In response to the high price of prescription drugs, “An Arm and a Leg” asked listeners to share their strategies for getting the medicine they need at prices they can manage. Host Dan Weissmann and producers Emily Pisacreta and Claire Davenport share tips from a retired hospital manager who now helps seniors find the right…
Venteur’s $20 million funding round was led by Informed Ventures and American Family Ventures. In total, the company has raised $30 million. The post Venteur Raises $20M To Help Employers Administer ICHRAs appeared first on MedCity News.
Eli Lilly is licensing rights to a Phase 1-ready antibody that startup Alchemab developed for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders. Lilly’s pipeline has ALS drug candidates from previous deals with QurAlis and Verge Genomics. The post Eli Lilly Turns to Alchemab to Add Another AI-Discovered ALS Drug Prospect appeared first on MedCity News.
As organizations dive further into their datasets and explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can help reveal new insights, one thing must remain at the forefront: data quality. The post Data-Driven Transformation: The Role of Data Quality in Accelerating Healthcare Performance appeared first on MedCity News.
SIKESTON, Mo. — For residents of Sikeston, as for Black Americans around the country, speaking openly about experiences with racial violence can be taboo and, in some cases, forbidden. As a child, Larry McClellon’s mother told him not to ask too many questions about the 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright in their hometown of Sikeston….
The federal government scaled back its recommended childhood vaccines, sidelining six that have safeguarded millions from serious diseases, long-term disability, and death. Just three of those that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it will no longer routinely recommend — against hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and rotavirus — have prevented nearly 2 million hospitalizations and 90,000 deaths in the…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — April Hines has battled with her weight since she was a teenager. But in the past couple of years, she’s fallen from 600 pounds to 385, and her blood pressure and blood sugar levels are down, too. “I’m not as fatigued as I used to be, and I’ve been able to go…
By MATTHEW HOLT I was having a fight on Twitter this week and it hit me. America 2024 is Japan 1989. The topic of the fight was right-wing VC Peter Thiel. In 2001 he put a ton of Paypal stock allegedly worth less than $2,000 into a Roth IRA. The Roth IRA was designed so…
This chart collection examines five types of indicators: outcomes of treatment, provision of appropriate treatment, patient safety, preventive services, and health system capacity and workforce shortages. Measuring quality in health care is complex: a vast number of metrics are used to monitor health system performance since there is no singular definition of quality, and data…
By JEFF GOLDSMITH In the first part of our look at Arnold Ventures, we explored its business model and generous support of elite University health policy experts to further an ambitious health policy agenda. In this second part, we will explore some of the questions raised by Arnold’s aggressive approach. Zack Cooper is an Associate Professor…