The Missing Vital Sign: Why Modern Medicine Still Won’t Measure Sleep
Modern medicine still treats sleep as a side note despite mounting evidence that a single night of sleep data can predict risk for over 130 diseases, including mortality, dementia, and heart failure. Studies from Stanford, an umbrella review of 29 systematic reviews, and long‑term home monitoring all confirm sleep’s strong links to mental health and cardiometabolic conditions. Yet primary‑care workflows, reimbursement models, and clinician training have not incorporated validated sleep measurements, leaving 80% of moderate‑to‑severe sleep apnea and millions with chronic insomnia undiagnosed. Consumer wearables fill the gap, but the health system lacks pathways to translate that data into care.
Good News on the HIV Front
Decades of HIV vaccine attempts have stalled, but recent advances in antiretroviral therapy, long‑acting injectable lenacapavir, and engineered broadly neutralizing antibodies are reshaping the fight. While over 250 vaccine trials yielded only modest immunity, PrEP cuts sexual transmission by 99%...
What Happens When Insurance Companies Become More Powerful Than Medicine?
The article argues that U.S. health insurers now wield more power than physicians, steering clinical decisions, hospital consolidation, startup viability, and drug adoption. UnitedHealthcare posted over $400 billion in revenue last year and CVS Health topped $350 billion, giving insurers financial clout...
Healthcare ‘Quality’ Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.
Healthcare quality in the U.S. is widely perceived as poor, with 56% of Americans rating it fair or worse and 90% feeling they overpay. The article argues that the disconnect stems from industry‑centric metrics that ignore patient outcomes, experience, and...
Don’t Bury The Lead – AI Assisted Measures of Thymic Health Point to a “Fountain of Youth.”
A Nature paper introduced an AI deep‑learning system that reads CT scans to produce a continuous "thymic health" score for adults. Applying the model to 27,612 participants revealed that higher thymic health is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease,...
Peter Stetson, Tiger Connect
Tiger Connect, now branding itself as an AI platform for clinical communication, aims to orchestrate messages between doctors, nurses, EMTs and connected devices. CMIO Peter Stetson, formerly of Memorial Sloan Kettering, says the core challenge is routing alerts to the right person...
A Unified Sense of Self
Michael Pollan’s new book, "A World Appears," reignites the quest to explain how the brain creates a unified sense of self, prompting commentary from neuroscientist David Eagleman and scholars across fields. The article highlights how epigenetics, philosophy of mind, and...
Cody Simmons, DermaSensor
DermaSensor, led by CEO Cody Simmons, has developed a spectroscopy‑based device to detect early skin cancer. Currently only about 8% of individuals with suspicious lesions receive recommended screening, leaving a large gap in early detection. The company is positioning the...
Massively Better Healthcare, a Review
Matthew Holt reviews Halle Tecco’s *Massively Better Healthcare*, a three‑part guide aimed at newcomers to U.S. health‑care entrepreneurship. The first section sketches the tangled American system, the second delivers practical innovation and company‑building advice, and the final part outlines four rules...
7th and Possibly Final Update on the $39.94 Lab Test Bill
In May 2025 the author received a $34.95 bill from LabCorp for a lab test that should have been covered as a preventive service under the ACA. The initial claim was mis‑coded by One Medical, prompting a $39.94 charge after...
Kevin Wang, Suki
Kevin Wang, chief medical officer of Suki, discussed the evolution of ambient documentation technology that automates clinical note‑taking and now extends into coding and billing assistance. Suki’s AI‑driven platform is sold directly to providers and embedded in partner solutions such...
Michael Dalton, Ovatient
Ovatient, led by CEO Michael Dalton, is a telehealth platform built directly on Epic’s electronic health record system. The service originates from health‑system partnerships such as the Medical University of South Carolina and Metro Health in Cleveland. By embedding in...
Liberal Arts Education As a Counterbalance To Trumpian AI
Amid rising mental‑health crises, policy attacks, and AI‑driven discourse, author Mike Magee argues that a liberal‑arts education offers a vital counterbalance to the divisive Trump era. He highlights how institutions like Le Moyne College embed ethics, history, and critical thinking into...
Sofia Noori, Nema Health
Nema Health announced that its intensive cognitive processing therapy (ICPT) achieved a reported 99% cure rate for post‑traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) within a month, according to a new study. The findings were presented by CEO and psychiatrist Sofia Noori, who...