The Trump Medicare innovation center plans to cancela half dozen trials to change the way health providers are paid by the end of the year as it aligns itself with the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement, multiple people familiar with the plans told Axios.
The big picture: Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation leadership said they want to focus on models that are likely to meet criteria for expansion and that promote the goals of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s public health agenda, said a person with knowledge who was granted anonymity to speak freely.
AI systems designed to predict the likelihood of a hospitalized patient dying largely aren't detecting worsening health conditions, a new study found.
Why it matters: Some machine learning models trained exclusively on existing patient data didn't recognize about 66% of injuries that could lead to patient death in the hospital, according to the research published in Nature's Communications Medicine journal.
Retail pharmacies are embracing the idea that less is more as they grapple with online competitors, lagging reimbursement, sluggish consumer demand and employee burnout.
Driving the news: CVS Health this week confirmed it's rolling out roughly a dozen downsized stores, testing the theory that getting back to the basics of dispensing drugs will be more sustainable than selling greeting cards and cosmetics.
A Justice Department attorney who defended the availability of abortion pills in a high-profile case during the Biden administration will be the Food and Drug Administration's top lawyer, a choice made by commissioner-designate Marty Makary.
Why it matters: The future of access to medication abortion — specifically mifepristone — is a hot-button issue facing the Trump administration and was a key line of questioning at Makary's Senate confirmation hearing last week.
The surge of online weight-loss drug providers is unexpectedly fueling demand for a much older, once-stigmatized treatment: hormone replacement therapy.
Why it matters: Facing a dearth of providers for treating menopause symptoms including weight gain, women are looking for answers online and increasingly finding all-in-one hubs run by top telemedicine companies.
Five years after the COVID pandemic began, its legacy is as much political as epidemiological, according to a comprehensive new Axios-Ipsos poll, with Americans' views of what happened cleaved by partisanship and media preferences.
The big picture: 39% say they know someone who died. Everybody wants to leave the era behind. Yet two-thirds of Americans don't believe the nation is adequately prepared to deal with another pandemic or widespread health crisis, according to the Axios-Ipsos American Health Index.
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was taken into custody at Manila's international airport on an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court on Tuesday morning local time, local officials said.
Pope Francis' health condition continues to improve and he's no longer facing immediate threat of dying from pneumonia, according a Monday update from the Vatican.
The big picture: After nearly a month hospitalized, the 88-year-old Catholic church leader's "clinical condition remains stable," though he'll have to remain in a hospital to continue treatment, the Vatican said.
Consumer health innovation is key to addressing challenges, like self-care access, health literacy and holistic wellness.
Rachel Koontz, Bayer's head of R&D for consumer health North America and global therapeutics, shares how the company leads the way with sustainable, science-backed products tailored to evolving health care needs.
