The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Between 1990 and 2019, early-onset cancer cases globally surged by nearly 80 percent, with related deaths increasing by around 30 percent. Recently, the FDA approved Guardants SHIELD test, a blood-based screening test for colorectal cancer. Additionally, for many cancer types, no screening tests are available. In the U.S.,

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes.

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2020

This week, Hims & Hers announced they would be a new consumer-facing retail channel for coronavirus testing. You can order the test here for $150 cash out-of-pocket. The packaging states that this is a saliva test, “to detect current presence of COVID-19.” This test has not been FDA cleared or approved.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2024

The other four types of utilization measured fell below the 100 line, including vaccinations at 96 (for adults, pediatrics, and flu); office, institutional and telehealth visits at 95; elective procedures at 95; and, screening and diagnostic tests the lowest at 94. Shifts and impacts in medicine across therapy areas in the U.S.

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Practice Index

MARCH 21, 2024

GP funding has been cut by almost £350m in real terms since 2019. Community diagnosis to reach ten million tests Community diagnostic centres have now delivered seven million tests, with another ten million planned for the coming year. The group said: “The crisis in general practice has been caused by decades of neglect.

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Medical Economics

JUNE 17, 2025

HonorHealth Research Institute begins a Phase II trial for Myasthenia Gravis, testing Novartis' Remibrutinib, potentially leading to FDA approval. 1 spot on Fierce Pharma’s list of the highest-paid pharma CEOs in 2024, raking in an industry-leading $287 million — mostly from exercising stock options granted in 2019. Adler, J.D.,

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NHA Now

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I hope the certificants are able to grasp some of the basics of how to identify integumentary problems on the human body, along with some basic understandings of how these common skin conditions can be tested for and treated, with a goal better patient care and education. What do you hope certification holders get out of this presentation?

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

But it’s clear from IQVIA’s data that for at least six weeks, a minimum of 5 million fewer cancer patients engaged with a prescriber, either in person or via telehealth, based on what IQVIA would have expected based on 2019 claims data.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

However, elective procedures haven’t yet reached pre-pandemic utilization (latest read of 98) and for screening and diagnostic tests, underwhelming use at 89 versus the 100 index pre-pandemic. With an Index of 100 for the first 8 weeks of 2020 (that is, the 2 months before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S.),

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 11, 2025

Follow Author Jun 11, 2025, 07:00am EDT Jun 11, 2025, 03:28pm EDT Share Save Comment Left to right Mirvie's cofounders: Maneesh Jain aand Stephen Quake Mirvie uses RNA technology to predict pregnancy complications, such as preeclampsia, through a simple blood test. The preeclampsia laboratory testing market is valued at $16.3

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

The tea leaves have been brewing here at THINK-Health as we prepared our 2019 forecast at the convergence of consumers, health, and technology. voters through 2019, and on the Presidential debate stages for both Democrats and Republicans leading up to the parties’ nominees for 2020.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 14, 2024

Inconsistent reporting practices have resulted in a diagnostic shift among SUID subtypes and adversely affects reliable monitoring of SUID and SUID subtypes which impacts understanding of the magnitude of and causes underlying SUID.” Only 23% of all cases across all seven states did genetic testing.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2025

Compared with vaccination rates from the 2019-20 school year, the number of states with childhood vaccination rates 95% and over reduced by nearly half in school year 2023-24 from 20 states to 11, In 2023-24, 25 states had childhood vaccination rates ranging between 90 and 94.9%, and fewer than 90% of school aged kids were vaccinated in 14 states.

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