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Wheel doubles down on virtual care investment, rolls out enhanced platform for payers, retailers and pharma

Fierce Healthcare

Big players continue to make hefty investments in health tech—look no further than Amazon expanding its virtual clinic to all 50 states and the planned $3 billion merger between digital wellness co | Health tech company Wheel has been building for the next evolution of virtual care with an eye toward working with large enterprises, health plans, pharma (..)

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Opinion: Methadone treatment has been reformed for the better. States shouldn’t go back to the old ways

STAT

Until recently, most people had to visit a methadone clinic in person for an initial exam and then come in five to six days a week to take their doses under the watchful eye of a health care professional. But they made it hard for people to get the treatment they need.

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STAT+: Generative AI Tracker: A guide to the health systems and companies driving adoption

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Health care leaders and technology companies are investing heavily in large language models, a powerful class of deep learning models that are trained on vast troves of data. But while enthusiasm for generative AI is high and research is booming, it’s just starting to gain a toehold in clinical settings.

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From Fear to Passion: Embracing the Unexpected Journey into Pediatric Pharmacy with Dr. Stephen Small!

Pharmacy Is Right For Me

Dr. Small is a pediatric clinical pharmacist specialist but if you had asked him years earlier, he would not have thought that he would end up working with children, “Pediatrics was actually the only specialty I intentionally avoided in pharmacy school due to my fear that I would make a medication error and harm a child.”

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STAT+: A conflict of interest behind the warning on Apellis’ eye drug? The optics are not good

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The eye disease physician in charge of a committee that flagged a rare but severe side effect involving a newly approved drug from Apellis Pharmaceuticals has financial ties to a competing drugmaker. The conflict raises questions about his supervision of an emerging safety issue for patients and its impact on the financial health of Apellis.

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STAT+: Amazon’s chief medical officers on where the company’s health care bets are headed next

STAT

The graveyard is littered with Amazon’s bets in health care: wearables , Care , the ill-fated Haven. Out of their ashes, a new health strategy has emerged at the tech goliath. “And it’s now made us more confident that we’re on the right track.” billion.

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What is Demodex blepharitis?

The Checkup by Singlecare

Causes | Diagnosis | Symptoms | Treatment | Prevention Demodex blepharitis is an inflammatory eye condition associated with an overpopulation of Demodex—microscopic mites that live around hair and eyelash follicles. Eye irritation has many causes, but blepharitis is one of the most common. What is Demodex blepharitis?