Lower Extremity Arterial Disease (LEAD) or commonly known as Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) affects more than eight million Americans including up to 20% over the age of 60 and 200 million people worldwide. The goal is to detect Lower Extremity Arterial Disease (LEAD) sooner or as it is more commonly known as Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD). …Continue reading
CDC Posts Grant Forecast
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov posted a Forecast for the Grant Opportunity to “Develop, Implement, and Evaluate Evidence-based, Innovative Approaches to Prevent, Find, and Cure TB in High Burden Settings” with estimated funding for $5,000,000. …Continue reading
News at NYC Health System
NYC Health + Hospitals, https://www.nychealthandhospitals,org, the largest public healthcare system in the U.S., provides inpatient, outpatient, and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year in more than 70 locations across the city’s five boroughs. …Continue reading
FDA Launches CURE-ID App
FDA https://www.fda.gov has announced the global launch of “CURE-ID” an internet-based repository, which is a collaboration between FDA and NIH’s “National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences” (NCATS) https://ncats.nih.gov. …Continue reading
Positive Outlook for eHealth Inc.
Credit Suisse https://www.credit-suisse.com hosted eHealth Inc. (EHTH) https://ehealth.com CEO Scott Flanders and Vice President for Finance & IR, Kate Sidorovich recently at a series of investor meetings held in London and Geneva. …Continue reading
Data Strategy at HHS
Mona Siddiqui M.D, Chief Data Officer in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer at HHS, https://www.hhs.gov/cto spoke on December 16, 2019 at a briefing moderated by Sarah J. Dash, President and CEO for the Alliance for Health Policy https://www.allhealthpolicy.org. …Continue reading
Telemedicine Treats OUDs in Alaska
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS), http://dhss.alaska.gov Division of Behavioral Health, recently released the new resource “Medication Assisted Treatment Guide” to help healthcare providers in Alaska offer Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) services to treat Opioid Use Disorders (OUD). MAT has been proven to work in treating OUDs in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies. …Continue reading