Barbara Tuszynski was concerned about her vision but confident in her insurance coverage when she went to an eye clinic last May. The retiree, 70, was diagnosed with glaucoma in her right eye in 2019. She had a laser procedure to treat it in 2022, and she uses medicated drops in both eyes to prevent…
A new features from AI companies, like ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare, aim to provide personalized health guidance, but may still provide wrong or dangerous health advice. And, as the U.S. experiences a severe flu season, a vaccine-strain mismatch may be contributing to misconceptions that flu vaccines are ineffective.
On October 8, 2024, Vice President Harris has proposed to expand Medicare to provide home care to help families who are struggling with the costs of long-term care. If enacted, this would be the first major expansion of Medicare since the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 that added a prescription drug benefit to the program.
One of the greatest baseball announcers of all time passed away today. Bob Uecker. The voice of the Milwaukee Brewers. Mr. Baseball. He was certainly the ‘soundtrack to summer’ growing up in Wisconsin. For Brewers fans like me, his calls are those of Brewers history and lore. Brewers TV play-by-play announcer Brian Anderson recalls some…
Acquisition advances Harbor Health’s strategy to expand its condition-focused care pathways and strengthen the Texas-based company’s integrated model
Prescriptions, GLP-1s and cancer are major contributors to employers’ healthcare costs, according to a new survey from the Business Group on Health. The post Business Group on Health: Healthcare Costs Expected to Surge at Highest Rate in 15 Years appeared first on MedCity News.
The Trump administration has given notice that political appointees, rather than scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research funder — the federal government’s National Institutes of Health. In an Aug. 7 executive order, President Donald Trump announced that political officers would have the power to summarily cancel any…
Protagonist Therapeutics’ drug rusfertide reduced the need for phlebotomies as a way to treat the rare blood cancer polycythemia vera. Longer-term Phase 3 data for the Takeda Pharmaceutical-partnered peptide drug were presented during the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology. The post Shining Light on How Protagonist, Takeda Drug Brings Treatment of a…
House Republicans have passed a reconciliation package (the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) that would make significant changes to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces and increase the number of people without health insurance by an estimated 10.9 million. This analysis estimates state-level increases in the number of uninsured people due to this…