Category: 5. Health

Despite bipartisan support,…

As a venture investor in healthcare, I am privileged to witness the remarkable advances being made in the treatment and management of diabetes, a…

The Medicaid system has emerged as an early target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash federal spending. A joint federal and state program, Medicaid provides health insurance coverage for more than 72 million people, including low-income Americans and their children and people…

Physicians dominated 20th-century American medicine, but not from the start. In his landmark book, Paul Starr explained how a ragtag, “weak traditional profession of minor economic importance”…

What does a pharmaceutical company have to do with U.S. national security? Perhaps more than meets the eye, based on President Trump’s negotiating style, which often involves utilizing leverage to weaken the other side’s bargaining position. In the case at…

DispatchHealth and Medically Home – companies that work with health systems to provide hospital-level care at home – have agreed…

Your cells constantly generate and conduct electricity that runs through your body to perform various functions. One such example of this bioelectricity is the nerve signals that power thoughts in your brain. Others include the cardiac signals that control the beating of your heart, along…

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is a prominent method for delivering genes in vivo. Therapeutic delivery to…

For those who are overweight or obese, medications known as…

In Philadelphia, fatal overdoses are the No. 3 cause of death after heart disease and cancer. That’s been the case each year since 2016, except in 2020 and 2021 when COVID-19 deaths outpaced overdose deaths. The vast majority of fatal overdoses in Philly involve the synthetic opioid…