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Soup for Supper: How to Build a Filling, Lower-Calorie Bowl

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Soup has range. Done right, it’s the weeknight unicorn: fast, comforting, and surprisingly filling without blowing your calorie budget. The trick isn’t a strict recipe—it’s a flexible formula you can use with whatever’s in your fridge or pantry. Here’s how to turn a pot of broth, a pile of vegetables, and a few smart add-ins into a hearty, lower-calorie dinner that actually keeps you satisfied. Why Soup Works For Fullness With Fewer Calories Two things drive soup’s staying power: water and fiber. Foods with lots of water (think broth, tomatoes, zucchini, leafy greens) naturally have lower energy density, so you can eat a satisfying volume for fewer calories ( 1 ).  “I tell clients to treat soup like a canvas for volume: more vegetables and broth, then layer protein and flavor,” says Denise Hernandez,  MS, RDN. Add vegetables and beans for fiber and you slow digestion, which helps keep you full (2). There’s even research showing that beginning a meal with a low-energy-dens...

Let a Thousand DNA Flowers Bloom

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By KIM BELLARD When I saw a headline about “DNA flowers,” I was nonplused. I mean: aren’t all flowers made out of DNA, like every living thing on our planet? Well, it turns out that the DNA flowers are actually soft robots – make that nanobots – so my interest was definitely piqued. The DNA flowers are out of the Freeman Lab at the University of North Carolina, led by Dr. Ronit Freeman, and the research about them was just published in Nature Nanotechnology with the less sexy title “ Reversible metamorphosis of hierarchical DNA-organic crystal .”  Had I seen that before “DNA flowers” I probably would have passed it over, so I’m glad someone has an eye towards marketing. Designer Daniel Burham famously said: “Make no little plans,” and I kind of think he’d like Dr. Freeman. Her bio says she has formal training in computer science, chemistry, nanotechnology, and regenerative medicine (plus even ballroom dancing, if you’re counting), and she probably needs all that training, b...

Greg Whisman, Caremore

Greg Whisman is the Chief Medical Officer of Caremore, a venerable prepaid medical group caring for seniors. It’s been part of Anthem/Elevance for many years but this year spun off as part of a larger PE backed group called Millennium. We really got into the what and the how of primary care for seniors and, yes, we delved deep into the future of primary care. This is a topic that will never die on THCB and getting a real expert to opine on it was really valuable. This is a great conversation– Matthew Holt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F–lTlTVHHk from The Health Care Blog https://ift.tt/Y71Vw5j via shopper galleries

MJH Life Sciences acquires BPD Healthcare

Medical media company, MJH Life Sciences, announced the acquisition of BPD Healthcare, a tech-enabled marketing, communications and consulting company. The acquisition will merge BPD Healthcare’s data-driven strategy and communications with MJH Life Sciences’ healthcare content. MJH's portfolio includes healthcare-focused digital, print offerings, live and virtual events.  BPD will continue to operate independently under the BPD Healthcare brand as a wholly owned subsidiary of MJH Life Sciences.  from MobiHealthNews Feed https://ift.tt/1RbKinr via shoppergalleries

SheMed raises $50M to expand women's GLP-1 weight management platform

London-based women's healthcare technology company SheMed has secured $50 million in funding.  WHAT IT DOES The women's health company offers branded GLP-1 medications and a weight management platform. It first provides individuals with a GLP-1 blood test to screen for health markers and then it tailors one's treatment plan based on their health markers.  from MobiHealthNews Feed https://ift.tt/evETjJW via shoppergalleries

Q&A: Saint Peter’s University Hospital cuts ED visits with SDOH software

Saint Peter's University Hospital, a non-profit, 478-bed acute care teaching hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey, had existing programs to support food accessibility and transportation, but not a means to efficiently identify which patients needed them. In July, the hospital pegged Dallas-based Lightbeam Health Solutions and its population health management platform to help address the problem.  from MobiHealthNews Feed https://ift.tt/rxquZQ1 via shoppergalleries

Phox Health on specialty medication delivery

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Exclusive: Hyphen, BestRx partner to expand Pharmacy Assistant

Hyphen, a healthcare technology company that enables care organizations, providers and community organizations to share data and collaborate, is partnering with RedSail Technologies' BestRx to provide its Pharmacy Assistant tool to more than 6,000 community pharmacies in New York and New Jersey. Pharmacy Assistant provides pharmacists with information on patient medications, such as the need for refills, education or vaccinations. Hyphen says each action is logged to allow insurers to connect pharmacy engagement with financial incentives.  from MobiHealthNews Feed https://ift.tt/nve4qdh via shoppergalleries

DocGo acquires SteadyMD

Telehealth and medical transportation company  DocGo announced that it has acquired telehealth provider  SteadyMD . Guy Friedman, CEO and cofounder of SteadyMD, and Yarone Goren, COO and cofounder of SteadyMD, will join the DocGo leadership team upon the close of the transaction. SteadyMD provides virtual care for consumers and healthcare and digital wellness brands to all 50 states. from MobiHealthNews Feed https://ift.tt/wBxeHbv via shoppergalleries

Sami Inkinen, Virta Health

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Virta Health is in the diabetes reversal business. It’s a medical group that for a decade has been aggressively coaching people with diabetes and cardiometabolic disease to radically change their eating habits–basically to eat the right things for them, to saity. Some how in a nation obsessed with processed food and carbs they have succeeded for a lot of people. And the business is growing fast, with over $160m in annual run rate. Ten years in since it started I spoke with CEO Sami Inkinen about how and why it works, and what the future for this approach is in a world of GLP1s (and no there’s no GLP sales in that revenue number!)– Matthew Holt from The Health Care Blog https://ift.tt/OW89wGF via shopper galleries

AI can enhance patient-clinician partnerships

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