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The American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics published its final issue in December 2025, ending a 26‑year legacy of scholarly oversight. Simultaneously, the AMA launched a Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence, signaling a strategic pivot toward technology. The article warns that the loss of a dedicated ethics forum coincides with rapid AI integration in clinical practice, raising concerns about informed consent, data privacy, and accountability. Without robust ethical guidance, AI‑driven tools could erode patient safety and professional responsibility.
Cardiovascular disease remains the top global killer, accounting for 19.8 million deaths in 2022, with 85% linked to myocardial infarction or stroke. Echocardiography is essential for detecting ischemic cardiomyopathy, wall‑motion abnormalities, and left‑ventricular remodeling. Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a...
NHS England has set a firm deadline to retire the CIS1 authentication service, removing access on 28 February 2027 after reducing its SLA to silver on 1 October 2025. The move forces NHS trusts and other European hospitals to adopt the newer CIS2 platform,...
RecovryAI, emerging from stealth, received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its physician‑prescribed Virtual Care Assistants (VCAs), AI tools that guide patients through post‑operative recovery. The designation, reserved for devices that can substantially improve care standards, accelerates the company’s engagement with...
The essay examines how Jewish law’s reliance on legal fictions clashes with modern end‑of‑life medicine. It contrasts Halakha’s categorical certainty—viewing every moment of life as sacred—with medicine’s humility that prioritizes patient comfort and informed choice. While some rabbinic authorities allow...
A recent analysis of 6,069 cognitively normal women examined whether epigenetic aging clocks predict incident mild cognitive impairment or dementia. Second‑ and third‑generation clocks (AgeAccelPheno, AgeAccelGrim2, DunedinPACE) were compared with first‑generation Horvath and Hannum measures. Only the AgeAccelGrim2 clock showed...
InterSystems and Resilience Care have formed a technology partnership to integrate Resilience Care’s remote‑monitoring platform with InterSystems IRIS for Health, streamlining oncology care pathways. The integration layer connects hospital information systems, automates data exchange for chemotherapy, lab, and imaging appointments,...
Eight leading European microphysiological systems companies have launched the Industry Alliance for Microphysiological Systems (IAMPS), the world’s first trade association dedicated to MPS technologies. IAMPS will represent organ‑on‑chip, organoid and related NAM developers, aiming to harmonize standards, promote data sharing,...
The article highlights persistent low‑tech practices in 2026 healthcare—mis‑timed pharmacy texts, imaging still sent on physical CDs, and reliance on fax—while executives chase AI. It shows that simple fixes are known but remain unfixed due to cultural and governance gaps....
Earlier this year the UK government pledged £82.6 million to AI‑focused drug‑discovery firms, underscoring its ambition to lead the global digital health transformation. Major players such as AstraZeneca are launching dedicated health‑tech units like Evinova to accelerate clinical‑trial design, while the...
Proscia has been crowned the top‑performing digital pathology software vendor in the United States, receiving a 95.2 overall score in KLAS Research’s 2026 report and earning A+ or A grades across all six customer‑experience pillars. The company is also the...
Hands‑on medical assistant programs, like Allen School’s, immerse students in real‑clinic environments, letting them practice patient interviews, vital‑sign collection, and equipment use under supervision. Repeated simulations of appointment flow, teamwork, and electronic record entry turn theoretical knowledge into muscle memory...
In a quick‑bite interview at the February 2026 VIVE conference, Miriam Paramore discussed RxUtility, a health‑tech platform that consolidates manufacturer coupons and cash‑price data to present consumers with the lowest possible drug price at the point of dispensing. The solution...
The latest #CareTalk episode highlights free AI tools that help patients draft professional appeal letters after insurance denials. Counterforce Health demonstrates how these tools can address prior authorization refusals, claim rejections, and claims of non‑medical necessity. Guests Diane Archer and...
Vanda Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval for Bysanti (milsaperidone) to treat acute manic or mixed episodes of bipolar I disorder and schizophrenia in adults. The approval introduces a new chemical entity in the atypical antipsychotic class that is bioequivalent to Vanda’s...
Boehringer Ingelheim’s oral kinase inhibitor Hernexeos received FDA accelerated approval for first‑line HER2‑mutant lung cancer in a record‑fast 44 days, thanks to the National Priority Voucher program. The drug demonstrated a 76 % response rate, positioning it as a breakthrough in personalized...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) continues to pose a severe, often late‑diagnosed respiratory challenge, with mortality exceeding many cancers. Boehringer Ingelheim’s Martin Beck highlighted the shift toward earlier detection using AI‑enhanced imaging and a broader view of IPF as a heterogeneous,...
The Trump administration is proposing a rule that revives catastrophic, or "junk," health plans with a $31,000 family deductible, effectively undoing the ACA’s ban on such high‑deductible products. These plans, once sold by major insurers like Cigna, Aetna and UnitedHealthcare,...
The WHO’s INN proposed list 134, released in early 2026, reveals several late‑stage drug candidates that were previously hidden from public view. Notably, two NLRP3 inhibitors—abdenoflast and parunoflast—appear to map to Eli Lilly’s newly acquired Ventyx assets VTX2735 and VTX3232, both showing promising...
Pella Corporation opened a wellness center five minutes from its Iowa headquarters, offering primary care, behavioral health, and pharmacy services to its 2,500 employees. The clinic was built in partnership with Premise Health, which designed a high‑touch, high‑tech model that...
Timothy Lesaca, a psychiatrist, stopped accepting pharmaceutical‑sponsored lunches, arguing they blur the line between patient care and industry influence. Recent CMS Open Payments data reveal over 1.1 million industry events in 2024, with 920 000 lunches costing $73 million. Research shows even a...
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters introduces SurgRAW, a multi‑agent, chain‑of‑thought workflow designed for zero‑shot reasoning on robotic surgical video. The system builds on SurgCoTBench, a new benchmark with 14,256 question‑answer pairs and frame‑level annotations across five core surgical tasks. By...
A recent open‑access study demonstrates that hydrogen‑deuterium exchange mass spectrometry (HDX‑MS) can reliably map binding sites of extremely weak fragment hits (up to 7 mM KD) against Cyclophilin D. By optimizing protein concentration at 10 µM and testing fragments at 2.5‑10 mM, the...
Alcidion announced that its Miya Precision Concept Detection AI feature has achieved Class 1 medical device registration on Australia’s ARTG (ID 522634) and the UK’s MHRA. The tool parses clinicians’ free‑text notes, proposes SNOMED CT codes and streamlines documentation while requiring clinician validation....
Emma Aston, a former CDC health communicator, details how a 2025 Reduction in Force eliminated roughly a quarter of the agency’s workforce, silencing key public‑health messaging. The cuts halted campaigns on tobacco, HIV, and flu, while new executive orders imposed...
Gene therapy for sickle cell disease has moved from experimental promise to an actionable clinical reality, with early CRISPR‑based treatments already cutting crises and hospital stays. A recent Sanius Health survey of 94 patients shows strong interest—71% want more information—yet...
An EMT recounts a harrowing transport of a stroke‑survivor, Molly, highlighting how standard stair‑chair equipment failed to accommodate her size and mobility limitations, leading to injury and indignity. The author uses the incident to illustrate structural violence and the marginalization...
The UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has launched an industry‑readiness survey on Value Based Procurement (VBP), targeting MedTech and health‑technology firms. The ten‑minute questionnaire seeks a single consolidated response per company and must be submitted by 27 March....
The UK Health Data Research Service (HDRS) is set to launch later this year as a secure, single gateway for national health and care datasets, aiming to unlock the country’s extensive longitudinal records. The government announced Melanie Ivarsson, a former...
Researchers identified that the aging gut microbiome harbors increased Klebsiella aerogenes, which elevates histamine production and compromises intestinal barrier integrity. The excess histamine suppresses Nlrp6 expression, disrupting LC3‑mediated autophagy and intensifying inflammation in septic models. Experiments showed that lowering histamine...
Real‑world data (RWD) is reshaping natural history studies by delivering longitudinal, patient‑level information that was previously only obtainable through costly prospective trials. Advances in artificial intelligence and natural language processing now allow rapid extraction of structured data from unstructured sources...
Medimaps Group and Radiobotics have agreed to merge, forming a global AI‑driven musculoskeletal imaging company. The combined entity will deliver an end‑to‑end suite across X‑ray and DXA, including automated fracture detection, opportunistic bone fragility assessment, and fracture‑risk prediction. It will...
A Drexel‑led study demonstrated that low‑melt polyaryletherketone (LM PAEK) can be fused‑filament‑fabricated into porous knee‑revision cones that outperform traditional PEEK in shear strength and stiffness. Using a Taguchi L8 design, the researchers printed 64 cylindrical surrogates with gyroid and diamond TPMS...
Gifthealth’s co‑founder John Romano outlines how AI‑driven pricing tools and automated patient‑support platforms can lower out‑of‑pocket costs and improve medication adherence for the 60 million Americans living with gastrointestinal diseases. By integrating real‑time claims adjudication, discount automation and personalized education, the...
Motion control underpins modern medical devices such as surgical robots, imaging systems, and laboratory instruments, yet it remains a complex engineering hurdle. Dave Beckstoffer of Portescap highlights how early, collaborative partnerships with motion‑control specialists can streamline development and boost reliability....
The Patient‑Centered Health Technology Initiative (PHTI) released a Clinical AI report built from a workshop with senior leaders across health systems, insurers, tech firms, and federal agencies. Participants identified policy, reimbursement, and evidence gaps as primary barriers to scaling AI...
Otsuka Medical Devices and Otsuka Pharmaceutical announced that Japan’s National Health Insurance will cover the Paradise™ Ultrasound Renal Denervation (uRDN) system starting March 1, with commercial sales beginning March 2. The device, developed by Recor Medical, targets resistant‑hypertension patients who remain uncontrolled...
Medical students Jay Pendyala and Jonathan Berg compare chess strategy to clinical reasoning, highlighting how assessing a patient mirrors evaluating a board position. They argue that diagnostic algorithms serve as openings, but flexibility is required when cases deviate from textbook...
The Department of Justice is appealing a ruling that blocked a subpoena targeting a queer‑owned clinic providing gender‑affirming care, arguing that the clinic’s patient‑education materials should be treated as drug labeling under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. By...
Dr. Charan Teja Bobba recounts treating a patient with meth‑associated dental disease in a MassHealth safety‑net clinic. Methamphetamine caused extensive enamel loss, xerostomia, and rapid decay, demanding complex restorative procedures over several visits. By involving the patient in every step and building...
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), a rare estrogen‑sensitive lung disease, highlights the absence of standardized reproductive care for women with rare conditions. While FDA‑approved therapies have extended patients' lives, guidance on pregnancy, contraception, and menopause remains fragmented. The author’s personal journey—freezing embryos and...
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Healthcare M&A activity moderated in 2025, dropping to 898 transactions after a pandemic‑driven surge. Despite fewer deals, the median transaction value jumped to $151 million, the highest in 25 years, while EV/EBITDA multiples held steady near 12.5×. Public‑market returns diverged, with...
A new commentary challenges the notion that cancer overdiagnosis undermines screening, arguing that population‑wide programs have consistently reduced mortality for the five most screened cancers. Critics point to rising incidence without proportional mortality as evidence of overdiagnosis, yet recent trial...
The article argues that early‑stage medical device ideas require a balanced communication approach that avoids both silence and hype. It highlights the tension trainees and researchers feel when sharing untested concepts and proposes focusing discussions on problems, trade‑offs, and unknowns...
The AI Medical Services Act (AMSA) creates a new licensure category for AI-driven clinical tools, mandating tiered risk oversight, physician supervision, and a regulatory sandbox for limited deployments. It embeds bias monitoring, adverse‑event reporting, and a framework for Medicaid and...
This week’s coverage juxtaposes longevity hype with emerging science, highlighting David Sinclair’s bold claim that aging could be reversed within 10‑20 years, a new Nature paper confirming adult hippocampal neurogenesis, and research showing men lose the Y chromosome as they...
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The KevinMD podcast features family physician Jonathan Bushman highlighting that primary care receives only about five percent of total health‑care spending while addressing roughly ninety percent of patient health issues. Bushman contrasts the modest financial return for primary‑care physicians with...
Rural maternity care across the United States is collapsing as hospitals shutter labor and delivery units, leaving many counties without obstetric services. The article identifies five actionable solutions: expanding cross‑trained clinician workforces, implementing obstetric‑ready nursing models, forging collaborative transfer networks,...
Epic Systems announced its first pharmaceutical customer, Eli Lilly, for the newly launched Epic Discovery platform. The deal marks the inaugural sale of a Health Grid product to a life‑sciences firm, allowing Lilly to streamline clinical trial creation, site identification, activation,...
The brain houses about 20‑25% of the body’s cholesterol, yet it relies on local synthesis because circulating cholesterol cannot cross the blood‑brain barrier. Although some patients report transient brain fog on statins, large observational studies generally show neutral or even...
