Tag: medicine
Millions of Americans need drugs like Ozempic. Will it bankrupt the healthcare system?
An April 24 letter from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to the CEO of Novo Nordisk began with heartfelt thanks to the Danish...
Opinion: Wait times go down. Patient satisfaction goes up. What's the matter with letting apps and AI run the ER?
My resident describes our next emergency room patient — a 32-year-old female with severe, crampy mid-abdominal pain, vomiting and occasional loose stools....
A champion of psychedelics who includes a dose of skepticism
Ernesto Londoño’s engrossing and unsettling new book, “Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics,” is part memoir, part work of journalism....
Hugging Face releases a benchmark for testing generative AI on health tasks
As I wrote recently, generative AI models are increasingly being brought to healthcare settings — in some cases prematurely, perhaps. Early adopters believe...
'Miracle' weight-loss drugs could have reduced health disparities. Instead they got worse
The American Heart Assn. calls them “game changers.”Oprah Winfrey says they’re “a gift.”Science magazine anointed them the “2023 Breakthrough of the Year.”Americans...
Generative AI is coming for healthcare, and not everyone’s thrilled
Generative AI, which can create and analyze images, text, audio, videos and more, is increasingly making its way into healthcare, pushed by both...