The new healthcare practice of “hotspotting” — in which providers identify very high-cost patients and attempt to reduce their medical spending while improving care — has virtually no impact on patient outcomes or readmission rates, according to a new study led by MIT economists. The finding underscores the challenge of reducing spending on “superutilizers” of… Read More »
While we have been talking about using brexanolone, marketed by Sage Therapeutics as Zulresso, for the treatment of postpartum depression, an oral version of this novel antidepressant – SAGE 217 or zuranolone – has been finishing up its Phase 3 trials. Like brexanolone, SAGE-217 is a neurosteroid, an analogue of allopregnanolone which is a positive… Read More »
Health Tech Sep 13, 2019• By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH In the Pacific Northwest, “accelerator-slash-think tank” Cambia Grove is quickly expanding as the region’s go-to healthcare innovation hub. Fully funded by Cambia Health Solutions, the organization is functioning as a neutral party to bring startups and healthcare system incumbents together to identify innovation priorities. What… Read More »
Despite decreasing rates of alcohol and tobacco use during pregnancy, the use of cannabis use during pregnancy is on the rise. According to data collected from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the use of cannabis in pregnant women aged 18 to 44 years rose from 2.37% in 2002 to 3.85% in 2014… Read More »
Thirty years after Disney’s The Little Mermaid film was first released, award winning novelist Louise O’Neill explains why she felt compelled to rewrite the classic fairy tale for the post #metoo generation I was looking through the Notes app on my phone recently – a bizarre combination of reminders, to-do lists, half-remembered dreams scribbled… Read More »
A plant originally native to Southwestern North America, jojoba is a golden liquid wax (often mistakenly called jojoba oil) that is made from the jojoba bean. As the key ingredient in The Jojoba Company’s impressive range of Australian made and owned skincare products, jojoba contains essential fatty acids, vitamins A, D and E as well… Read More »