Novo Nordisk dropped its lawsuit against Hims & Hers and launched a new collaboration. The deal is advantageous for both companies, experts say. The post ‘They Need Each Other’: Why Hims & Hers and Novo Nordisk Made Up appeared first on MedCity News.
Microsoft launched Copilot Health, an AI model that pulls together users’ medical records, wearable data and trusted health information. The move comes amid a wave of other tech companies announcing healthcare-focused large language models for consumers, including Anthropic, OpenAI and Amazon. The post Microsoft Enters Healthcare Chatbot Race with Copilot Health appeared first on MedCity…
The FDA said consolidating safety reporting into a single platform, the Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), will increase transparency and reduce costs. But like the legacy systems it replaces, AEMS reports are unverified so causation and frequency of events cannot be determined. The post FDA Transparency Push Expands to Monitoring Safety of Vaccines and Other…
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Exposure to gun violence can have severe adverse effects on the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, including increased likelihood of depression, PTSD, anxiety, and poor academic performance. This brief explores these impacts in addition to the various ways in which youth are exposed to gun violence, both directly and indirectly.
This brief analyzes the latest youth mortality data from the CDC, finding that nearly 22,000 children and adolescents died by firearm in the past decade. More information on trends over time, type of firearm deaths, and how these deaths vary by demographic and state are available in this brief.
That is the title of a new paper published in Future Oncology with co-authors Tara Graff,Savreet Bains Chawla,Monika Jun,Nicole Heaps,Abualbishr Alshreef,David Tybor,Donald C. Moore,Nadine Zawadzki, and Kathryn Spurrier. The abstract is below: Aim To quantify the time- and cost-savings to US oncology practices from using a single bispecific antibody (bsAb) for both relapsed/refractory (R/R) diffuse…
In the latest episode of the Debunked Podcast, the discussion revolved around the Break Up Big Medicine legislation to rein in healthcare giants and ways to introduce meaningful PBM reform. The post Debunked Episode 24: PBM Reform Brainstorm, Elevance Faces CMS Penalty Risk, His & Hers’ Eucalyptus Deal Takeaways appeared first on MedCity News.
It’s time to break down the myths holding the pharmacy sector back, and the emerging realities shaping a new, tech-enabled approach to adherence that blends operational redesign, AI innovation and equity-focused care. The post Myths vs. Reality: The High-Stakes of Medication Adherence Amid America’s Expanding Pharmacy Deserts appeared first on MedCity News.
General-purpose LLMs have meaningful value in healthcare – they can support education, documentation and research – as well as lower barriers to knowledge and help improve communication. But acting as a clinical assistant embedded in care delivery requires more – it needs longitudinal EHR grounding, explicit encoding of clinical guidelines, transparent and traceable reasoning and the…