Alkermes is chasing Takeda Pharmaceutical, whose orexin receptor-targeting pill is on track to become first in a new class of narcolepsy medicines. Blair Jackson, chief operating officer of the neuroscience biotech, says Alkermes’s drug offers advantages and also paves the way to bring orexin agonism to other indications. The post Neuroscience Biotech Alkermes Sees Narcolepsy…
Many great ideas fail because of a fundamental misunderstanding or underestimation of the unique barriers entrenched within healthcare. Here are some key considerations that innovators from non-healthcare backgrounds need to be prepared for. The post The Long Road to Adoption: What Founders Need to Know Before Breaking into Health Tech appeared first on MedCity News.
If we gut school-based care, we’re not only closing doors, we’re also deepening the racial and economic inequities that already shape our mental health system. We can’t claim to care about equity in healthcare if we’re willing to strip care from the very places that reach the kids who need it most. The post The…
Jacob Sweidan ha visto a sus pacientes superar las redadas federales de inmigración de la década de 1990, el pedido de un gobernador para abolir la ciudadanía por nacimiento y las muy publicitadas medidas represivas en el lugar de trabajo y las políticas de separación familiar del primer mandato del presidente Donald Trump. Pero en…
This issue brief examines California’s Medicaid work requirement implementation plans to provide initial insight into how California is preparing to implement work requirements amid projected state budget shortfalls and changes in the 2025 reconciliation law.
At JPM25, Nvidia announced four new partnerships focused on scaling AI models across the healthcare industry. The company is teaming up with Mayo Clinic, Illumina, IQVIA and Arc Institute. The post Nvidia Announces Partnerships with Mayo Clinic, Illumina & More at JPM25 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…
They work in neighborhood clinics, community-based organizations, churches, housing facilities, and schools, or engage by phone or video calls. Their approach is based on local context and guided by culturally sensitive, person-centered strategies. The post Empowering Community Health Workers: The Unsung Heroes Transforming Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
This brief describes Trump Administration efforts to scale back or modify data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity variables in federal surveys. It specifically focuses on changes in three national surveys that are representative of these efforts: the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), and the National Crime Victimization…
Rising health care costs and the impending expiration of expanded Obamacare subsidies fueled the record-setting government shutdown that ended this week. But there’s another driver of escalating costs and prices playing out in a far broader, more impactful way: the rapid consolidation of insurers, hospital systems, doctors’ groups, and pharmacies into behemoths, effectively giving them…