The Glp-1 battle heats with new preliminary data from Eli Lilly showing that patients using its weight loss drug Zepbound lost more weight on average in 72 weeks than those on Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy. The post Video: Battle of the Bulge – Wegovy vs. Zepbound appeared first on MedCity News.
People working the most vital occupations, like farmers and ranchers, call the most remote areas in this country home. Their health shouldn’t suffer due to their choice of employment. The post Rural Healthcare Needs More Than Just Telehealth appeared first on MedCity News.
Omada Health is a respected health tech company but what do customers see it? A flesh and blood and an AI analysis follows. The post What Do Consumers and AI Think Of Omada Health? appeared first on MedCity News.
That is the argument from an interesting post on the Carcinisation website titled “A Case Against the Placebo Effect“. In short, the authors argue that placebos in-and-of-themselves may have small impact out health outcomes. However, care practices in clinical trials may be different such that health outcomes improve or people feel more cared for in…
This updated fact sheet examines the U.S. role in the Global Fund, an independent, multilateral financing entity that raises significant new resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria in low- and middle- income countries.
Three Democratic senators asked the country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog on Tuesday to investigate the costs of a Georgia program that requires some people to work to receive Medicaid coverage. The program, called “Georgia Pathways to Coverage,” is the nation’s only active Medicaid work requirement. Pathways has cost tens of millions in federal and state…
In his first term, President Donald Trump promised to end America’s HIV epidemic — and he put the resources of the federal government behind the effort. This time, he has deployed the powers of his office to gut funding, abandoning those communities at highest risk of HIV. Health care groups across the South are scaling…
What if these two worlds weren’t at odds? What if they were two parts of the same story, waiting to be brought together for the benefit of all? The post Bridging the Gap Between Herbal Wisdom and Scientific Research appeared first on MedCity News.
Lavonia Thomas, nursing informatics officer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, hopes that nurses will gain more access to ambient listening tools that listen in on patient conversations and then generate summaries for documentation purposes. These AI tools have become popular among physicians in the past couple years. The post This Hospital Exec Wants Nurses Should…
[Sponsored] A new guide from Relatient offers a checklist for healthcare providers to identify data that matters most so they can make make more informed decisions. The post Which Types of Patient Access Data Should Your Healthcare Practices Use to Improve Performance? appeared first on MedCity News.