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STAT Staff , 2025-05-12 13:25:00 Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Today, we examine the implications of President Trump’s “most-favored nation” drug-pricing decree, and the question of whether it would hold up legally. Also, we see Lux Capital attempt to attract talent…
Michael Grounds , 2025-05-09 13:01:00 bmj;389/may09_8/r907/FAF1faJohn was born in London, then moved to Sheffield and North Wales, where he attended Penygroes Secondary School. He qualified from St Andrew’s in 1947 and undertook his pre-registration year at the University Hospital in Dundee. On completion he was called up for national service and became a medical officer…
, 2025-05-12 20:57:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A review by Rutgers Health researchers reveals the psychological damage and health care avoidance that may occur when doctors dismiss, minimize or ignore patients’ symptoms, a phenomenon medical scientists call “symptom invalidation” and patients often call “medical gaslighting.” The paper in Psychological Bulletin examined 151 qualitative studies representing…
, 2025-05-13 02:51:00 Semaglutide can rapidly reduce heart attacks and other serious cardiovascular complications in adults with overweight or obesity who have pre-existing cardiovascular disease but not diabetes, according to a secondary analysis of the landmark Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes (SELECT) trial from the same international author team being presented at this year’s European Congress…
, 2025-05-12 12:09:00 TOPLINE: Use of psychotherapy without medications increased among US outpatients between 2018 and 2021, while psychotropic medication–only treatment declined, new research showed. In addition, social workers and counselors assumed a larger role in mental health care as involvement of psychiatrists decreased. METHODOLOGY: Researchers analyzed data trends from four representative surveys of the…
Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-13 00:12:00 After years of limited activity, the digital health sector is finally showing signs of life in the public markets. Only a few companies have filed to go public in recent years, including Waystar and Tempus AI. And many of those who have gone public have struggled. For example, Accolade, which…
Justin Cooper , 2025-05-12 18:03:00 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 try again later. If you continue to have this…
Elaine Chen , 2025-05-12 17:29:00 President Trump on Monday unveiled his plan to dramatically overhaul the way the U.S. pays for drugs by lowering what he calls “inflated” prices to those paid by other countries. Pharma investors didn’t seem to care. The XBI, a closely tracked index of biotech stocks, was up over 4% by…
Dominic Murphy , 2025-05-09 14:05:00 The row over climate emergency policies has intensified after a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) called for a radical reset in the way the world tackles global heating.1 In a headline grabbing line in the foreword Blair said that “any strategy based on either ‘phasing…
, 2025-05-12 21:10:00 An electron micrograph of the measles virus. Credit: CDC/ Courtesy of Cynthia S. Goldsmith An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in Houston samples collected in early January 2025, before cases were reported. The team that developed the program, which includes researchers at Baylor…
, 2025-05-13 02:55:00 New research being presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025) has found that patients of an online obesity clinic achieved similar weight loss to that reported in clinical trials – but with less than half the medication. The study is to be published in the journal The Lancet Digital…
, 2025-05-12 12:10:00 TOPLINE: In patients with early-stage oral cavity carcinoma and a low risk for regional recurrence, omitting elective neck irradiation during postoperative radiotherapy was associated with low rates of regional failure and good locoregional control, according to the results of a recent multicenter study. METHODOLOGY: Elective nodal irradiation is standard in postoperative radiotherapy…
Yegor Tsynkevich , 2025-05-13 01:12:00 For many healthtech innovators the real adoption challenge is not always in proving the clinical value of their product. It is overcoming structural barriers that stand in their way. So, let’s explore how these obstacles can be navigated and what healthtech companies need to do to succeed. Regulatory challenges and…
Stephen I. Feller , 2025-05-12 18:46:00 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 try again…
Casey Ross and Jonathan Wosen , 2025-05-12 19:53:00 She is serving an 11-year prison sentence for misleading investors and is barred from participating in federal health programs for 90 years. But Elizabeth Holmes’ dream of a diagnostic testing revolution is once again the talk of health care. The emergence of Haemanthus, a company formed by…
Morag C Farquhar , 2025-05-12 10:26:00 Higginson and Ramjeeawon’s commentary rightly raises concerns about the likely outcomes of current debates and challenges of palliative and end-of-life care provision in the UK.1 A key, but rarely acknowledged or supported, element of that provision is unpaid care by family or friends, who provide the majority of support…
, 2025-05-12 21:14:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal data showed declining rates of childhood vaccinations as more and more people were avoiding non-emergency contact with the health care system. So, to help reverse this trend, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) put out a call for…
, 2025-05-13 01:28:00 Medications like semaglutide and liraglutide may help to reduce the risk for heart attacks, strokes, and other major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) as well as death in adults with obesity and diabetes following bariatric surgery who did not achieve sufficient weight loss and diabetes control, according to new research being presented at…
, 2025-05-12 12:14:00 LAS VEGAS — Since its approval by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2015, transurethral water-vapor therapy has been gaining traction as an in-office procedure for reducing the symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia. But how long the benefits of the treatment, marketed as Rezūm by Boston Scientific, last is less clear….
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-13 00:30:00 President Trump’s latest strategy to tackle high drug prices aims to tie the price of U.S. prescription medicines to the prices paid for the same products in other countries, a so-called “most-favored-nation” policy that was previously proposed but never took effect. Drug companies already face price negotiation for select products…
Anthony DeFino; Arshad Khanani, MD, MA, FASRS , 2025-05-12 19:40:00 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…
Megan Molteni , 2025-05-12 23:51:00 Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach Megan on Signal at mmolteni.13. The now 13-year-long legal saga over who invented CRISPR took yet another unexpected turn on…
Caitlin Notley, Linda Bauld, Hazel Cheeseman, John Waldron , 2025-05-12 23:05:00 In recent years rates of smoking in pregnancy in England have declined, from 11.7% of pregnant women in 2014/15, to 5.9% in quarter 3 2024/25, according to the latest smoking at the time of delivery (SATOD) figures.1 This is remarkable progress and suggests that…
, 2025-05-12 22:30:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Transmasculine and gender-diverse individuals who use testosterone are not at increased risk of gynecological cancer in the first years of hormone therapy. This is evident from large-scale research by Amsterdam UMC, which was published in eClinicalMedicine. The results provide important insights for health care providers and transmasculine and…
, 2025-05-12 23:27:00 Drinking a chokeberry-rich juice daily may improve blood vessel function and prevent muscle loss during high-intensity training, offering a potential dietary strategy for people with pre-diabetes. Study: Effects of two weeks of daily consumption of (poly)phenol-rich red berry fruit juice, with and without high-intensity physical training, on health outcomes in individuals with…
, 2025-05-12 12:47:00 Adult patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis (MASH) and moderate or advanced liver fibrosis showed improved liver histology with a once-weekly dose of semaglutide (Wegovy), an ongoing randomized placebo-controlled trial reported. The glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist (GLP-1 RA) is currently a candidate for treating MASH. Preliminary results of the two-part phase 3,…
, 2025-05-12 20:05:00 President Donald Trump reignited concerns about a possible “mental decline” after attempting to leave the Oval Office without signing an executive order. Following a joint press conference with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday, Trump thanked the press and began to exit. In a clip circulating on X, someone can…
Stephanie Baum , 2025-05-12 14:30:00 Health plans and pharmacy benefit managers face myriad challenges as they try to manage specialty drug spend. To address issues such as rising drug prices, data silos, and opaque clinical and financial risk, collaboration partners are essential to create a more sustainable approach to specialty drug management. Integrating artificial intelligence…
brendan , 2025-05-09 13:15:00 HSE West and North West currently has the following opportunities: General Practitioner Positions x 3 General Practitioner, Williamstown, Co. Galway GMS Panel Size: Approximately 530 Ref 109/25 Closing date for receipt of applications in respect of the positions is Wednesday 4th June, 2025 at 4pm Interview date to be confirmed. Informal…
, 2025-05-12 17:41:00 Chronic care management company Omada Health on Friday filed an S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public, making it the second digital health company to seek an IPO this year. The company did not specify how many shares would be offered or the price range for the…
Stacey L. Adams , 2025-05-12 20:27:00 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 try again…
Daniel Payne and Ed Silverman , 2025-05-12 20:51:00 WASHINGTON — President Trump’s executive order to lower drug prices through sweeping, cross-agency action left leaders in the pharmaceutical industry scrambling Monday to make sense of what may be ahead — and how to respond. The announcement was long on messaging, but short on details. That may…
Adrian O’Dowd , 2025-05-12 11:21:00 GPs have backed away from a controversial proposal over how to offer transgender patients the most appropriate options for care and treatment while also maintaining their medical records.During a debate at the annual UK conference of local medical committees (LMCs) in Glasgow on 9 May, GPs decided to make all…
, 2025-05-12 21:00:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A brief research report compared screening costs per early-detected colorectal cancer (CRC) case among fecal immunochemical tests (FIT), multitarget stool DNA tests (MSDT) and next-generation MSDTs (N-G MSDT). The study found that screening costs per early-detected advanced neoplasia and CRC case are higher for MSDT-based and N-G MSDT–based…
, 2025-05-12 18:20:00 The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes it triggers severe, even fatal disease by chewing ulcers in the colon, liquefying parts of the liver and invading the brain and lungs. It can kill anything…
, 2025-05-12 18:14:00 Anyone who describes themselves professionally as a nurse without the relevant qualifications and registration will be committing a crime under planned government measures. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it aimed to protect the title ‘nurse’ in law and prevent the public from being misled by unqualified individuals. Currently,…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-12 17:50:00 Eli Lilly already posted preliminary data showing its obesity drug, Zepbound topped Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy on measures of weight loss in a head-to-head clinical trial. More detailed results, including key secondary measures of the Phase 3 study, give greater insight into the comparison, including a key measure that analysts say…
brendan , 2025-05-09 13:43:00 HSE West and North West currently has the following opportunities: General Practitioner Positions x 3 General Practitioner, Achill, Co. Mayo GMS Panel Size: Approximately 480 Ref 110/25 Closing date for receipt of applications in respect of the positions is Wednesday 4th June, 2025 at 4pm Interview date to be confirmed. Informal…
, 2025-05-12 19:02:00 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it is embracing a new program aimed at expanding innovative, human-based science to decrease the use of animals in research. According to the NIH, although traditional animal models remain essential to advancing scientific knowledge, technologies can offer strengths that can expand researchers’ toolbox to answer…
Josh Friedman , 2025-05-12 18:54:00 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 try again later. If you continue to have this…
Brittany Trang , 2025-05-12 18:08:00 OpenAI on Monday released a large dataset for evaluating how well large language models answer questions related to health care. Experts lauded the open-source data and detailed evaluation rubrics, calling them “unprecedented” in scale and breadth. The project, HealthBench, marks OpenAI’s first foray into health care applications of AI, outside…
Jacqui Wise , 2025-05-12 11:45:00 News reports about politicians and government officials ignoring guidelines during the pandemic was a turning point for many people, the UK covid inquiry heard.1The inquiry’s Every Story Matters team gathered testimonies from tens of thousands of people at drop-in events across the UK, through targeted research with specific groups, and…
, 2025-05-12 18:33:00 Credit: Swenico Pouches from Pexels The nicotine industry is constantly innovating, delivering new products to the market—and that keeps public health researchers busy as they work to understand the implications of each new offering. A team from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center has just published a paper in JAMA Network Open describing oral…
, 2025-05-12 18:26:00 Epilepsy, one of the most common neurological disorders characterized by recurrent seizures, affects over 70 million people worldwide. In the United States, about 3.4 million people live with this challenging condition. Around one third of the epilepsy cases cannot be controlled by medications. For those patients, surgical resection of the epileptogenic zone (EZ), an area whose removal can…
, 2025-05-12 13:28:00 As cases of long COVID — often defined as symptoms that weren’t present before persisting for 3 or more months after the infection — became more prevalent and alarming, researchers began to zero in on the commonly reported cardiovascular symptoms of fatigue, shortness of breath, chest pain, and palpitations, among others. Long-COVID…
, 2025-05-12 17:39:00 Vykee Nutrition, a leader in high-performance supplements, is gearing up for its most ambitious year yet with a slate of new product innovations and expansion initiatives. After establishing itself as a trusted brand in the supplement industry, Vykee is now setting its sights on broader horizons, including new supplement categories, expanded retail…
Dr. David Atashroo , 2025-05-12 14:44:00 It’s no secret that the healthcare industry has seen rapid innovation but questionable adoption over the past decade. At times, I’ve even found myself doubting the technology my hospitals have encouraged us to adopt. This often looks like being informed after a decision has been made to choose an…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-12 12:00:00 Products found to have almost four to five times the permitted volume of nicotine-containing liquid Health officials have issues warnings around three e-cigarette products that contain nicotine despite labels suggesting they don’t include the addictive substance. The products, for which European product safety (RAPEX) alerts have been issued, contain nicotine…
MNB Guest , 2025-05-12 15:56:00 For most people, workout sessions are more than just putting exercises together. They are about achieving a life goal or preparing for an upcoming event they have committed to. But often, the soreness and discomfort after an intense workout can limit one’s ability to engage in other physical activities or…