“An Arm and a Leg” updates a popular episode from 2019 — a story about giving. In 1980, a young father named Denny Buehler was battling leukemia and needed to travel from Ohio to Seattle for treatment. To raise money for the trip, his friends and family organized a softball tournament. Denny passed away a…
Controversial figure Robert F. Kennedy has been announced as Trump’s HHS Secretary nominee
This responsibility goes beyond mere box-ticking; it requires a deep, introspective examination of our own biases and blind spots and a genuine commitment to putting the well-being of the communities we serve first. The post In the Pharmaceutical Industry, Ethics are Still More Valuable Than AI appeared first on MedCity News.
MedCity INVEST is a boutique healthcare investor conference scheduled for May 20-21 at the Willis Tower in Chicago. Register today! The post Time is Running Out to Join the Healthcare Innovation Conversation at INVEST 2025 appeared first on MedCity News.
Through a new partnership, Thatch’s employer customers can now offer Teal Health’s at-home cervical cancer screening as an employee benefit through an ICHRA. The post Teal Health Teams Up With Thatch to Expand Access to Cervical Cancer Screening appeared first on MedCity News.
This analysis examines what the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiative has done to date and what its future might look like under the second Trump administration.
Ensuring buy-in from end users is critical to hospitals’ AI success. To achieve buy-in, hospitals should start by adopting AI tools that address the problems that physicians and nurses have identified as most important to them, said Rohit Chandra, chief digital officer at Cleveland Clinic. The post Cleveland Clinic Digital Chief: Pick AI Problems That…
Not really. At least according a study by Wilson et al. 2025 in Science. In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that they enjoyed doing mundane external activities much more, and that many preferred to…
That is the title of a paper recently published in AJMC with co-authors Suhail Thahir, Alexa Klimchak, Ivana Audhya, Lauren Sedita, and John A. Romley. The abstract is below. Objectives: To quantify the magnitude of altruism value as applied to a hypothetical new treatment for a rare, severe pediatric disease: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Study Design: Prospective…
This analysis presents key facts about hospitals with more than 40 charts related to national spending on hospital care, characteristics of the hospital industry, rural hospitals, use of hospital care, out-of-pocket spending and medical debt, hospital prices, hospital finances, and charity care.