Author: healthadmin
Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. There’s already been a lot of notable news this week, but if you have a chance to rewind to September, revisit Eric Budman’s story on Post-Tubal Ligation Syndrome and consider why some women seek reversal of a procedure that is supposed to be irreversible. Eric was just shortlisted as a finalist in the long-form category at the National Magazine Awards. This is a first for STAT in this category. Find out about “The Godfather of Vaccines” Stanley Plotkin, 93,…
March 2, 2026 Read in 5 minutes Add topics to email alerts Receive an email when a new article is posted Enter your email address to receive emails when new articles are posted. . ” data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe Your request could not be processed. Please try again later. If you continue to experience this issue, please contact us at customerservice@slackinc.com. Return to Helio Important points: Plastic pollution is associated with chronic diseases, and current disease management practices increase plastic waste. Health professionals can be leaders in reducing plastic emissions. When we become doctors, the first thing we do…
Healthcare technology companies DoseSpot and Arrive Health have merged to combine an electronic prescribing platform with medical and pharmacy benefit data to improve real-time drug price transparency for providers and patients. The companies say the new company, called Interra Health, will combine Arrive Health’s coverage and pricing network with DoseSpot’s e-prescribing capabilities to support prescribing decisions and help patients get the right medications at the lowest cost. Bain Capital Technology Opportunities supports the transaction and will become majority owner. PSG, a former majority shareholder of DoseSpot, will become a minority shareholder. Other minority investors include Providence and UPMC Enterprises. The…
How search is changing with the introduction of AI and the emergence of GEOAI is now routinely used in the way people search and process information, with users relying on systems to interpret their intentions and provide direct responses, especially in the medical field. Discovery spans multiple environments, where conversational queries and answers are evaluated in context. This requires traditional SEO experts to evolve into generative optimization experts to understand how AI systems consume information and how brand influence plays within these new paradigms.These changes impact how impact occurs and shape expectations prior to website engagement. Traditional metrics (rankings, impressions,…
Chetan Parikh, Founder and CEO, RAAPIDSince 2010, I’ve been working at the intersection of healthcare technology, building NLP platforms, collaborating with programmers, and digging deep into how risk adjustment works. The ground underlying retrospective chart review has fundamentally changed. This is not speculation, but direct insight from risk adjustment leaders, and is certainly reflected in recent OIG updates.Retrospective programs were once a staple of risk adjustment, with plans relying on them to recover undocumented diagnoses and fill critical gaps. Those days are over. Federal regulators are drawing the line. Programs that simply add diagnostics without removing unsupported ones are no…
In recent years, the pharmaceutical logistics industry has reached a turning point. While the distribution of pharmaceutical products has increased significantly, the capacity for temperature-controlled logistics has become significantly tighter. Due to customs delays, many cargoes were held up in transit areas that lacked proper environmental controls, while others were forced to pass through general purpose cargo terminals because the necessary specialized infrastructure did not exist. As a result, the system has worked, but it has created tangible costs, resulting in approximately $38 billion in logistics and trade losses each year.As a result, industry leaders are beginning to confront long-standing…
Recent research published in discover psychology reveals that there is a measurable relationship between narcissism and romantic love, but that relationship depends on specific behaviors such as self-care. This study reveals common cultural assumptions by showing that accepting and caring for yourself can positively impact intimacy and passion with your partner. These results suggest that psychological exercises aimed at improving self-compassion and self-love may ultimately become useful tools for couples seeking healthier relationships. Petra Jansen, a researcher at the University of Regensburg in Germany, led the study. She collaborated with Martina Rahe from the University of Koblenz and Markus Sieberts,…
Recent research published in journals addictive behavior suggest that experiencing multiple traumatic events in childhood increases the risk of developing interrelated addictive behaviors later in life. This study provides evidence that people who endure cumulative childhood trauma experience more severe substance and behavioral addictions, which tend to reinforce each other. This pattern suggests a complex relationship between early psychological distress and the ways people try to cope in adulthood. Scientists know that difficult childhood events can increase the likelihood of developing addiction. Historically, much research has focused on how a single type of trauma affects a specific addiction, such as…
There are multiple ways to poison rats. But not all poisons are created equal, and some of the most popular rodenticides can wreak havoc up the food chain, killing the birds and mammals that eat the pests. a invoice By Rep. Rebecca Kislak, D-Providence, plans to phase out the sale of these hazardous substances, known as anticoagulant rodenticides, in Rhode Island while phasing in alternatives through municipal testing programs. “It’s basically Coumadin for rats,” Kislak said in a recent phone interview, comparing commonly used rat poisons to brand-name blood thinners prescribed to humans. Warfarin, the active ingredient in Coumadin, approved…
Local emergency managers, the behind-the-scenes coordinators who mobilize aid during disasters, have made the same point over and over again. That means there needs to be sufficient resources to protect those at risk before harm occurs. In some notable cases, resources did not arrive quickly enough. After Hurricane Helen devastated North Carolina’s Yancey County in 2024, the county’s commissioners hired additional emergency management staff, a request former emergency managers say they had been asking for years. When a tornado killed four people and injured dozens in May 2025, city officials in St. Louis, Missouri, were in the process of upgrading…