CMS Proposes Reforms to Speed Patient Access to Drugs
The proposed regulations extend electronic prior authorization requirements to medications
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Revolution Medicines Reports ‘Unprecedented’ Survival in Pivotal Pancreatic Cancer Trial
Revolutions Medicines’ daraxonrasib met the main goals of its Phase 3 test in pancreatic cancer, posting results that were both statistically significant and clinically meaningful. The company now plans to file for speedy regulatory approval under a new FDA pilot program. The post Revolution Medicines Reports ‘Unprecedented’ Survival in Pivotal Pancreatic Cancer Trial appeared first…
The AI Value Gap and Why Validation is a Practical First Win for Life Sciences
While many AI conversations revolve around regulated industry transformation, the question is where to actually start in a way that does not break trust, budgets or regulatory limits. The post The AI Value Gap and Why Validation is a Practical First Win for Life Sciences appeared first on MedCity News.
OHSU Exec Highlights the Value of Practice-Based Research Networks
Melinda Davis, Ph.D., leads Oregon Rural Practice-Based Research Network’s interventions to improve health equity in rural and low-resourced settings
Trust Before Triage: Why I Let the Patient Help Write the Agenda
The patient’s voice should be an entry point and not a barrier to better compliance and health outcomes. A nurse practitioner outlines a protocol for a frank exam-room exchange that sustains cultural humility. The post Trust Before Triage: Why I Let the Patient Help Write the Agenda appeared first on MedCity News.
Pennsylvania Town Faces Fallout From Trump’s Environmental Rule Rollback
North America’s largest coke plant hugs the west bank of Pennsylvania’s Monongahela River, belching out emissions from turning superheated coal into a carbon-rich fuel. Researchers say the children at Clairton Elementary School about a mile away pay the price. They discovered the students there and at other elementary schools near major pollution sites in Pennsylvania…
How To Make a High-Deductible Health Plan Work for You
An elementary school teacher chose a low-price health insurance plan but soon realized she wasn’t clear about what it would mean for her family’s finances. “Once I got the insurance card, I compared our old plan to our new plan, and that’s when I really got worried, because I didn’t really understand what a deductible…
Massively Better Healthcare, a review
By MATTHEW HOLT This is a very brief review of Rock Health founder Halle Tecco’s Massively Better Healthcare. Halle is trying to do something quite complicated in this book. It’s really a three-part attempt to help somebody who is relatively new to health care entrepreneurship understand what the hell they are getting into. The first…
‘A Significant Assault on Our Health’: Healthcare Policy Leaders Condemn Trump’s Budget Proposal
President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget proposes deep healthcare cuts, raising concerns about harm to patients and research. The post ‘A Significant Assault on Our Health’: Healthcare Policy Leaders Condemn Trump’s Budget Proposal appeared first on MedCity News.
Two New Takes on Making a Type of Targeted Cancer Therapy Even Better
Sidewinder Therapeutics and Stipple Bio each raised mega-rounds of financing to support their approaches to improving the targeting abilities of antibody drug conjugates for cancer. Both startups are on track to enter the clinic next year. The post Two New Takes on Making a Type of Targeted Cancer Therapy Even Better appeared first on MedCity…