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Céline Gounder, KFF Health News' editor-at-large for public health, discussed the potential of Moderna's melanoma vaccine breakthrough on CBS News 24/7's The Daily Report on Aug. 19, drawing on her experience as a former melanoma patient.Click here to wat

In today's column, I examine the use of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to aid in identifying cognitive errors that mental health therapists make. This is not to somehow knock on therapists or undercut the amazing work that they do. Therapi

Social media AI tools can now handle work that used to need a full team. I sold my social media agency in 2021, before most of these tools existed. Back then, a single client post moved through a writer, a designer, a scheduler and an account manager. Tod

Extreme heat and air pollution are raising the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth and premature birth. Yet pregnant women are still missing from much of the world's climate and health planning.When Dr. Vaaruni Ravishankar was eight months pregnant, she was e

The modern meeting has acquired a new participant. It doesn't contribute, laugh at jokes or pretend to understand the quarterly strategy. It simply joins

Litigation should not be the strategy to achieve Star Rating reform. It is the alarm, not the repair.Over the past two years, one health plan after another has taken the federal government to court over its Medicare Advantage quality scores-and won. Unite

The World Health Organization estimates that in 2026 nearly 11 million people will contract the virus that causes measles. Most of these cases will occur in Africa and Asia, but many countries in the Americas and Europe are reporting outbreaks affecting h

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one - or back down again - it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving up compute costs and latency. This is a major bottlene

Cannabis use disorder is rising among both American men and women, according to new research published in JAMA Psychiatry.This cross sectional study analyzed data from over 180,000 adults between 2021 and 2024, and found CUD increased from 7.3% to 9.3% am

Like many professionals, I use Claude and various other AIs to proofread what I write. Sometimes I ask for suggestions for specific sentences to be rewritten for clarity or conciseness. With the recent announcement by Anthropic that watermarks will be add