Leading in healthcare when the odds are stacked against you is not about eliminating the challenges. It is about meeting them without losing sight of the reason we chose this profession in the first place. The post Leading Quality Care When The Odds Are Stacked Against You appeared first on MedCity News.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) created the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (DPNP). The aim of the program is to reduce the cost of pharmaceuticals for Medicare. A key question is how are investors viewing this policy and how is it impacting their investment decisions. A paper by Canestaro, Patterson and Campbell (2025) aimed to…
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Jerry Qualls had a heart attack in 2022 and was rushed by ambulance to Holston Valley Medical Center, where he was hospitalized for a week and kept alive by a ventilator and blood pump, according to his medical records. His wife, Katherine Qualls, said his doctors offered little hope. In an interview…
Novo Nordisk’s monlunabant showed signs of neuropsychiatric side effects in a mid-stage diabetic kidney disease study, despite a drug design intended to favor hitting its target receptor in peripheral tissues rather than the brain. Neuro effects were also reported last year in a Phase 2 test of this pill in obesity. The post Oral Metabolic…
Dr. Cunningham weighed in on a variety of subjects, including elements of technology and virtual care that burden primary care physicians, as well as technologies that are suitable for remote monitoring of older patients. The post 7 Takeaways From a Fireside Chat with Providence’s Chief of Virtual Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Innovative transplant diagnostics and novel paradigms that give a clearer picture of a recipient’s immune system at various phases of the transplant journey can enable transplant teams to mitigate some of these challenges and make more accurate and faster donor assessments, as well as more informed and patient-centric decisions post-transplant. The post Harnessing Innovative Transplant…
The debate over which doctors are best qualified to perform cosmetic surgery — and who gets the best results for patients — has raged for decades. Here’s why: A state-issued medical license grants a physician what a Federation of State Medical Boards policy statement called the “privilege of practicing the full breadth of medicine.” That…
SIKESTON, Mo. — At age 79, Nannetta Forrest, whose father, Cleo Wright, was lynched in Sikeston, Missouri, before she was born, wonders how the decades-long silence that surrounded his death in 1942 influenced her life. In 2020, Sikeston police killed another young Black man, 23-year-old Denzel Taylor. Taylor’s shooting death immediately made local headlines, but…
Little Otter’s $9.5 million fundraise included participation from Pivotal Ventures, Torch Capital, Springbank, CRV, Next Legacy, G9, Gratitude Railroad and Carrie Walton Penner’s Fiore Ventures. The company has raised more than $36 million to date. The post Little Otter Raises $9.5M for Family Mental Health appeared first on MedCity News.
Health economics and outcomes research has already started to use AI tools such as large language models (LLM) across a diverse set of study types, including systematic literature reviews (SLR), health economic modelling (HEM) and real-world evidence (RWE). In SLRs, LLMs can assist with abstract and full-text screening, bias assessment, data extraction, and automating meta-analysis…