The Novo Nordisk/Ascendis partnership’s lead program is once-monthly injectable semaglutide for type 2 diabetes and obesity. This product candidate will be developed with Ascendis Pharma technology that has already yielded two FDA-approved products with longer dosing intervals. The post Novo Nordisk Commits $285M to Ascendis to Kick Off Alliance on Longer-Acting GLP-1 Drugs appeared first…
Maryland has signed an agreement with CMS on the model, which will seek to improve population health and lower costs.
There are some areas where point solutions make a lot of sense, such as when they’re focused on a condition without a lot of comorbidities, according to one healthcare expert. The post Is There Still a Place for Point Solutions? One Investor Weighs In appeared first on MedCity News.
Higher doses of a Viking Therapeutics pill that targets two receptors led to greater weight loss without worsening safety or tolerability, according to Phase 1 results presented during the ObesityWeek conference. Meanwhile, an injectable version of this Viking drug is on track to Phase 3 testing. The post Viking Therapeutics’ Early Clinical Data Continue to…
Jason Hill, Ochsner Health’s innovation officer, said he goes to sleep most nights and wakes up most morning worried about one thing: the state of generative AI governance in healthcare. To him, providers and other healthcare organizations are in dire need of frameworks to ensure their AI tools are safe and perform well over time….
Patty Hayward is GM of Healthcare and Life Sciences at TalkDesk. TalkDesk runs the technology for contact centers that helps companies across health care connect and manage their consumers. You’ve probably unknowingly used their technology when you call (or now text or email) your health plan, your provider system or call into one of those…
Durante la práctica de porristas en abril, Karter, la hija de Jana Duey que cursa el sexto grado, sufrió una conmoción cerebral cuando cayó de cabeza desde varios pies de altura sobre una colchoneta en el gimnasio. Días después, la joven aún tenía dolor de cabeza, mareos y sensibilidad a la luz y al ruido….
Steps that healthcare providers can take – internally and with the help of external partners – to boost both their security capabilities and the confidence of their clinicians in those capabilities The post Imaging Practices Can Restore Their Clinicians’ Cybersecurity Confidence With These Four Steps appeared first on MedCity News.
“This must be cancer.” That’s what I thought when I was hospitalized for a second time in two months. One month prior, I was hospitalized with diverticulitis, which was treated with strong intravenous antibiotics. Then I found myself back in the hospital. This time, it was worse than diverticulitis. I had never been so sick…
Nutrition isn’t a supplement — it’s foundational to metabolic health. It’s time we integrate more ‘Food as Medicine’ initiatives alongside the GLP-1 therapies that are gaining traction. The post A Recipe for Better Obesity Care: Integrating GLP-1s with Food as Medicine appeared first on MedCity News.