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APRIL 18, 2024

The tech giant has helped organize four separate coalitions to devise guidelines and technical standards for AI in health care. For a company moving as quickly as possible to build artificial intelligence into everything — including health care — Microsoft spends a lot of time talking about how to regulate it.

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Hospitals 335

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Their goal was to help people manage their symptoms, improve their functioning, and reduce their distress. Working with patients, they designed a trial called REGAIN to test a way to provide mental health therapy and exercise guidance to people with long Covid without making their conditions worse. Read the rest…

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People Management 341

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

During the pandemic, in search of tools to keep patients healthy and virus-free, doctors turned to a new technology for help: remote patient monitoring. Without evidence-based practices in place, the technology may be used for the wrong patients or be used ineffectively in those it might help, limiting its impact and driving up costs.

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MARCH 12, 2024

As colorectal deaths rise among younger people, a diagnostic could help pinpoint more patients.

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APRIL 15, 2024

Boys aren’t the only people who develop attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It also affects girls and young women and adults of both genders. Yet females with ADHD are chronically underdiagnosed and undertreated. Individuals with this condition die about 10 years earlier than those without it.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Now, she needs help with dressing and getting in and out of bed, and our family is grappling with the fact that this fiercely self-sufficient woman will never live independently again. Three months ago, my aunt Margaret had a stroke. Days before, she was repainting her bathroom and driving herself.

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Compounding 309

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MAY 1, 2024

Discover how digital tools can provide insights to help us. Digital technology could be a game-changer that offers the elusive promise of tackling the root cause, not just the conditions themselves, when it comes to human health.

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JUNE 9, 2023

In May, a National Public Radio story asked , “Can a chatbot help people with eating disorders as well as another human?” ” It focused on a chatbot that we developed to prevent eating disorders and help people with body image concerns and who are otherwise not likely to have access to other resources.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Here’s just the tip of the iceberg: $722.50 for a nurse to push a drug into an IV. 21,500 for ten stitches. The prices charged by hospitals are exorbitant and rising. Private health insurance premiums paid by working age adults are rising rapidly.

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Hospitals 305

PharmaVoice

APRIL 8, 2024

GenAI is profoundly reshaping various facets of the pharmaceutical industry. Projections indicate that the global GenAI market in pharma will soar to USD 2258.1 million by 2032.

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MAY 10, 2023

Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have become immensely popular for their ability to help people with obesity lose weight. Prior research has shown that people with obesity have deficiencies in their “natural killer” cells, or NK cells — immune cells that help in combating cancer.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Since the U.S. surgeon general’s 2023 advisory on social media and teen mental health, public concern has skyrocketed around adolescents’ digital lives. Major news organizations and even state governments have pinned social media apps as addictive , dangerous, and the cause of the youth mental health crisis.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

I am grateful for the opportunity to try and help — but it is daunting. In inpatient child psychology, we treat children in crisis deemed at imminent risk of harm to themselves or others. A study published earlier this year found an overwhelming spike in mental illness-related crises in the past decade.

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Inpatient Hospitals 240

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MAY 3, 2024

Doctors have observed and treated bipolar disorder for thousands of years. Known throughout history by many names, like depression, mania, manic-depressive illness, or psychosis, the disorder is common and closely tied to that which makes us human: our thinking, our behavior, our hopes, and our ambitions.

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MAY 24, 2023

The idea is that workers ask patients about their needs, then refer them to organizations such as food banks that can help. As Sanjay Basu wrote in a recent First Opinion, hospitals are using so-called “screen and refer” systems to identify people with social needs, like those who are experiencing domestic violence or hunger.

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Hospitals 198

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Manil Suri and Daniel Morgan are an unusual team: Manil is a mathematics professor and author (of both fiction and nonfiction ), while Daniel is a physician and professor of epidemiology, public health, and infectious diseases.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Semaglutide could be beneficial in helping to treat patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity-related heart failure, a study has shown. This included larger reductions in heart […] The post Semaglutide helps heart failure symptoms in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Diabetes 98

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

With much of the nation’s illicit drug supply contaminated by fentanyl, test strips that detect the dangerous synthetic opioid can help people who use drugs prevent a deadly overdose. These tests are inexpensive and effective, but they remain inaccessible for many people in the U.S. and are illegal in many states.

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Bringing payers into clinical research could help solve these problems. Despite extensive investments by biotech and pharma companies in clinical trials, unresolved questions about the efficacy or safety of numerous approved drugs persist. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Drug Development 232

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MAY 8, 2024

Partnerships have been key to building the company’s AI capabilities and patient-focused R&D, said AstraZeneca’s head of U.S. oncology.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Despite being the largest minority in the nation , disabled people like us have been structurally and institutionally obstructed from entering research-dominated fields. When they do manage to break through, they are seldom given the support and accommodations needed to sustain employment and thrive in their professional lives.

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MARCH 15, 2023

But when it comes to providing people with accurate health information, they need help from humans. Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT can hold fun conversations across many topics.

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Vaccines 205

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MARCH 21, 2023

But for people struggling to transition from ultra-potent illicit fentanyl to comparatively weaker addiction medications, help may be on the way. Patients beginning treatment for opioid addiction often face excruciating withdrawal symptoms.

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APRIL 18, 2024

The Tyche model could help clinicians and researchers capture crucial information in images

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Hospitals 124

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Generative AI’s earliest applications in medicine have largely focused on curing not patients, but the plague of productivity physicians lose to digital documentation.

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Documentation 329

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JANUARY 18, 2024

One morning last May, 10 students and two instructors from across California gathered on Zoom to talk about empathy. Empathy, said instructor Elizabeth Morrison, is often undervalued. But it’s a crucial skill for any effective mental health care provider.

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Communication 319

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Researchers have long known that women are more likely to develop autoimmune disorders than men, though they’ve struggled to fully understand why. Now a new study in mice suggests a key part of the answer may be that an RNA molecule that’s indispensable for female survival steers the body toward immune friendly fire.

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Immunity Immunization 352

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You’re reading the web edition of D.C.   Sign up here  to receive this newsletter in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This could get ugly The Senate health committee is on a crash course today, as the panel considers a primary care and workforce bill that ranking member Bill Cassidy (R-La.)

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Drug Pricing Hospitals 161

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MARCH 24, 2023

After two years helping him navigate his health care online, she was used to Quintero’s quips. Janelle Vargas shook her head.

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Hospitals 246

PharmaVoice

JUNE 26, 2023

Based on real-world data from patients in China, researchers were able to pinpoint factors that led to recurring infections — and which drug combos helped.

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MAY 23, 2023

It was mysterious and maddening, and doctors weren’t always helpful. Even at home, she had to wear noise-canceling headphones to muffle the sound of her kids playing downstairs. Some dismissed her symptoms. “You’re just tired,” she remembered one telling her. Another said she was depressed.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But technology can also help solve what’s arguably the industry’s biggest issue: access.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Generative AI is having a moment. Peter Lee, who oversees Microsoft’s approach to health care and co-authored the 2023 book “ The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond, ” calls it “the most transformative tool ever developed in all aspects of health care and medicine.”

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the midst of the Covid-19 surge during the winter of 2021, the Pittsburgh-based UPMC health system received 450 doses of Evusheld — a scarce antibody cocktail being used at the time to prevent immunocompromised patients from being infected by the coronavirus.

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Hospitals 323

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MAY 23, 2023

Seattle biotech Achieve Life Sciences on Tuesday announced an experimental drug meant to help people quit smoking did exactly that in a clinical trial, paving the way for the company to seek approval for a product that would face stiff competition.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Health systems can and must help move the country in that direction. Institutional declarations of support for Black lives were ubiquitous in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. The radical, transformative change demanded by hundreds of thousands of protestors across the country, however, has not been realized.

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Hospitals 234

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a new method can better predict the quality of embryos used for in vitro fertilization, potentially raising the odds of a successful pregnancy for those relying on assisted reproductive technology. 

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