Sleep, sweet sleep: Somnology, NIH team up for sleep research
Somnology and the National Institutes of Health are joining forces to conduct much-needed research on sleep.
For healthcare CEOs in early 2017, it’s hasta la vista, baby
At least four healthcare executives have either resigned, been fired or taken on a lesser role since the first of the year — and the head of NIH may be out soon, too.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Report: NIH cleaning house in its maligned Clinical Center
Right now, Clinical Center leadership has little authority within NIH because clinicians and researchers in the hospital report to the heads of NIH's 27 different institutes and centers.
A startling number of Americans are experiencing chronic, severe pain
How many people around you are experiencing pain on a daily basis? It's more than you might think.
Morning Read: CVS and IBM partner to predict deteriorating health, GE Healthcare investing $1B in healthcare provider education
CVS and IBM partnership to spot declining health in pharmacy customers, GE Healthcare is investing $1B in healthcare provider education.
Case, UCLA, Harvard look to data provenance to reconcile multiple sources of big data
The hope is that this NIH-funded data provenance project will help standardize and reconcile inconsistencies so clinicians have better data to bring to the bedside and run through clinical decision support systems.
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
An inhalable Ebola vaccine could be on the horizon
The best way to prevent the spread of Ebola might end up coming in a nontraditional form.
NIH study shows why HIV drugs should be given earlier, Juno Therapeutics in $737M deal with Editas Medicine (Morning Read)
An NIH study has shown that giving HIV drugs when patients are initially diagnosed with the disease is more effective than waiting for the white blood cell counts to drop.
21st Century Cures bill advances – still some critics, despite bipartisan vote
The 21st Century Cures bill designed to speed up biomedical innovation continues to move forward after being passed by the The House Energy and Commerce health subcommitte.
Newt Gingrich is urging the GOP in Congress to double NIH funding
Newt Gingrich is pushing for the GOP-controlled Congress to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health.
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Urge Congress to fund the government – and biomedical research – by Thursday
This post first appeared on LillyPad, an official blog of Eli Lilly and Company. For the millions of people nationwide who have diabetes, Dec. 11 looks like just another day on the calendar. But this Thursday is the expiration date for the current continuing resolution – the law that is keeping the government running and, […]
These are the hospitals you want to go to if you get Ebola
If Ebola in the U.S. did one thing, it made hospitals prepared for the worst, with Dallas Presbyterian having the misfortune of being a cautionary tale. According to the CDC, state health officials have identified and designated 35 hospitals with Ebola treatment centers, with more expected in the coming weeks. Hospitals with Ebola treatment centers […]
Geisinger launches genomic data patient portal linked to NIH effort
Geisinger Health System recently launched an online portal that allows patients to contribute their own genomic data, which in turn will be analyzed by the NIH-funded Clinical Genome Resource. The Pennsylvania-based health system and its researches developed the portal, GenomeConnect, that will connect with the NIH effort to gather and analyze data from “thousands of […]
Mass General, MIT form alliance to address three ‘major challenges’ in healthcare
Massachusetts General Hospital and MIT have formed a $3 million strategic alliance in an attempt to address three “major challenges” that persist in healthcare: improving diagnoses, developing new approaches to prevent and treat infectious diseases and developing more accurate methods of diagnosing and treating neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases. The alliance, officials said, will add further […]
“Republican Cuts Kill” – Attack ad blames weak Ebola response on GOP budget cuts
A new attack ad in the 2014 elections links cuts to budgets at the National Institutes for Health and the Centers for Disease Control to the spread of Ebola.