California Report Recommendations Include State Office for Primary Care
Other ideas that emerged from fall 2023 summit meeting were a task force on primary care and health equity and a state scorecard on primary care
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Abortion Clinics — And Patients — Are on the Move, as State Laws Keep Shifting
Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in 2018, it shipped some of its equipment to states where abortion remained accessible. Recovery chairs, surgical equipment, and lighting from the Missouri clinic — all expensive and perfectly good — could still be useful to…
Blockbuster Novartis Drug Fails Key Test Hoped to Expand Its Use to Rare Blood Vessel Disorder
Novartis’s Cosentyx failed to beat a placebo in a Phase 3 clinical trial in giant cell arteritis. The antibody drug was being developed as an alternative to Roche and AbbVie drugs whose approved uses include treating this autoimmune disorder affecting blood vessels. The post Blockbuster Novartis Drug Fails Key Test Hoped to Expand Its Use…
Access to Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services: Women’s Views and Experiences from the 2024 KFF Women’s Health Survey
This analysis, based on findings from the 2024 KFF Women’s Health Survey, focuses on women with children ages 5 & under and their perceptions on how easy or difficult they feel it is to access a range of services that are important to the health of women and families, including maternity care, Medicaid coverage, food…
A Healthcare System’s Moral Bankruptcy Goes Viral
Brian Thompson’s murder was chilling, but the social media response of this tragedy was equally shocking, if eye-opening. It shows a massive collapse of public trust in our healthcare system, a system so broken that it bankrupts families, denies life-saving care, and treats death as an acceptable cost of doing business. The post A Healthcare…
Pete Hudson, Alta Partners & Transcarent Investor (Part 1)
Pete Hudson is one of the OGs of digital health. As an emergency room doc he was fed up with his friends bothering him with their medical problems and he created a tool called iTriage, which helped patients figure out what condition they had, and where to go to deal with it. This was fifteen…
Which Types of Patient Access Data Should Your Healthcare Practices Use to Improve Performance?
[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.
The Future of Drug Discovery is 3D
Improving the identification and validation of disease-specific drug targets in a cell-type and patient-specific manner early on will not only reduce the failure rate and cost that is so inherent in current drug development processes but also allow the development of more effective precision medicines, improving patient outcomes. The post The Future of Drug Discovery…
At CDC, Worries Mount That Agency Has Taken Anti-Science Turn
Public health and access to lifesaving vaccines are on the line in a high-stakes leadership battle at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s push to fire CDC director Susan Monarez is more than an administrative shake-up. The firing marks a major offensive by Kennedy to…
Why Ascend Learning Purchased Laudio
Acquisition builds on Ascend’s recent additions of myTIPreport and Clover Learning