This opinion article was originally published in STAT: A failing health care system caused my husband’s death. His care team was incredibly kind, but they lacked the resources to save his life. On Tuesday, September 17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and the Agency for Healthcare…
The FDA has proposed removing oral phenylephrine from its guidelines for over-the-counter drugs due to inefficacy as a decongestant. Use of this ingredient in cold and allergy medicines grew after a federal law required that pseudoephedrine-containing products be kept behind pharmacy counters. The post FDA Takes Step Toward Removal of Ineffective Decongestants From the Market…
Lydia Romero se esforzaba por escuchar la voz débil de su esposo al teléfono. Una semana antes, agentes de inmigración apresaron a Julio César Peña delante de su casa en Glendale, California, y se lo llevaron. Ahora estaba en un hospital, después de haber sufrido un mini derrame cerebral. Le dijo a Romero que lo…
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have largely different healthcare policies. However, there are some areas where they have similarities, like healthcare costs. The post On Healthcare, Trump and Harris Actually Have Some Similarities appeared first on MedCity News.
In today’s healthcare landscape, credibility doesn’t come from an agency logo. It comes from an idea that lands, a brand platform that manifests quickly, and results that speak for themselves. The post Your Healthcare Startup Is Built for Speed and Agility — Your Agency Should Be Too appeared first on MedCity News.
When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on rats to support its action. The industry-funded study, based on data from two prior studies, was led by…
Goal is to create a ‘unified voice to shape healthcare policies, ensuring that telehealth and digital therapeutics remain integral components of the U.S. healthcare system’
By DAVID SHAYWITZ Our current system of delivering care is awful from the perspective of seemingly every stakeholder. It frustrates, enrages, saddens, and depletes patients and physicians alike. No one designed it this way. It evolved through a series of choices and contingencies that perhaps made sense at the time but now seem to have…
Amid political and medical disagreements, the report emphasizes potential health risks
By KIM BELLARD I feel much about synthetic biology as I do AI: I don’t really understand it from a technical point of view, but I sure am excited about its potential. Sometimes they even overlap, as I’ll discuss later. But I’ll start with some recent developments with bioplastics, a topic I have somehow never…