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A couple weeks ago at my local CVS, I spied them in the wild for the very first time—Abbott BinaxNOWs, currently America’s most sought-after rapid, at-home coronavirus test, piled neatly behind the counter. With the fall and winter holidays on…

Michael Capalbo used to subsist mostly on meals in restaurants and takeouts. “I just thought I was immortal,” says the 54-year-old Connecticut salesman. “I was literally living on burgers and wings and pizza and stuff like that.” Then in April…

As healthcare providers grapple with soaring demand for behavioral healthcare, a new analysis by Cigna’s health services subsidiary found that access to outpatient mental health services can have a significant impact on an individual’s cost of care over two years.…

By JEFF GOLDSMITH When I first appeared in The Health Care Blog fourteen long years ago, it was to decry the policy community’s obsessive search for bad news about the health system: So while we struggled with the COVID…

Nearly 187,000 people have died of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, making up one-third of total COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. “We’ve known for a long time the importance of sufficient staffing in nursing…

When I first suspected that I was losing my hair, I felt like maybe I was also losing my grip on reality. This was the summer of 2020, and although the previous three months had been difficult for virtually everyone,…

Nov. 18, 2021 — First responders expected the worst when they arrived at a wreck scene on I-5 in Washington state. A tractor trailer rear-ended a 2015 Nissan Altima Tuesday afternoon on the Skagit River Bridge near Mount Vernon. The…

  “Programmable medicine” is a phrase popping up in biotech financings lately—usually in the context of genetic medicines. But RNA therapies aren’t the only drugs that can be programmed with features and functions. Artificial intelligence is revealing new protein insights,…

Health Tech Nov 18, 2021 Today on THCB Spotlight, Matthew talks with Chris Gervais, the CTO of Kyruus, which began in the world of fixing scheduling for hospital systems. Chris talks more about their recent acquisition of HealthSparq in the…

A surge in cases in the Upper Midwest has some Michigan schools keeping students at home ahead of Thanksgiving and the military sending medical teams to Minnesota to relieve hospital staffs overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients. The worsening outlook in the…