At Sunrise Mart, a small Japanese grocery with a branch in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, you can’t miss the mountain of KitKats. The shop sells all kinds of fresh foods and imported snacks, but as soon as you step inside, you’re toe-to-toe with an enormous heap of colorful bags of the chocolate bars, rising up from the floor in the store’s […]

If Americans thought healthcare was costly pre-pandemic, they—and their wallets—are about to be hit with a harsh reality: the cost to treat patients is expected to increase 6.5% this year, slightly higher than pre-pandemic, according to PwC’s Health Research Institute. What should be even more concerning is that a significant portion of what the United States spends on healthcare annually […]

Catching signs of cancer in women early is important for cancer care Catching cancer as early as possible greatly improves your chances of beating it. Early cancer detection gives health care providers better treatment options to use. Plus, the survival rate for patients is much higher when cancer is caught early, rather than during the later stages. One way to […]

Life expectancy in the United States fell for the second straight year, fueled by COVID-19, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published Wednesday.  The two-year decline was steep, down 2.7 years between 2019 and 2021. Life expectancy was 76.1 years in 2021, down from 77 years in 2020 and 78.8 years in 2019. […]

Geisinger ramped up its telehealth behavioral services over the past year, reducing its backlog of patients from 18,000 to 3,000. The Danville, Pennsylvania-based integrated health system has expanded employee recruitment efforts and hired an external telepsychiatry service to increase its behavioral health capacity and its reach, said Dawn Zieger, associate vice president of psychiatry and behavioral health. While psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers can […]

Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) has received a $2.3 million grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) to bring the Age-Friendly Health Systems movement to home-based care. Broadly, the age-friendly framework is a patient-centered care focus. It concentrates on the “4Ms” – what matters, medication, mentation and mobility. The first “M” pertains to what matters to the patient in […]

  An Amgen drug that won a speedy FDA approval last year in certain lung cancers now has preliminary data from a larger study showing the pill beat standard of care chemotherapy. Those results are enough to meet the clinical trial’s main goal, but you’ll have to wait to see more information. Amgen is saving detailed data for presentation at […]

Starbucks’ fall drinks have officially returned as of today. Is it too soon? Does this mean summer is officially over? And most importantly, what will you be ordering?   The Republican Party is reimagining its messaging on abortion as the overturning of Roe by the Supreme Court has energized Democratic voters in the upcoming midterm elections. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re […]

The current standard of care for prostate cancer uses a one-size-fits-all approach, handling the cancer like a whole-gland disease even though prostate cancer is incredibly localized. That is the problem that Shyam Natarajan, co-founder and CEO of Avenda Health, wants to address.  His approach involves personalizing prostate cancer care with artificial intelligence. Last week, Avenda got a $10 million boost. Culver […]