, 2025-05-13 14:18:00 Mental health inpatient services in England continue to ignore critical safety recommendations, putting patients and staff at risk, according to a new report. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) based its findings on multiple investigations into inpatient mental health care between September 2024 and January 2025. The report highlighted persistent systemic…
, 2025-05-13 17:31:00 U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. seemingly revealed Big Pharma paid President Donald Trump $100 million but added “he can’t be bought.” The president and RFK Jr. held a joint press conference in the White House on Monday to reveal an executive order that plans to dramatically reduce the cost of…
Katie Adams , 2025-05-13 19:20:00 Hospitals are under pressure to undergo a digital transformation — but success in this arena requires more than just shiny new tools. It demands cultural readiness, frontline buy-in and a clear-eyed view of what success looks like. On Monday during a panel at the Reuters Digital Health conference in Nashville,…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-13 07:30:00 Initiative unveiled at Maynooth University’s Digital Health Summer School A new initiative could ‘leapfrog’ Ireland from one the of the worst European countries for adopting digital health to one of the best, a conference has heard. The plan, entitled Mission 10X, promises to deliver healthcare in Ireland that is 10…
Georg Hafner PhD , 2025-05-13 14:00:00 Viruses are mostly known for causing diseases, but a recent study from Harvard Medical School identifies a type of virus that could be more ‘friend’ than ‘foe’. In a provocative take, Harvard scientists suggest that Beta human papillomavirus might protect us from skin cancer rather than causing it.1 When…
, 2025-05-13 18:10:00 Israeli startup PhaseV, an AI-enabled clinical development company for life sciences, has secured $50 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Accel and Insight Partners. Existing investors Viola Ventures, LionBird and EXOR also participated in the round. The round brings the company’s total raise to $65 million. WHAT IT…
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Tara Bannow and Bob Herman , 2025-05-13 17:50:00 Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care. He is also the…
Gareth Iacobucci , 2025-05-13 13:45:00 General practice leaders in Lancashire and South Cumbria have secured an additional £14m to level up local enhanced services (LES) funding across their patch after some practices indicated that they may stop carrying out unfunded work that other practices are paid for.Lancashire and South Cumbria integrated care board (ICB) has…
, 2025-05-13 17:14:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Healthy eating supports healthy aging: Canada’s Food Guide recommends daily intake of fruits and vegetables as a way to help prevent multiple chronic conditions that typically affect older adults. We know that healthy eating is strongly influenced by our social connections and different settings. But aging often brings…
, 2025-05-13 17:08:00 Researchers at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a technique that could help advance treatments in tissue engineering. The study, published in the scientific journal Small, introduces a technique for producing tissues with precise cellular organization designed to mimic the natural structure of human tissue. Using a simple light-based…
, 2025-05-13 14:53:00 MÁLAGA, Spain — Children with a gradually increasing waist-to-height ratio trajectory (a marker of central obesity) during the first decade of life show signs of increased cardiometabolic and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk at age 10 years, according to data from Denmark. Children who showed this gradual rise in central obesity from birth…
, 2025-05-13 14:26:00 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared photos of him and his family stopping to take a dip in a Washington D.C. river, despite the body of water having an active health warning due to sewage contamination. In the photos posted Sunday, Kennedy shared that he, his kids and grandchildren went on…
Sheri Rudberg , 2025-05-13 14:16:00 The average wait time for a non-urgent gastroenterology appointment in the U.S. is 48 days. That’s nearly seven weeks between the moment a woman says, “Something’s wrong,” and when someone is finally available to provide care. But for too many women, seven weeks is seven weeks too long, and sometimes,…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-13 07:30:00 Separate study finds GLP-1 medicines combined with bariatric surgery may significantly reduce risk of serious cardiovascular events Semaglutide, the groundbreaking medication found in Ozempic and Wegovy, can rapidly reduce heart attacks in overweight adults, new research has found. An international study of 17,000 people with known heart disease, overweight or…
MNB Guest , 2025-05-13 15:11:00 Creating a home gym is a thrilling move towards fitness independence. However, the selection of the right floor is key to both making it safe and effective. Most fitness enthusiasts pay little attention to the surface they train upon, which can cause discomfort as well as injury in the long…
Angela Hart and Christine Mai-Duc , 2025-05-13 13:50:00 SACRAMENTO, California — El gobernador Gavin Newsom no esperaba enfrentarse a otra crisis sanitaria. En marzo, mientras el presidente Donald Trump y los republicanos del Congreso intensificaban el debate nacional sobre la posibilidad de recortar la atención médica para los estadounidenses pobres y con discapacidades, el gobernador…
Deepika Malik, MD; Anthony DeFino , 2025-05-13 14:25:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “ data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please…
Elaine Chen , 2025-05-13 13:13:00 Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. Like all of you, we were trying to make sense of President Trump’s new drug pricing proposal yesterday. There are many more questions than answers, and we…
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, 2025-05-13 14:30:00 Elia Chekwa is allowed to use her tablet for one hour a day. Her parents set a time limit to protect her from the dangers of excessive screen time. Credit: The Kids Mental Health Foundation As kids spend more time on screens, a new national survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of…
, 2025-05-13 12:11:00 The results of an international study led by researchers from Queen Mary University of London’s Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI) shed new light the underlying biological mechanisms which cause differences in health risks, symptoms and outcomes between males and females. The study, carried out in collaboration with the Berlin Institute of…
, 2025-05-13 12:55:00 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a health warning regarding products containing tianeptine, which is often called “gas station heroin” because of its easy availability at gas station stores. The FDA noted that tianeptine is associated with an increasing number of adverse events, including death, and called its use…
Johnathan (John) Welch , 2025-05-13 13:23:00 After spending nearly two decades in the financial payments sector before transitioning to healthcare, I feel that I’ve gained unique insights into how principles from traditional financial services can transform the patient payment experience. This evolution is crucial as healthcare organizations seek to meet modern consumer expectations. Consumer behavior…
Dr Ray O’Connor , 2025-05-13 07:30:00 Dr Ray O’Connor continues his look at the latest clinical articles on the importance of lifestyle advice in doctor-patient consultations, including the need for regular adequate sleep, and how physical activity and exercise can prevent or ameliorate lifestyle-related diseases Lifestyle Update (Part 2)We are becoming increasingly aware if the…
Cara Anthony , 2025-05-13 09:00:00 By Cara Anthony May 13, 2025 Article HTML Cara Anthony LISTEN: KFF Health News correspondent Cara Anthony appeared on WAMU’s “Health Hub” segment on May 7 to share her reporting on community efforts to close a public health gap by teaching more Black Americans to swim. Generations of Black Americans…
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Theresa Gaffney , 2025-05-13 12:00:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. “Why is everyone obsessed with food in these boxes????” That’s what my editor messaged to me on Slack when she saw my blue box note for yesterday about San Francisco ice cream….
Stuart Marshall , 2025-05-13 10:46:00 bmj;389/may13_12/r921/FAF1faFrank was born in London and attended Chigwell School, before being evacuated to Buckinghamshire, where he attended Berkhamsted School. He set his mind on becoming a doctor and applied to the London Hospital in 1943. An air raid warning interrupted his interview with the dean of the school, who accepted…
, 2025-05-13 11:30:00 ADHD stimulant meds don’t increase children’s risk of psychosis, a new study says. Analysis of stimulant prescriptions among nearly 8,400 kids with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder found no evidence that the drugs caused psychosis, researchers reported in the journal Pediatrics. “Previous observational research has suggested that stimulants may play a causal role in…
, 2025-05-13 11:42:00 People with multiple long-term physical health conditions are at a significantly greater risk of developing depression, a study shows. Researchers found that some combinations of illnesses – particularly cardiometabolic ones like diabetes and heart disease – could more than double the likelihood of a future depression diagnosis. With multimorbidity – when patients…
, 2025-05-13 11:10:00 Recently announced federal funding cuts for asthma care in high-risk areas in Massachusetts highlight the short- and long-term effect of the dissolution of support programs for public health at the community level. The nearly $1 million in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Department of Public Health (DPH) was intended…
, 2025-05-13 10:35:00 A pill used by nearly 9 million women in the U.S., including about 1 in 5 young women, is now being linked to a hidden health risk few are aware of. New research suggests that hormonal birth control pills used as a primary contraceptive by many could quietly raise the risk of…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-13 10:08:00 The CEO of the HSE Bernard Gloster has today confirmed that he will step down from the role in March 2026. By the time he retires he will have served almost 38 years in the public health sector, including three of those as head of the national healthcare service. Commenting…
Angela Hart and Christine Mai-Duc , 2025-05-13 09:00:00 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t expect to be reckoning with another health care crisis. In March, as President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans escalated a nationwide debate over whether to slash health care for poor and disabled Americans, the Democratic governor had to tell state…
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Rochelle Walensky , 2025-05-13 08:30:00 On Monday, May 12, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky delivered the below commencement address at the WashU School of Medicine. One of my first tasks even before my tenure began as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was to pen an op-ed for the New York Times….
, 2025-05-13 09:21:00 In this research article (BMJ 2025;389:e081627, doi:10.1136/bmj-2024-081627), affiliations 3 and 10 have been added to author Ian C K Wong. Source link
, 2025-05-13 09:00:00 Credit: Shayma Abukar et al Researchers at UCL and the Francis Crick Institute have, for the first time, identified the origin of cardiac cells using 3D images of a heart forming in real-time, inside a living mouse embryo. For the study, published in The EMBO Journal, the team used a technique called…
, 2025-05-13 02:44:00 How would you summarize your study for a lay audience? Advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) includes cholangiocarcinoma, gallbladder carcinoma, and ampullary carcinoma. BTC is a rare and aggressive group of cancers, carrying one of the worst prognoses in all of oncology. Only about 10% of patients survive beyond five years. Although these…
, 2025-05-13 08:15:00 When Ashwin Chetty first started his clinical rotation in pediatric surgery, he would often rely on ChatGPT and the app OpenEvidence, which is designed to help healthcare providers with summaries of peer-reviewed research; the apps helped him think of questions an attending doctor might ask him about the surgeries he planned to…
, 2025-05-13 07:37:00 With childhood obesity on the rise, researchers are digging deeper into how early excess weight shapes long-term health. A recent study suggests it is not just how much a child weighs, but where they carry that weight, that could signal their risk of heart disease as early as age 10. The latest…
Editorial Staff , 2025-05-13 07:30:00 Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI) and Age & Opportunity are partnering once again this year to celebrate National Arts in Nursing Homes Day, taking place on Thursday, May 16 Now in its fifth year, this special partnership highlights and celebrates the vibrant creativity, artistic expression, and storytelling traditions flourishing within nursing…
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Theresa Gaffney , 2025-05-12 12:51:00 Good morning. What are the best ice cream shoppes in San Francisco? Brittany Trang asked for recommendations recently in AI Prognosis in advance of this Wednesday’s Breakthrough Summit West. She got an array of answers (Mitchell’s, Bi-Rite, Salt & Straw, Smitten Ice Cream) but the well-informed STAT crowd thought a few…
Sanjay Pai , 2025-05-09 13:00:00 bmj;389/may09_7/r927/FAF1faSunil Pandya was born and spent almost his entire life in Bombay (now Mumbai). He joined Grant Medical College in 1957, graduating in 1961. He then gained a masters in general surgery and trained in neurosurgery. In 1968 he joined a public hospital, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, and Seth…
, 2025-05-12 20:55:00 Schematic representation of the biological functions of vitamins and minerals and their primary dietary sources. Credit: Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy (2025). DOI: 10.1080/14737140.2025.2501077 A new study coordinated by Dr. Salvatore Cortellino and Professor Antonio Giordano, President of the Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO) and molecular oncologist at Temple University and the…
, 2025-05-13 02:47:00 A Simon Fraser University new study is challenging a commonly held misconception that there’s little organizations can do to encourage employees to disclose mental health concerns. World Health Organization data shows 15 per cent of adults have a mental health concern, while other surveys have found 65 per cent of employees believe…
, 2025-05-12 12:00:00 TOPLINE: Although remission rates of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remained stable between 2018 and 2024 in England and Wales, regional differences were noted. Factors influencing the achievement of remission at 3 months included sex, timing of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (csDMARD) initiation, and symptom duration before referral. METHODOLOGY: Researchers…
Katie Adams , 2025-05-12 12:58:00 UPMC Enterprises and Redesign Health launched a new startup on Monday that seeks to improve chronic pain management. The startup, named Glimmer Health, is partnering with primary care providers to help them treat ongoing pain in a way that is more personalized and holistic. This announcement marks the second time…