March 2025

Data analysis process. Credit: JMIR Medical Education (2025). DOI: 10.2196/67993 A recent study by KI-researchers Nadia Davoody and Sravya Katta reveals significant gaps related to health care professionals’ awareness of gender diversity, proper communication strategies, the specific needs of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex (TNBI) individuals, and the societal and structural challenges they face. The study…

Scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria (UICOMP) were authors of a research paper published in the Journal of Acoustical Society of America Express Letters that demonstrates improved, automated screening methods for anxiety and major depressive disorders. In the project titled, “Automated acoustic voice screening techniques for comorbid depression…

People at risk of a cardiac event after a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) stent procedure who received long-term antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel were 29% less likely to die than those who received aspirin, according to data from the SMART-CHOICE 3 trial. The results showed that patients were also less likely to experience a heart attack…

Scrolling through reels, watching an episode of your favorite web series, sending a goodnight text, or checking your email before bed have all become part of a daily routine that helps many people unwind. However, these seemingly harmless habits can gradually affect your sleep. Researchers now estimate that just one hour of screen use can…

One challenge of using cell therapy to treat type 1 diabetes is that this approach requires chronic suppression of the immune system to prevent rejection of donor cells. A Vertex Pharmaceuticals therapeutic candidate designed to avoid immunosuppression has fallen short of its efficacy goals in a clinical trial, leading the drugmaker to discontinue the program….

Drug design and development company Isomorphic Labs announced it raised $600 million in its first external funding round. Thrive Capital led the round, with participation from GV (Google Ventures) and existing investor Alphabet. WHAT IT DOES Isomorphic Labs, launched in 2021 with Google DeepMind, unveiled its newest joint AI offering AlphaFold 3, an AI model…

HENRICO, Va. — Sheldon Ekirch spends a lot of time on hold with her health insurance company. Sometimes, as the minutes tick by and her frustration mounts, Ekirch, 30, opens a meditation app on her phone. It was recommended by her psychologist to help with the depression associated with a stressful and painful medical disorder….

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Janice Hopkins Tanne New York The head of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr, announced on 27 March that he would cut 10 000 employees from department agencies as part of government restructuring by Elon Musk’s Department Government Efficiency. Another 10000 HHS employees left through early retirement and buyouts.1…

Relationship between coronary plaque burden and myocardial infarction (MI). Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57457-7 Swedish researchers have identified genetic variants that increase the risk of atherosclerosis. The aim is for these new findings to enable earlier detection of atherosclerosis and improved treatment of cardiovascular diseases such as heart attack and stroke. The study, published…

People with heart failure have long been advised to limit the amount of fluids they consume each day to help reduce congestion, or the buildup of fluid in the lungs and extremities, but that advice provides no benefit, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session (ACC.25). Heart failure…

TOPLINE: Dietary counseling significantly improved the nutritional status of pediatric patients with non–immunoglobulin E (IgE)–mediated gastrointestinal food allergies (non–IgE-GIFAs), regardless of polysensitization, without any negative effect on nutritional status. METHODOLOGY: Researchers analyzed 100 pediatric patients (mean age at diagnosis, 8.5 years; 58% boys) newly diagnosed with non–IgE-GIFAs in a prospective intervention study conducted in Naples,…

Experiencing memory issues and declining brain function is often seen as a natural part of aging, and it can also be an early warning sign of Alzheimer’s disease. But what if boosting memory was not as complicated as it seems? Research suggests that the key may lie in an unexpected place—the gut. Adding more evidence…

It’s no secret the opioid crisis remains a major public health concern in the United States. It was declared a public health emergency in 2017, and for multiple years following, nationwide overdose deaths continued to rise. It wasn’t until 2023 that the country finally saw a downtrend in the number of drug overdoses for the…

HELENA, Mont. — Montana’s small, independent pharmacies say they’re getting increasingly squeezed on reimbursements by pharmacy benefit managers — and are pushing an ambitious bill to rein in what they say are unfair practices by the powerful industry negotiators known as PBMs. “Who in their right mind would subject themselves to this sort of treatment…

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Heart disease has long been the leading killer of adults, but beyond that stark fact, men and women diverge. From differences at the cellular level of the heart to circulatory structure to symptoms of distress and treatment, researchers are finding new manifestations of gender differences in cardiovascular disease.  Heart attacks look different in women than…

St Bartholomew’s medical school had only been accepting female students for eight years when Coral Sharpe (née Knight) began studying in 1955. Sharpe was not an obvious trailblazer, but in her quiet, resolute way she was determined to study medicine and keep working as a doctor when society might have expected her to concentrate on…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain While everybody’s heart has an absolute chronological age (as old as that person is), hearts also have a theoretical “biological” age that is based on how the heart functions. So, someone who is 50 but has poor heart health could have a biological heart age of 60, while someone aged 50…

While more people than ever are running marathons in the U.S., the risk of dying from a heart attack during a run has fallen dramatically in recent years. That’s a key conclusion from a new study by Jonathan Kim, associate professor in the Emory School of Medicine. Kim’s research is a follow-up to a study…

For patients with metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), subcutaneous (SC) administration of pembrolizumab works just as well as standard intravenous (IV) administration, phase 3 data indicated. Importantly, SC pembrolizumab saves time “potentially streamlining treatment center workflows and lowering healthcare resource utilization,” said Enriqueta Felip, MD, PhD, in a presentation at the European Lung Cancer…

Summarize this content to 100 words An organ transplant procedure turned tragic for a Michigan resident who unknowingly received a kidney from a rabies-infected donor, leading to a fatal infection, a recent report revealed.Health officials revealed that an unidentified patient, who received a kidney from a rabies-infected donor in December 2024, tragically died in Ohio…

Summarize this content to 100 words It’s well known that private equity has been staking its claim in healthcare. Private equity acquisitions of U.S. physician practices increased six fold from 2012 to 2021. A new report reveals private equity’s impact on a more vulnerable area of healthcare: intellectual and developmental disability services (IDD). The report…

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Summarize this content to 100 words At least five states have active measles outbreaks as of Friday, and Texas’ is the largest with 400 cases. Already, the U.S. has more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said. Other states with outbreaks — defined as three or more cases —…

Summarize this content to 100 words Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Scientists have found another reason to put the phone down: a survey of 45,202 young adults in Norway has discovered that using a screen in bed drives up your risk of insomnia by 59% and cuts your sleep time by 24 minutes. However, social media…

Summarize this content to 100 words A groundbreaking algorithm exposes how much hidden sugar is lurking in your food—and shows which countries and products meet the mark for healthy carbs. Study: Predicting carbohydrate quality in a global database of packaged foods. Image Credit: New Africa / Shutterstock Carbohydrates contribute approximately 70% of daily energy intake in the…

Summarize this content to 100 words CHICAGO — Extended therapy with reduced-dose apixaban is just as effective as the high dose in preventing recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients with active cancer who completed at least 6 months of anticoagulant treatment after a clot, and results in a lower rate of clinically relevant bleeding, the…

Summarize this content to 100 words Demand for mental health services remains high, despite long wait lists and a massive  shortage of providers. Last week, mental health care startup Two Chairs announced a major expansion to help address this need.  The San Francisco-based company, which offers hybrid behavioral health care, expanded its presence from three…

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Summarize this content to 100 words WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to reshape the federal health department has left its roughly 1,000 emergency response workers in limbo, and with a daunting order: Sort out how you break up — this weekend.  The George W. Bush-founded Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response is caught in…

Summarize this content to 100 words Credit: CC0 Public Domain Play should be a core feature of children’s health care in forthcoming plans for the future of the NHS, according to a new report which argues that play “humanizes” the experiences of child patients. The report, by University of Cambridge academics for the charity “Starlight,”…

Summarize this content to 100 words An intensive three-drug regimen of heart medications did not significantly impact the rate of serious cardiovascular events at five years in women who experienced signs and symptoms of ischemia, or insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle, but had no blockages in their heart’s arteries, according to research presented…

Summarize this content to 100 words CHICAGO — Patients with severe triple-vessel heart disease who underwent a less-invasive stent procedure fared just as well as those who underwent open-heart bypass surgery after 5 years, the FAME 3 trial shows.The results are in marked contrast to earlier studies, which showed that patients with triple-vessel disease were…

Summarize this content to 100 words The federal 340B Drug Pricing Program, which requires pharmaceutical manufacturers participating in Medicaid to sell outpatient drugs at discounted prices to healthcare organizations that care for many uninsured and low-income patients, is facing intense scrutiny and calls for reform. The program’s intent has always been to stretch limited federal…

Summarize this content to 100 words While we complain about the health system, we’re actually doing a pretty good job, says Terence Cosgrave The post Great doctors, poor bureaucrats appeared first on Irish Medical Times. Source link

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Summarize this content to 100 words Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forcing Peter Marks out of the Food and Drug Administration has blown a hole in the agency’s leadership ranks and threatens to unmoor the oversight of drugs and vaccines from bedrock scientific principles.  For biotech investors, Marks’ ouster is a worst-case scenario realized — an…

Summarize this content to 100 words A new Intermountain Health study finds that peripheral artery disease, a condition that affects more than 10 million Americans over the age of 40, is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, with fewer women getting guideline-directed medical therapy than men. As a result, combined with this highly debilitating disease, patients with…

Summarize this content to 100 words A drug developed as an antidote to the antiplatelet agent ticagrelor safely and effectively reversed ticagrelor’s antiplatelet effects in patients undergoing urgent surgery or experiencing major bleeding, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session (ACC.25). The antidote, bentracimab, rapidly restored normal…

Summarize this content to 100 words Semaglutide, a glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor agonist, has shown convincing benefits in yet another population: patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD).In the STRIDE trial, the drug significantly improved walking distance, symptoms such as pain, and quality of life in patients with symptomatic PAD and type 2 diabetes. It was…

Summarize this content to 100 words The food you eat plays a key role in shaping your health, either nourishing your body or contributing to illness. But did you know that certain foods stay longer in the gut than others? Foods that linger longer not only cause bloating and discomfort; but can lead to serious…

Summarize this content to 100 words PCR is a mainstay in diagnostics, but whether a sample is collected at a clinic or at home, such tests require sending a sample to a lab and then waiting for results. A new FDA authorized over-the-counter test from Visby Medical essentially puts the lab in the user’s hand….

Summarize this content to 100 words Goal of CPD programme ‘to bridge the digital divide in healthcare’ Equipping healthcare professionals with the AI skills needed for modern clinical practice is the aim of a new course developed by universities in Ireland, Finland and Spain. ‘Generative AI Essentials for Healthcare’ is a continuous professional development programme…

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Summarize this content to 100 words In a blow to the pharmaceutical industry, a U.S. court judge ruled that a Colorado state board can proceed with plans to place limits on the prices paid for medicines, the first such decision to support the controversial attempts by some states to control their prescription drug spending. The…

Summarize this content to 100 words Unlike true experiments that are conducted by researchers for scientific purposes, natural experiments occur when infrastructure, policies, or services are introduced or changed by governments or healthcare systems. Interventions of this kind are sometimes amenable to randomised controlled trials, for example, if the advantages of randomisation can be negotiated…

Summarize this content to 100 words Microscopic image of an HIV-infected T cell. Credit: NIAID In January, the Trump administration ordered a broad pause on all US funding for foreign aid. Among other issues, this has significant effects on US funding for HIV. The United States has been the world’s biggest donor to international HIV…

Summarize this content to 100 words Investigators at Mass General Brigham have uncovered how resistance to chemotherapies may occur in some cancers. Researchers focused on a pathway that harnesses reactive oxygen species (ROS) to kill cancer cells. The study found that mutations to VPS35, a key player in this pathway, can prevent chemotherapy-induced cell death….