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Reviewed by Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD Health coaching goes beyond diet and exercise advice. To improve your health, a good health coach will not just consider your physical needs, but also your goals, personal preferences, and overall value system. There are many reasons why you might decide to work with a health coach, but…
Consultmed to replatform to InterSystems’ IRIS for Health Consultmed is moving its referral management software to InterSystems IRIS for Health data platform. The move comes as the health IT provider looks to “do integrations at scale.” Hosted on Microsoft Azure, Consultmed enables referral management, virtual triage, Advice & Guidance, secure messaging, digital patient forms, requests…
Reviewed by Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD Calorie manipulation—whether to lose weight or gain muscle—seems simple. After all, it’s just math… right? Sort of. But it’s tricky. Your body is a complex machine. In order to determine how many calories your body needs to achieve your goals, you need to first understand how your body burns…
A 2024 systematic review1 of the literature confirmed what multiple studies have shown — the higher your intake of ultraprocessed food, the higher your risk of adverse health outcomes. The analysis, which included 45 unique pooled analyses and 9,888,373 participants, found direct associations between 32 health parameters and exposure to ultraprocessed food, including metabolic dysfunction,…
Transcarent, a digital platform focused on the self-insured employer market, announced it secured a $126 million Series D investment. The funds bring the unicorn company’s total raise to $450 million and valuation to $2.2 billion. General Catalyst and 7wireVentures led the round, with participation from new investors Memorial Hermann Health System and Geodesic Capital. Former…
Angela Fitch’s family history of obesity caught up to her at age 40, when she was pregnant with her first child. As a physician and obesity medicine specialist, Dr. Fitch knew the lifestyle levers to pull—and she had the financial means to yank them hard. After giving birth, she lifted weights with a trainer twice…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the launch of a new initiative, Home as a Health Care Hub, that focuses on using augmented reality and virtual reality to improve health equity by reimagining the home environment as part of a healthcare system. The FDA contracted with an architectural firm that designs buildings with health…
Reviewed by Brian St. Pierre, MS, RD “Cargo pants are back.” This was the news that Brian St. Pierre, PN’s director of nutrition, broke when we met. (St. Pierre, a father, found this out via his 12-year-old daughter.) Why does this matter? Apparently, a certain type of exercise is running a parallel cycle: An old…
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Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have developed an artificial intelligence tool that predicts whether a patient will respond to cancer treatment drugs using individual tumor cells, according to a study published in Nature Cancer. Traditional approaches to drug-patient matching focus on bulk sequencing of tumor…
None of us is getting any younger. Take it from someone who’s old: You don’t want to reach the Age of Senior Discounts with regrets about all the things you didn’t do to prepare your body and mind. Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do, at any age. In the following article, we’ll cover the…
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NeuroX, a neurology-focused online consultation service, and its physician network ATP Partners announced it will participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) GUIDE Program to enhance care for dementia patients. NeuroX, American TelePhysician’s brain health division, offers a virtual-care platform that connects individuals with neurologists, psychiatrists and sleep specialists to provide what…
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Phoenix-based Dot Compliance, which provides an AI-powered quality management system for compliance, announced it closed $17 million in Series B extension funding, bringing its total funding to $50 million. The funding round was led by existing investors IGP Capital and Vertex Ventures with additional investment from TPY Capital. WHAT IT DOES Dot Compliance AI solutions…
In this interview, repeat guest Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a board-certified family physician and author of the book, “The Clot Thickens: The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease,” reviews the underlying mechanisms for heart disease, which for the last century has been the leading cause of death in the U.S. Of all the books he’s written, this…
Provider-focused digital mental health company Grow Therapy announced it has closed $88 million in Series C funding. Sequoia Capital led the round, with additional investment from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and PLUS Capital. Several artists and athletes also contributed to the round, including Dak Prescott, Anna Kendrick, Joe Burrow, Lily Collins and Jrue…
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New Zealand-based virtual reality and cognitive behavioral therapy company oVRcome announced it signed an international contract with the UK National Health Service (NHS) to help autistic individuals navigate hospital environments and social interactions. oVRcome, launched in 2021, utilizes a smartphone and headset to deliver exposure therapy to adults and children with numerous conditions, including phobias,…
How and what you eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are you paying for this homogenized, cheap and convenient food? This video investigates how supermarkets have affected the food on your plate, and reveals the telltale signs that the food you buy…
Warehouse retailer Costco is expanding its healthcare footprint by offering a comprehensive weight loss service to its members across all 50 states with a three-month subscription starting at $179. The program is run through digital healthcare marketplace Sesame and represents an expansion of Costco’s partnership with the startup, first announced last September. Sesame’s healthcare marketplace…