Responding to a question about rural hospital closures, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about an innovation that he erroneously ascribed to the Cleveland Clinic. The post RFK Jr: Cleveland Clinic Has Developed an AI Nurse; The Clinic: Uh, Not True (Video) appeared first on MedCity News.
The women’s health market offers enormous potential for investment and innovation. While challenges related to systemic inequalities remain, progress in venture capital funding is encouraging. Likewise, the overall increase in patent filings related to breast cancer, endometriosis, and other conditions appears to reflect a growing interest in women’s health. The post Latest Patent News In…
This resource provides an overview of where the U.S. operates bilateral global health programs by country and region.
In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, where small towns have few dentists, water officials who serve more than 20,000 people have for more than a decade openly defied state law by refusing to add fluoride to the drinking water. For its refusal, the Ozark Mountain Regional Public Water Authority has received hundreds of state…
President Donald Trump’s health officials want you to take your vitamins. Mehmet Oz, the nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has fed calves on camera to tout the health wonders of bovine colostrum on behalf of one purveyor in which he has a financial stake. Janette Nesheiwat, the potential surgeon general,…
Catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE) are highly problematic for families are are unequally distributed throughout society. However, how can we quantify the incidence, intensity and inequality of CHE in a society? A paper by Ogwang and Mwabu (2025) provide one methodology by using the Watts poverty measure and adapting it to measure CHE. We first describe…
By MIKE MAGEE Whether you’re talking health, environment, technology or politics, the common denominator these days appears to be information. And the injection of AI, not surprisingly, has managed to reinforce our worst fears about information overload and misinformation. As the “godfather of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, confessed as he left Google after a decade of…
The actual science is far from the apocalyptic scenario we’ve been led to believe and demonstrates clearly that much of the media rhetoric is rooted far more in fear than in fact. The post Microplastics and Our Health: What Does the Science Say? appeared first on MedCity News.
These global health budget summaries highlight key information about global health funding levels throughout the federal budget and appropriations process.
Now, more than ever, healthcare organizations must strive to innovate to ensure continuous patient care delivery while keeping medical staff safe. The post Healthcare Organizations Can, and Should, Provide Continuous Patient Care with the Right Technology appeared first on MedCity News.