By JEAN LUC NEPTUNE I recently got the good news that I passed the board recertification exam for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). As a bit of background, ABIM is a national physician evaluation organization that certifies physicians practicing internal medicine and its subspecialties (every other specialty has its own board certification body…
Major federal changes to Medicaid and other health-related policies could impact children’s health in the coming years. This issue brief explores the latest data on Medicaid and children’s health and highlights five key issues to watch as those federal changes are implemented.
With AI automating routine workflows behind the scenes, intelligent systems let healthcare professionals devote themselves fully to face-to-face care, while listening closely and applying their expertise. The post How AI is Strengthening The Human Connection In Medicine appeared first on MedCity News.
Two alternative approaches to drugging one of the most frequently dysregulated pathways in cancer have recently been gathering momentum in clinical development. The post Multi-Node PI3K Inhibition for Cancer: Optimizing Efficacy and Safety While Broadening the Patient Population appeared first on MedCity News.
As Marketplace Open Enrollment nears, policy changes could leave millions of people facing substantially higher premiums and coverage loss, which could lead more consumers to purchase less expensive and less comprehensive coverage through short-term health plans. KFF analyzes short-term health policies sold by nine large insurers in 36 states, examining premiums, cost sharing, covered benefits,…
[Sponsored] Solera Health Chief Strategy Officer Ed Liebowitz and Premera Health Vice President of Product Nathan Johnson exchanged ideas in a robust discussion moderated by MedCity News Editor in Chief Arundhati Parmar. The post As Employers Face Spike in Healthcare Costs, How Can They Optimize Digital Health in Benefit Design? appeared first on MedCity News.
These findings from the KFF/Washington Post Survey of Parents shed light on parents who support the Make America Healthy Again movement, including the issues they see as top concerns for their children’s wellbeing and their attitudes when it comes to vaccines and government regulations on food.
“It’s going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sept. 4, 2025, in a Senate hearing At a September Senate hearing, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. boasted about a rural health initiative within President Donald Trump’s “One Big…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — April Hines has battled with her weight since she was a teenager. But in the past couple of years, she’s fallen from 600 pounds to 385, and her blood pressure and blood sugar levels are down, too. “I’m not as fatigued as I used to be, and I’ve been able to go…
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. The Nobel Prize committee said that the award was merited “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” The Nobel Prize committee summarizes their key contributions as follows: Over the last two centuries, for the first time in history, the world has seen sustained economic…