Acquiring FarmboxRx will help Pyx Health tackle food insecurity, a challenge many of its members struggle with. The post Pyx Health Acquires FarmboxRx With $47.5M Funding Boost appeared first on MedCity News.
More than a million times a year, a U.S. surgeon slices open a knee, strips out worn cartilage, caps the leg bones with metal, and drops in a plastic spacer to allow the new joint to glide. While knee replacement procedures have become standard, however, the prices charged have not. At Catawba Valley Medical Center…
A new breed of cosmetic surgery chains, some backed by private equity investors, are competing for a slice of the nation’s growing body-contouring market. The chains sell an array of body-reshaping operations, such as “Mommy Makeovers” and liposuction, targeting customers willing to pay up to $20,000 out-of-pocket for a new figure. A joint investigation by…
AstraZeneca’s Baxfendy is the first FDA-approved drug in a new class of medicines called aldosterone synthase inhibitors. The new mechanism of action is important for patients and for AstraZeneca, which has been looking for new drugs with blockbuster potential as its top cardiometabolic medicine faces patent expiration. The post FDA Approves AstraZeneca Drug With New…
By integrating digitization and machine learning, there is an opportunity to deliver personalized care to all patients and scale precision dosing with minimal physician involvement, maximizing the effectiveness and accessibility of these drugs. The post Side Effects are Limiting GLP-1 Drug Efficacy: How Can Personalization Offer a Solution? appeared first on MedCity News.
Highmark Health recently announced a partnership with AI technology company Abridge to deploy its ambient clinical documentation platform across Allegheny Health Network and co-develop a new prior authorization solution. The post Highmark Health, Abridge Partner to Scale AI for Payers/Providers appeared first on MedCity News.
This guide provides an overview of executive orders and other executive actions made by the Trump Administration since January 21, 2025 that directly address or affect U.S. global health efforts. This resource identifies each executive action, describes its purpose and actions taken, and outlines the implications and what happens next for each. The resource will…
By EMMANUEL SARKEES Arizona consistently ranks among the states with the highest uninsured rates in the nation. Over 800,000 residents lack health coverage, a number shaped not by failure, but by a consistency of structural, geographic, financial, and linguistic barriers that have been poorly addressed for decades. What makes Arizona’s situation this severe is that…
This brief reviews some of the possible actions of the incoming Trump administration and new Congress based on campaign statements, policies implemented by the first Trump administration, and proposals forwarded by allied conservative think tanks and antiabortion advocacy groups.
KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed how cuts to Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s megabill will affect Americans’ access to health care on NPR’s “Up First,” CNN’s “CNN This Morning” and WNYC’s “The Brian Lehrer Show” on July 2. Rovner also discussed U.S. domestic and global vaccine policy on WAMU’s “1A” on July…