President Donald Trump’s health officials want you to take your vitamins. Mehmet Oz, the nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has fed calves on camera to tout the health wonders of bovine colostrum on behalf of one purveyor in which he has a financial stake. Janette Nesheiwat, the potential surgeon general,…
GSK’s bepirovirsen met the main goal of two Phase 3 studies, achieving functional cure rates for patients with chronic hepatitis B infection after six months of treatment. This antisense oligonucleotide therapy could provide a treatment alternative to antiviral drugs that patients must take for life. The post GSK Gets Closer to Bringing Patients a Functional…
Most healthcare organizations are experimenting with AI. Few are preparing to manage AI agents as participants in everyday healthcare workflows. The post Healthcare Is Deploying AI Tools — It’s Not Ready for AI Colleagues appeared first on MedCity News.
In this month’s episode, Senior Reporter Katie Adams discussed some of the executive moves, exits and layoffs that recently occurred in the healthcare world. She also interviewed Amy Abernethy, who recently co-founded Highlander Health with fellow healthcare veteran Brad Hirsch. The post MedCity Moves Podcast: Recent Hires, Layoffs & an Interview with Amy Abernethy, Co-Founder…
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President Trump has been pursuing policies intended to entice drugmakers to bring manufacturing and jobs to the U.S. GSK’s announcement makes it the latest big pharma company to unveil a multi-billion dollar plan for new U.S. facilities. The post GSK Plans to Spend $30B on U.S. Manufacturing and R&D Infrastructure Over the Next 5 Years…
Jennifer Thompson, Medtronic’s vice president of U.S. aortic sales, detailed how AI is transforming medical device commercialization during a fireside chat at Reuters’ MedTech conference. The technology is helping teams identify patients, optimize their sales deployment and discover care bottlenecks. The post Medtronic Exec: AI Is Improving Device Launches & Patient Outcomes appeared first on…
The gap between how nicotine use has evolved and how cessation treatment has evolved is a meaningful part of why quit rates have plateaued. The post Smoking Cessation’s Quiet Design Failure appeared first on MedCity News.
Garner’s Series E round was led by Index Ventures with participation from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Thrive, Sequoia, Founders Fund and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. The post Garner Health Secures $100M to Connect Patients with High-Performing Doctors appeared first on MedCity News.
The Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention and several other organizations are urging employers to cover the “full range of evidence-based obesity care options,” including medical nutrition therapy, intensive behavioral therapy, surgery and medications. The post More than 65 Organizations Call on Workplaces to Provide Comprehensive Obesity Care Coverage appeared first on MedCity News.