Hacker News with Generative AI: Healthcare

Privacy folks – what's your take on using LLMs at work? (ycombinator.com)
Hey everyone! :wave: I’m building a product called Privacy AI, and I’m trying to learn how people think about data privacy when using AI tools at work — especially in industries like finance, healthcare, or anywhere with sensitive data.

Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Data Security, Finance, Healthcare

13 points by adeebaslam 19 hours ago | 20 comments

Blue Shield says it shared health info on up to 4.7M patients with Google Ads (theregister.com)
US health insurance giant Blue Shield of California handed sensitive health information belonging to as many as 4.7 million members to Google's advertising empire, likely without these individuals' knowledge or consent.

Health Data, Privacy, Google Ads, Healthcare, Data Breaches

22 points by Bender 1 day ago | 2 comments

Why Do Most People Quit Ozempic After Two Years? (scientificamerican.com)
The class of weight-loss drugs including semaglutide, sold as Wegovy, have become immensely popular new treatments for obesity. One key factor in their effectiveness is that people need to take them indefinitely—but in practice, many don’t. A recent JAMA Network Open analysis found the vast majority of people quit taking these drugs within two years—such stops in treatment often reverses weight loss and health gains.

Obesity, Medicine, Healthcare, Weight Loss, Drugs

11 points by paulpauper 2 days ago | 1 comments

Rigor and Urgency (blueberrypediatrics.blog)
Blueberry is a 24/7 clinic startup. We need to move fast and not break things. This requires us to have a disciplined balance of rigor and urgency.

Startup Culture, Healthcare, Efficiency, Agile Development

11 points by kierangill 3 days ago | 0 comments

Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman tape transcript that led to the HMO act of 1973 (wikisource.org)
This is a transcript of the 1971 conversation between President Richard Nixon and John D. Ehrlichman that led to the HMO act of 1973:

Politics, History, Healthcare, Legislation

5 points by ivape 3 days ago | 0 comments

23andMe won permission from a judge to sell customers' medical and ancestry data (fortune.com)
23andMe says it won permission from a judge to sell customers’ medical and ancestry data.

Privacy, Genetics, Healthcare, Business

5 points by timojaask 4 days ago | 3 comments

Trump-allied prosecutor sends letters to medical journals alleging bias (nytimes.com)
A federal prosecutor has sent letters to at least three medical journals accusing them of political bias and asking a series of probing questions suggesting that the journals mislead readers, suppress opposing viewpoints and are inappropriately swayed by their funders.

Politics, Media, Healthcare, Journalism

21 points by anigbrowl 6 days ago | 1 comments

Japan's big bet on stem-cell therapies might soon pay off (nature.com)
Japan is brimming with signs of an approaching medical revolution. Shiny white robots are tending dishes of cells, rows of incubators hum in new facilities, and a deluxe, plush-carpeted hospital is getting ready to welcome its first patients.

Japan, Medical Technology, Healthcare

15 points by rbanffy 6 days ago | 0 comments

Tariffs Are About to Hit Lifesaving Medical Equipment (motherjones.com)
For millions of disabled people, essential health devices known as durable medical equipment, or DME—think of CPAP machines or in-home dialysis equipment—help them both remain at home and stay alive.

Medical Devices, Healthcare, Policy, Economics

6 points by josefresco 8 days ago | 0 comments

New strategy may enable cancer monitoring from blood tests alone (medicalxpress.com)
A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center investigators.

Cancer, Healthcare, Medical Research, Blood Tests

7 points by wglb 9 days ago | 1 comments

Erlang Solutions' Blog round-up (erlang-solutions.com)
The tech world doesn’t slow down, and neither do we. From the power of big data in healthcare to keeping you up-to-date about fintech compliance, our latest blog posts explore the important topics shaping today’s digital world.

Erlang, Technology, Fintech, Healthcare, Big Data

43 points by amalinovic 9 days ago | 0 comments

Bankrupt healthcare giant with 181 hospitals and clinics begins closure process (dailymail.co.uk)
A bankrupt healthcare giant is shifting services to other providers as it braces for a full shutdown.

Healthcare, Bankruptcy, Business, Hospitals

7 points by LinuxBender 9 days ago | 0 comments

High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections (nature.com)
To combat long-overlooked fungal pathogens, researchers and regulators must embrace innovative science and policy.

Science, Healthcare, Public Health, Drug Resistance

137 points by pmags 10 days ago | 45 comments

CRA accounts hacked after 28,000 social insurance numbers stolen in data breach (cbc.ca)
Imposters hacked into B.C. health-care workers’ CRA accounts after a massive breach of employees’ private identification from the B.C. government’s Interior Health authority, which runs hospitals and medical facilities in the southeastern part of the province, The Fifth Estate has learned.

Data Breaches, Security, Government, Healthcare, Canada

12 points by gnabgib 10 days ago | 1 comments

Radiation from CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases a year (medicalxpress.com)
Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.

Medical Research, Cancer, CT Scans, Healthcare

9 points by XzetaU8 11 days ago | 0 comments

Ex-FDA official says he was forced out for trying to protect vaccine safety data (apnews.com)
As tariffs put trade between China and the US in peril, Chinese businesses ponder the future

FDA, Vaccine Safety, Politics, Government, Healthcare

16 points by pmags 12 days ago | 0 comments

Amazon Turned Drivers into First Responders in Europe Experiment (bloomberg.com)
Amazon.com Inc. equipped some delivery vans in Europe with defibrillators to see if drivers crisscrossing residential areas could speed up aid to heart-attack victims.

Amazon, Healthcare, Europe, Experimentation, Delivery

35 points by geox 13 days ago | 36 comments

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? (nytimes.com)
With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

Mental Health, ADHD, Healthcare

35 points by NN88 13 days ago | 8 comments

Cofertility's "Freeze your eggs for free by donating half of them" plan (techcrunch.com)
Cofertility, a startup founded by former Uber executive Lauren Makler and health tech angel investor Halle Tecco, offers women no-cost egg freezing in exchange for donating half the retrieved eggs to those unable to conceive.

Healthcare, Fertility, Business, Startups

6 points by jnord 13 days ago | 3 comments

"Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay (propublica.org)
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

Healthcare, Insurance Fraud, Lawsuits, Medical Billing

171 points by ceejayoz 14 days ago | 227 comments

White House orders NIH to research trans 'regret' and 'detransition' (npr.org)
The Trump administration has ordered the National Institutes of Health to study the physical and mental health effects of undergoing gender transition, according to an internal NIH memo obtained by NPR.

Politics, Healthcare, Transgender Issues, Research

12 points by justin66 15 days ago | 15 comments

Cure ID App Lets Clinicians Report Novel Uses of Existing Drugs (fda.gov)

Drug Repurposing, Healthcare, Clinical Research, FDA

72 points by throw0101d 15 days ago | 43 comments

Medicare Bleeds Billions on Pricey Bandages, and Doctors Get a Cut (nytimes.com)
Seniors across the country are wearing very expensive bandages.

Healthcare, Medicare, Cost, Politics, Senior Citizens

8 points by gigalord 15 days ago | 0 comments

Blue Shield Data Breach (Google Ads) (blueshieldca.com)
Blue Shield of California has begun notifying certain members of a potential data breach that may have included elements of their protected health information.

Data Breaches, Healthcare, Privacy, California

71 points by bix6 16 days ago | 50 comments

I became a doctor to save lives. The state of Alabama won't let me: op-ed (al.com)
It was 2015. I had just started my medical residency at UAB when I met a patient I will never forget. Carrie was a 20-year-old woman with Crohn’s disease, an autoimmune condition that causes inflammation in the intestines. Her inflammation was so bad that she needed part of her large intestine removed. She was working at a fast-food restaurant, saving up to attend nursing school. While hospitalized, she lost her job.

Healthcare, Alabama, Medical Residency, Op-Ed

12 points by Jimmc414 18 days ago | 3 comments

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? (theconversation.com)
Irish (and now UK-based) neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan enters this battlefield with her timely book, The Age of Diagnosis. O’Sullivan is a seasoned clinician and science writer who has seen firsthand how the diagnostic landscape has changed. We have taken diagnosis too far, she argues, and our cultures, health systems and selves are suffering the consequences.

Mental Health, Neurodiversity, Diagnosis, Culture, Healthcare

5 points by PaulHoule 20 days ago | 2 comments

Senate Confirms Dr. Oz to Oversee Medicare and Medicaid (nytimes.com)
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity TV doctor, 53-45 and along party lines to lead Medicare and Medicaid, which insure nearly half of all Americans.

Politics, Healthcare, Government, Public Health

11 points by treetalker 22 days ago | 1 comments

In U.S., Inability to Pay for Care, Medicine Hits New High (gallup.com)
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The percentage of U.S. adults who have recently been unable to afford or access quality healthcare has reached 11% -- equivalent to nearly 29 million people -- its highest level since 2021, according to new findings from the West Health-Gallup Healthcare Indices Study, which classifies these individuals as “Cost Desperate.”

Healthcare, United States, Health Economics, Statistics

12 points by car 23 days ago | 1 comments

Does the future of AI depend on glass? (schott.com)
Fully realized AI systems could save millions of lives, so what’s holding it back? Glass core-based semiconductor packaging could solve the limitations of today's microchips, powering AI innovations in healthcare for precision and life-saving advancements.

Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Technology, Materials Science

3 points by con_johnson 23 days ago | 1 comments

Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation fearing Trump retaliation (ctvnews.ca)
A Montreal pediatrician says NYU cancelled her presentation, likely out of fear of retaliation from the Donald Trump administration.

Politics, Healthcare, Education, Censorship

20 points by cempaka 26 days ago | 3 comments