What drug characteristics lead to higher vs. lower prices in the US? A paper by Beinfeld et al. (2025) finds the answer using data from SSR Health (about rebates) and Tufts Medical Center Specialty Drug Evidence and Coverage (SPEC) database (to inform drug characteristics. Among the 161 drugs in both SSR and SPEC data, the…
Sanford Health is embedding AI into its EHR to turn vast patient data into actionable insights. Tools like a chronic kidney disease module and a personalized colon cancer screening model are helping clinicians catch disease earlier and tailor care to individual patients, explained Jeremy Cauwels, the health system’s chief medical officer. The post How Sanford…
Johnson & Johnson is acquiring Halda Therapeutics for its lead program, a drug that recently posted encouraging Phase 1 data in advanced prostate cancer. This drug comes from a proprietary Halda platform technology that yields oral small molecules offering a novel mechanism for killing cancer cells. The post J&J’s $3B Halda Acquisition Brings a Way…
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The time to prepare is now, while there’s still time and space to figure out what works. Change is uncomfortable, but clinging to outdated habits is far riskier. The post Hospitals Can’t Keep Staffing Like it’s 1995 appeared first on MedCity News.
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En julio, agentes federales de inmigración llevaron a Milagro Solís-Portillo al Glendale Memorial Hospital, en las afueras de Los Ángeles, luego que sufriera una emergencia médica estando detenida. Nunca se fueron del hospital. Durante dos semanas, contratistas del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) hicieron guardia en el vestíbulo del hospital las 24…
In July, federal immigration agents took Milagro Solis-Portillo to Glendale Memorial Hospital just outside Los Angeles after she suffered a medical emergency while being detained. They didn’t leave. For two weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractors sat guard in the hospital lobby 24 hours a day, working in shifts to monitor her movements, her attorney…