CagriSema, a dual-acting drug in development by Novo Nordisk, met the goal of a Phase 3 test in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. But the topline results don’t show an advantage over Eli Lilly’s commercialized obesity medication, Zepbound. The post Novo Nordisk’s Next-Gen Obesity Drug Disappoints Again With Lower Than Expected Weight Loss…
Delayed remediation and patch latency are no longer just IT and security metrics; they serve as direct reflections of leadership priorities. The post The Hidden Cost of Slow Cyber Remediation in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
[Sponsored] The 2025 Benefits Sentiment Index is based on a survey of 120 benefit consultants to self-insured employers and is sponsored by Quantum Health. The post Report Finds Healthcare Navigation Is at a Crossroads appeared first on MedCity News.
Beyond simply recording or transcribing messages to lower call volumes, truly autonomous voice AI puts patients in the driver’s seat of their own healthcare. It processes patient requests and information immediately and integrates actionable insights into the EHR, speeding next steps for clinicians and patients. The post Ending the Voicemail Bottleneck: How Voice AI Is…
Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern. “What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program. “I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the…
Meng Li (2024) has a nice summary of the generalized cost effectiveness analysis (GCEA) user guide paper (see Shafrin et al. 2024) that was published last month. The GCEA methodology encompasses 15 ‘petals’ across four domains. The uncertainty domain captures how risk aversion and uncertainty in treatment outcomes impact value, including aspects such as outcome…
SACRAMENTO, California — La administración Trump ha extendido su política de mano dura en inmigración a la red de atención médica pública, iniciando investigaciones sobre el gasto de Medicaid en al menos seis estados liderados por demócratas. Estos estados brindan cobertura médica integral a inmigrantes pobres y con discapacidades que viven en el país sin…
June has seen a slew of executive hires, promotions, exits and layoffs across the healthcare sector. For example, CVS Health and HCA Healthcare welcomed new executives, and Ascension and Optum Health announced that their CEOs are departing. There were also layoffs at organizations including Providence, UCSF Health and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The post Healthcare…
The death wasn’t due to Beam Therapeutics’ sickle cell disease therapy, BEAM-101, but was instead attributed to the preconditioning treatment needed before the genetic medicine is infused. A different Beam program in preclinical development could avoid the need for toxic preconditioning; data from both programs will be presented during the upcoming American Society of Hematology…
Overwhelmed by the demands of caregiving, Quette dialed 911 when she found her teenage son downstairs in their kitchen struggling to breathe. He had rolled his wheelchair to the oven to keep himself warm as he tried to regulate his temperature, she recalled, and was drenched in sweat from an apparent infection. In that moment,…