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ARPA-H Funds AI Agents Designed to Adjust Heart Failure Medications, Testing How Much Autonomy Patients Can Trust

ARPA-H picked teams to build AI agents that could adjust heart failure care, aiming for FDA authorization. Safety questions patients should ask.

Medical Daily

In 2018, California's Kaiser Permanente opened an 8,110-square-meter medical office with a 640-kilowatt solar array. 8 years later, it cuts energy use 40% while using no fossil fuels

Solar installation is another defining part of the project's sustainability strategy. WorldGBC reports a 640-kilowatt photovoltaic array installed in shade canopies over the adjacent parking lot.

The Economic Times

Lab Labeling Error Allegedly Led to Cancer Misdiagnosis and Unnecessary Hysterectomy

A Georgia lawsuit alleges a laboratory tissue sample mix-up caused a false cancer diagnosis and an unnecessary hysterectomy at age 43.

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How a Mislabeled Biopsy Can Lead to a Cancer Misdiagnosis, As Shown By a Georgia Woman's Lawsuit

A Georgia woman's lawsuit alleges a pathology mix-up led to a cancer misdiagnosis and unnecessary hysterectomy, highlighting the importance of accurate testing.

Medical Daily

Woman sues Kaiser Permanente after labeling mixup led to unnecessary hysterectomy

The frequency of pathology sample mislabeling or mix-ups during medical testing is not definitively known

The Independent UK

In 2011, researchers found cases of biopsy sample misidentification, now Atlanta woman claims she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer, underwent unneeded hysterectomy due to tissue labelling mistake

Researchers studying prostate cancer discovered three cases of biopsy sample misidentification over two years, according to a 2011 research paper.

The Economic Times

Dementia Disparities Persist Past Age Ninety, and the Finding Only Exists Because Someone Enrolled a Diverse Cohort

A study of adults 90 and older found that dementia disparities by sex and race persist. Why the oldest-old are missing from most aging research.

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Air pollution could be affecting your brain power

The impacts are similar to what researchers would expect from 10 years of normal aging

The Independent UK

AI Is Taking Over Therapy Notes but Patients Say They Never Signed up for a Third Listener

For some patients, the discovery that their private moments are being processed by an algorithm feels like a betrayal.

The Mary Sue

electroCore Touts 30% Growth Outlook, VA Opportunity at LD Micro Conference

electroCore (NASDAQ:ECOR) Interim President and CFO Joshua Lev said the bioelectronic technology company is focused on expanding its non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation platform across federal health care, commercial insurance channels and consumer wellness markets. Speaking at the LD Micro event,

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Eagle Mountain mystery: Why 4,000 residents vanished from California’s most guarded ghost town

Eagle Mountain stands as a haunting monument to industrial collapse and modern-day secrecy. Founded in 1948 by Henry J. Kaiser, it was a meticulously planned ‘company town’ where approximately 4,000 people were provided with schools, parks, and a pioneering healthcare system.

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Is Kaiser’s Labor-Management Model Unraveling?

Health care workers say the system’s push for growth is undermining a once-vaunted partnership — and affecting patients.

Capital & Main

Kaiser Therapists Plan Strike Over Proposed AI Use, Chronic Understaffing

Regulators are again fining the health care giant for inadequate investment in mental health care.

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How Medicare Advantage Costs Taxpayers — and Retirees

With private insurers set to receive $1.2 trillion in excess payments by 2036, retirees may soon face a reckoning over costs and coverage.

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More than 30,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers to end strike in California and Hawaii

An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers will return to work on Tuesday after a four-week strike in California and Hawaii to demand better wages and staffing

The Independent UK

31,000 healthcare workers go on strike over pay and staffing

Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente is being accused of ‘unfair labor practices’

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On Eve of Strike, Kaiser Nurses Sound Alarm on Patient Care

More than 31,000 nurses and health care workers plan to walk out next week following months-long stalemate with Kaiser.

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Kaiser Permanente reaches $46 million settlement over data breach — how to file your claim

Kaiser Permanente has settled a class-action lawsuit over claims personal data and health info was exposed through its websites and apps.

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The Independent UK

Kaiser affiliates will pay $556M to settle a lawsuit alleging Medicare fraud

Kaiser Permanente affiliates will pay $556 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the health care giant committed Medicare fraud and pressured doctors to list incorrect diagnoses on medical records to receive higher reimbursements

The Independent UK

Planned 5-day strike at Kaiser Permanente health care facilities ends, with plans for further talks

A planned five-day strike by thousands of registered nurses and other Kaiser Permanente health care workers in California, Hawaii and Oregon has ended

Capital & Main

Five-Day Strike by Kaiser Permanente Workers Is About More Than Money

Kaiser employees are calling for a lucrative medical giant that handles care for more than 12 million Americans to let them better prioritize patients.

The Independent UK

31,000 Kaiser Permanente nurses and other health care workers strike for better wages and staffing

An estimated 31,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers have gone on strike to demand better wages and staffing

The Independent UK

Hawaii doctor accused of trying to kill his wife on hiking trail pleads not guilty

A doctor accused of trying to kill his wife on a Hawaii hiking trail has pleaded not guilty to on an attempted murder charge

The Independent UK

Indicted Hawaii doctor pushed wife towards cliff edge and tried to inject her with syringe, restraining order petition claims

The doctor allegedly attacked his wife while they were hiking, new documents show

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Oz's ties to insurers may loom over his CMS confirmation hearing - Roll Call

Mehmet Oz will likely face questions during his confirmation hearing about his past support of expanding the Medicare Advantage program.

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