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AI in Mental Health: Why Clinicians Need to Be in the Room

As clinicians, we learn not to be agreeable, we learn to challenge and sit in discomfort. We ask the hard questions underneath the one being asked. That is the work these tools are not yet built to do.

By Josephine Mora

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When Evidence Gap Becomes a Commercial Liability

The MENA evidence gap for selected portfolios is becoming a commercial liability for drugmakers that could have been prevented at the design stage.

By Alaa Alyahyawi

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This Ear-Based Device Could Save Patients from Brain Bleed Complications

Aurenar's V-Link, a non-invasive nerve stimulation device for preventing brain hemorrhage complications, just won FDA breakthrough device designation after early trials showed it cut cerebral vasospasm by more than 40%.

By Katie Adams

Health Tech

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Color Broadens Cancer Expert Medical Opinion Program

Color expanded its Expert Medical Opinion program with a new peer-to-peer service that connects oncologists with cancer specialists.

By Marissa Plescia

BioPharma, Pharma

With New Phase 3 Data, Roche Claims an Edge Over Amgen and BMS Lung Cancer Drugs

Roche’s divarasib was designed offer greater potency and selectivity to KRAS G12C compared to first-generation drugs in this class marketed by Amgen and Bristol Myers Squibb. The Swiss pharma company now plans to submit the data to regulators for review as a potential treatment for non-small cell lung cancer driven by this particular mutated protein.

By Frank Vinluan

Payers

Debunked Episode 28: A Little More Transparency, A Little More Action

Debunked Podcast co-hosts Arundhati Parmar and Samir Batra discussed some of the takeaways from UnitedHealth Group’s press event, transparency, and pharma company Lilly’s efforts to hold hospitals accountable in the 340B drug discount program.

By Stephanie Baum

MedCity Influencers

Hospital Networks are Becoming Targets in Cyberwarfare, and They’re Unequipped to Deal With It

The question facing hospital cybersecurity leaders today is no longer whether they will be collateral damage in a broader war; it’s how to reckon with adversaries who will target healthcare for ideological or political reasons — hackers may not have any particular interest in quick resolutions.

By Errol Weiss

Opinion

Why the Office of Personnel Management Needs Access to Government Employee Health Plan Claims Data

Without knowledge of the exact amount providers billed and middlemen charged in fees, OPM can’t fix payment discrepancies.

By Cynthia A. Fisher

MedCity Influencers

Hantavirus Is the Warning Signal America Should Not Ignore

Are we genuinely building long-term preparedness infrastructure, or are we repeatedly improvising our way from one outbreak cycle to the next?

By David A. Dodd

MedCity Influencers

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What Happens When AI Stops Answering and Starts Handling Healthcare Tasks?

Patients are trying to navigate insurance confusion, coordinate care, manage prescriptions, and understand the following steps that often feel unclear. Static chatbots were never built for this level of responsibility. Agentic AI is. Or at least that is the idea.

By Jahnavi Kachhia

Health Tech, Startups, Devices & Diagnostics

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FDA Clears First Neurostimulation Device for PTSD

Neurovalens' Modius Spero has become the first FDA-approved neuromodulation device for treating PTSD symptoms. Veterans are set to gain access through the VA this summer.

By Katie Adams

BioPharma, Pharma

Orca Bio Cell Therapy Gets Landmark FDA Nod for New Kind of Living Medicine

FDA approval of Orca Bio’s Tregzi makes it the first cell therapy based on regulatory T cells, or Tregs. Clinical trial results showed reduced risk of graft-versus-host disease, a common complication of the allogeneic stem cell transplants that are a standard treatment for certain blood cancers.

By Frank Vinluan

Health Tech

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Evernorth Invests $100M for AI Specialty Pharmacy Program

Evernorth is investing $100 million through 2028 in Pharmacy Forward, an AI-powered program aimed at improving specialty pharmacy operations and patient care.

By Marissa Plescia

Health Tech

MedCity FemFwd: Inside Winona’s New Women’s Health Research Initiative

In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Cathleen Brown, medical director of menopause company Winona. We discuss the company’s new Winona Research Initiative, which seeks to fund and support menopause and women's health research.

By Marissa Plescia

MedCity Influencers

Your Healthcare AI Strategy Is Probably an Architecture Problem

These three patterns keep showing up, and each is much cheaper to prevent than to fix later.

By Vallikranth Ayyagari

MedCity Influencers

Healthcare Retention Depends On Better Pathways, Not Just Better Pay

When workers feel stuck in place, with limited opportunities to advance or deepen their skills, disengagement tends to follow. In allied health roles, where burnout is already high and many touch the patient experience, it is a risk healthcare employers cannot afford to ignore.

By Angie Holub

MedCity Influencers

What Healthcare Leaders Should Know Before Implementing AI-Powered Documentation Tools

These tools are worth implementing. They are not worth implementing without the right preparation.

By Giriraj Tosh Purohit