Caroline Catherman

Orlando

@MorningBrew health reporter. Past: @OrlandoSentinel, @CNN. Alumna @EmoryUniversity, @MedillSchool. [email protected] || 🏳️‍🌈

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Duchenne community mourns patient death, but largely stands behind Elevidys gene therapy

2 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

Access hard-to-reach clinicians. With in-office visit restrictions, it can be difficult for pharma reps to connect with clinicians. Here’s the good news: Primary care clinicians are still seeking out the latest healthcare innovations. Pri-Med helps you connect with those hard-to-reach primary care clinicians, both digitally and in person. Read about it here.
Lake Nona Impact Forum: The biggest health event you’ve never heard of

2 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

It’s sniffles season. People with asthma commonly suffer from allergies, too. Help your patients understand their allergic triggers with ImmunoCAP™ Specific IgE blood tests. And with this lab ordering guide, providers can browse region-specific profiles to help patients identify local allergic triggers. Learn more. When thinking of medical innovation hotspots, Boston, New York, or even Houston might come to mind.
Recall Roundup: FDA medical device recalls during March 2025

2 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

Welcome to Recall Roundup, where we keep you updated on the FDA’s medical device recalls from the last month. Recalls range from making tweaks to pulling a device from the market altogether. First, the manufacturer takes action, then the FDA categorizes them from Class III (least dangerous) to Class I (most dangerous). The FDA posts a list of the most serious recalls on its website, along with early alerts for things that may be labeled Class I recalls later on.
Now that digital therapeutics have Medicare coverage, the real test begins

2 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

Medication and therapy have long been the standard protocol for treating mental health conditions. But there’s a third option: your smartphone. In 2017, the FDA began clearing virtual tools to treat conditions like depression, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), insomnia, and substance use disorder.
Mehmet Oz confirmed as CMS head

2 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

Mehmet Oz has been confirmed as the new director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The Senate voted to confirm the cardiac surgeon and former daytime television host on April 3 in a party-line vote of 53–45. He will lead the agency responsible for providing health coverage to more than 160 million people through Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) health insurance marketplace.
Are doctors liable when AI makes a mistake? Malpractice experts weigh in.

3 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

Artificial intelligence (AI) is supposed to make errors less common. But what happens if it doesn’t? While AI can reduce medical errors, experts and malpractice attorneys say it could also cause them. And when a clinician using AI makes a mistake, it’s tough to answer the question of who’s to blame.
DEA again delays new telehealth prescribing rules for veterans, buprenorphine

3 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

As every chronic procrastinator knows, nothing feels better than an extension on a due date. So we bet it was a big relief for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to push back the effective date of two new telehealth rules from March 21 to Dec. 31.
Medicaid cuts could put 888,000 jobs on life support in 2026

4 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

Proposed Medicaid cuts could lead to the loss of about 888,000 jobs in 2026, according to a March 25 report from the Commonwealth Fund, an independent research group. The House of Representatives on Feb. 25 adopted a budget resolution that called for the Energy and Commerce Committee—which oversees Medicaid and Medicare—to cut a minimum of $880 billion from its budget over the next 10 years. Experts have previously told Healthcare Brew they are concerned cuts to Medicaid could lead to job losses.
The next wave of hearing aids (Spoiler alert: It’s AI!)

4 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Caroline Catherman

From glasses to AirPods, inventors are getting increasingly creative with hearing aids, so it’s no surprise the tech is now buying into the buzzword of the century: artificial intelligence (AI). Hearing aids use AI to detect falls, identify and eliminate background noise, and translate language for the 15% of US adults (37.5 million) with some trouble hearing, Caroline Dadowski, assistant professor of audiology at Florida’s Nova Southeastern University, told Healthcare Brew.
The next wave of hearing aids (Spoiler alert: It’s AI!)

4 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Caroline Catherman

1 day agoAirPods Pro 2 hearing health features now available in more countriesApple last year introduced new hearing health features for its AirPods Pro 2 wireless earbuds. Since the features require approval from health regulators, they’ve been rolled out region by region. Starting today, these features are now available to AirPods users in four additional countries.