Health Tech Apr 1, 2021• By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH What’s better than being the CEO of one blazing-hot disruptive health tech company that’s raised $ 450M to build “the internet of healthcare”? How about becoming the CEO of a second company – a new managed Medicaid health plan company – that’s to be built… Read More »
The Podcast by KevinMD | Podcast | March 9, 2021 “When we think about holistic medicine, many assume that it requires human-to-human touch points and, therefore, doesn’t lend itself well to technology and innovations such as artificial intelligence. In fact, holistic medicine and whole-person care advocates often view technology as manufactured or impersonal and therefore… Read More »
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 23, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Expectant mothers who smoke pot in pregnancy could increase their baby’s risk for mental or emotional problems later in childhood, a new study finds. Marijuana use during pregnancy was associated with a host of problems in the preteen years, researchers report. Children exposed… Read More »
On World Hepatitis Day 28th July 2020, WHO calls for united and stepped-up action to build on the achievement of one of the milestone targets to eliminate viral hepatitis in the Sustainable Development Goals ─ to reach under 1% prevalence of HBV infections in children under five years of age by 2020. This is possible… Read More »
By Scott Lear While many of us are focused on the short-term concerns about COVID-19 infection, it is also important to focus on long-term health. With governmental directions to stay at home, it may be tempting to sit on the couch, binge watch TV and eat junk food until everything blows over. That might be okay… Read More »
By Sam Wong Years and Years, the BBC drama series written by Russell T. Davies, is not exactly science fiction, but Davies has taken inspiration from cutting-edge research to imagine the technologies that will influence our lives over the next 15 years. If you don’t want to read spoilers, come back after you have watched… Read More »
The biggest challenge hospital operators face is how to keep people from showing up in the first place. That’s the perspective of healthcare experts who spoke on healthcare at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Smartphones, wearable devices, along with time-honored anti-smoking and nutrition approaches are key to keeping hospitals from providing excess, unnecessary… Read More »