At the MedCity INVEST conference at the Ritz Carlton in Chicago May 22-24, a panel will focus on violence against healthcare professionals. It’s an unfortunate trend that is on the rise, spurred by misinformation…
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New medications take too long to get into the hands of people who need them – a decade, on average. The leading cause of delays is finding patients for clinical trials, but it shouldn’t…
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Vaccine developer Vaxart contends its pill vaccinations against Covid-19 will be preferable to patients, and potentially more effective than currently available injections. But a different virus offers the biotech a clearer and faster path…
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It’s a dangerous combination: Students on America’s college campuses are undergoing an unprecedented mental health crisis at the same time the nation is facing a shortage of behavioral health professionals. Today more than 150…
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Ataxias are a group of movement disorders that are characterized by progressive loss of balance, impaired coordination and speech disturbance, which together lead to markedly reduced quality of life. Speech disturbance is clinically diagnosed,…
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ChristianaCare, a health system with headquarters in Delaware, on Tuesday launched a direct-to-consumer virtual primary care practice. The new service was rolled out to help increase access to round-the-clock, convenient primary care, as many…
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About 37% of Americans live in areas where there is a shortage of mental health providers. By 2025, the U.S. will be short about 31,000 full-time equivalent mental health practitioners, said Miriam Delphin-Rittmon, assistant…
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A perfect storm of external and internal factors has combined to worsen an already dire nursing shortage nationwide, particularly in the field of nephrology: a rapidly aging population and workforce, increased levels of burnout…
Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT have taken the world by storm, with everyone from researchers to tech enthusiasts excited about the almost limitless potential of these models. And yes, I’ll admit it that…
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Virtual care company TytoCare on Wednesday received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for its wheeze detection algorithm, allowing the company to begin commercializing the product in the U.S.
TytoCare is headquartered in New…
