The same wastewater surveillance techniques that have emerged as a critical tool in early detection of covid-19 outbreaks are being adapted for use in monitoring the startling spread of monkeypox across the San Francisco Bay Area and some other U.S. communities. Before the covid pandemic, wastewater sludge was thought to hold promise as an early indicator of community health threats, […]
This article is part of a series sponsored by HLTH highlighting topics that will be discussed at the HLTH conference November 13-16 in Las Vegas. Clinicians used to wonder if there was a role for mindfulness meditation in healthcare. But after the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the overwhelming need for practical solutions in behavioral health, the question has shifted to […]
The battle was just beginning for Le Roy Torres and his wife, Rosie, when the Army captain returned to Texas in 2008, already starting to suffer from the toxic substances he’d inhaled from the 10-acre burn pit at Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq. Along the way, Le Roy would lose the job he loved as a Texas state trooper and […]
A landmark FDA approval last week in breast cancer defined a new cancer target, expanding the number of patients that can be treated. Mersana Therapeutics is going after that same new target with a drug from the same class of therapies and the biotech is readying for a clinical trial that could show whether its twist on the approach […]
The House is expected to take up the Senate-passed Inflation Reduction Act later this week, a sweeping bill that includes several landmark health care provisions that would lower prescription drug costs for people with Medicare, reduce Medicare drug spending and extend enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage. At Noon Eastern time on Thursday, August 11, a panel of […]
Behavioral health access has grown in the last few years, and health insurance providers have facilitated that growth, according to a recent survey by America’s Health Insurance Plans, a health insurance advocacy organization. The survey featured 14 questions and was distributed to AHIP members offering commercial major medical coverage between May and June. The responses come from payers who in […]
Yet another massive retailer is inching closer to buying a company that is focused on the home as a setting of care. CVS Health Corp. (NYSE: CVS) plans to make a bid on Signify Health (NYSE: SGFY), according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Both companies have been in the news spotlight of late. CVS Health has […]
A pulled pork BBQ sandwich stuffed with Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Fluffer Nutter sweet potato fries and deep-fried pickles smothered in gravy are all dishes you can find at an MLB stadium this season, if you weren’t already excited about baseball. It was a long weekend on Capitol Hill, where Democrats got a big win on Sunday by passing their sweeping health […]
Retailers like CVS Health are aggressively trying to cement their position in healthcare by leveraging several ways to reach the consumer directly, whether in the home or through primary care be it virtually or ultimately in person in the future. One astute observer of the field believes the moves are both offensive and defensive. The company is seeking to buy […]
Clover Health CEO Vivek Garipalli will step down and be succeeded by Andrew Toy at the start of next year, the company announced Monday. Toy, currently the company’s president and chief technology officer, will take over Jan. 1, when Garipalli will become executive chair. Garipalli will be active at Clover Health for the foreseeable future, Toy said in a news […]