Frank Vinluan , 2025-08-08 22:06:00 When BioNTech agreed to acquire rival messenger RNA company CureVac in a $1.25 billion stock deal earlier this summer, some financial analysts said the buyout amounted to an out-of-court settlement of the patent litigation between the two companies. As the acquisition moves closer to completion, BioNTech and CureVac have reached…
Michael McHale , 2025-08-08 07:30:00 Dr Seamus O’Dea, who carried out vital services for patients with rabies, botulism and diphtheria on national level for several years, retired in July The process of transferring services for treating rabies, botulism and diphtheria to health regions poses risks for potential gaps that may lead to vulnerable patients being…
MNB Guest , 2025-08-08 12:55:00 Unexpected healthcare costs can upend even the best-prepared family budget. Whether it is a sudden medical procedure or an extended treatment regimen, the expense of care can deliver an unpleasant financial jolt. For households or individuals that live paycheck to paycheck, such occurrences can put enormous strain on everyday expenditures….
Daniel Chang and Sam Whitehead , 2025-08-08 09:00:00 Francoise Cham of Miami has health insurance coverage for herself and her daughter through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, also known as Obamacare. The budget law signed by President Donald Trump on July 4 creates new rules for verifying eligibility for subsidized coverage, shorter enrollment periods, and…
John Wilkerson , 2025-08-07 18:56:00 You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I was reminded recently of why I dig mass transit upon overhearing the train conductor and two middle-aged men…
Seyed Mohammad Mousavi, Xiao Gu, Fumiaki Imamura, Hala B AlEssa, Orrin Devinsky, Qi Sun, Frank B Hu, JoAnn E Manson, Eric B Rimm, Nita G Forouhi, Walter C Willett , 2025-08-06 22:31:00 Cohort analyses Study population and design This analysis involved participants from three ongoing longitudinal cohort studies: NHS, NHSII, and HPFS. NHS was initiated…
, 2025-08-06 18:50:00 Cora Nijboer and Manon Benders at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, part of the UMC Utrecht in The Netherlands. Credit: Hersenstichting/Ilco Kemmere Oxygen deprivation around birth can lead to brain damage in babies, with far-reaching consequences. A new stem cell treatment administered via nasal drops is showing promising results. In a safety study…
, 2025-08-06 11:55:00 Scientists use a precise form of gene editing called prime editing to correct the most common genetic mutations that cause alternating hemiplegia of childhood, a rare and severe neurological disorder that begins in infancy. By the time they are a few months old, infants born with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) begin…
, 2025-08-05 15:34:00 The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released updated guidance recommending that healthcare providers offer structured, ongoing support to patients after they complete obesity treatment or stop taking weight-loss medications. This includes regular follow-up care, tailored action plans, and social support to help patients maintain their weight loss and…
Katie Adams , 2025-08-05 01:03:00 The hype around AI in healthcare is undeniable. AI startups are dominating the digital health investment market, companies like Abridge and Ambience Healthcare are surpassing unicorn status, and the White House recently issued an action plan to advance AI’s use in critical sectors like healthcare. However, one digital health executive…
Editorial Staff , 2025-08-01 11:48:00 L-R: Prof Helen Heneghan; Dr Ellen Crushell, Deputy CMO; Prof Mary Horgan, CMO; Prof Donal O’Shea; Dr Judith Meehan, Dean of the Faculty of Paediatrics, RCPI; Dr Sinead Murphy; Dr Orla Walsh; Prof Philip Dodd, Deputy CMO; Dr Billy White; and Dr Diarmuid O’Shea, President,…
MNB Guest , 2025-07-31 17:28:00 The process of recovering from chronic pain or a musculoskeletal injury often feels like a lengthy, and unknowing path to recovery. It is important to rest and take your medication, however lasting recovery is typically a function of movement, specifically, controlled and progressive strength training. For many patients, and clinicians,…
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Torie Bosch , 2025-08-02 11:00:00 First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to…
Jeffrey K Aronson , 2025-08-01 17:46:00 Jeffrey K Aronson Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Follow Jeffrey on X: @JKAronson The “publish or perish” doctrine has been responsible, at least in part, for many deleterious effects on academic practice. Many proposals have been made,…
, 2025-08-02 15:00:00 In vitro coagulation performance of BC and T-BC dressings observed 1 minute after blood application. Credit: Advanced Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202420338 In a study published in Advanced Materials, a research team developed an innovative bacterial cellulose (BC)-based hemostatic dressing that enables rapid and sustained bleeding control. Burn injuries are a kind of…
, 2025-08-01 16:25:00 Stroke is the second leading cause of death globally. Ischemic stroke, strongly linked to atherosclerotic plaques, requires accurate plaque and vessel wall segmentation and quantification for definitive diagnosis. However, conventional manual segmentation remains time-consuming and operator-dependent, whereas current computer-aided tools fall short in achieving the accuracy required for clinical applications. These technological…
, 2025-08-01 19:40:00 New research from UC San Diego has revealed fascinating insights into how timing our meals might significantly affect our metabolic health by aligning with our body’s natural microbial rhythms. Just as our bodies follow circadian rhythms, our gut microbes have their own daily patterns, with certain beneficial activities increasing during our active…
Katie Adams , 2025-07-31 22:56:00 This roundup is published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an executive appointment, resignation or layoff that you would like to share for this roundup, please reach out to [email protected]. Hires Lalith…
Dr Brendan O’Shea , 2025-07-31 10:13:00 Dr Brendan O’Shea discusses challenges and opportunities with former IGPNEA chair Rita Pender Rita Pender has recently stepped down as IGPNEA Chair to become interim Director of Nursing Education within the Association and will continue as Lead for GP Nursing on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, within…
MNB Guest , 2025-07-29 12:17:00 Security gaps in pharmaceutical IT systems can lead to serious consequences. One of the most damaging cyberattacks in the industry struck Merck & Co. in 2017, when malware disabled 30,000 computers globally and halted production, resulting in $870 million in losses. In such a highly regulated field, maintaining a resilient…
Sandy West , 2025-07-30 09:00:00 Sandy West A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head. A child with autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was forced to go without his medication, despite his mother’s pleas….
Elizabeth Cooney , 2025-07-30 15:00:00 Biological aging is hot. Even if scientists don’t agree on its definition, estimating how old your body is despite what the calendar says has gained steam in recent years. Measuring telomeres or genetic variables may be more appealing than, say, predicting your chances of having a heart attack as a…
Flynn Murphy , 2025-07-29 15:06:00 South Korea’s new government has restarted talks with junior doctors and medical students, raising hopes for an end to a 17 month impasse over a plan to steeply increase medical school admissions, which drove 90% of Korea’s resident doctors to resign.1 The new consultative body, which includes health ministry and…
, 2025-07-29 16:37:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The United States spends significant amounts of money on health care every year, yet health outcomes have been declining. Scholars have long known that where a person lives, what they do for a living and other factors influence health, but new research from the University of Kansas has…
, 2025-07-29 11:58:00 Centauri Therapeutics Limited (‘Centauri’), an immunotherapy company with a unique and proprietary platform technology applicable across a wide range of therapeutic indications, announced today that CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) has provided an additional $5.1 M in funding for the development of their lead compound. The funds will contribute to the…
, 2025-07-28 21:01:00 High tibial osteotomy (HTO) slows articular cartilage damage in individuals with bowlegs and medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA) compared to nonsurgical management alone, according to a new study. Patients who underwent HTO also reported less pain and higher overall knee function. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to show…
Dana McCalley , 2025-07-28 13:48:00 Two topics dominate almost every conversation about value-based care (VBC): risk adjustment and quality. They are, without question, foundational. Risk adjustment sets the financial baseline for each patient population, while quality metrics confirm we are delivering the right preventive and chronic-care services. Yet there is a third pillar that too…
Editorial Staff , 2025-07-28 13:02:00 By helping patients manage their condition in the community, the programme not only improves lives but is aligned with the Sláintecare principles of right place, right time, right person Osteoarthritis is one of the leading causes of disability in Ireland, particularly among adults aged 50 years and older. Joint stiffness,…
MNB Guest , 2025-07-23 16:11:00 Clear vision impacts your life because basic activities, such as reading, require it. Performing such routine tasks is frustrating unless you have visual aids like glasses. Nonetheless, even these visual aids may interfere with your comfort. Hence, corrective eye procedures help you regain control over daily life without having to…
Katheryn Houghton and Oona Zenda , 2025-07-23 09:00:00 Katheryn Houghton and Oona Zenda Illustration by Oona Zenda MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, one man who relies on that government-subsidized health coverage was trying to coax his old car to start after an eight-hour shift…
Helen Branswell , 2025-07-23 18:15:00 The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ending in death over the past three decades. But of the 70 cases reported in the United States over the past 18 months, only a single death occurred, leaving…
Kate Bowie , 2025-07-23 13:50:00 Resident doctors will take to the picket lines this Friday, after talks between the BMA and the government failed to resolve the ongoing pay dispute. The BMA confirmed that a five day strike would go ahead after the health secretary, Wes Streeting, failed to make a “significant offer.”1 Union officials…
, 2025-07-23 15:49:00 Credit: Marko Garic from Pexels Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others. In 2021 and 2022 alone, NHS England reported that 6,600 mental health patients were subjected to physical restraint, and…
, 2025-07-23 13:53:00 Researchers developed a diagnostic test based on the LIMA1-alpha protein to distinguish patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who can be cured with surgery alone, without the need for radiation or chemotherapy. Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, led by Docent Sami Ventelä and Professor…
, 2025-07-23 09:08:00 A large-scale global study has identified genetic variants that are risk factors for long COVID, a discovery that helps researchers better understand the biological systems involving the disease and one small, early step toward the elusive goal of developing a long COVID diagnostic test. International researchers with the Long COVID Host Genetics…
Steve Buslovich , 2025-07-22 14:06:00 If your value-based care strategy doesn’t reach the bedside, can it really be called care? We’ve seen growing investment in population health platforms, analytics dashboards, and retrospective reporting tools. But far too often, those efforts stop short of impacting what truly matters — what happens in the moment, at the…
Michael McHale , 2025-07-22 05:30:00 Lobby group calls for Health Minister to resist pressure to delay alcohol health information labelling A public health advocacy group has accused some Government departments of ‘enhancing alcohol consumption’ through supports for the drinks industry. Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) described the Government’s alcohol policy as ‘disjointed and often contradictory’ and…
MNB Guest , 2025-07-18 15:45:00 Caring for a loved one isn’t always straightforward. It’s filled with choices – emotional, practical, and sometimes overwhelming. That’s where professional help becomes more than a convenience; it becomes a lifeline. Many families turn to in-home care when daily support, companionship, and medical oversight are needed – often reaching out…
Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News , 2025-07-21 09:00:00 A last-minute scramble to add a $50 billion rural health program to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law has left hospital and clinic leaders nationwide hopeful but perplexed. The Rural Health Transformation Program calls for federal regulators to hand states $10 billion a year…
Torie Bosch , 2025-07-19 11:00:00 First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to…
Jeffrey K Aronson , 2025-07-18 16:26:00 Jeffrey K Aronson Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Follow Jeffrey on X: @JKAronson In linguistics, collocation is the habitual and recurrent juxtaposition of words with particular other words, those words being known as collocates. Examples include the…
, 2025-07-19 17:50:00 Credit: Mike van Schoonderwalt from Pexels This article contains spoilers! I once leaped out of a train car because two strangers were loudly discussing the ending of the last Harry Potter book. Okay—I didn’t leap, but I did plug my ears and flee to another car. Recently, I found myself in a…
, 2025-07-19 03:54:00 Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) – like chronic or gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia – are among the leading causes of maternal and infant death in the United States. Between 2017 to 2019, 16% of all U.S. pregnancies were complicated by an HDP diagnosis, with much higher rates seen among non-Hispanic Black/African…
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Marissa Plescia , 2025-07-18 22:34:00 Democratic attorneys general of 20 states, as well as the governor of Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday. It challenges a recent final rule that they argue will create significant barriers in accessing…
brendan , 2025-07-18 09:22:00 Opportunities for Occupational Physicians, GPs with LFOM. Corporate Health Ireland is a leading occupational health service provider. Due to business expansion, we now have excellent opportunities for doctors to join our team. We would like to offer opportunities to established Occupational Health Physicians or those interested in pursuing a career in…
Treasure Adenusi , 2025-07-17 14:00:00 Doctors can predict a woman’s risk of hypertension later in life using her blood pressure readings during pregnancy-even if she has ‘normal’ numbers. In April 2025, a study published in the journal Hypertension found that subtle changes in blood pressure during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy may serve as…
, 2025-07-17 19:25:00 The Host The Senate has passed — and sent back to the House — a bill that would allow the Trump administration to claw back some $9 billion in previously approved funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. But first, senators removed from the bill a request to cut funding for the…
Brittany Trang , 2025-07-17 18:00:00 For decades, structural biologists shoved what looked like shoddy data in the back of their closets, embarrassed. While attempting to gather the structures of proteins, they would sometimes find that all or at least a portion of the protein would just not show up correctly in the data. Joel Sussman,…