With a stake in two post-acute care companies under its belt, health insurer Humana saw its share price hit a new record high last week.

Newly engineered liposomes, or 'nano-bubbles,' can deliver chemotherapy drugs on-demand when activated by x-rays. They have proven to be successful in killing bowel cancer cells, according to the Center for Nanoscale BioPhotonics in Adelaide, Australia.

Adam Boehler, the director of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), has been appointed to serve as a senior adviser to for HHS’s Value-Based Transformation and Innovation.

Undergoing CT scans may increase the risk for brain cancer in children and young adults, according to a study of more than 150,000 pediatric patients in the Netherlands.

Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. announced Wednesday, July 18, that the company will be offering multiple educational opportunities to attendees at AHRA 2018 July 22-25 in Orlando.

Worcester County, Massachusetts, residents can enjoy a better deal on MRIs than anywhere else in the state, the Telegram & Gazette reported of a Pioneer Institute study released this week, averaging out-of-pocket costs that rarely exceed $60.

Retail giant Amazon is in early talk to invest in Medplus, India’s second-largest pharmacy chain, according to FactorDaily.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates joined a handful of wealthy donors, July 17, saying he will pledge more than $30 million over three years to advance research aimed at early Alzheimer’s detection.

Researchers have shown that they can use artificial intelligence (AI) to restore low-quality photos by exposing a neural network to only other low-quality photos, according to work presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Stockholm.

Despite decreases in heart failure (HF) incidence and mortality rates in ambulatory patients, mortality remains higher for women, according to a new study published July 16 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.