Cerebral, the digital mental health ‘unicorn’, said on Saturday May 7, it was under investigation by the federal government for “possible violations of the Controlled Substances Act.”   The company said it received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern […]

MILFORD, Ohio — Gloomy weather did not stop Saturday morning’s Hustle for HealthSource Color 5K in Milford. The 5K raises money for the HealthSource Foundation’s More Than Medicine program — which is part of community health center HealthSource of Ohio. More Than Medicine provides emergency […]

THCB Gang Joining Matthew Holt (@boltyboy) on #THCBGang on April 28 for an hour of topical and sometime combative conversation on what’s happening in health care were: THCB regular writer and ponderer of odd juxtapositions Kim Bellard (@kimbbellard); medical historian Mike Magee (@drmikemagee); patient safety expert […]

A bill signed into law by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Friday requires health insurers and the state’s Medicaid plan to pay for so-called “biomarker tests” that are needed for many modern cancer treatments. The legislation’s signing was hailed by the American Cancer Society, which […]

Richmond University Medical Center is currently updating approximately 75% of the footprint of its West Brighton campus. A new 35,000-square-foot Emergency Department, seen here, will be completed over the next several months. (Staten Island Advance/Priya Shahi)Priya Shahi STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — When plans for the […]

By KIM BELLARD If you went to business school, or perhaps did graduate work in statistics, you may have heard of survivor bias (AKA, survivorship bias or survival bias).  To grossly simplify, we know about the things that we know about, the things that survived long […]

The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to limit the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine won’t have a significant impact on health systems. The FDA scaled back the emergency use authorization of the vaccine developed by J&J and its Janssen Pharmaceuicals subsidiary because […]

Imagine that you are a policymaker and an academic researcher shows you evidence for a new health intervention that will dramatically improve health outcomes. He shows you the study results, the estimated impact and a p-value that is less than 0.05. How much credibility should […]

DOH continues investigation following confirmation of additional Hilton Grand Islander Legionnaires’ case Posted on May 6, 2022 in Navy Water System Incident, Newsroom The Hawaiʻi Department of Health (DOH) confirmed an additional case of Legionnaires’ disease in a guest who stayed at The Grand Islander […]

Health Policy By JESS DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH Micky Tripathi the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS says this year will be a “transformative” year for Health IT as the decade-long, $40 billion dollar effort to lay an electronic foundation for healthcare delivery heads […]