Business of Medicine News

• Medical Debt Delays Care for Those With Depression, Anxiety Medical debt affects adults with depression and anxiety, with over 27% delaying or forgoing mental health care. Those with debt are twice as likely to delay or skip care.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Primary Care Meets Artificial Intelligence As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, its integration into primary care is revolutionizing patient diagnosis, treatment, and management.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Physicians Cite Barriers in Addiction Care: Study Reveals An international research review identifies multiple reasons why doctors say they aren't able to treat substance abuse, including lack of faith that interventions will work.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Introducing: A New Way to Get Teens Mental Health Care Pediatric mental health urgent care centers offer alternatives to costly and lengthy emergency department visits.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Cal Medical Group Makes Money Treating Homeless Patients These doctors, nurses, and social workers are fanning out on the streets of Los Angeles to provide health care and social services to homeless people.
  KFF Health News, July 22, 2024
• Brazil Bucked the Trend in Childhood Vaccination in 2023 While childhood vaccination rates stagnated for the rest of the world, they increased in Brazil in 2023.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Early RA Diagnosis and Treatment Lowers Treatment Costs Costs were as much as 316% higher in patients diagnosed and treated more than 12 weeks after symptom onset.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• These Five AI Healthcare Tools May Be the Best Right Now We asked leading experts to share the most impactful AI tools currently in use at their hospitals.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Massive IT Outage Disrupting Hospital Care Software bug from cybersecurity company caused a shutdown in Microsoft Windows services, depriving hospitals of access critical medical information.
  WebMD Health News, July 19, 2024
• Polygenic Risk Scores: New Frontier in IVF or Just a Hype? Experts said risk profiling of embryos for genetic anomalies is not ready for "prime time."
  Medscape Medical News, July 19, 2024
• Robert Gabbay to Exit the American Diabetes Association The ADA's chief scientific and medical officer will leave in September after 4 years on the job.
  Medscape Medical News, July 19, 2024
• US Invests in Avian Flu Vaccine Candidates HHS awards $176 to Moderna to develop an mRNA pandemic influenza vaccine and orders 4.8 million doses of a cell-based vaccine.
  Medscape Medical News, July 19, 2024
• Canadian Pharmacies Emerge As 'First Stop' for Primary Care Recent data from Nova Scotia suggest that pharmacist-led clinics contributed to a nearly 10% decline in emergency department visits for nonurgent or less-urgent care.
  Medscape Medical News, July 19, 2024
• Abbott Plans Marketing Push for Glucose Monitors Beyond Diabetes Abbott Laboratories will use a mix of TV advertisements and guerilla marketing as well as seek to personalize health data to tap people without diabetes for the U.S. launch...
  Reuters Health Information, July 18, 2024
• Healthcare Workers Face Gender-Based Violence Age, experience, professional status, and minority group status also influence the workplace violence that healthcare workers experience.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Push, Fail, Push Harder: Olympic Athletes Who Became MDs These Olympian athletes chose medicine as their next challenge. The keys to their success, they said, are the same skills that brought them to the pinnacle of sports.
  Medscape Medical News, July 18, 2024
• Ardelyx Sues US Health Department Over Kidney Disease Drug Drugmaker Ardelyx said on Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
  Reuters Health Information, July 17, 2024
• HLTH Europe 2024 Google's Healthcare Strategy and the Role of AI Digital platforms, partnerships, and disease prevention are central to the healthcare ecosystem Google is building to drive innovation, said its chief health officer.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• HLTH Europe 2024 Digital Tech Moves Depression Management Beyond Telemedicine Hybrid care models using digital and traditional treatment approaches will become the norm in depression management and may help ease staff shortages, said experts.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• Revamping Resident Schedules to Reduce Burnout Equal time for inpatient and outpatient training can improve well-being for doctors in training, according to a recent study by the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
  Medscape Medical News, July 16, 2024