In St. Louis, a team of students aboard a well-equipped van visits senior centers, a nursing home, a church, and other sites, learning to conduct comprehensive, hourlong geriatric assessments. The team — future doctors, social workers, psychologists, and therapists — looks for such common problems as frailty, muscle weakness, and cognitive decline. The patients they…
Vice President Kamala Harris, now on the presidential campaign trail, is making inroads with a key voting bloc: Black women, who are rallying behind her because of her work on issues such as preserving abortion access, curbing gun violence and reducing maternal deaths. What has become clear is not just that this voting group supports…
Through a new partnership, Aeroflow Health is offering Cigna members access to registered dietitians and nutrition support. The post Cigna Taps Aeroflow Health for Virtual Nutrition Services appeared first on MedCity News.
GREELEY, Colorado — A principios de agosto, trabajadores agrícolas se reunieron en un parque de Greeley para celebrar con un picnic el Día de Apreciación del Trabajador Agrícola. Un signo de que este año fue diferente de los anteriores fue el menú: fajitas de res, tortillas, pico de gallo, chips, frijoles… pero sin pollo. Las…
While some may be concerned that AI will take away jobs, some healthcare executives noted on a panel that the technology will just change jobs. The post Adapting to AI in Healthcare: We’re No Strangers to Technology Adoption, Exec Says appeared first on MedCity News.
Gilead Sciences’ Tubulis acquisition brings antibody drug conjugates in clinical development for cancer. Analysts say the Tubulis platform technologies that yielded these ADCs could also help Gilead develop drugs in other therapeutic areas. The post Gilead’s Pipeline Strategy Takes Shape With $3B Acquisition of Cancer Biotech Tubulis appeared first on MedCity News.
[Sponsored] Giving patients all the information they need to make informed decisions is crucial. However, common challenges often keep medical teams from achieving that. The post Health Care Technology And Tactics For Addressing Gaps In Patient Communication appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief describes five key takeaways from CMS’s Notice of Funding Opportunity for the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program. It includes information about how CMS intends to review state applications and distribute funds and ongoing questions about the impact on rural hospitals, the distribution of funds across rural hospitals and states, and issues related…
Check out news from Oral Genome, BeMe Health, Noetik, and Vouched. The post StartUPDATES: New Developments from Healthcare Startups appeared first on MedCity News.
KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their own funds to cover undocumented immigrants.