Prospect Medical Holdings is the latest sordid tale of legalized hospital embezzlement killing patients and communities. But the judge assigned to its bankruptcy raises eyebrows in a good way.
Cerebras Systems (a client of Cambrian-AI Research) announced a new foundation model co-developed with partner The Mayo Clinic, that can identify the best medical therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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State officials offered assurances to residents and employees Monday that three Connecticut hospitals owned by Prospect Medical Holdings would remain open and operating, despite their parent company filing for bankruptcy late Saturday night. The California-based hospital operator, which also owns facilities in California, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, filed for chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Northern Texas. In a statement, representatives for the company said the filing would allow Prospect to "proceed on a strategic pathway to realign its organizational focus outside of California." Speaking at the Capitol Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont said the hospitals would stay open and that officials would hold Prospect accountable to providing high-quality care.
Kafui Dzirasa wants nothing less than to reengineer the brain’s electrical patterns to treat anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. While it sounds far-fetched, many of biomedicine’s biggest funders are betting this psychiatrist, engineer, and neuroscientist might just pull it off.