When an attack or other issue occurs, the main difference between being down for months versus minutes or a day is having a mature and tested incident response plan. Without a plan, your cybersecurity team is flying blind, resulting in confusion and inefficiency that significantly slows your response time. The post How Healthcare Can Reduce…
By KIM BELLARD Chances are someone in your family is a gamer. Maybe you are a gamer yourself. After all, somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths of Americans play video games, and if you just looked at young men, it’d be closer to 100%. Grumpy older people don’t get it, complaining that gaming is just a…
Cleo will now be providing family caregiving support to Sonder Health Plans’ Medicare Advantage members. This includes connecting them with medical and social support. The post Sonder Health Plans Taps Cleo for Care Coordination & Family Caregiving Support appeared first on MedCity News.
The FDA published more than 200 complete response letters, the first step in what it describes as part of its effort to modernize the agency and improve transparency. But there are some caveats to the release of the FDA correspondence. The post Pledging ‘Radical Transparency,’ FDA Reveals Drug Rejection Letters — With Limits appeared first…
The CVS representative popped into Lisa Trumble’s third-floor Berkshire Medical Center hospital room in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to announce that everything was arranged for Trumble to return home, where she relies on IV nutrition because of severe intestinal problems that leave her unable to eat. That was on Tuesday, Oct. 8. The next morning a social…
This issue brief examines California’s Medicaid work requirement implementation plans to provide initial insight into how California is preparing to implement work requirements amid projected state budget shortfalls and changes in the 2025 reconciliation law.
Wisp patients enrolled in its weight care program can now access nutrition counseling services with Nourish. The post Wisp Teams Up with Nourish to Combine GLP-1s with Nutrition Counseling appeared first on MedCity News.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ dordaviprone, brand name Modeyso, is now the first FDA-approved therapy for recurrent H3 K27M-mutant diffuse midline glioma. The drug came from Jazz’s $935 million acquisition of Chimerix earlier this year. The post Rare and Aggressive Brain Cancer Affecting Children Gets Its First FDA-Approved Drug appeared first on MedCity News.
That is the title of my most recent paper published in Clinical Lung Cancer with co-authors Mark Danese, Melissa Laurie, Beata Korytowsky, Shane Jordan, Debbie Ryan and Sukhmani K. Padda. The study abstract is below. ObjectiveThis study examined brain metastases among patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC), characterizing prevalence, use of brain imaging,…
By KIM BELLARD It probably didn’t show up on your calendar, but Monday was World Ocean Day. It’s a day meant to catalyze “collective action for a healthy ocean and a stable climate,” and has been around since 2002 (although the U.N. didn’t officially recognize it until 2008). Its website claims a network of over…