Dr. Tyler Crosswhite is serious about the importance of primary care providers and preventive medicine. His reason is simple, yet profound: Both have the potential to save lives.
From food to pharma, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took on all the suspects he's long maligned in a report on health threats to kids — along with one unexpected one: Doctors. Laced throughout the report from Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again Commission are accusations against doctors — for reportedly being influenced by the pharmaceutical industry to overprescribe certain medications and for failing to treat the root causes of disease.
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a blood test that can analyze thousands of proteins in a single test to search for rare disease markers. The researchers hope that their test could help to identify children and adults with rare diseases more quickly as these individuals often have to wait for as long as five years before they get a diagnosis.
If you've spent any time in healthcare leadership or management, you know that patient outcomes hinge on more than just clinical care. Social determinants of health (SDoH)—everything from housing stability to education and food access—play a huge role in shaping health outcomes. But integrating those complex, often siloed factors into healthcare strategies has always been a challenge. That's where innovative solutions like an SDoH enterprise platform come in, turning diverse social and economic data into actionable insights.
An electronic health bill requiring medical records to note a patient's biological sex and any 'sexual development disorder' passed the Texas House on Friday. Many LGBTQ advocates told lawmakers they feared the measure would identify transgender Texans, potentially outing them to medical professionals who might be hostile to them because of their identity. Republicans pushing the bill, however, described it as an effort to give doctors access to important medical information so they can give patients the best care.
The CDC's airport screening program has detected multiple cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, which has been linked to a large surge of the virus in China. Cases linked to the NB.1.8.1 variant have been reported in arriving international travelers at airports in California, Washington state, Virginia and the New York City area, according to records uploaded by the CDC's airport testing partner Ginkgo Bioworks.