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Under the Trump administration, dozens of advisory committees have been ended or frozen, including one on controlling infection in healthcare settings.
Read full article →These are the types of lettuce you should toss out immediately.
Read full article →Cases of illness caused by cyclospora are rising as the Trump administration’s historic cuts to staffing and funding at federal health agencies meet chronic underfunding at the state and local level. It's a complicated and chaotic mix of issues that have converged to hamper the government's reaction and response, experts and former federal officials said. ...
Read full article →As hospitals increasingly use AI to improve patient care, the same technology is being used by hackers and nation-states to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks. Karen Habercoss, chief information security and privacy officer at the University of Chicago Medicine, explained how her health system is building a governance structure to manage that risk. The post The Same AI That Helps Patients Is Being Used to Attack Them, Hospital Exec Says appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →A new report from the Peterson Health Technology Institute argues that today’s healthcare payment models are ill-suited for clinical AI and could drive up costs. The post How Should Clinical AI Be Paid For? 3 Takeaways appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →Personalis’s liquid biopsy is part of a growing market for minimal residual disease assays, tests that look for any remaining cancer cells after the initial treatment. Tempus AI has been the commercial partner on this Personalis test since 2023. The post Expecting Massive Test Growth in Cancer & More, Tempus AI Strikes $1.5B Deal to Buy Personalis appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →The FDA said Monday it is still focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, despite a faulty test result.
Read full article →The FDA says lettuce distributed by Taylor Fresh Foods and Taylor Farms de Mexico is still linked to the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis. But the source may be difficult to definitively trace.
Read full article →The FDA says the test identifying cyclospora in Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce was a "false positive." But the lettuce is still linked epidemiologically to cases of the illness in a multistate outbreak.
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- An investigational antifungal was associated with clinical improvements in a majority of patients with disseminated coccidioidomycosis (DCM) who failed standard treatments, according to an open-label phase IIb trial. Among 41...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- Caffeine consumption can be safely tolerated in reasonable amounts in most people, according to a review by the American Heart Association (AHA). "The convergence of evidence from large cohort studies and small randomized controlled...
Read full article →(MedPage Today) -- The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) cut dozens of grants last week, issuing what appeared to be batch termination notices to researchers. Termination letters shared with MedPage Today and posted online had...
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