NYU Langone Health is partnering with Isaac Health to launch a specialist-led virtual care model aimed at reducing long waits for memory care. The partnership will test whether telehealth can expand access without sacrificing quality as demand for neurologists continues to outpace supply. The post NYU Langone Taps Isaac Health for New Virtual Dementia Care…
Taya Hailstone has been in remission from childhood Hodgkin lymphoma for five years. But the cancer’s lasting damage to her organs and nerves can make basic tasks, like loading a dishwasher, hard. Still, Montana’s health department decided last year that Hailstone is no longer eligible for low-cost disability health coverage through Medicaid. The department switched…
Joseph Shea, who sells athletic wear in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, wonders and worries about the food he eats. The chemical ingredients with mystifying names. The references on product labels to unspecified natural or artificial flavors. The junk food that fits his budget but feels addictive and makes him feel unwell. Shea, one of 1,310…
Fact sheet examining actions taken by the Trump administration and their impact on global health security and pandemic preparedness.
Scrub Typhus Table of Contents Scrub Typhus: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention It starts like any other fever. You wake up with body aches, a headache that won’t go away, and a temperature that keeps rising. You assume it’s the seasonal flu, maybe dengue, or just exhaustion from the changing weather. A few tablets later,…
issue brief provides an overview of actions by the Trump administration and Congress that are likely to affect lawfully present immigrants’ access to health coverage and care, including new restrictions on eligibility for coverage and services as well as changes in immigration enforcement and other policies.
Chronic wounds demand clinicians willing to act outside of their defined role, not because the system incentivizes it, but because without it, the wound will not heal. The post The Silent Epidemic: Why Diabetic Foot Ulcers Have Been Overlooked for Three Decades appeared first on MedCity News.
Why were drugs not included in Medicare in 1965? And the answer is, because drugs didn’t matter. They were not all that good, and they didn’t do a lot… We now see pharmaceutical care as the heart of treating someone; not so then. Steven Grossman, Executive Director – Alliance for a Stronger FDA It’s amazing…
LISTEN: AI scribes are changing medical care. Here’s what to know if the technology shows up at your next doctor’s appointment. Family physician Eric Boose has been using an artificial intelligence tool to get back to what he calls “old-fashioned medicine” — talking with patients face-to-face, without having to type into a computer at the…
Astellas secured an exclusive option to license global rights to an AviadoBio gene therapy in development as a one-time treatment for a certain type of frontotemporal dementia. A Phase 1/2 test of the AviadoBio gene therapy is ongoing. The post Another Astellas Gene Therapy Deal, This Time $50M for Option on AviadoBio Dementia Program appeared…