You Want To Join a Clinical Trial. Here’s What To Know About the Hurdles.
Connecting people with clinical trials is complicated — even if people identify a promising match,…
You Want To Join a Clinical Trial. Here’s What To Know About the Hurdles.
Connecting people with clinical trials is complicated — even if people identify a promising match, there’s a slew of potentially thorny factors, including geographic incompatibility, and financial and time considerations. Simply finding an appropriate trial can present an enormous hurdle. In a recent online survey of more than 2,000 adults, 71% of patients with chronic…
Medicare’s Paying Less for Cataract Surgery. Eye Doctors Are Turning to Lucrative Lasers.
Tammy Chalala, a retired dietitian in New York, was thrilled with the results of her cataract surgeries, which left her with close to 20/20 vision. She said she paid nearly $4,000 out-of-pocket for her two surgeries last year because she opted to have her doctor use a laser to assist with the procedure. Chalala, 69,…
Included Health Taps Carrum Health for Value-Based Specialty Care
Included Health is partnering with Carrum Health to provide high-quality specialty care while reducing costs for employers. The post Included Health Taps Carrum Health for Value-Based Specialty Care appeared first on MedCity News.
Amylyx Plans FDA Filing After GLP-1 Drug Hits Trial Goals in Rare Metabolic Condition
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ avexitide led to statistically significant and clinically meaningful reductions in hypoglycemic events in patients with post-bariatric hypoglycemia (PBH). This peptide drug, a GLP-1 antagonist, was acquired from Eiger BioPharmaceuticals in 2024. The post Amylyx Plans FDA Filing After GLP-1 Drug Hits Trial Goals in Rare Metabolic Condition appeared first on MedCity News.
Universal Coverage Might Be Nice, but an AI Tax Is Necessary
By KIM BELLARD I was amused – oh, I should be polite and say “interested” — to see a new study, led by researchers from Yale School of Public Medicine, about the benefits of a universal single payor health system. It concluded that we could save 100,000 lives annually and save some 1.04 trillion each…
Rural US Healthcare Has A Cybersecurity Problem — CMS Funding Can Help Fix the Part No One Sees
Rural hospitals need trained people, tested backups, downtime procedures, clinical continuity planning, and staff who know what to do when an alert fires. A framework won’t substitute for that work, but it helps organize it and makes progress measurable. The post Rural US Healthcare Has A Cybersecurity Problem — CMS Funding Can Help Fix the…
What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently
It had been a rough few months. Cynthia Tompkins was hospitalized in May for osteomyelitis — a bone infection — then spent six weeks in a rehabilitation facility. “It was a struggle,” she said. “I didn’t bounce back too well.” Tompkins returned to her home in San Diego, but she was still taking antibiotics, along…
Drive for Nuclear Power Boosts Uranium Industry — And Tribal Health Concerns in Southwest
WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute. The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation’s…
KFF: Insurers Denied 12%-18% of Prior Authorization Requests in 2025
KFF found that insurers denied 12%-18% of standard prior authorization requests in 2025, with significant variation among insurers and gaps in transparency. The post KFF: Insurers Denied 12%-18% of Prior Authorization Requests in 2025 appeared first on MedCity News.
Slate Medicines’ Merger and $245M Private Placement Fuel Mission in Migraine
Migraine drugs developer Slate Medicines is going public in a reverse merger with Fulcrum Therapeutics. The biotech’s lead antibody drug blocks two novel migraine targets, offering the potential for better efficacy compared to other next-generation migraine drugs in R&D. The post Slate Medicines’ Merger and $245M Private Placement Fuel Mission in Migraine appeared first on…
