The issues discussed in this column are not meant to be considered legal advice. For personal advice, readers are urged to contact a qualified health care attorney. A nurse practitioner wrote: "I ...

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The digital health company gave a centuries-old device—the stethoscope—an AI upgrade to revamp it as a connected medical device that functions as an early disease detection platform.

Discover how Cone Health is using virtual technology to provide primary care services to residents of a housing complex in Greensboro, N.C., improving access.

Scott Whitaker sent a letter to the HHS calling for staff cuts at the FDA to be reversed, arguing patient care and U.S. leadership in medtech are on the line.

If you desire to work in healthcare, a career as a nurse practitioner (NP) or physician assistant (PA) could be a good fit. While both occupations focus on providing top notch medical care ...

an assistant professor and co-associate division head for the CU Division of Hospital Medicine. Meyer helped launch the service in July 2023 and continues to oversee the service's physician workforce ...

Feb. 18, 2025 — The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study ...

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior military and Defense Department officials to draw up plans to cut 8 percent ...

These kinds of multimodal agents are being worked on by Google, OpenAI, and others, and now Perplexity has announced Perplexity Assistant for Android (as per The Verge, Perplexity says iOS doesn't ...