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Ahead of Medicaid work requirements, a health plan in California hopes to stanch the number of people losing coverage by using an AI program to schedule appointments and remind enrollees to fill out paperwork. The plan says it can do the work of 40 employees at a fraction of the cost.
Read full article →Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to people’s lengthy, messy stories about their illness.
Read full article →Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in what has become the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.
Read full article →The FDA, while promising flexibility in approving Baby KJ-type gene editing, still has set standards difficult for a small startup to meet.
Read full article →Gilead wins case over its HIV medicine, Eli Lilly to expand retatrutide access, and more biotech news
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The American Diabetes Association (ADA) asked for patience as its Audit and Governance Committee reviews the incident at this year's annual meeting -- when five prominent experts were removed by police -- and prepares recommendations...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A woman who suffered a cardiac arrest while taking the New York State bar exam is suing the test site, Hofstra University, claiming that CPR and an automated external defibrillator were not provided in a timely manner by staff...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- A 2024 report of a severe Alzheimer's disease patient who improved after an intravenous mesenchymal stem cell transplant was retracted by Case Reports in Neurological Medicine and its publisher John Wiley & Sons. Researchers...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The other day I walked past a branch of a gym that had a service for walk-in on-site intravenous (IV) drips. It was made clear that this was an independent business, not a service offered by the gym itself, but a private company...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Two thirds of young men in the U.S. regularly engage with online masculinity influencers ("manfluencers") who often promote sexism, normalize violence against women, and peddle a narrow view of what it means to be a man. Platforms...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The proportion of new buprenorphine prescriptions for opioid use disorder (OUD) that were never dispensed or filled increased from 2020 to 2024, according to a retrospective cohort study. Among over 1,400 patients with commercial...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- All four inaugural teams of the brand-new Women's Pro Baseball League (WPBL) are named after influential women in American history -- with one named after a trailblazing female physician. The New York Heights take inspiration...
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