Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on Acast. You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. President Joe Biden is the latest top Washington official to test positive for covid-19, following Vice President Kamala Harris, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. But […]

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, on Wednesday asked the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to address the “barriers” to monkeypox treatment that people have reported dealing with so far. Maloney said she was concerned by the sparse availability of vaccines for monkeypox as well as the limited capacity for testing […]

And there it is: President Joe Biden has tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House announced Thursday morning, and is dosing up with Paxlovid to keep his so-far “very mild symptoms” from turning severe. In some ways, this is one of the cases the entire world has been waiting for—not sadistically, necessarily, but simply because, like so many other […]

After more than two years of lockdowns and social restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent escalation of gun violence, there’s a significant spotlight on mental health in the United States. The state of mental health has been labeled a crisis by the mainstream media and top political figures, and the data backs up this assessment. According to […]

What’s the Best Network Architecture for IoMT? To secure Internet of Medical Things devices, the basic requirement is isolation: separating each device as much as possible from others. Ideally, each device would be on a separate microsegment with some type of firewall controlling all access in and out. For larger hospitals, or smaller IT teams, this can be unrealistically complicated. […]

The public health emergency (PHE) was once considered an oasis of sorts, both for home health agencies and health systems looking to deliver hospital-level care in the home.  But after being active for two and a half years, the length of it – and the continued, but uncertain, prolonging of it – is causing problems for any operator delivering home-based […]

Dive Brief: Sutter Health has entered into a 10-year agreement with R1 RCM to exclusively manage the health system’s revenue cycle management services, the companies announced last week. Sutter could save about $400 million over the next 10 years as the partnership aims to address labor costs and rising inflation, they said. About 1,150 Sutter RCM employees will be offered […]

The country’s largest union of registered nurses called on the Biden administration to take action against rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations amid the surge of immune-evasive Omicron subvariant BA.5 in a letter on Wednesday, the day before President Biden tested positive for the coronavirus.  In their letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Nurses United (NNU) […]

THCB Gang Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on Thursday July 21 will futurist Ian Morrison (@seccurve); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); and fierce patient activist Casey Quinlan (@MightyCasey) You can see the video below & if you’d rather listen than watch, the audio is preserved as a weekly podcast available on our iTunes & Spotify channels.

Taylor Carstarphen began using hormonal birth control to reduce the pain she experienced during heavy periods. Cramps often made it hard for her to get out of bed, said Carstarphen, 21, a senior at Arizona State University in Tempe. In January, she visited a doctor who wrote a prescription for Amneal Pharmaceuticals’ Lutera, a daily birth control pill. The Affordable […]