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During a session at CES 2024, a Google exec shared several changes the company has made through YouTube to protect children and teens.

In the face of these multifaceted threats, the need for innovative healthcare solutions becomes increasingly urgent. It underscores the vital role of the biopharmaceutical industry in not only addressing immediate health crises but also contributing to the broader resilience and well-being of humanity in times of adversity.

CPSI sold American HealthTech — its subsidiary that provides an EHR platform for the post-acute care market — to post-acute health IT vendor PointClickCare. American HealthTech's customers have already begun transitioning to PointClickCare's platform.

How we discuss overweight and obese diagnoses and how we treat those patients is slowly starting to improve. However, there’s still a lot of work to be done – in how we manufacture, market, and manage life-changing weight care medications, as well as how we expand access and improve adherence to them.

The Medicare physician pay cuts that went into effect January 1 is a "disaster for the profession," said Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld, president of the AMA, during an interview at CES 2024. Getting the pay cut reversed is a top priority for the organization.

Startup TrX1 develops cell therapies that function like a particular type of regulatory T cell, or Treg, whose role includes dampening inflammation and inducing long-term tolerance. Based on research from Stanford, TrX1’s lead program is a potential therapy for preventing graft-versus-host disease.

Forta Health raised $55 million in Series A funding on Wednesday. The startup offers a platform to help family caregivers quickly access care to manage their loved ones' chronic conditions. Its first area of focus is autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

I didn’t make it to this year’s J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, so I reached out to leaders from across the industry to hear how it went and learn about their takeaways from the event. This is a list of the nine most interesting responses that I received.

Provider network teams need a better way to streamline healthcare delivery and amplify provider satisfaction. Unlocking value with provider network operations means a forward-looking, fresh approach and the right tools that deliver in four essential areas:

Allakos’s lirentelimab did not beat a placebo in separate Phase 2 tests in atopic dermatitis and spontaneous chronic urticaria. A restructuring now turns the biotech’s focus to an early-stage drug candidate also designed to treat inflammation.