The White House is downplaying the 'Make America Healthy Again' Commission report's citation issues, even as it scrambles to fix them. A NOTUS investigation published Thursday found that at least seven of the report's citations appeared to not actually exist. The White House publicly blamed any problems with the report on 'formatting issues.' Hours later, a new version of the MAHA report was published on the White House website with all seven of those citations replaced — five with completely different references and two with references to real studies written by the same authors of the nonexistent earlier citations.
Robert K. Jarvik, MD, the principal designer of the first permanent artificial heart implanted in a human — a procedure that became a subject of great public fascination and fierce debate about medical ethics — died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 79. His wife, the writer Marilyn vos Savant, said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease.
A new digital health care marketplace has a good amount of Amazon in its DNA. General Medicine, with $32 million in funding, came out of stealth with three former Amazon employees as co-founders and investors, a business model that could compete with Amazon's One Medical — and behind the scenes, a current senior Amazon executive. The former employees, including the founders of PillPack — the pharmacy company that Amazon bought in 2018 for about $750 million and grew into Amazon Pharmacy — bill General Medicine as a 'one-stop shop for expert care' that connects patients to its own telehealth medical practices and to outside care. Sunita Mishra, Amazon Health Services' CMO, is the physician owner of one of those practices and advised the company early on.
Phelps Health has constructed an $8 million EMS base that will put its ambulance and helicopter crews in the same facility and allow for expansion in the coming years. The new building includes a helipad, training rooms, a dispatch center and bunk rooms for the EMS drivers and flight nurses who work 24-hour shifts.