Author: Healthcare Propulsion Staff

The non-profit Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung supports LMU clinician-scientist Daniel Kotlarz through its Rise up! program. Daniel Kotlarz, Heisenberg Professor of Precision Medicine of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at LMU and group leader at the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich receives around 600,000 Euros through the Rise up! funding program of the non-profit Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung. This competitive, national funding initiative supports outstanding early career W2 professors in establishing independent research programs. The initiative is designed for excellent scientists pursuing particularly innovative and high-risk research projects that require scientific freedom beyond the resources typically available through a newly established…

Available for over a yearA series of recent studies suggests that drug use is increasing among Gen Z. Some young people are taking prescription anti-anxiety medications — such as propranolol and pregabalin — without a prescription. They’re buying them online or on the black market, exposing themselves to additional risks. Jacqui Wakefield, our Global Health Reporter, explains why some young people see these drugs as an alternative to alcohol. They want to reduce social anxiety on a night out and experience a feeling of euphoria, but without the calories and hangover that can come with heavy drinking. We discuss the…

Artificial intelligence-powered payer intelligence startup Anomaly Insights announced Thursday a collaboration with Inova Health to improve payment outcomes and support revenue management operations. Through the partnership, Anomaly will provide Inova with additional data and analytics to evaluate payer behavior and payment outcomes. “Every dollar we recover through this work is a dollar we can reinvest in the patients and communities we serve,” said Erin Hodson, Inova Health vice president of revenue cycle, in a statement. “By bringing greater visibility and transparency to complex payment processes, we can make more informed decisions and continue strengthening our approach to revenue management.” Executives…

Bottom line: Patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) whose tumors responded to neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy (ICT) and who underwent less extensive surgery had high disease-free survival and organ preservation rates. Journal in which the study was published: Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Author: Kunyu Yang, MD, director of Union Hospital Cancer Center at Tongji Medical College and Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and one of the study’s senior authors. Background: Head and neck cancers are malignancies that arise in the nasal cavity, sinuses, lips, mouth, salivary…

Electronic prescribing platform Interra Health announced Tuesday that it now supports the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) GLP-1 Bridge program for Medicare Part D beneficiaries. Eligible Part D enrollees can access GLP-1 medications at $50 per month through the program, which launched July 1. For Interra patients, the platform alerts providers when patients may be eligible to enroll in the program. Moreover, it instructs providers to submit proper codes and complete required prior authorizations. Interra Health Chief Business Development Officer J.B. Powell told Fierce Healthcare the program has delivered “more than 170,000 point-of-prescribing alerts to more than…

Though surgical volumes were a sore spot for major for-profit health systems in the opening half of 2026, executives said this week they are optimistic those service lines will stay afloat for the remainder of 2026 and beyond.  In fireside chats hosted this week at the Wells Fargo Healthcare Conference, executives acknowledged that demand for surgeries, and elective surgeries in particular, have had a rough go this year.  Broadly, they painted the trend as a result of coverage reductions stemming from health insurance exchange disenrollments, increased price consciousness among those who do still have coverage and, to a lesser extent,…

Mercury, which is about one-third the size of Earth, may have shrunk more in its evolution than scientists originally thought.A new study suggests that the tiny planet may have contracted 10% to 30% more than previous models suggested — meaning the planet’s total diameter shrunk almost 12 miles (19 km) since Mercury was formed. (Mercury’s diameter today is roughly 3,032 miles (4,880 km).Previous missions overlooked the extent of the shrinkage because impact-crater debris on Mercury’s surface hid the evidence, according to a study published Thursday (Sept. 10) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. That size difference is important when researchers…

As thousands of children start secondary school, experts have called for children to be given more opportunities for independence before they hit adolescence. New research, from the Outdoor Play Research Centre based at the University of Exeter, of almost 9,000 children and young people across England found that greater independence was not automatically associated with better wellbeing. Among adolescents, the context in which that independence was experienced mattered: for those who felt unsafe to travel within their neighborhood, greater independence was associated with lower wellbeing. The findings come against a backdrop of a substantial generational decline in children’s freedom. Previous…

IBM and NASA have partnered to create a new artificial intelligence (AI) model capable of processing decades of lunar data so scientists can more accurately map the moon’s surface one day.Decades of robotic lunar missions have left scientists with a massive, disjointed trove of data. Traditionally, this data has been parsed by limited transformer models such as SwinV2-B, created in 2022 as a general-purpose model to understand images and improve accuracy on photo recognition and related vision tasks. Spacecraft orbiting the moon captured this data using a mismatched array of sensors, without an accessible way to analyze or utilize it.Specifically,…

An artificial intelligence model that analyzes women’s past and recent annual 3D mammograms is more effective at predicting five-year risk of developing breast cancer than a tool that uses only the most recent, single 3D mammogram, as well as an AI model that analyzes 2D mammograms, a new study shows. Researchers at NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center developed the deep-learning tool, called NYU-DRP, using a woman’s 3D mammograms taken over multiple years, also known as longitudinal digital breast tomosynthesis (longitudinal DBT). Published in the American Journal of Roentgenology online Aug. 12, the study showed that NYU-DRP was…