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January 29, 2024
by Nick Robertson
The first person to be implanted with Neuralink hardware is recovering well and showing “promising” signs in initial results, company founder Elon Musk said Monday.
The tech billionaire said the first Neuralink surgery occurred Sunday, a landmark for the prototype brain medical device.
Animal testing began with the hardware in September, with the product described as a “fully implantable, wireless brain-computer interface.” Musk hopes the Neuralink can help “people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts.” Read More…
While issues of health care costs and affordability may not be at the forefront of this year’s election issues, they remain a major concern among the public. About a quarter of Americans say they or a family member struggled to pay their medical bills just in the past year, and in recent KFF polling, voters said that health care affordability was very important to discuss in the election. Read More…..
by Katie Adams
This month, the World Health Organization released new guidelines on the ethics and governance of LLMs in healthcare. Reactions from the leaders of healthcare AI companies have been mainly positive. However, one leader pointed out that fear or the risks associated with LLMs shouldn’t hinder innovation, and another noted that the guidance may have failed to mention a major topic. Read More…
by Marissa Plescia
Instacart and DispatchHealth recently launched a partnership that allows DispatchHealth to provide food interventions to patients in need of nutrition support.
Food insecurity adds an annual expenditure of about $52 billion, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new partnership seeks to move the needle on this stat. Read More…
by Mari Devereaux
The doctors plan to use their union membership to advocate for pay and benefits transparency, as well as better patient care. Read More… subscription required.
by Caroline Hudson
Healthcare leaders must strike a balance between short-term challenges and long-term strategic goals. Read More… subscription required.
by Joseph Choi
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a ruling Monday finding that a 1982 state bill barring Medicaid from covering most abortions can be challenged in court, years after the initial legal petition was dismissed. Read More….
by Nathaniel Weixel
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) is demanding the four largest manufacturers of inhalers stop improperly listing patents in a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) database, a practice that can delay lower-cost generics from coming to market. Read More….
by dmuoio
Financial troubles and a flurry of planned hospital divestitures have landed for-profit Steward Health Care squarely in the crosshairs of the public and lawmakers.
The physician-owned company, which runs 33 hospitals with 33,000 employees across eight states, was about $50 million behind on its rent.. Read More…
by agliadkovskaya
From focusing on the social determinants of health to fixing reimbursement for providers, panelists agreed that a value-based approach was the right way forward. Read More…
by Nathaniel Weixel
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 26 in a case that could limit the availability of the common abortion pill mifepristone. Read More…
by Susanna Vogel
To keep up with elevated COVID-19 turnover, healthcare organizations hired more workers who were unemployed or hadn't previously worked in the industry. Read More…
by Brett Samuels
The Biden administration is launching partnerships with Instacart, the Rockefeller Foundation and Feeding America as part of a first-of-its-kind summit focused on how food can promote healthier living. Read More…
by Ian Hodgson, Tampa Bay Times and Christopher O’Donnell, Tampa Bay Times
An executive at Teva Pharmaceuticals flagged Publix Super Markets in October 2015 after detecting what he called in an email “serious red flags” with the grocery chain’s orders of powerful opioids. Read More…
by Amy Maxmen
Rates of routine childhood vaccination hit a 10-year low in 2023. That, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, puts about 250,000 kindergartners at risk for measles, which often leads to hospitalization and can cause death. In recent weeks, an infant and two young children have been hospitalized amid an ongoing measles outbreak in Philadelphia that spread to a day care center. Read More…
Whether patients arrive for dental cleaning, tooth whitening or other routine procedures or need emergency treatment for broken or abscessed teeth, dental visits can be stressful. In fact, one study found that more than one-third of people experienced dental anxiety. Read More…
by Marissa Plescia
The intersection of food and health has long been known. But recently, a major trend — the “food as medicine” movement — has picked up steam. As societies wrestle with rising healthcare costs and gain a growing understanding of the effect of diet on well-being, healthcare organizations are embracing the idea that food can be a powerful form of medicine. Read More..
The stigma of chronic migraine may happen because others don't really understand the condition. Learn how to deal with misconceptions about migraine. Read More…
The daily life of someone with chronic migraines can be unpredictable. Find out how one woman lives with headaches every day. Read More…
by fdiamond
Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan is offering to foot the bill for Medicaid enrollees who want to earn a General Education Diploma and become high school graduates. Read More…
by Emily Olsen
Researchers logged 79 Chapter 11 bankruptcies for companies with liabilities of at least $10 million last year, more than three times the number of 2021 filings. Read More…
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