Patients covered by UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage plans will no longer find their insurance accepted at Brown University Health's hospitals in Rhode Island starting July 1. The change comes after the insurer and Rhode Island's largest health system failed to reach an agreement to renew their contract after months of negotiation.
The U.S. logged fewer than 30 measles cases this week as Ohio health officials confirmed three outbreaks in two counties were over. There have been 1,197 confirmed measles cases this year, the CDC says. Health officials in Texas, where the nation's biggest outbreak raged during the late winter and spring, confirmed two cases in the last week.
Managing the various symptoms and anxieties that often accompany cancer through music therapy, it turns out, is as effective as traditional cognitive behavioral therapy, according to a study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting this month.
Stanford researchers have developed a breakthrough device called the milli-spinner thrombectomy, which uses compression and shear forces to safely shrink and remove blood clots, significantly improving first-attempt success rates in stroke and clot-related disease treatments.
According to a paper published just days before Apple's WWDC event, large reasoning models (LRMs) — like OpenAI o1 and o3, DeepSeek R1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, and Google Gemini Flash Thinking — completely collapse when they're faced with increasingly complex problems. The paper comes from the same researchers who found other reasoning flaws in LLMs last year.
Providence Health and Services is set to cut nearly 600 full-time positions across seven states, according to a memo from Dr. Darryl Elmouchi, Providence's COO. The memo, sent to staff this week, indicates that while most of the cuts will affect administrative roles, some patient care jobs will also be impacted. The memo attributes the job cuts to several factors, including proposed federal cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, ongoing denials and delayed payments from insurance companies, and rising costs for labor, medications, and supplies.