Healthcare students turn to Kalshi, betting platforms to pay for degrees, survey shows
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a student during a ‘Vax To…
AI-powered closed-loop wearable bioelectronics for personalized and autonomous healthcare
Chen, C., Ding, S. & Wang, J. Digital health for aging populations. Nat. Med. 29, 1623–1630 (2023). Article …
A tax on sugary drinks in Egypt could reduce disease and save US$1.8 billion in healthcare costs: modelling study
Non-communicable diseases – heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer – are no longer just a rich-country problem. Across Africa,…
Plan for pathology review welcomed
A long-awaited review into an industry “utterly essential” to the modern health system could point to the need…
how play is reshaping pediatric healthcare
Changing the Experience of Care Across hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and research laboratories, industrial designers rethink how medical…
J&J falls despite a beat-and-raise quarter. Why we’re raising our price target anyways
Johnson & Johnson shares fell Tuesday despite a mostly strong second-quarter earnings report and an increase to its…
Health NZ spending on locum doctors hits a new high, at $220 million
Dr James Irwin recently resigned as the last fulltime permanent gastro specialist at Palmerston North Hospital, a service…
You can see a doctor faster, but it might not be your doctor
Comment: Think of the last time you visited a primary health clinic. Did you see the same doctor…
Is A Full-Body Preventative Wellness Scan Worth It?
There’s nothing like going for an entire body MOT to make you question all your life choices. That’s…
How wellness clinics bend the rules to supply unapproved peptides and anti-ageing injections
Across Australia, “longevity” and “wellness” clinics, most of them online, sell injections that promise to slow ageing, build…
Surgical registration of Dr Liu-Ming Schmidt suspended after patient complaints
A surgeon working in southern NSW who operated on the wrong end of a patient’s bowel contributing to…
Doctors adopting AI faster than rules can keep up
Survey data suggests nearly four out of five clinicians in New Zealand have started to use AI tools…