For many experiencing heart attack, heart failure is an inevitability. But scientists are hoping to rewrite that story—by using stem cells to help restore heart function after myocardial infarction.

Priority Private Care, a New York-based healthcare startup, caters to high-income individuals by bringing care to them. Started 18 months ago, PPC has an urgent care facility in Manhattan that can cut wait times for those paying annual fees starting at $3,000.

Lloyd B. Minor, the dead of Stanford University School of Medicine, equated problems harnessing the positives of EHR with the microscope. It took 70 years for that game-changing tool to lead to scientific breakthroughs—a delay that might have to do as much with the user as the instrument itself.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is about to undergo a massive, $16 billion revamp of its electronic health record (EHR) system. A month after a $10 million deal with Cerner was finalized, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a report that found the VA spent $3 billion on EHR support between 2015 and 2017.

Pediatric cancer rates are highest in the Northeast U.S. and lowest in the South, according to a new report from the CDC, while leukemia is more prevalent in the West. But, the researchers noted, childhood cancer remains rare enough that such variables are more significant to care providers than the public.

Nearly two-thirds of physicians know another doctor who has tried or died by suicide, according to a Medscape poll published last month. The survey found 65 percent of physicians, 41 percent of nurses and 38 percent of medical students knew a physician who tried or died by suicide.

A mobile diabetes management application did not result in better blood glucose control, but it could be a useful tool in self-management. Findings were published June 26 in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.

Osso VR, a virtual reality surgical training platform, has partnered with American medical residency programs to offer student a new way to train for surgery.