“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them…” This isn’t Mordor, but we do have a ring in question, and it’s not about ruling but monitoring health. Today, we’re diving deep into our very first smart ring review — and check the RingConn. At The Medical Futurist,...
Posted on The Health Care Blog on March 15, 2022 By BRIAN KLEPPER It seems inevitable that, in the near future, an innovative health care organization – Let’s call it The Platform – is going to seize the market opportunity of broader value. It will cobble together the pieces, and...
Over the past three years, we have learned a lot about getting COVID infections, and being re-infected with the COVID virus. Looking back, there is a lot that we know now that we did not know previously. Thanks to CNET for reaching out to me to comment on this for...
Friendship. Courtship. Partnership. Kinship. Companionship. Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic medical center. Advertising on our site helps support our mission. We do not endorse non-Cleveland Clinic products or services. Policy The word “relationship” has never really been enough for us, has it? We need a whole fleet of “ships”...
AbbVie’s Humira was the world’s best-selling drug for many years. Now it faces competition for copycats that cost a fraction of its price. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption toggle caption David J. Phillip/AP AbbVie’s Humira was the world’s best-selling drug for many years. Now it faces competition for copycats that...
Mike Dennison Montana state Sen. Becky Beard thought she’d found a fix for a shortage of assisted living care options for Montanans who can’t afford to pay for it themselves — a shortage she became aware of while searching for a suitable place for her mother to live. Beard, a...
July 10, 2023 – Eileen Brewer is the mother of an 11-year-old who often gets severe headaches. “She started showing signs of headache when she was a baby,” said Brewer, of Columbia, MD, where she is the president of Clusterbusters, an organization that supports research into treatments for cluster headaches...
The Philadelphia Inquirer has been covering health inequities and potential remedial solutions for years. One recent story described how a new policy requires that patients’ kidney function be estimated without taking their race into account, highlighting the case of a Black woman whose kidney transplant was delayed five years because...
Hello, I’m Catherine Pearson, a reporter for The New York Times’s Well section, where I cover families and relationships. One topic I cover frequently is sex, which is an important (though under-discussed) aspect of overall health and well-being. I’m particularly interested in how people navigate the ebb and flow of...
Top News Struggling UK-based digital health company Babylon will merge with brain technology vendor MindMaze in a take-private transaction. The companies say that their combination will create a digital-first, AI-driven business that will transform healthcare in moving to predictive and preventative services. Shares in Babylon, which went public via a...