COVID-19 hasn’t changed the workforce issues in home-based care, other than by making those issues worse at various stages of the pandemic. What has changed over the last few years is how providers are trying to address their workforce woes. Increasingly, they are turning to technology to do that. “We have more and more people that want to age and […]
Like much of healthcare, the roots of modern cardiology may be traced back to Hippocrates. Considered the father of medicine, Hippocrates was the first to describe the sudden death of people who suffered from severe and frequent fainting spells – a description now believed to be the earliest observation of sudden cardiac death. In the 2,400 years since this observation, […]
We live in a time when generation-shaping events and emerging technology have converged at a rapid pace – influencing the way our society communicates and interacts with one another. Nowhere is this more evident than with the rise of digital therapeutics in the field of mental health, as new care models and apps are developed for the treatment of physical […]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation (Cohen Foundation) announced that the LymeX Diagnostics Prize received 52 Phase 1 submissions. From May to August 2022, the first phase of this Lyme Innovation Accelerator competition called on experts to submit innovative detection methods that will advance Lyme disease diagnostics. Hailing from a range […]
Drugs from a class called tyrosine kinase inhibitors have become standard treatments for some cancers, but the improved survival of patients taking these medicines introduces a new problem. As patients live longer, many decide they no longer want to live with the side effects, so they try switching to more tolerable therapies. Enliven Therapeutics is developing new tyrosine kinase inhibitors […]
Healthcare benefit costs will be a problem globally in 2023, with insurers anticipating an average increase of 10% from 2022, the biggest increase in about 15 years, a new survey found. The Willis Towers Watson survey received responses from 257 insurers from 55 countries between July and September. The 10% jump is higher than in past years. From 2020 to […]
This article was originally published in Undark Magazine. Ten years ago, 12-year-old Rory Staunton dove for a ball in gym class and scraped his arm. He woke up the next day with a 104-degree Fahrenheit fever, so his parents took him to the pediatrician and eventually the emergency room. It was just the stomach flu, they were told. Three days […]
Much of the public appears to be largely in the dark about Democrats’ signature effort to let Medicare negotiate drug prices, a potentially troubling sign ahead of next month’s midterm elections. The inclusion of a provision allowing those negotiations in the Inflation Reduction Act marked the culmination of an at least 20-year push by Democrats and was touted as a major […]
Fawn Lopez, the longtime publisher/vice president of Modern Healthcare, announced she will retire effective Jan. 1, 2023. Lopez joined Modern Healthcare as associate publisher in October 2001 and was named publisher and vice president in May 2005. During her more than 17 years leading Modern Healthcare, a Crain Communications brand, Lopez navigated a shifting media landscape, challenging economic conditions and […]
A new subvariant of the omicron variant of the coronavirus is becoming increasingly prevalent in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC data shows that the BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 variants each made up 5.7 percent of the total number of cases in the country in the past week. The BA.5 subvariant, […]