Hospitals launch chatbots, creating another funnel for patient intake
Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the…
A mother’s 20-year quest fuels a startling Duchenne breakthrough
A year after the worst day of her life, Debra Miller received a voicemail she couldn’t quite make…
Insurers, hospitals agree AI scribes raise medical bills. What now?
To hear health systems tell the story, artificial intelligence tools like ambient scribes are helping not only reduce…
Pharma penalties for doctors’ kickbacks just a cost of doing business
Pharmaceutical companies that were penalized for kickbacks paid only 2.2% of their U.S. revenue generated by selling drugs…
GOP Sen. Johnson investigating FDA rare disease drug rejections
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said he is investigating the Food and Drug Administration’s rejections of rare disease…
How Hims has transformed medicine in a few short years
As the Super Bowl approached halftime, Hims & Hers publicly staked its claim to preventive medicine in front…
FDA offers clues to AI regulation with RecovryAI designation
Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the…
Why clinical trials on nutritional supplements are hard to design
Walk into any drugstore, natural market, or Costco and you’ll find a dazzling array of supplements promising everything…
Digital twins in health care: Promising technology still years away
Two decades ago, futurist Ray Kurzweil laid out a bold vision for next-generation medicine in his book “The…
FDA’s Høeg plans to scrutinize SSRIs, RSV shots for babies
WASHINGTON — Tracy Beth Høeg, the top drug regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, indicated in her…
FDA reverses course, agrees to review Moderna’s flu vaccine
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for…
We’re reading about China’s GLP-1 drugs, a puzzling FDA rejection
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