By GABRIELLE GOLDBLATT Highly relevant, high-resolution data streams are essential to high-stakes decision making across industries. You wouldn’t expect an investment banker making deals without full market visibility or a grocery store to stock shelves without data on what’s selling and what’s not—so why are we not leaning more into data-driven approaches in healthcare? Sensor-based…
Patients who were previously facing challenges like needing oxygen after just a few steps or struggling with breathlessness from simple movements are finding new possibilities for daily life. The post Endobronchial Valves Help Advanced COPD and Emphysema Patients Breathe Easier appeared first on MedCity News.
Isomorphic Labs’ financing led the way for first quarter 2025 financings, but it comes amid headwinds for the biotech sector. Biotech financing activity has been slowing down, analysts say. The post An AI Biotech Hauls In $600M, Plus More Funding Highlights to Close 1Q 2025 appeared first on MedCity News.
According to the World Health Organization, “Three distinguishing features, when combined, turn mere variations or differences in health into a social inequity in health. They are systematic, socially produced (and therefore modifiable) and unfair. That is how an ISPOR Special Interest Group Report by Griffiths et al. (2025) begins. The health equity primer provides and…
It takes a lot of courage to grow old. I’ve come to appreciate this after conversations with hundreds of older adults over the past eight years for nearly 200 “Navigating Aging” columns. Time and again, people have described what it’s like to let go of certainties they once lived with and adjust to new circumstances….
This brief provides five key facts on Medicaid and immigrants as context for understanding the potential impacts of policy changes under the Trump administration.
From the CMS document “Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program: Selected Drugs for Initial Price Applicability Year 2027“: On January 17, 2025, CMS announced the selection of the below list of 15 drugs covered under Medicare Part D for the second cycle of negotiations (initial price applicability year 2027), based on total gross covered prescription drug…
By MIKE MAGEE My father and Arnold Palmer had a great deal in common – and none of it involved golf. They were both men of faith and lived into their 80’s. My father was Catholic, and Arnold Palmer was Presbyterian. But on the day that Palmer died (September 25, 2016), Benedictine Archabbot Douglas R….
Among the investor judges for the track at INVEST, scheduled for May 20-21 in Chicago are Raffi Boyajian, of Cigna Ventures; Jane Suh of Alley Corp; and Ed Weklar of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. The post Which AI Health Tech Startups Will Present at INVEST Pitch Perfect Contest appeared first on…