Paul Nestadt is about as steeped in suicide prevention as a person can be. He treats suicidal patients as a psychiatrist, has co-authored scores of research papers on how and why people kill themselves, and teaches graduate courses on the subject. But he’ll be the first to admit: “I can’t tell you which of my…
It’s been a while since I talked with Owen Tripp, CEO of Included Health. They’ve now introduced Dot their AI companion which had a big upgrade last week. We talked a little about that and I snuck in their video comparing the Dot Experience with a standard LLM. But the conversation really got into how…
Electra Therapeutics’ IPO cash will support a potential first-in-class drug whose lead indication is a rare hyperinflammatory disorder with no FDA-approved treatments. Meanwhile, clinical-stage biotechs Marea Therapeutics and Sensorion revealed their respective plans to enter the U.S. public markets. The post Electra’s Upsized IPO Lands $350M for New Class of Precision Immunology Drugs appeared first…
Angle Health’s funding round was led by Vitruvian Partners, with participation from Town Hall Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Portage Ventures, PruVen Capital and Y Combinator. The post Angle Health Raises $600M to Grow Employer Health Benefits Platform appeared first on MedCity News.
The initiative involves manufacturers providing drugs at international prices, with rebates and federal savings shared, and runs through 2030 to curb rising drug costs for Medicaid recipients
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force this week, completing the 16-seat panel amid ongoing tension over its leadership. The post RFK Jr. Overhauls USPSTF Leadership: 5 Things to Know appeared first on MedCity News.
What happened was not just a cybersecurity failure, it was an infrastructure failure. The post Two Years After the Change Healthcare Cyberattack, Healthcare Still Has a Clearinghouse Redundancy Problem appeared first on MedCity News.
This structural problem calls for a structural solution, requiring no new science, regulation, or data. The post The Trials Were Always There — Patients Just Couldn’t Find Them appeared first on MedCity News.
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the findings of a recent cancer report on CBS News 24/7’s Mornings on Sept. 16. Gounder also discussed the potential of artificial intelligence to be used in developing biological weapons on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on Sept. 11. Click here to watch Gounder on CBS…
By MIKE MAGEE On August 29, 2026, METR (Model Evaluation and Threat Research), an independent organization that “evaluates frontier AI models to help companies and wider society understand AI capabilities and what risks they pose,” released a report titled “Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking…