Health

If you have interacted in the past few years with a medical chatbot, you probably walked away feeling like it was helpful for simple tasks and frustrating for anything even …

The recent attention surrounding hantavirus has understandably unsettled people. A virus associated with rodents, severe respiratory illness, and mortality rates that can exceed 35% is going to generate concern whenever …

The Office of Personnel Management recently made headlines by requesting health claims data for workers covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program. The government needs this itemized data to ensure …

In March, a major cyberattack hit Stryker, one of the world’s largest medical technology companies. The group that claimed responsibility, Handala, is linked to Iran, and the hackers were explicit …

Roche is a relative latecomer in the chase to block a protein called KRAS G12C to treat lung cancer, but the pharmaceutical company has been testing its contender head-to-head against …

This week, the FDA granted breakthrough device designation to Aurenar‘s V-Link system, a non-invasive nerve stimulation device designed to treat cerebral vasospasm. Vasospasm is one of the most dangerous complications …

Color, a virtual cancer clinic, announced Tuesday that it has expanded its Expert Medical Opinion services to include a new peer-to-peer program. San Francisco-based Color serves employers, health plans, unions …

UnitedHealthcare Group opened its doors to a group of journalists and influencers at its headquarters last month and MedCity News Editor in Chief Arundhati Parmar was among them. On the …

This week, Neurovalens‘ Modius Spero became the first neuromodulation device to earn FDA approval to treat PTSD. Veterans, who face disproportionately high PTSD rates, will be the first to gain …

Many blood cancers can be treated with a potentially curative stem cell transplant, but this procedure introduces a serious complication risk that can become deadly. A new type of cell …