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Words can Harm, Words can Heal

Sensible Medicine

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.

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This Digital Health Startup Wants To Help Hospitals Make Sense Of All Their Tech

Forbes Healthcare

Fresh off a $275 million fundraisethe largest in digital health so far this yearInnovaccers cofounder and CEO Abhinav Shashank has a plan to pull together data and AI tools all in one place.

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Independent Clinical Judgement in Chart Preparation

Legal Eye on Medical Assisting

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.

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EvidenceCare Acquires Agathos to Advance Physician Enablement and Reduce Clinical Variation

EvidenceCare

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.

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Reduce Friction in Nursing in 2025

Emerging RN Leader

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.

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ICU Nurse Angel Toney on Teamwork, Purpose, and Why ‘Together’ Is Her Real Superpower

Minority Nurse

When it comes to the power of nurses, Angel Toney, BSN, RN, is the real deala critical care force fueled by compassion, community, and the drive to pay it forward. As an ICU nurse at Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center , Toneys superpower isnt just handling high-stakes moments but weaving humanity into every heartbeat of her day. Her journey into nursing was born from personal heartache.

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Why Quebec’s health care model could change Canada’s system for good

KevinMD.com

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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MDaudit Releases “AI Assist” for healthcare Revenue Integrity

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. MDaudit,an award-winning cloud-based continuous risk monitoring platform for RCM that enables the nation’s premier healthcare organizations to minimize billing risks and maximize revenues, today announced the latest AI-powered enhancement to its award-winning revenue integrity platform. […] The article MDaudit Releases AI Assist for healthcare Revenue Integrity appeared first on electr

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AHA; Health-ISAC Warn U.S. Hospitals About Potential Terror Threat

The HIPAA Journal

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.

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The Prototype: These Bacteria Can Generate Electricity

Forbes Healthcare

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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Palantir Sues Y Combinator Startup Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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Gates Foundation Opening Singapore Office To Deepen Southeast Asia Partnerships

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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Why most medical research is likely (still) waste, and less research funding may be one way forward

Sensible Medicine

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.

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Meet India’s Self-Made Biologics Brewmaster Billionaire

Forbes Healthcare

Thwarted in her ambition to become a brewmaster, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw channeled her frustrations into building a knockoff drug powerhouse and has become one of the worlds most successful female entrepreneurs.

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Amid Doctor Shortage, Physician Assistant Pay Hits $130,000

Forbes Healthcare

Physician assistants are increasing in number and so is their pay, eclipsing $130,000 a year, according to new compensation data.

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A review of the newly approved novel non-opioid pain reliever suzetrigine (Journavx)

Sensible Medicine

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.

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Seed Oils: Real Harm or Just Another Food Fear Fad?

Sensible Medicine

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.

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Meet The Billionaire CEO Trying To Resurrect The Woolly Mammoth

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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Colon Cancer Rising In Young Adults, Research Examines Gut Bacteria

Forbes Healthcare

Study explores if toxin from gut bacteria causes colon cancer

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InnovationRx: Eli Lilly Has Stockpiled Nearly $550 Million Of Its Next Obesity Drug

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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From Harvard To “Law And Order” And Back Again: A Conversation With Neal Baer, MD

Forbes Healthcare

Neal Baer was the longstanding show runner for Law & Order: SVU. Now, he directs a new program on Medicine and the arts at his Alma mater, Harvard Medical School.

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Why Amgen Hired An AI Head From Nike

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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Artificial Intelligence can be the Catalyst for Transformative Change at NIH

Sensible Medicine

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.

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How Queen Zulu, Dr. Macias, Lost Her Home, Then Built A Cannabis Empire And Inspired Brittney Griner

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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This Biotech Startup Raised $34 Million For Urine-Based Tests To Help Diagnose Cancer

Forbes Healthcare

A grantee of the Gates Foundation, Hong Kong-based Phase Scientific built a business on the back of Covid-19 tests. Up next: using urine to compete with industry gold standard HPV screening methods.

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Make America Tan Again: “Big, Beautiful Bill” Burns The Tanning Tax

Forbes Healthcare

Tucked among the trillions of dollars in tax cuts in the Houses just passed big, beautiful bill is repeal of a 10% tax on tanning services.

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How Not to Get Fooled by the Medical Literature - Part 1 - Course Introductio

Sensible Medicine

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.

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The Prototype: New Bacteria Discovered On Chinese Space Station

Forbes Healthcare

In this weeks edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still cant rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could make your next EV cheaper, how to build a black hole bomb and more.

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NFL QB Alex Smith’s Story Of Necrotizing Fasciitis And ‘Overwhelming’ Pain

Forbes Healthcare

Former NFL QB Alex Smith suffered an on-field leg injury in 2018 followed by a life-threatening infection, severe pain and depression.

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InnovationRx: A Patent Fight Over The World’s Top-Selling Drug

Forbes Healthcare

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.

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Why It’s Difficult For People With Chronic Pain To Gain Their Doctor’s Trust

Forbes Healthcare

Previous patients, faking pain, undermine trust in patients who report real pain

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