Sensible Medicine
APRIL 28, 2025
The picture below shows how a treatment can make patients better. I see four ways. The drug/procedure may work biologically. The Voltaire effect relates to his quote saying that the art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. AKA: natural history. Placebo effects can also contribute. I will show you an elegant experiment demonstrating how positive energy and words can add to improvement.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 2, 2025
In this weeks edition of The Prototype, we look at quantum computing for image recognition, a gene therapy using a patients own skin cells, electricity-generating bacteria, using physics to cook perfect pasta and more.
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Legal Eye on Medical Assisting
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
I recently received an email from a medical assistant in pathology requesting clarification on their scope of practice. Specifically, they wanted to know whether they could read a providers diagnoses and use that information to decide which documents they need to gather to prepare a patients chart.
EvidenceCare
MARCH 11, 2025
Originally published on EIN Presswire BRENTWOOD, TN | March 12, 2025 EvidenceCare , a leading provider of innovative clinical decision support solutions, is thrilled to announce its acquisition of Agathos , a pioneer in physician engagement and practice enablement. This strategic partnership reflects EvidenceCares commitment to empowering physicians and health systems to reduce unwarranted clinical variation through data-driven tools and actionable insights that improve care.
Emerging RN Leader
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Few nurse leaders would disagree with the need for disruptive innovation in our healthcare systems. Yet, not all innovation works and it can have unintended consequences and high costs. A more immediate return on investment and improvement in productivity for most organizations can be achieved by reducing […] The post Reduce Friction in Nursing in 2025 appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.
KevinMD.com
MARCH 11, 2025
Health care systems worldwide are grappling with access, efficiency, and sustainability challenges. In Canada, the debate over public versus private care is especially charged, and nowhere is this more evident than in Quebec. The province has the highest number of physicians practicing outside the public system in the countryyet they still account for only 2 Read more Why Quebecs health care model could change Canadas system for good originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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The HIPAA Journal
MARCH 21, 2025
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) have issued a joint threat bulletin warning hospitals about a potential coordinated multi-city terrorist attack on hospitals in the coming weeks. On March 18, 2025, the AHA and Health-ISAC observed a social media post about potential coordinated terrorist attacks on U.S. hospitals by ISIS-K, a division of the jihadist group Islamic State.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 5, 2025
Supported by Singapores Economic Development Board, the establishment of the office in the city state will help accelerate the progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals, the foundation said in a statement.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 1, 2025
Former Palantir employees Mayank Jain and Pranav Pillai started Guardian AI to help healthcare providers fight insurance claim denials. Now their former employer is suing them for allegedly stealing trade secrets.
Forbes Healthcare
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Colossal Biosciences cofounder and CEO Ben Lamm is worth $3.7 billion following the company's recent fundraise at an eye-popping $10.2 billion valuation. But it has yet to be paid for reviving extinct animals or saving endangered ones.
Sensible Medicine
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
As always, we are happy to feature articles that expand on ideas discussed on Sensible Medicine – even when the author agrees more with Dr. Prasad than with me. Today, we welcome back Dr. Raudasoja, who last published with us about a year ago. Adam Cifu Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. If you appreciate our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Sensible Medicine
JANUARY 23, 2025
Two health obsessions that I’ve never really understood are the supposed benefits of vitamin D (for every imaginable ill) and harm of seed oils. Dr. Bobby Dubois thinks a lot about the evidence behind health recommendations on his podcast. His research has led him to a pretty clear opinion about the role of seed oils in health and disease. Attentive Sensible Medicine readers will note that his take is a bit different from that expressed in a recent post.
Forbes Healthcare
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
In this weeks edition of InnovationRx, we look at Eli Lillys weight-loss pill stockpiling, scaling stem cell manufacturing, the growing measles outbreak in Texas, an.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 11, 2025
Big Pharma and biotech startups alike are counting on AI to speed the process of drug discovery and make their operations more efficient. But most of the best data scientists arent working in healthcareat least not yet.
Forbes Healthcare
JANUARY 6, 2025
The journey of Queen Zulu, Dr. Chanda Macias, from losing her home to pioneering a cannabis empire and inspiring Brittney Griner to embrace the power of the plant.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 7, 2025
In this weeks edition of InnovationRx, we look at Aetnas withdrawal from the ACA exchanges, the potential for digital health consolidation, high error rates from new AI models, a radioisotope deal and more.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 8, 2025
Previous patients, faking pain, undermine trust in patients who report real pain
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 30, 2025
In this weeks edition of InnovationRx, we look at a patent fight over the worlds top-selling drug, breakthroughs from the American Association for Cancer Research, Verilys Parkinsons dataset, the relationship between microplastics and heart disease, and more.
Sensible Medicine
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Last week the FDA approved a novel non-opioid pain medication. The drug is called suzetrigine (Journavx). A Google search brings up news releases from Vertex , and news coverage—which are essentially the same and lacking links to the evidence. I aimed to provide readers the evidence for this new drug. This was much more difficult to find. Some things to set out first: I am not a pain specialist; my analysis is one of a Neutral Martian.
Forbes Healthcare
APRIL 14, 2025
Mixing machine learning with fertility technology could be a science fiction plot. It can also be a company. Felicia von Reden started Ovom Care in 2023 to build software to make the often strenuous IVF process more efficient and more affordable. Ovom uses artificial intelligence to help doctors determine the right medication and dosage for each patient, and even identify the most viable eggs and sperm in a patient's body.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 8, 2025
Senator Hawley may view international price referencing for prescription drugs in Medicaid as a way to spare deep cuts in benefits while saving money for the government.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 2, 2025
Entire regions in the U.S. have become healthcare deserts. Failure to act is both a public health risk and a systemic vulnerability.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 2, 2025
Google's healthcare work and portfolio has rapidly expanded in recent years.
Sensible Medicine
MARCH 25, 2025
Stadiums packed with working-class Americans cheering for public health. Political leaders calling for war on our chronic disease crisis. An incoming NIH Director, Jay Bhattacharya M.D., Ph.D. committed to reform. Had someone painted this picture when I was a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where the moto is “saving lives, millions at a time” it would have sounded like a dream come true.
Sensible Medicine
APRIL 30, 2025
The most common question we get asked is: is there a course on how to become better at critically reading medical research. Well, now there is! This is the first of 9 videos that we recorded as part of a course on clinical appraisal, and there will be many more to come. We call our class: How Not to Get Fooled by the Medical Literature. These are topics that each of us teaches separately, but, here, for the first time, we teach them together, and the whole is more than the sum of the parts.
Sensible Medicine
JANUARY 30, 2025
A limited mask mandate is returning to my state this week. In 2023, the Maryland Department of Health (DOH) adopted a standard for return to universal masking in healthcare facilities when hospitalizations with respiratory viruses (covid, influenza, or RSV) reach a level of 10 cases per 100,000 population. Maryland has a population of 6.3 million and about 10,000 licensed hospital beds, so that works out to about 6% of hospital beds.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 7, 2025
Is there a way to "hack" the ER and improve your chances of getting better, faster care if you or a loved one ends up there? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Heres how.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 2, 2025
Cigna swung to a first quarter profit of $1.3 billion as the health insurer gains control of rising medical costs and its Evernorth business continues to perform well.
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 5, 2025
In a move that could dramatically reshape the landscape for rare disease treatments, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced plans for conditional approval pathways
Forbes Healthcare
MAY 6, 2025
Glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor agonists like semaglutide and liraglutide are already game-changers for obesity and type 2 diabetes. Could addiction be next?
Sensible Medicine
MARCH 19, 2025
Colton Lipfert is an incoming medical student at an east coast medical school. He has worked in the vkprasadlab for the last few years and recently shadowed. When I finished shadowing Dr. Vinay Prasad, I was convinced I had to become an oncologist. When I told him this, he was a little surprised. The day’s work had been downright ordinary for him.
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