Amid very hot weather, during the annual haj pilgrimage, in Mina, Saudi Arabia, June 18, 2024, Muslim pilgrims stroll with umbrellas on the third day of the Devil Stoning Ritual. — Reuters Out of the overall 1.8 million pilgrims who visited Hajj 2024 this year, Saudi Arabia’s government has reported that it offered preventive medical … Read more
From elementary school, Nicholas’s best friend offers him kidney donations. Nicholas, sixteen, started experiencing kidney problems following a Crohn’s disease diagnosis years ago. Although further testing revealed inflammation in his kidneys that was causing damage, routine lab work revealed his kidney function had dropped; the exact cause was never established. He treated it with drugs … Read more
Created with AI narration by News Over Audio (NOA) and ElevenLabs. Most of my interactions with medical professionals over the last two years have been preceded with the same straightforward but perplexing request: “Rate your pain on a scale of zero to 10.” I’ve asked patients this exact same question thousands of times during my … Read more
Friends in the best terms With a background in women’s fashion and whose family runs Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) clinics in Taiwan, Sara Jane Ho (you might know her as Mind Your Manners etiquette expert) and Annie Ho wanted to empower women by bringing the wisdom of TCM to an underrepresented market: feminine health. The … Read more
At a glance, in older persons, a five-minute, culturally neutral test for cognitive issues enhanced dementia screening and management. The basic tool could enable persons living throughout the United States, even in underprivileged places, to have more access to dementia care. In the United States, around six million older persons live with dementia. Though dementia … Read more
NHS England has stated that on June 3, a ransomware attack resulted in the theft of patient data maintained by blood test management company Synnovis.On Thursday night, a Russian cyber-criminal outfit called Qilin tried to extort money from Synnovis by sharing nearly 400GB of confidential material on their darknet site. NHS England released a statement … Read more
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Emergency department (ED) crowding, which is becoming a global issue in Ireland, is detrimental to patient satisfaction and the quality of medical care when combined with lengthy wait times. The financial effects of supplementing the current care for elderly patients with a particular, researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick have examined … Read more
Adonis, an automation and intelligence startup for the healthcare revenue cycle, revealed that it has raised $54 million in total, including $31 million in Series B funding. With participation from new investor Kin Ventures as well as returning investors General Catalyst, Max Ventures, and Bling Capital, Point72 Private Investments led the round. WHAT THEY DO … Read more
Venture capitalists believe it will be harder to get excited about funding digital health in the post-COVID landscape. Using PitchBook data, transaction activity in healthcare IT was quite flat in Q1 2024 at 74 total agreements, valued at over $1 billion total, up only 3% from the year-ago quarter. Still, this year’s attracting investors for … Read more