The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is expanding monkeypox testing to commercial laboratories amid fears that the country is undercounting monkeypox cases because of insufficient testing. The Department of Health and Human Services announced that it began shipping moneypox tests this week to five private testing companies: Aegis Science, Labcorp, Mayo Clinic Laboratories, Quest Diagnostics and Sonic Healthcare. […]
Genetic medicines in development for blood disorders include several therapies made by taking a patient’s cells and editing them outside of the body. Novartis is one of the companies testing this approach, but it also sees advantages in treating these diseases with therapies that work inside the patient. The pharmaceutical giant is turning to the technology of Precision BioSciences […]
CVS Health will return blood thinner Eliquis to its pharmacy benefit manager’s commercial formulary beginning July 1, reversing a decision that sparked protests from physicians and patients, the company notified providers last week. CVS Caremark negotiated a new arrangement with Eliquis maker Bristol-Myers Squibb to acquire the prescription anticoagulant. Both Eliquis and Janssen Pharmaceutical’s Xarelto will be available to patients […]
Patient Portals Enable Digital-First Healthcare These days, chatbots handle the initial communication in a personal portal, such as rescheduling appointments, Brient says. The handoff to staff at the front desk is seamless, he says, when a bot is unable to answer a question. “The AI would understand that we’re off the path and it doesn’t know how to deal with […]
Over 27 million of LHC Group’s (Nasdaq: LHCG) 31 million shareholders participated in a vote Tuesday regarding the company’s pending deal with UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UHG) and its subsidiary Optum. The move was first announced in March. Those shareholders overwhelmingly approved UnitedHealth Group’s pending acquisition of LHC Group, another big and necessary step in a process that the two companies […]
This page aggregates tracking information on pending and approved Section 1115 Medicaid waivers. Scroll down or click on the links below to jump to resources such as an overview map and figure, detailed waiver topic tables, and explanatory briefs. Previously-approved Section 1115 work requirements have been withdrawn by CMS under the Biden Administration and are reflected on the Work Requirements […]
Women are more likely than males to experience long COVID after an infection, and are significantly more likely to experience complications in the nervous system as well as within the joints and muscles, researchers wrote in a study published Monday. The new study in the scientific journal Current Medical Research and Opinion involved an analysis of nine separate studies on […]
Athira Pharma’s experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug has failed a Phase 2 clinical trial and the working theory as to why is that the small molecule does not play well with widely prescribed standard of care therapies. Company executives say the results suggest their drug, fosgonimeton, could work better as a monotherapy. They need to decide how to proceed soon […]
Northwell Health (New York) broke ground on the Katz Women’s Surgical Center at Glen Cove Hospital in Glen Cove, N.Y., according to an article in libn.com. Developed with Northwell’s Katz Institute for Women’s Health (New York), the $10 million facility will provide comprehensive services for breast cancer and reconstructive and cosmetic breast surgeries. The 25,000-square-foot center will house 32 private […]
Dive Brief: Socioeconomic, racial and gender inequities in healthcare account for nearly $320 billion in annual spending, and could account for $1 trillion or more by 2040, according to an analysis out Wednesday from Deloitte. Researchers looked at several high-cost diseases to find out how much spending could be attributed to health inequities while accounting for population and per capita […]