Hospitals Battle For Control Over Fast-Growing Heart-Valve Procedure
(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) BALTIMORE — When Medicare in 2011 agreed to pay for a revolutionary procedure
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Best Buy expands work in senior healthcare with $800M GreatCall acquisition
(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Best Buy signed a definitive agreement to purchase GreatCall, a provider of
Read MoreScientists Race To Improve ‘Living Drugs’ To Fight Cancer
(By Rob Stein for NPR) Aaron Reid is lying in a hospital bed at the National Institutes of Health when
Read MoreCan a phone app’s warnings to avoid risky friends and places prevent opioid addiction relapses?
(By Orly Nadell Farber for ST A T) You’re in recovery from opioid addiction, and your walk to work takes
Read MoreAstro-CHARM to enhance cardiovascular risk prediction for astronauts and the general population
A new online tool to more accurately predict who among those ages 40-65 is at the highest risk of suffering
Read MoreWalgreens’ “Find Care Now” digital health service
Walgreens has launched an mHealth platform designed to give its estimated 5 million active members access to healthcare services. The
Read MoreHealthcare is one of Microsoft’s multibillion dollar businesses
(By Julie Spitzer for Becker’s Hospital Review ) With 1,100 employees and 168,000 customers, Microsoft’s healthcare unit is a multibillion
Read MorePotential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated,’ study finds
(By Sharon Begley for ST A T) From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the
Read MoreTo Improve Treatments, Researchers Want To Hunt For Clues In Medical Records
(By Richard Harris for NPR) When you go to your doctor’s office, sometimes it seems the caregivers spend more time
Read MorePharmaceutical, biotech companies cited as biggest drivers of high healthcare costs
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review ) Pharmaceutical and biotech companies have the biggest effect on healthcare costs, most
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