striking. On social media, many of her fellow Black classmates who live or grew up in the city were “posting about death, like, ‘Oh, I lost this family member to COVID-19,’” said Taylor. The picture was different in Beverly …

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Talis Awarded $25M NIH Contract for Point-of-Care COVID-19 Testing

cancer, cloud, Coronavirus (COVID-19), Department of Health and Human Services, diagnostic testing, digital health, Health and Human Services, Life Sciences, NIH, Physicians, point of care, urgent care, workplace / August 4, 2020 August 4, 2020

What You Should Know: – Today, Talis Biomedical Corporation announced it has been awarded a $25M contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as part of Phase 2 of its Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative as well as another $100 million in additional financing. – The new funding will be used to …

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Don’t Fall for This Video: Hydroxychloroquine Is Not a COVID-19 Cure

CDC, COVID-19, FDA, Global Health Watch, KHN & PolitiFact HealthCheck, NIH, Pharmaceuticals, public health / July 31, 2020 July 31, 2020

Millions of people, including the president of the United States, have seen or shared a video in which a doctor falsely claims there is a cure for the coronavirus, and it’s a medley starring hydroxychloroquine. The video shows several doctors in white coats giving a press conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. It persists on social media despite …

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Ciox Health Acquires Biomedical NLP Company Medal

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Knowledge, Biotech, CIOX, Ciox Health, clinical research, Clinical Trials, deep learning, digital health, FDA, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthcare Natural Language Processing, hipaa, hipaa-compliant, LabCorp, medical records, Natural Language Processing (NLP), NIH, NLP, Partners, Patient Care, Pharma, SAN FRANCISCO, unstructured data / July 28, 2020 July 28, 2020

What You Should Know: – Ciox Health has acquired Medal, Inc., a biomedical Natural Language Processing (biomed-NLP) technology company. – The acquisition will lead Ciox to better and more quickly enable real-world data in support of research that advances patient care. Ciox Health, a leading health technology company, today announced its acquisition of San Francisco-based biomedical Natural Language …

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Eko Awarded $2.7M NIH Grant for Heart Murmur & Valvular Heart Disease Detection Algorithms

AI, algorithms, Atrial Fibrillation, Cardiologist, Clinical Decision Support, dataset, decision support, deep learning, digital health, ecg, FDA, FDA Clearance, Health Systems, Heart, heart disease, Mayo Clinic, MD, NIH, sensors, Telehealth, video / July 22, 2020 July 22, 2020

What You Should Know: – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has granted next-generation cardiac AI company Eko an award totaling $2.7 million to support continued collaborative work with Northwestern Medicine Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute – The grant will focus on validating algorithms and help more accurately screen for heart murmurs and valvular heart disease during …

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NIH Project Homes In on COVID Racial Disparities

California, COVID-19, Disparities, NIH, public health, Race and Health, Study / July 21, 2020 July 21, 2020

While the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Black and Hispanic Americans is no secret, federal officials have launched studies of the disparity that they hope will better prepare the country for the next great epidemic. The National Institutes of Health began the ambitious “All of Us” research project in 2018 with the goal of enrolling …

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HHS Taps Fenway Health as Pilot Site for Precision Medicine Project

athenahealth, digital health, Electronic Health Record, HHS, Interoperability, mobile health, NIH, Office of the National Coordinator, ONC, Patient Care, Precision Medicine, social determinants of health, WASHINGTON / July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020

What You Should Know: – Fenway Health has been selected as the pilot site to participate in the Advancing Standards for Precision Medicine (ASPM) project. – The ASPM project is focused on how healthcare providers can systematically identify the socio-economic factors that may impact the health of patients in order to provide more individualized care …

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NIAID launches clinical trial network for preventive drugs, vaccines against Covid-19

Bethesda, BioPharma, coronavirus, COVID-19, Daily, Maryland, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Operation Warp Speed, Policy, SARS-CoV-2, SYN, Top Story, Vaccines / July 9, 2020 July 9, 2020

The NIAID create the Covid-19 Prevention Trials Network by combining four existing ones, primarily focused on HIV and AIDS, which will continue that work in addition to their new focus on Covid-19.