Daniel Payne and John Wilkerson , 2025-06-20 17:35:00 WASHINGTON — The Senate returns next week with critical choices on Medicaid policies that could cost hospitals billions of dollars and lead to millions losing coverage. Hospitals are scrambling to control the damage. Last month, the House passed its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill, which would…
James M Brophy, Andrew Gelman , 2025-06-19 23:05:00 James M Brophy, professor of medicine and epidemiology1, Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics and political science2 1McGill University, Montreal, Canada 2Columbia University, New York, USA Correspondence to: J M Brophy james.brophy{at}mcgill.ca Choice of statistical models and data integrity are vital A BMJ investigation by Doshi (doi:10.1136/bmj.r1201)1raises concerns…
, 2025-06-22 09:07:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cambodia registered its fifth bird flu death this year after a 52-year-old man died from the virus, the health ministry said on Saturday. The villager from eastern Svay Rieng province died on Thursday with tests confirming he had contracted the avian flu virus H5N1, the Cambodian health ministry…
, 2025-06-21 13:32:00 New research suggests that a healthy microbiome before chemotherapy could help protect breast cancer patients against heart damage, or cardiotoxicity, as a result of cancer therapy. Researchers found that specific bacteria in patients’ gut microbiome correlated with heart health biomarkers that suggest they are at greater risk of heart damage during chemotherapy. …
, 2025-06-21 19:34:00 CHICAGO — Ten people with type 1 diabetes, who had recurrent severe hypoglycemia and hypoglycemic unawareness, have remained insulin-independent for over a year following allogeneic stem cell-derived islet-cell therapy with immunosuppression, according to new phase 1/2 data from the multicenter FORWARD study sponsored by Vertex Pharmaceuticals. The insulin-producing therapy VX-880, now named…
, 2025-06-17 14:37:00 At VOCIC, we believe that independence is more than a physical capability—it’s about preserving dignity, safety, and quality of life for those who need it most. That’s why, for over a decade, we’ve been dedicated to designing and delivering home care solutions that empower older adults, people with disabilities, and those in…
Justin Liu , 2025-06-22 13:55:00 When OpenAI announced an 80% price cut to its most advanced model, o3, headlines focused on what it meant for developers and startups. But the real story isn’t just about code. It’s about infrastructure – and the industries that depend on it. This change marks a turning point not only…
Michael McHale , 2025-06-20 07:30:00 Dr Tadhg Crowley said lack of supports is having ‘a significant impact on recruitment and retention’ of general practitioners Ireland’s ‘critically low’ GP numbers will not improve without significant systemic change, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has said. The union’s GP Committee chair Dr Tadhg Crowley said that a lack…
MNB Guest , 2025-06-17 17:33:00 Medicine is indeed a complex world, and thus finding the right treatment generally tends to be an overwhelming process. The ‘‘one-size-fits-all’’ approach to drug therapy works well for some patients but can be ineffective or even harmful for many others. Dare to dream of a world where medication can be…
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Elaine Chen , 2025-06-22 13:00:00 CHICAGO — Late-stage results of Novo Nordisk’s obesity candidate CagriSema suggest the drug is comparable to Eli Lilly’s Zepbound on safety and efficacy, further data indicating that CagriSema may not be the standout treatment that investors had hoped for. Novo previously reported that patients on CagriSema lost 20% of their…
Lara Shemtob, Azeem Majeed, Thomas Beaney , 2025-06-20 09:36:00 Lara Shemtob, general practitioner1, Azeem Majeed, professor of primary care and public health1, Thomas Beaney, clinical researcher2 1Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK 2George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, UK Correspondence to: L Shemtob lara.shemtob{at}nhs.net Defining responsibilities…
, 2025-06-22 10:21:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of international researchers led by scientists at City of Hope provides the most thorough account yet of an elusive target for cancer treatment. Published in Science Advances, the study suggests a complex signaling process involving paxillin, a focal adhesion protein that acts as a hub to…
, 2025-06-21 16:50:00 Modern humans have existed for over 200,000 years, and each new generation has begun with a single cell-dividing, changing shape and function, organizing into tissues, organs, and limbs. With slight variations, the process has repeated billions of times with remarkable fidelity to the same body plan. Researchers at Tufts have been on…
, 2025-06-21 20:30:00 CHICAGO — Encouraging patients to talk with their primary care physicians about weight management led to increased visits for obesity, population-wide weight loss, and increased revenue, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine (CU Anschutz) reported here at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 85th Scientific Sessions. The researchers presented…
, 2025-06-17 17:16:00 Kraft Heinz products, including Jell-O and Kool-Aid, will no longer contain “artificial” food dyes after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. urged its executives to eliminate harmful ingredients or face regulatory action. The multinational food and beverage conglomerate announced Tuesday that it will remove all artificial coloring from its products by 2027. Until then,…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-06-20 17:39:00 Neuropsychiatric disorders need new drugs that offer improvement in safety and efficacy over currently available medicines. Draig Therapeutics has emerged from stealth with $140 million to support mid-stage testing of a lead program that it believes may provide patients with a new alternative. Draig aims to treat neuro disorders by…
Editorial Staff , 2025-06-20 07:30:00 Prof Orla Hardiman honoured with lifetime achievement award at event held by Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association Taoiseach Micheál Martin was on hand to present a lifetime achievement award to one of the country’s leading motor neuron disease (MND) clinicians and researchers. Prof Orla Hardiman was given the honour at…
MNB Guest , 2025-06-18 13:05:00 Mood swings or emotional turmoil are enough to get both bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder (BPD) mixed up. It’s too easy to assume that they are the same, with both having intense emotions and unstable behavior. However, it’s best to know the difference so that you or your loved…
Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News , 2025-06-20 09:00:00 Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News Millions of Americans who have waited decades for fast internet connections will keep waiting after the Trump administration threw a $42 billion high-speed internet program into disarray. The Commerce Department, which runs the massive Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program,…
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Veronica Paulus , 2025-06-20 22:00:00 GLP-1 drugs could treat more than just diabetes and obesity. They may also reduce migraine frequency. That is according to the findings of a study presented on Friday at the European Academy of Neurology congress. The pilot study found that GLP-1 agonists reduced monthly migraine days by almost half. The…
Geeta Govindaraj , 2025-06-20 14:16:00 Padinharath Krishnakumar was born on 15 May 1961 in the village of Kodolipram in Kerala, India, to parents who were schoolteachers. He graduated from Calicut Medical College in 1987 and went on to complete postgraduate degrees in psychiatry at Madras Medical College in 1998 and in paediatrics at Calicut Medical…
, 2025-06-22 09:20:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain It’s difficult to overstate the corrosive impact of Canada’s ongoing opioid crisis. Since 2016, there have been over 40,000 opioid-related deaths across the country, devastating Canadian families from all walks of life. Opioid-related hospitalizations and calls to paramedics have ballooned. New approaches for physicians and patients are urgently…
, 2025-06-21 17:44:00 About 570 people in England and Wales are expected to die as a result of high temperatures from Thursday 19 June 2025 to Sunday 22 June 2025, a rapid study has estimated. It is the first real-time analysis in 2025 on excess heat deaths by researchers at the London School of Hygiene…
, 2025-06-21 21:36:00 Ecnoglutide, a novel glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist, was significantly more effective than placebo for inducing weight loss in adults with overweight or obesity, based on data from more than 600 individuals, results of the SLIMMER trial showed. In addition, ecnoglutide significantly improved other key cardiometabolic risk factors including waist circumference, blood…
, 2025-06-17 19:45:00 A Georgia woman who was put on life support after being declared brain dead in February at eight weeks pregnant has given birth to a baby boy. Adriana Smith’s son, named Chance, was delivered by emergency cesarean section early Friday morning, June 13, at just under 26 weeks gestation, Smith’s family told…
Marissa Plescia , 2025-06-20 20:32:00 Digital musculoskeletal company Sword Health has secured $40 million in funding and launched a new mental health solution called Mind that combines AI with licensed clinicians, the company announced on Tuesday. New York City-based Sword Health leverages AI to address muscle and joint issues from the neck down to the…
Michael McHale , 2025-06-20 07:30:00 The case was found in a 56-year-old two years after he received two doses of the vaccine Ireland has reported the first case anywhere of mpox in a fully vaccinated person, despite having a high immune response at the time of inoculation. The research, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases,…
MNB Guest , 2025-06-18 16:46:00 Imagine if your DNA held the blueprint to the correct exercise ordinary—like a personal trainer coded into your chromosomes. Sounds like technological know-how fiction? Think once more. Genetic trying out has taken the fitness international by typhoon. Gone are the times of one-size-fits-all applications and guesswork at the health club….
, 2025-06-20 18:20:00 The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics…
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Elizabeth Cooney , 2025-06-20 23:15:00 Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Twelve people with type 1 diabetes who received an investigational off-the-shelf stem cell therapy were able to produce their own insulin and keep healthy blood glucose levels…
Elgan Manton-Roseblade , 2025-06-20 15:06:00 Elgan Manton-Roseblade The BMJ The BMA has accused University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust of unsafe and unprofessional practice and raised “serious concerns” about the trust’s working arrangements between resident doctors and physician associates (PAs).1 Writing to the trust, BMA chair of council Philip Banfield criticised a leaked departmental email, where…
, 2025-06-21 19:10:00 Mismatch repair (MMR) germline alterations are enriched among patients with uveal melanoma (UM), according to a study published online June 18 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Anaïs Le Ven, from Inserm U1339 in Paris, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study involving 381 consecutive patients diagnosed with UM between July 2021 and February 2023…
, 2025-06-21 18:00:00 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new way of telling “aged” human cells apart from younger ones using electric fields. While key markers have been found for these “senescent” cells, current methods require biochemical “labels” which are difficult to apply and affect the cells themselves, making them difficult to study….
, 2025-06-21 23:16:00 CHICAGO — The investigational non-peptide small-molecule oral GLP-1 agonist orforglipron significantly reduced A1c over 40 weeks in adults with early type 2 diabetes, according to the results of ACHIEVE-1 sponsored by Eli Lilly. In the trial, orforglipron reduced A1c to the 6.5% range and produced clinically meaningful weight loss with a safety…
, 2025-06-18 21:54:00 A senior vaccine expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has resigned in protest, warning that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s sweeping changes to vaccine policy and leadership are endangering public health. Widely respected infectious disease specialist Dr. Fiona Havers stepped down after 13 years at the CDC…
Katie Adams , 2025-06-20 21:56:00 Just a year after launching as a company, Bluebird Kids Health is already announcing plans to double its number of pediatric clinics from three to six. The company — which for now, operates only in Florida — seeks to improve pediatric care access in underserved areas by building practices in…
Michael McHale , 2025-06-20 07:35:00 Oireachtas Committee hears how issues around long-term infertility of young boys ‘did not meet the threshold for open disclosure’ The families at the centre of a number of reports which detailed poor practice and potential neglect at CHI were not notified of the resultant risks to their children’s health, it…
MNB Guest , 2025-06-18 19:44:00 If you have ever felt tiredness, foot pain or pain following a long working day it could be due to your arches. be the cause. For those with high arches, they often struggle to find the right foot support, and conventional insoles aren’t cutting it. The right insole can greatly…
Daniel Chang , 2025-06-20 18:30:00 While the Senate budget bill released this week proposes deep funding cuts and work requirements for Medicaid — proposals likely to increase the number of people without health insurance — another big health care issue looms that could affect millions unless Congress acts. Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act’s health…
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Elaine Chen , 2025-06-20 23:30:00 CHICAGO — Novo Nordisk’s next-generation obesity injection targeting the amylin hormone showed substantial weight loss in an early study, but similar efficacy across different doses and high rates of side effects raise questions about which dose Novo will pursue going forward. In the Phase 1/2 study testing the drug, called…
Clare Dyer , 2025-06-20 15:21:00 Members of parliament have voted by 314 to 291 to approve a bill that would make assisted dying legal in England and Wales, a move described as the biggest social change since the Abortion Act 1967. The vote after an emotional debate in the House of Commons to give the…