HHS: Ransomware Group Everest Targeting Healthcare Sector
HHS and the AHA caution the healthcare field of Russian ransomware group Everest, which utilizes compromised user accounts and remote access tools to gain access to systems
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BridgeBio Oncology to Go Public in SPAC Deal Bringing $450M+ for Trio of Cancer Drugs
Clinical-stage BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics, whose financial backers include Cormorant Asset Management, is going public by merging with a Cormorant-sponsored SPAC. The combined company will continue developing drugs targeting various forms of mutated KRAS proteins that drive cancers. The post BridgeBio Oncology to Go Public in SPAC Deal Bringing $450M+ for Trio of Cancer Drugs appeared…
Syringe Exchange Fears Hobble Fight Against West Virginia HIV Outbreak
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine. Infectious disease experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a list of recommendations following their visit, including one to…
Report: Global Medical Costs Projected to Rise by 10.4% in 2025
Global medical costs are expected to rise by double digits for the third year in a row, according to a recent survey from WTW. The post Report: Global Medical Costs Projected to Rise by 10.4% in 2025 appeared first on MedCity News.
The increasing health and economic cost of natural disasters
On this blog we most often talk about health care issues related to chronic and acute conditions, health behaviors and public health. However, there is another dimension that is vital to health: avoiding natural disasters. Unfortunately, natural disasters appear to having an increasing impact in the US across the past decades. Between 1980-2024, 16,941 people…
CMS RFI Offers View of How AI Could Impact Medicare Experience
Agency looking to deploy artificial intelligence across both digital and voice channels
Journalists Talk Hot Health Topics: Urgent Care Clinics Performing Abortions and Doulas’ Pay
KFF Health News Michigan correspondent Kate Wells discussed urgent care clinics offering abortions on Apple News Today on April 15. Click here to hear Wells on Apple News Today. Read Wells’ “Urgent Care Clinics Move To Fill Abortion Care Gaps in Rural Areas.” KFF Health News Montana correspondent Katheryn Houghton discussed doula Medicaid reimbursements on…
Tracking State Actions on Vaccine Policy and Access
With recent federal actions to curtail vaccine access, many states have announced actions intended to maintain broader access. This issue brief provides a snapshot of this rapidly changing landscape, tracking which states have instituted changes in response to or in anticipation of administration policy changes.
Long-Term Care Facilities Must Provide Addiction Care, Advocates Say
When you think about the opioid crisis, the image of adults in their 20s, 30s, even sometimes those who are middle-aged, may come to mind. Rightly so, since most overdose deaths occur in people between ages 25 and 64. But did you know older adults are increasingly at risk of overdosing from opioids, too? In fact, from 2021…
Florida’s Deloitte-Run Computer System Cut Off New Moms Entitled to Medicaid
In mid-May, Mandi Rokx had a 3-month-old baby and a letter from a Florida agency warning that they both would be cut from Medicaid, the health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities. Under a Florida law passed in 2021, Rokx was supposed to receive 12 months of continuous coverage after giving birth….