This week, President-elect Donald Trump announced celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz as his pick to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Dr. Oz is a surgeon who hosted a syndicated ...

Healthcare organizations have focused on improving patient outcomes for years. Lately, however, the impact of diagnostic errors on outcomes has come under more intense scrutiny. Some research ...

The FDA recently approved the first drug in a new class of leukemia medicines. Kura Oncology’s endeavor to follow that newly blazed regulatory trail is now infused with $330 million from a ...

Yet another shoe has dropped in the UnitedHealth Group/Amedisys saga. Last week, the Justice Department — along with the Attorneys General of Maryland, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York ...

Checkpoint inhibitors transformed cancer treatment, bringing to patients immunotherapies now widely used to treat a range of tumors. But there are different types of checkpoints that interact with ...

World Class Health, a global concierge health benefit, has raised $8 million in seed funding, the company announced Wednesday. The financing will help the company continue to build out its global ...

Several telehealth advocates are coming out in support of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) third extension of Covid-19 telehealth flexibilities for the prescribing of controlled ...

Medicine stands at a remarkable crossroads. The explosive growth in specialty drug development marks a new golden age of therapeutic innovation. In 1990 there were just 10 specialty drugs on the ...

In a typical year, at least 1.7 million adults in America develop sepsis, a life-threatening response to infection. About 30% of severe sepsis patients don’t survive, and up to 50% of survivors ...

Keytruda, a Merck cancer immunotherapy that has become the world’s top-selling medication, is administered as an intravenous infusion over the course of 30 minutes. The pharmaceutical giant now ...

Providers across the nation are continuing their work to make value-based care at scale a reality. One of the most recent examples of this comes from Emory Healthcare in Atlanta — on Monday, the ...

Vaginal discomfort is one of the most common reasons women seek healthcare advice, but standard care isn’t always meeting patients’ needs. That’s why Evvy, a vaginal microbiome startup, has ...