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"McDonald’s for Teeth": Private Equity is Destroying Our Teeth, Dental Professionals Warn

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-31 09:08:43

Image by Getty / Futurism As most of us in the United States are well aware, the US healthcare system is a nightmarish labyrinth of profit-seeking middlemen, kafkaesque corporate bureaucracy, and insurance-inflated costs. Adding to the noxious mix is the lucrative field of private equity — a financial industry that earns its dough by buying private companies and selling their assets piecemeal, kind of like a junk dealer. Research has shown that when private equity gets involved in healthcare,

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For-Profit Hospital Chain Reportedly Left Patient Lying in Pool of His Own Blood

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-06 23:30:41

Image by Getty / Futurism For-profit rehabilitation hospitals are booming in the United States, but their rapid growth is leaving patient safety far behind. The US post-acute care industry, which deals with rehab and long-term care facilities, was worth an estimated $483 billion in 2024, and is expected to grow to over $785 billion by 2034. On paper, it's easy to assume all that business potential would translate to quality care. Unfortunately, for thousands of patients across the country, th

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Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024)

news.ycombinator.com Nick Tobey 2026-01-29 00:13:21

Designing a schema for your relational database is a daunting task that has long term implications for the database's performance, maintainability, and correctness. And it often requires making decisions before having a clear picture of the exact shape and distribution of your data, or what the common access patterns will look like. It's not a permanent decision: tables can be altered and databases migrated. But these migrations can be slow and expensive. To top it all off, some data is less am

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AI Does Something Subtly Bizarre If You Make Typos While Talking to It

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-30 05:10:38

New research suggests that medical AI chatbots are woefully unreliable at understanding how people actually communicate their health problems. As detailed in yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study presented last month by MIT researchers, an AI chatbot is more likely to advise a patient not to seek medical care if their messages contained typos. The errors AI is susceptible to can be as seemingly inconsequential as an extra space between words, or if the patient used slang or colorful language. And strik

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How did X-Rays gain mass adoption?

news.ycombinator.com Adith Arun 2026-02-01 15:18:30

At the University of Würzburg, Wilhelm Röntgen took the first X-Ray (XR) and presented his work “On a New Kind of Rays” in December 1985 which was printed in January 1986. In January 1986, it was reprinted in English in Nature, The Electrician, Lancet, and BMJ. A lot of literature was written about XR’s in the months to follow. News outlets from across the world picked up on this story writing that “a professor from Wurzburg had successfully used a new type of light to take a photograph of a set

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Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-10 15:03:09

“This is a huge step forward in the genetic treatment of deafness, one that can be life-changing for children and adults,” says Maoli Duan, consultant and docent at the Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and one of the study’s corresponding authors. The study comprised ten patients between the ages of 1 and 24 at five hospitals in China, all of whom had a genetic form of deafness or severe hearing impairment caused by mutations in a gene

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US surgeons complete first-ever heart transplant using robotics

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-16 17:54:00

What just happened? Surgeons at Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston have performed the nation's first fully robotic heart transplant, a milestone in American medicine. Completed in March, the procedure marks a significant leap in robotic cardiac surgery and offers new hope for patients with advanced heart failure. The patient, a 45-year-old man hospitalized for months with severe heart failure, became the first in the United States to receive a heart transplant using a minimally invasiv

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Stanford’s ChatEHR allows clinicians to query patient medical records using natural language, without compromising patient data

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2026-02-25 05:24:25

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more What would it be like to chat with health records the way one could with ChatGPT? Initially posed by a medical student, this question sparked the development of ChatEHR at Stanford Health Care. Now in production, the tool accelerates chart reviews for emergency room admissions, streamlines patient transfer summaries and synthesizes inform

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Strangers in the Middle of a City: The John and Jane Does of L.A. Medical Center

news.ycombinator.com Staff Writer 2026-03-08 08:45:53

He had a buzz cut and brown eyes, a stubbly beard and a wrestler’s build. He did not have a wallet or phone; he could not state his name. He arrived at Los Angeles General Medical Center one cloudy day this winter just as thousands of people do every year: alone and unknown. Some 130,000 people are brought each year to L.A. General’s emergency room. Many are unconscious, incapacitated or too unwell to tell staff who they are. Nearly all these Jane and John Does are identified within 48 hours

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Doctors and patients are calling for more telehealth. Where is it?

technologyreview.com Isabel Ruehl 2025-11-12 20:00:00

But doctors are generally allowed to practice medicine only where they have a license. This means they cannot treat patients across state lines unless they also have a license in the patient’s state, and most physicians have one or two licenses at most. This has led to what Ateev Mehrotra, a physician and professor of health policy at the Brown University School of Public Health, calls an “inane” norm: A woman with a rare cancer boarding an airplane, at the risk of her chemotherapy-weakened immu

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Latest Tech News

"McDonald’s for Teeth": Private Equity is Destroying Our Teeth, Dental Professionals Warn

For-Profit Hospital Chain Reportedly Left Patient Lying in Pool of His Own Blood

Choosing a Database Schema for Polymorphic Data (2024)

AI Does Something Subtly Bizarre If You Make Typos While Talking to It

How did X-Rays gain mass adoption?

Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients

US surgeons complete first-ever heart transplant using robotics

Stanford’s ChatEHR allows clinicians to query patient medical records using natural language, without compromising patient data

Strangers in the Middle of a City: The John and Jane Does of L.A. Medical Center

Doctors and patients are calling for more telehealth. Where is it?

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