Democrats’ Election Rout Is Poised To Dramatically Reorder Federal Health Policy
Democrats’ decisive sweep of the U.S. House and Senate in Tuesday’s elections will reshape the…
Democrats’ Election Rout Is Poised To Dramatically Reorder Federal Health Policy
Democrats’ decisive sweep of the U.S. House and Senate in Tuesday’s elections will reshape the direction of federal health policy — setting the stage for oversight investigations, a legislative push to reverse cuts to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, and a focus on lowering costs such as insurance premiums and drug prices. The conclusive…
How Hospital at Home Pioneers See the Model Evolving
At annual user group meeting, four clinical leaders discuss scaling up programs to new patient phenotypes
Servier Stumbles in Muscle Disease as Drug From $1.5B Deal Fails Pivotal Test
Servier’s sevasemten came from the acquisition of the muscular dystrophy assets of Edgewise Therapeutics. While the small molecule had met the goal of a Phase 2 test in Becker muscular dystrophy, Servier said new results in a pivotal cohort do not show statistically significant benefit. The post Servier Stumbles in Muscle Disease as Drug From…
When Patients Become Consumers: The New Care Stack Collides With Legacy Healthcare
To succeed, our healthcare system must fully embrace consumer-focused product design to address demands of scale, access, and daily usability that the market is revealing. The post When Patients Become Consumers: The New Care Stack Collides With Legacy Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Breast Cancer Survivorship Is a Menopause Problem Nobody Owns
For all the pink ribbons we see, women with breast cancer are abandoning one of the most effective treatments they have because of symptoms no one in their care team is clearly responsible for. The post Breast Cancer Survivorship Is a Menopause Problem Nobody Owns appeared first on MedCity News.
Three Healthcare Solutions Earn Silver Honors in 2026 Impact Awards
Clarest Health, Murj and SafeRide Health recognized for innovations in medication management, heart failure monitoring and patient transportation
IVF Patients, Doctors Navigate Fetal Personhood Laws’ Unknowns
In the summer of 2022, Allison Mertzman and her wife, Leanne, asked their fertility clinic to destroy their embryos. The married couple were living in California but storing their nine embryos for $3,000 per year at the clinic in Michigan, where Mertzman had resided before. After having two daughters through in vitro fertilization, the couple…
Stuck in Shelters for Months, Some Migrant Children Abandon Hopes of Staying in US
One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom. “I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded…
The FTC Is Flexing Its Muscle in Healthcare
The FTC sent warning letters to 25 health plan marketers over potentially deceptive marketing practices, following its earlier letters to healthcare services companies about price transparency. The post The FTC Is Flexing Its Muscle in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
Flagship Merges 3 Startups to Turn Cause and Effect Insights Into Novel Medicines
Flagship Pioneering unveiled Etcelera, a new startup formed by combining three of the firm’s portfolio companies. Etcelera’s approach to drug R&D focuses on “causal intelligence,” which Flagship defines as predicting and understanding cause and effect in biology. The post Flagship Merges 3 Startups to Turn Cause and Effect Insights Into Novel Medicines appeared first on…
