La primera señal apareció cuando Deepanwita Dasgupta tenía 5 años y empezó a tropezar más a menudo mientras jugaba en su casa en Bangalore, en el sur de India. La niña siempre estaba haciendo algo; por eso sus padres pensaron que los golpes y moretones extra eran simplemente parte de una infancia activa. Quizás, pensaron,…
LISTEN: Is it worth it to set up a health savings account? HealthQ has answers. When Mike McKee thinks about saving money for the future, he has a few priorities. Maxing out his retirement is one. Building up his kid’s college fund is another. Opening up a health savings account? Not so much, even though…
It’s open enrollment season for Medicare Advantage, when people currently enrolled in private managed-care plans can either sign up for a new one or switch to original Medicare through March 31. But there’s a catch: If people want to move to original Medicare and buy a supplemental Medigap insurance plan to cover some out-of-pocket costs,…
LOS ANGELES — Mia Angulo, who is pregnant and due in May, is living in a tent with her boyfriend in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Boyle Heights. Lingering pain from a car crash two months ago, on top of an already hardscrabble life, has Angulo worried about her pregnancy. So, she was relieved when…
Jesse Shoplock is SVP of Business Development at Inbox Health. They are trying to help one of the messiest parts of American health care, figuring out both how much patients owe at the point of care and how to actually help the providers get paid. As of now 70% of patients don’t know what they…
Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs, and Linda Yaccarino, CEO of the employer GLP-1 platform eMed Population Health, were at SXSW drawing a contrast between their approach to GLP-1 drugs and that of other direct-to-consumer companies. They also announced a collaboration where Cost Plus Drugs will be eMed’s distribution partner. The post At SXSW,…
Isaac Health launched an eight-week virtual program to help people reduce dementia risk through lifestyle changes like sleep, nutrition and exercise. The post Isaac Health Introduces New Virtual Program to Reduce Dementia Risk appeared first on MedCity News.
Leucovorin is now approved for cerebral folate deficiency months after FDA Commissioner Marty Makary claimed the decades-old generic drug had promise for treating autism. The FDA’s review was based on published literature and real-world evidence. The post FDA Drug Approval Marks a First for a Disease — But It’s Not Autism appeared first on MedCity…
L.A. County’s Shayan Rab, M.D., describes how street psychiatry has been integrated with specialty field-based mental health services and acute care settings