Mindaugas Galvosas, MD
@mgalvosas.bsky.social
Cough as a Digital Biomarker and First Digital Therapeutic (DTx) for chronic cough @ hyfe.com, coughpro.com | prev. founder of wandering prevention tech for dementia | interested in Digital Health | my opinions
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20%
That’s how much the practices that adopted RPM increased Medicare revenue compared to similar practices that didn’t adopt it.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
That’s how much the practices that adopted RPM increased Medicare revenue compared to similar practices that didn’t adopt it.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Practices That Adopted Remote Physiologic Monitoring Increased Medicare Revenue And Outpatient Visits | Health Affairs Journal
The use of remote physiologic monitoring (RPM)—the remote transmission of patients’ physiologic measures (such as blood pressure) to care teams—has grown rapidly. For practices, establishing an RPM pr...
www.healthaffairs.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
20%
That’s how much the practices that adopted RPM increased Medicare revenue compared to similar practices that didn’t adopt it.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
That’s how much the practices that adopted RPM increased Medicare revenue compared to similar practices that didn’t adopt it.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
Scientists Grow More Hopeful About Ending a Global Organ Shortage
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November 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/h...
Hypertension rates among children and adolescents worldwide have almost doubled since 2000 to 6.5% for boys and 5.8% for girls, per a new study by Zhejiang University researchers and colleagues in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Global prevalence of hypertension among children and adolescents aged 19 years or younger: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Childhood hypertension affects a substantial and growing proportion of the global
paediatric population, with prevalence varying considerably by diagnostic approach.
These findings underscore the need...
www.thelancet.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Hypertension rates among children and adolescents worldwide have almost doubled since 2000 to 6.5% for boys and 5.8% for girls, per a new study by Zhejiang University researchers and colleagues in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A recent analysis of 47,000 public chatbot conversations found that one in 10 involved emotional topics.
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We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
A recent analysis of 47,000 public chatbot conversations found that one in 10 involved emotional topics.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Recommending for everyone interested in modern management of chronic cough - Cleveland Clinic's experience:
-early refs to specialised cough clinics
-systematic history + baseline
-multidisciplinary collab
-use of emerging therapies & cough monitoring
consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/relieving-th...
-early refs to specialised cough clinics
-systematic history + baseline
-multidisciplinary collab
-use of emerging therapies & cough monitoring
consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/relieving-th...
Relieving the Chronic Cough Burden: From Expert Evaluation to Emerging Therapies (Podcast)
The co-Directors of the Chronic Cough Clinic discuss how a specialized chronic cough clinic can reduce unnecessary testing, avoid treatment delays and more.
consultqd.clevelandclinic.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Recommending for everyone interested in modern management of chronic cough - Cleveland Clinic's experience:
-early refs to specialised cough clinics
-systematic history + baseline
-multidisciplinary collab
-use of emerging therapies & cough monitoring
consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/relieving-th...
-early refs to specialised cough clinics
-systematic history + baseline
-multidisciplinary collab
-use of emerging therapies & cough monitoring
consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/relieving-th...
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Novel cough monitoring approaches differ in sensor placement, acoustic and accelerometric features used to enhance adherence, and in whether they rely on post-processed audio or fully privacy-preserving on-device processing with no audio recordings.
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
Counting Coughs: ERS 2025 Highlights on Objective Cough Monitoring
In precision health, clinically meaningful parameters are quantified to individualise therapies and track response. Cough, one of...
www.emjreviews.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Novel cough monitoring approaches differ in sensor placement, acoustic and accelerometric features used to enhance adherence, and in whether they rely on post-processed audio or fully privacy-preserving on-device processing with no audio recordings.
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
Researchers analyzed 55k+ patient messages and found that AI drafts shaved off about 20s from clinician response times.
Cognitive burden of reviewing and editing the AI drafts might be even higher than writing the responses themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cognitive burden of reviewing and editing the AI drafts might be even higher than writing the responses themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Utilization of Generative AI-drafted Responses for Managing Patient-Provider Communication - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Utilization of Generative AI-drafted Responses for Managing Patient-Provider Communication
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Researchers analyzed 55k+ patient messages and found that AI drafts shaved off about 20s from clinician response times.
Cognitive burden of reviewing and editing the AI drafts might be even higher than writing the responses themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cognitive burden of reviewing and editing the AI drafts might be even higher than writing the responses themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canada - and, by extension, the entire Americas region - has officially lost its measles elimination status; the designation is reversible, however, if the current outbreak ends and no new cases are reported for a year.
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Canada - and, by extension, the entire Americas region - has officially lost its measles elimination status; the designation is reversible, however, if the current outbreak ends and no new cases are reported for a year.
Multimodal artificial intelligence is redefining oncology by integrating heterogeneous datasets from diagnostic modalities into cohesive analytical frameworks for more accurate and personalized cancer care - authors include NVIDIA!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The AI revolution: how multimodal intelligence will reshape the oncology ecosystem - npj Artificial Intelligence
npj Artificial Intelligence - The AI revolution: how multimodal intelligence will reshape the oncology ecosystem
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Multimodal artificial intelligence is redefining oncology by integrating heterogeneous datasets from diagnostic modalities into cohesive analytical frameworks for more accurate and personalized cancer care - authors include NVIDIA!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#ERS2025 showed that objective cough monitoring has crossed a threshold: algorithms demonstrate high agreement with human annotation, devices are accessible and privacy-aware, adherence can be verified at scale, and week-scale windows are new endpoints.
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
Counting Coughs: ERS 2025 Highlights on Objective Cough Monitoring
In precision health, clinically meaningful parameters are quantified to individualise therapies and track response. Cough, one of...
www.emjreviews.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
#ERS2025 showed that objective cough monitoring has crossed a threshold: algorithms demonstrate high agreement with human annotation, devices are accessible and privacy-aware, adherence can be verified at scale, and week-scale windows are new endpoints.
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
www.emjreviews.com/respiratory/...
Why cough and cough monitoring, and why now? 👇
Read our key insights from #ERS2025 at EMJ - highlighting:
1) The latest objective cough monitoring technologies: Strados Labs, C-mo Medical Solutions, Hyfe, Vitalograph, SIVA Health;
Read our key insights from #ERS2025 at EMJ - highlighting:
1) The latest objective cough monitoring technologies: Strados Labs, C-mo Medical Solutions, Hyfe, Vitalograph, SIVA Health;
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Why cough and cough monitoring, and why now? 👇
Read our key insights from #ERS2025 at EMJ - highlighting:
1) The latest objective cough monitoring technologies: Strados Labs, C-mo Medical Solutions, Hyfe, Vitalograph, SIVA Health;
Read our key insights from #ERS2025 at EMJ - highlighting:
1) The latest objective cough monitoring technologies: Strados Labs, C-mo Medical Solutions, Hyfe, Vitalograph, SIVA Health;
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists have made significant strides in efforts to develop an “artificial womb” that can help extremely premature babies survive outside of the human body.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
This machine could keep a baby alive outside the womb. How will the world decide to use it?
For parents who have buried infants born too soon, a device like the AquaWomb is a miracle in waiting – and an impossible choice
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Scientists have made significant strides in efforts to develop an “artificial womb” that can help extremely premature babies survive outside of the human body.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is now the ninth leading cause of death globally, up from the 27th in 1990, finds a landmark study published last week in The Lancet
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Global, regional, and national burden of chronic kidney disease in adults, 1990–2023, and its attributable risk factors: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023
CKD is a major global health issue, with rising prevalence and increasing importance
as a cause of death and as a risk factor for cardiovascular death. A better understating
of aetiology, appropriate ...
www.thelancet.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is now the ninth leading cause of death globally, up from the 27th in 1990, finds a landmark study published last week in The Lancet
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What a cool idea - record your voice and hilltale.com will tell bedtime stories to your children in your voice - anytime.
FDA approved 1st drug - Kygevvi (doxecitine and doxribtimine) powder to treat thymidine kinase 2 deficiency (TK2d) in adults and pediatric patients who start to show symptoms when they are 12 years old or younger.
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www.fda.gov/drugs/news-e...
FDA approves 1st drug for thymidine kinase 2 deficiency
FDA approves 1st drug for thymidine kinase 2 deficiency, a very rare mitochondrial disease
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November 7, 2025 at 1:03 PM
FDA approved 1st drug - Kygevvi (doxecitine and doxribtimine) powder to treat thymidine kinase 2 deficiency (TK2d) in adults and pediatric patients who start to show symptoms when they are 12 years old or younger.
www.fda.gov/drugs/news-e...
www.fda.gov/drugs/news-e...
Rates of drug-resistant bacterial blood infections will surge 22% to 62% among some European populations through 2030, per estimates in a new PLOS Medicine article based on the aging population and infection trends.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Rates of drug-resistant bacterial blood infections will surge 22% to 62% among some European populations through 2030, per estimates in a new PLOS Medicine article based on the aging population and infection trends.
UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage and commercial plans will only cover RPM for two conditions next year:
1) heart failure
2) hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Payor decided hat RPM is “unproven and not medically necessary” for diabetes, hypertension, COPD, mental health.
1) heart failure
2) hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Payor decided hat RPM is “unproven and not medically necessary” for diabetes, hypertension, COPD, mental health.
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
UnitedHealthcare’s Medicare Advantage and commercial plans will only cover RPM for two conditions next year:
1) heart failure
2) hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Payor decided hat RPM is “unproven and not medically necessary” for diabetes, hypertension, COPD, mental health.
1) heart failure
2) hypertensive disorders of pregnancy
Payor decided hat RPM is “unproven and not medically necessary” for diabetes, hypertension, COPD, mental health.
Nearly two-thirds of European parents with children who are overweight or obese think their kids are underweight or normal weight, per a recent WHO report.
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Nearly two-thirds of European parents with children who are overweight or obese think their kids are underweight or normal weight, per a recent WHO report.
A naturally occurring gene Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a heart attack or heart failure, when the gene is turned back on.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
Specific human gene can help the heart repair itself from heart attack or heart failure
A naturally occurring gene called Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a hea...
medicalxpress.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
A naturally occurring gene Cyclin A2 (CCNA2), which turns off after birth in humans, can actually make new, functioning heart cells and help the heart repair itself from injury, including a heart attack or heart failure, when the gene is turned back on.
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10...
COVID-19, AIDS, Ebola, and mpox have all become deadlier and longer lasting because of unequal access to critical health care, housing, and work.
Historically, epidemics have led to “a persistent increase in inequality” that peaked ~5 years later.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Historically, epidemics have led to “a persistent increase in inequality” that peaked ~5 years later.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Surviving the next pandemic could depend on where you live
A new global report warns that inequality is increasing the world’s vulnerability to pandemics, making them more deadly, more costly and longer lasting – and where you live, could determine how badly ...
news.un.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
COVID-19, AIDS, Ebola, and mpox have all become deadlier and longer lasting because of unequal access to critical health care, housing, and work.
Historically, epidemics have led to “a persistent increase in inequality” that peaked ~5 years later.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
Historically, epidemics have led to “a persistent increase in inequality” that peaked ~5 years later.
news.un.org/en/story/202...
The Maldives has banned the purchase or even use of tobacco by anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, making the island nation the first country to enact a generational smoking ban.
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The Maldives has banned the purchase or even use of tobacco by anyone born after Jan. 1, 2007, making the island nation the first country to enact a generational smoking ban.
Epic plans to sunset its Workshop program as the EHR giant moves away from codeveloping with startups.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Epic plans to sunset its Workshop program as the EHR giant moves away from codeveloping with startups.
www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-i...
www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-i...
The first large-scale evidence that virtual therapy can reliably help college students with anxiety and depression: 7k+ students (270 U.S. colleges)
76% saw significant improvement in their mental health symptoms after three or more sessions via TimelyCare
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
76% saw significant improvement in their mental health symptoms after three or more sessions via TimelyCare
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Examining the effectiveness and equity of fully virtual therapy for college students
Objective: In response to increased mental health care demand among college students, universities are pursuing partnerships with telehealth companies. By examining outcomes data from TimelyCare, t...
www.tandfonline.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The first large-scale evidence that virtual therapy can reliably help college students with anxiety and depression: 7k+ students (270 U.S. colleges)
76% saw significant improvement in their mental health symptoms after three or more sessions via TimelyCare
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
76% saw significant improvement in their mental health symptoms after three or more sessions via TimelyCare
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....