Under the settlement, Genevant Sciences and Arbutus Biopharma will grant Moderna a non-exclusive license to their lipid nanoparticle technology for mRNA delivery in infectious disease vaccines. If Moderna’s full financial payout to the companies is reached, it would rank among the largest disclosed patent settlements in biopharmaceutical industry history. The post Moderna to Pay Up…
Healthcare’s next frontier isn’t policy reform or payment reform. It’s experience reform — reimagining every touchpoint between members, providers, and plans through the lens of design and empathy. The post If People Can Use TikTok, Why Can’t They Use Healthcare? appeared first on MedCity News.
What does AI mean for patients in bed and doctors at the bedside? Host Chip Kahn and guest Dr. Robert Wachter, Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, discuss whether AI will produce a different kind of doctor in the future — a “clinician curator rather than a clinician-diagnostician.”…
This State and Federal Reproductive Rights Litigation tracker aggregates information about ongoing litigation regarding abortion bans and restrictions, FDA approval of Mifepristone (an abortion pill) and other federal regulations.
Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for evaluating treatment efficacy, but effectiveness in the real-world may vary. One reason for this is that clinical trials often have stricter inclusion criteria than is the case for the target treated population. Policymakers, payers, and clinicians may wonder how well the results from the narrower clinical trial…
Minnesota lawmakers are wrestling with how to sustain the state’s financially distressed hospitals while patients confront growing medical debt. One Minnesota lawmaker wants to steer money from an existing healthcare tax back to hospitals so they can expand their charity care programs for patients who can’t afford their bills. The proposal follows a Minnesota Star…
By KIM BELLARD As you may have heard, the federal government is currently shut down, although for many federal workers – those deemed “essential” – that just means they keep on working but don’t get paid (and, in fact, some might never get paid). The cause is the now-standard failure of Congress to pass a…
BOULDER, Colo. — Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first “healing centers,” where the mushrooms can be ingested under supervision, in late spring or early summer. The dawn of state-regulated psychedelic mushrooms has arrived in Colorado, nearly two years since Oregon began offering them. The…
Fawad Butt, CEO of Penguin Ai, gave his candid thoughts on where the healthcare AI market is headed, including how data leakage could be fueling smarter AI models and the limits of agentic AI in enterprise settings. The post Why Agentic AI is Useful But Limited & Other Hot Takes on the AI Market appeared…