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New research found that there are no racial disparities in weight loss results among patients taking obesity drugs. However, the study found that people of color have less access to services like behavioral care or surgical interventions, which are often needed in order for obese patients to lose weight and keep it off. To tackle this issue, Enara Health CEO Rami Bailony argued that the U.S. healthcare system must innovate the way it dispenses weight loss drugs, employing a more holistic care ap...

U.S. healthcare is unnecessarily spending millions of dollars on scopes—dollars that could be better spent opening up new service lines, investing in medical equipment, or hiring nurses for improved patient care.

The innovator’s mindset is shifting from solving the problems right in front of us to solving problems once considered impossible to fix. The lines between curable and incurable diseases are blurring in surgery because medical devices are scaling up precision and scaling down the size of anatomy that surgeons can operate on.

Astellas Pharma’s zolbetuximab was on track to become the first gastric cancer drug that targets claudin 18.1, a protein found on cancerous stomach cells. Others with clinical-stage programs addressing this this target include AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb.

Commons Clinic — a value-based physician group providing musculoskeletal care to patients in the Los Angeles area — announced the launch of its Center for Spine Economics, Outcomes & Research. The center will research and test new models that move spinal care out of the hospital and into community-based accountable care networks. The startup plans to invest $100 million in the center over the next decade.

A decade after the first recreational marijuana dispensaries opened, will 2024 be the year that cannabis finally gets a get-out-of-jail-for-free card?

Elevance Health will provide smartphones with unlimited data, talk and text to some Medicaid members in 2024, it announced at CES 2024.

In 2023, digital health fundraising took on a bit of a different shape, according to a new Rock Health report. Startups tried out some creative ways to keep their businesses afloat — including series extension rounds, unlabeled fundraises and silent deals from existing investors.

From its heady unicorn days to being newly public to its current financial struggles, the portable ultrasound-on-a-chip company has seen it all. Now, its latest CEO has his work cut out for him. A return to revenue growth is what Joseph DeVivo is promising this year.

This year, ViVE will celebrate nurses throughout the event's programming, highlighting how their role has evolved, the challenges they face and how they are spurring innovation in different models of care. The event is powered by HLTH and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).