KINGSTREE, S.C. — One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four years after catching covid-19, still is too weak to drive. Louvenia McKinney, 77, arrived complaining about shortness of breath. Ponzella McClary brought her…
On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. The call was from a woman at the Florida landscaping business that he had joined that week, the Davey Tree Expert Co., Ramones said. By the time she arrived, she said, “My brother was swollen up…
Seaport Therapeutics’ Series B financing was one of the largest rounds of funding in our recap of biotech financing news, which spans startups developing drugs for neurological diseases, cancer, immunology, and more. The post Seaport Therapeutics Secures $225M for New Kind of Depression Drug appeared first on MedCity News.
We should use AI to develop recommendations for breast cancer screening protocols based on quantified risk, factoring in family history, ethnicity, genetics, and density, et al. – and then support the use of powerful new imaging AI technologies for those cases that demand a deeper look. The post Navigating the Breast Cancer Screening Debate: The…
At HLTH 2024, I had dozens of conversations with providers, investors and digital health startup executives. Here are seven refreshingly honest takes I heard from them. The post 7 Hot Takes I Heard at HLTH appeared first on MedCity News.
The new standards emphasize the need for strong reporting and analytics that go beyond just credentialing automation. Healthcare organizations must look for solutions with comprehensive self-serve reporting capabilities to improve access and visibility into activities like potential changes to data, monitoring gaps, and more. The post NCQA’s Updated 2025 Standards Have Published: What it Means…
By MIKE MAGEE My father and Arnold Palmer had a great deal in common – and none of it involved golf. They were both men of faith and lived into their 80’s. My father was Catholic, and Arnold Palmer was Presbyterian. But on the day that Palmer died (September 25, 2016), Benedictine Archabbot Douglas R….
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…
This brief provides an overview of racial disparities for selected measures of maternal and infant health, discusses the factors that drive these disparities, and gives an overview of recent efforts to address them.
Explore an overview of the Mexico City Policy, which, when last in effect, required foreign NGOs to certify that they would not “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning” using funds from any source (including non-U.S. funds) as a condition for receiving most U.S. government global health assistance.