Dive Brief: The digital health sector appears to be cooling down, with startups in the once-hot industry raising less money and undergoing fewer mergers and acquisitions in the first half of the year. Digital health public exits also ground to a halt, with zero startups entering the public markets. According to a new Rock Health report, the digital health sector […]
Multidisciplinary design, architecture, and engineering firm Page (Washington, D.C.) has acquired interdisciplinary design firm EYP (Albany, N.Y.). The firms will operate as one organization to expand services and geographic reach. It will have more than 1,300 employees across the U.S., Latin America, and the Middle East.
Your urine’s got a message for you. Urine is a part of daily life. Because it’s so routine, we probably don’t pay too much attention to what comes out when we empty our bladders. But urine color can actually communicate messages to us about our bodies. “Urine color can tell you a lot about what is going on in your […]
Dan Weissmann Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Dr. Thomas Fisher, an emergency room physician at a hospital on Chicago’s South Side, has written “The Emergency,” an up-close chronicle of the covid-19 pandemic’s first year. It also tells the story of his journey as a doctor: how his upbringing on the South […]
As the landscape architect for a sensory garden at Elks Children’s Eye Clinic in Portland, Ore., Mayer/Reed (Portland) considered ways to create a welcoming environment for children whose sight may be limited. The firm studied design opportunities for the new facility, which is adjacent to the Casey Eye Institute on the Oregon Health & Science University campus. That process included […]
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study revealed a common herbicide chemical linked to cancer was detected in the majority of urine samples the public health agency reviewed. The CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a program designed to assess the nutritional health of American adults and children, released data last month showing that more than […]
The U.S. has had a faltering response to the monkeypox outbreak, with confirmed cases jumping to 700 in the two months since outbreaks were first detected and clinics across the country struggling to meet the demand for effective vaccines. Some public health experts and patients say more needs to be done and warn that mistakes made during the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Last month, the Office of Health Economics published a report titled “Health Technology Assessment of Gene Therapies: Are Our Methods Fit for Purpose?” I summarize some of the key challenges and solutions below. Challenge #1: Initial assessment of clinical effectiveness. Since gene therapies often target rare disease, the sample size from clinical trials is often […]
We’ll probably reach a global population of 8 billion by the end of this year, at least according to the United Nations. In health news, the Food and Drug Administration will review an application for what could be the first over-the-counter birth control pill, amid heightened concerns for contraception access following the overturning of Roev. Wade. Welcome to Overnight […]
As physician practices work to modernize their technology and become more consumer-focused, their efforts are often complicated by a sea of vendors selling point solutions. One startup wants to change that. “So many of them are using four or five different products in their practice and have no in-house IT — it’s tough to stitch together a solution that way,” […]