Category: Health

Terminal leukaemia patients who were not responding to treatment now have hope for a cure, thanks to a new experimental pill called revumenib. This drug has completely eliminated cancer in a third of the participants in a long-awaited clinical trial in the United States. Although not all patients showed complete remission, scientists remain hopeful as […]

Advanced brain scans have shown how a powerful psychedelic drug increases connectivity in areas of the brain linked to higher level functions, such as imagination. Hoping to gather new insights into how psychedelics alter a person’s conscious experience, scientists conducted an experiment with DMT (dimethyltryptamine). This is the natural psychedelic used in ayahuasca ceremonies, where […]

The state of healthcare in America may be best described as uncertain. Nearly every news report points to burnout as a significant factor causing healthcare professionals to leave their field. According to a 2021 study, 1 in 5 physicians and 2 in 5 nurses intended to leave their practice within two years. As a result, […]

US president Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19. Since the pandemic began three years ago, its origin has been the subject of a heated scientific and political debate. Biden signed the bill on March 20, after it passed […]

Not very far from London, in the English county of Hertfordshire, lies an unusual wheat field. The wheat grown here has been genetically edited to reduce the amount of acrylamide it contains once cooked, as that compound is believed to increase the risk of cancer. To achieve this, plant and crop scientists at Rothamsted Research […]

BioNTech’s messenger RNA technology led to a successful Covid-19 vaccine that provides it with plenty of cash for pipeline expansion. The company is deploying some of that capital in a new partnership that gives it a share of OncoC4’s lead drug candidate, an antibody addressing a target that is seeing renewed R&D interest. Deal terms […]

This roundup will be published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an executive appointment, resignation or layoff that you would like to share for this roundup or the MedCity Moves podcast, please reach out to [email protected] Hires […]

The MedCity Moves Podcast is back with another episode. We dive into some of the executive appointments occurring in the healthcare sector over the past month — including new leaders at UCSF Health, Hims & Hers and Tegria. We also discuss layoffs affecting the industry — such the recent rounds of job cuts at Cerebral, […]

Yet another bipartisan piece of legislation was introduced Friday that aims to keep pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in check.  This time it’s the Drug Price Transparency in Medicaid Act, introduced in the House by Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter (R-Georgia), Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York), Rep. Deborah Ross (D-North Carolina), Rep. Rick […]

Healthcare technology veteran Jonathan Bush describes the industry’s endless repetition of medical information as “a lethal game of telephone.” That persistent problem is why he founded Zus Health in 2020, he said in a recent interview. Zus is a health data platform that provides patient information at the point of care. “We have found a […]