Carmen Aiken of Chicago made an appointment for an annual physical exam in July 2023, planning to get checked out and complete some blood work. The appointment was at a family medicine practice run by University of Illinois Health. Aiken said the doctor recommended they undergo a Pap smear, which they hadn’t had in more…
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Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., setting the stage for internal friction over public health initiatives. The picks hold different views…
Millions of Medicaid enrollees may have a way out of the new federal work requirement — if they live in a county with high unemployment. By January 2027, President Donald Trump’s far-reaching domestic policy law will require many adult, nondisabled Medicaid enrollees in 42 states and Washington, D.C., to work or volunteer 80 hours a…
The eBook Femtech Revolution: How Entrepreneurs Are Championing Women’s Health Equity highlights femtech to help track menstruation, how femtech can support access to care, data privacy concerns, and more. The post In the Fight for Women’s Health Equity, Entrepreneurs Are Crucial appeared first on MedCity News.
LLMs, with their remarkable conversational abilities, are uniquely positioned to help solve this crisis. But as with the dotcom boom before it, the surge of AI ‘therapists’ has created a turbulent landscape where separating legitimate innovation from dangerous shortcuts isn’t straightforward. The post Patient-Facing AI: Separating Signal from Noise appeared first on MedCity News.
To provide historical context for how changes to Medicaid spending may impact national health spending trends, this brief explores how Medicaid spending contributes to national health spending and how different service areas contribute to Medicaid costs.
This analysis examines differences in HIV outcomes by urban/rural residence, wealth quintile, sex, and age in 15 PEPFAR countries and finds that HIV equity gaps were found for some, but not all, subpopulation groups.
This starts with viewing specialties such as oral health, maternal health, endocrinology, and cardiology — among others — as interconnected practices, not as separate areas. It also requires combining education, innovation, and investment to truly see — and feel — positive change and interconnected care The post Our Next Generations’ Health Depends on the Oral…
Investors showed appetite for Metsera’s IPO, as shares of the clinical-stage metabolic medicines biotech popped 47% in their Nasdaq debut. Maze Therapeutics and Beta Bionics also priced IPOs; the three companies raised $636 million combined. The post Metsera’s IPO Raises $275M to Show How Its Obesity Drugs Can Top Current GLP-1s appeared first on MedCity…