Last year was a record year for venture capital investment in digital health startups — the sector raised $29.1 billion across 729 deals, with an average deal size of $39.9 million. This market boom has ended, but the digital health investment space has not come crashing down by any means, according to a recent report from Rock Health. It’s just […]
By ANISH KOKA It’s been a while but Anish Koka, a one time regular writer on THCB and occasional THCB Gang member, is back publishing up a storm on his Substack channel. You may recall that his political and clinical views don’t always mesh with some of the wooly liberals we feature on THCB (cough, cough, me), but we are […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Monday he plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January 2025. Fauci, 81, was appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984, and has led research in HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, Ebola, Zika and the coronavirus. He has advised seven presidents […]
Nearly half a million lives (480,622) were lost to suicide from 2010 to 2020. During the same period, the suicide death rate increased by 12%, and as of 2009, the number of suicides outnumbered those caused by motor vehicle accidents. Suicides are most prevalent among people who live in rural areas, males, American Indian or Alaska Natives, and White people, […]
A Catholic hospital system operating 15 hospitals and another 132 facilities in Illinois and Michigan has adopted a policy to only cover fertility treatment for workers in opposite-sex marriages. Illinois-based OSF HealthCare, which has more than 24,000 health care workers, changed the language of its fertility treatment policy to explicitly refer to opposite sex-couples only, according to documents reviewed by […]
Medical education and clinical practice have been based on memorization, and in the case of dermatology—on pattern recognition—for more than a century, and that standard has yet to change. Something I found frustrating as a medical student and a resident was the amount of clinical data that we needed to consume and process. Physicians and advanced practice providers are expected […]
Gun violence has targeted hospitals and staff at the same time that clinicians are having to respond to victims. Dr. Kevin Menes, an independent emergency physician, joined The Check Up to discuss his leadership and perspective about treating gun violence victims and preparing for mass casualty incidents. Menes joined The Check Up as an expert and not as a representative of […]
When I started my career in the 1980s, the healthcare design industry was on the cusp of dynamic change and the beginning of a “golden age.” At the time, there were very few firms that identified as healthcare practices. For the most part, architects “looked down their noses” on the building type. None of my college design studios discussed health […]
Anyone working in care knows the challenge of being a home caregiver. For Ilya Vakhutinsky, it’s personal. Born in Ukraine, Vakhutinsky moved to the United States with his family when he was about one year old, with his mother becoming a caregiver and home health aide. “I have early childhood memories of her doing that work, and the difficulty she […]
Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, said on Monday that he plans to retire by the end of Biden’s term in office. “By the time we get to the end of the Biden administration term, I feel it would be time for me to step down from this position,” Fauci told the Washington Post Monday. Politico was first to […]