Hace apenas unos años, los niños con diabetes tipo 1 iban a la enfermería de la escuela varias veces al día para que les pincharan un dedo y ver si su nivel de azúcar en sangre era peligrosamente alto o bajo. La llegada del monitor continuo de glucosa (MCG) hizo que eso ya no fuera…
Vida Health partnered with Instacart to provide members with grocery stipends for healthy foods, expanding access to nutrition support as part of cardiometabolic care. The post Vida Health Teams Up with Instacart to Expand Access to Nutritious Food appeared first on MedCity News.
If you get sick in America, there’s a good chance you’ll end up in debt. Four in 10 U.S. adults have some form of health-care debt, KFF has found. One surprising risk: living in a community where hospitals have consolidated — an increasingly common development as health systems merge or large systems gobble up smaller hospitals. That’s…
Radiotherapy, China’s biotech surge and AI’s role in drug discovery are notable topics that emerged from conversations on the ground floor. The post Three Key Takeaways from the 43rd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference appeared first on MedCity News.
Tortugas Neurosciences’ two lead programs are in-licensed oral small molecules in development for schizophrenia and tinnitus. The startup is led by veterans of Sage Therapeutics, a neuroscience biotech that was acquired last year. The post Neuro Startup Tortugas Unveils $106M and a Pipeline of Drugs for the Brain appeared first on MedCity News.
While the Pap identifies the cell changes, the HPV test determines the root cause before those changes even happen. Both tests have saved lives. But they are not interchangeable, and treating them as such puts the patient at risk. The post The Terminology Gap Undermining Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines appeared first on MedCity News.
By MICHAEL MILLENSON “Money changes everything,” Cyndi Lauper famously sang about love to a pulsating rock ‘n’ roll beat. So, too, when it comes to financial incentives for surgeons, two new studies suggest, although “How much money?” and “What do I have to do?” are the keys to unlocking monetary motivation. The first study, a…
That is the title of a paper published today in Current Medical Research and Opinion with co-authors Nadine Zawadzki, Moises Marin, Ivana Audhya, Lauren Sedita, Natasha Kulkarni and Alexa Klimchak. The abstract is below. ObjectivesQuantify caregiver risk preferences to inform the “value of hope” for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) therapies affecting time to loss of…
The Pink Sheet reports on a new international health technology assessment (HTA) body: Health Economics Methods Advisory group (HEMA). The Health Economics Methods Advisory group (HEMA) is a new, independent group of health technology assessment agencies from the US, England and Canada that will work together to develop recommendations on adopting novel health economic methods…
Pediatric innovation in mental health is the theme of the INVEST Digital Health Pitch Perfect contest at Pegasus Park in Dallas on September 18. The post Where is Pediatric Innovation Making an Impact? appeared first on MedCity News.