Food-as-medicine companies are none too thrilled about recent comments made by Kellogg CEO Gary Pilnick.
In a CNBC interview, the multimillionaire executive encouraged families struggling to put food on the table to turn to cereal…
Healthcare conferences give executives the opportunity to convene and share ideas. They also give them the opportunity to announce news from their companies, oftentimes about new products, research or partnerships.
Below are nine noteworthy announcements…
WebMD has acquired the assets of Healthwise, an Idaho-based nonprofit provider of health education content and patient engagement tools. The New Jersey-based company announced the deal on Thursday and did not disclose financial details.
Healthwise’s…
While the world frets over legal and clinical perils of the growing use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, cybersecurity may have become the IT genie already out of the bottle.
Attacks on healthcare information systems…
Telehealth has emerged as an important way to receive care, especially after Covid-19 when many providers were forced to provide care virtually. San Francisco-based Hims & Hers, however, has always been telemedicine-based, even before…
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From left to right: Shereef Elnahal, the VA’s under secretary for health; and Arundhati Parmar, MedCity News’ editor-in-chief
In the U.S., veterans are 1.5 times more likely to die by suicide than nonveteran adults. Research…
Mental health is being discussed more broadly now than it was a decade ago. In addition, more and more insurers and employers are offering mental health support for their members and employees. But there…
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The MedCity Moves Podcast is back with another episode. During this month’s edition, Senior Reporter Katie Adams explores some of the executive appointments, promotions and exits occurring in the healthcare world over the past…
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As a nurse practitioner dual certified in primary care and behavioral health, Amy Edgar recognized that the medical community often tends to separate primary care and mental health.
In 2014, she later went on to…
There’s a bit of a debate in the venture capital community about what matters more to digital health investors in today’s fundraising environment — growth or profitability. Some investors say profitability is king right…
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