Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

Making skin more comfortable by preventing scars

Researchers have developed a method to prevent burn scars, which may help individuals feel more comfortable in their own skin, both mentally and physically.

Cocaine vaccine gets approved for clinical trial on humans

Addicted to cocaine? There might be some hope if you’re longing to kick the addictive drug.

One hospital and its role in the surrounding community

The impact a hospital has on the surrounding neighborhood is a relationship that depends on stability. Even the greatest hospitals can have a less than positive effect on their partnering neighbors.

Personalized digital voices for assistive devices gives a unique voice to the voiceless

People who cannot speak and must rely on vocal devices are often stuck with an autonomous one. But now, VocaliD offering personalized voices to those who don’t have one.

Memorial Healthcare joins Caris Life Sciences, dabbles with tumor technology

Caris Life Sciences, a biotechnology company, has added Memorial Healthcare System to its precision medicine network.

New tool capable of changing the level of protein within cells makes its debut

Researchers from New York's Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a tool that can change the level of two types of proteins within a cell. This tool gives researchers a faster and easier way to study cells, particularly stem cells.

NIH could fund animal-human stem cell research

Injecting human stem cells into animal embryos will no longer make researchers ineligible for National Institutes of Health Funding, the agency announced August 4. 

Healing the healthcare industry with data, digital technology

Digital technology has transformed every industry—and one of the most affected by this new digital age is healthcare. 

Around the web

The American College of Cardiology has shared its perspective on new CMS payment policies, highlighting revenue concerns while providing key details for cardiologists and other cardiology professionals. 

As debate simmers over how best to regulate AI, experts continue to offer guidance on where to start, how to proceed and what to emphasize. A new resource models its recommendations on what its authors call the “SETO Loop.”

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, said the clinical community needs to combat health misinformation at a grassroots level. He warned that patients are immersed in a "sea of misinformation without a compass."

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