BehaVR offers care for anxiety, mental wellness, pain management and maternal health, while OxfordVR is primarily focused on serious mental illness, such as PTSD, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Through the merger, OxfordVR's products will join BehaVR's platform, providing services for a whole range of mental health conditions.
Humana has been rolling out a model for primary care centers designed to accommodate the growing number of senior citizens in the U.S. Staffed by integrated care teams, the centers offer a holistic approach that addresses both the medical and social needs of patients.
By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News and Arthur Allen Friday, December 16, 2022 6:49 PM
The PASTEUR Act, as amended, would provide $6 billion in federal funding over several years to give drugmakers incentive to develop and manufacture lifesaving medications for the small but growing number of infections highly resistant to antibiotics.
Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ratified a new agreement that increases their wages by 15% over the next three years. It's been good month for nurses unions in Northern California — Kaiser Permanente nurses recently ratified a new contract that increased wages by 22.5% over four years and included provisions for improved staffing.
By Lawrence Carter Friday, December 16, 2022 1:30 PM
Unlike Alzheimer's disease, which is characterized primarily by memory difficulties, but generally not major changes to personality or language, Frontotemporal dementia strikes at the core of what makes us who we are. Fortunately, there are several ongoing clinical trials addressing this disease.
By Scott Aho and Amanda Wright Friday, December 16, 2022 11:31 AM
Clinical research as a care option is a means of connecting patients with clinical research as part of their ongoing health care, located where they receive that care, and offered by their trusted provider.
Among the takeaways from HLTH 2022 were the impact of consolidation on clinicians, behavioral health tools to help consumers manage stress and anxiety more productively, and how health tech and medtech companies are supporting remote patient monitoring and testing.
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