Health Tech Deals It’s the May the 4th be with you day! In Episode 26 of #HealthTechDeals, Jessica is huddling in Boston after the American Telehealth Association conference, and has Star Wars-related trivia. There’s gossip there, there’s more gossip about Cerebral & its ADHD med […]

A California measure that would allow children age 12 and up to be vaccinated without their parents’ consent, including against the coronavirus, cleared its first legislative hurdle Thursday. If the proposal becomes law, California would allow the youngest age group of any state to be […]

Bob Herman Business of Health Care Reporter Bob Herman is a business of health care reporter at STAT. He covers hospitals, health insurance, and other corners of the industry — with a goal of explaining and shining light on the massive amount of money flowing […]

Health Tech BY JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH With 61% of American adults reporting a negative behavior change – troubled sleep, changes in diet, increased alcohol consumption, more time on screens, etc. – as a result of the pandemic, AND healthcare payers looking at 2022 cost […]

U.S. regulators on Thursday strictly limited who can receive Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to the ongoing risk of rare but serious blood clots. The Food and Drug Administration said the shot should only be given to adults who cannot receive a different vaccine […]

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) – May is Mental Health Awareness Month in an effort to help break the stigma around mental health. The Minnesota Farm Bureau is getting involved in the initiative by launching a mental health awareness campaign. It started in April with the planning […]

Multifactor solutions have become the end all and be all of remote access security control. Thanks to password reuse, poor password selection and phishing attacks, the username and password combination is just not good enough. In fact, multi-factor authentication is such an expected security standard […]

Health Tech Deals In this episode of #HealthTechDeals, Jess is enjoying Cinqo de Mayo in an Addams Family-themed hotel where she is playing “the mummy” introducing health tech companies coming back from the dead. There’s gossip about Amazon’s pharmacy operation over supplying insulin, and there’s […]

A rare but aggressive kind of uterine cancer appears to be driving an increase in U.S. deaths from the disease, particularly among Black women, researchers reported Thursday. Over eight years, deaths from the aggressive type rose by 2.7% per year, while deaths were stable for […]

​May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As COVID-19 shifts, many residents are still coping with the changes the pandemic has brought to their lives and emotional state—uncertainty, altered routines, financial issues, social isolation, and possibly increased alcohol or substance use. MeckHope: Pain is real, and […]