Editorial Staff , 2025-05-20 07:30:00 Children’s Hospice Week runs from May 18-24 This year’s theme, ‘Every Step, Every Challenge, Together’, reflects the journey families take when caring for a child with palliative care needs and the vital role that LauraLynn plays in walking that path alongside them. Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD officially launched the campaign…
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact , 2025-05-20 09:00:00 Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced “almost immediately.” President Donald Trump, in a May 11 post on Truth Social President Donald Trump expressed high hopes for an executive order to reduce drug prices. On May 11, the day before he held…
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Adam Feuerstein , 2025-05-20 11:30:00 Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on Signal at stataf.54….
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, 2025-05-20 11:28:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New cases of dementia in the United States declined from 2015 to 2021, but the number of people living with the condition continued to rise due to population aging, with nearly 2.9 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries (around 12%) living with a dementia diagnosis in 2021, finds a study…
, 2025-05-20 10:59:00 By combining information from many large datasets, MIT researchers have identified several new potential targets for treating or preventing Alzheimer’s disease. The study revealed genes and cellular pathways that haven’t been linked to Alzheimer’s before, including one involved in DNA repair. Identifying new drug targets is critical because many of the Alzheimer’s…
, 2025-05-20 10:52:00 Primary care clinicians are not screening older adults for malnutrition, largely due to an overreliance on outdated diagnostic measures like body mass index (BMI), according to a new study presented at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago. Researchers at Stanford Health in San Jose, California , analyzed…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-20 07:31:00 NHI seeks meeting with Health Minister to discuss concerns as it holds AGM today A new updated programme for the implementation of Slaintecare ‘offers no vision for the long-term residential care that so many will require,’ the head of Nursing Homes Ireland has said. NHI CEO Tadhg Daly said the…
Elisabeth Rosenthal , 2025-05-20 09:00:00 Health care has proved a vulnerable target for the firehose of cuts and policy changes President Donald Trump ordered in the name of reducing waste and improving efficiency. But most of the impact isn’t as tangible as, say, higher egg prices at the grocery store. One thing experts from a…
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Andrew Joseph , 2025-05-20 08:42:00 GENEVA — World Health Organization members on Tuesday adopted a treaty aimed at preparing for and responding to future pandemics, what countries say is both a tangible example of how they’re learning the lessons of Covid-19 and a marker for the continued importance of international collaboration. Health officials hailed the…
, 2025-05-20 09:10:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain The WHO Pandemic Agreement, an accord designed to address the mistakes made in handling COVID-19, is being submitted for adoption Tuesday at the World Health Assembly. The annual decision-making gathering of the World Health Organization’s member states will consider the agreement, which took more than three years to…
, 2025-05-20 02:51:00 Higher maternal selenium levels during pregnancy were associated with a lower risk of streptococcal infections in children, suggesting a potential protective effect. Scientists from Hokkaido University have discovered that exposure to certain metals and trace elements during pregnancy may affect a child’s risk of developing streptococcal infections, according to a new study…
, 2025-05-20 08:17:00 SAN FRANCISCO — The investigational oral agent nerandomilast was superior to placebo at slowing the decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) among patients with progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PF), results of the phase 3 randomized FIBRONEER-ILD trial showed. Among 1176 patients, the mean decline from baseline in FVC at 1 year was significantly…
, 2025-05-20 07:09:00 In 2025, original content isn’t just preferred—it’s required. With the growing presence of AI-written articles and stricter SEO guidelines, tools that help writers detect and revise AI-generated content are more essential than ever. This is where ZeroGPT enters the scene. ZeroGPT is a lightweight, user-friendly AI detector tool that also helps with…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-20 07:32:00 IHCA calls for positions to be approved more quickly as figures provided to it show that, at the end of last year, 395 consultant posts were filled by temporary and locum staff Almost half of vacant consultant posts recorded at the end of last year had been unfilled for at…
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Lizzy Lawrence , 2025-05-19 08:30:00 WASHINGTON — The Covid-19 pandemic was a turning point for Tracy Beth Høeg. Before March 2020, Høeg was a sports medicine physician focused on ultramarathon runners. Then, she rose to prominence by challenging school closures, mask mandates, and the approval of booster shots for children. Now, she’s been tapped for…
, 2025-05-20 04:10:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Clinical entrepreneurs—physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals—who understand Canada’s health care challenges first-hand could help improve the health system and grow the economy, argue two physicians in a commentary published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. “Successful Canadian-controlled private corporations developed by these entrepreneurs could fuel economic…
, 2025-05-20 03:16:00 New research reveals that even low levels of air pollution can trigger dangerous changes in blood vessels, underscoring the urgent need for clean air to protect heart health worldwide. Review: Air pollution and atherosclerosis In a recent review article published in the journal Atherosclerosis, researchers provided an overview of how air pollution…
, 2025-05-20 06:26:00 For decades, oral contraceptive options have been limited to women, while men have had only two choices: Condoms or vasectomy. That could change with the development of YCT-529, a nonhormonal male contraceptive currently in phase 2 clinical trials, which offers a novel mechanism for inhibiting the production of viable sperm. Developed by…
, 2025-05-20 04:50:00 The National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a research institute by Monash University and Peninsula Health in Australia, has developed a new AI-driven method to efficiently identify dementia in hospitals. It researched ways to uplift dementia detection in healthcare settings by combining traditional and AI-driven case identification approaches. FINDINGS Based on a media…
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Ed Silverman , 2025-05-19 12:57:00 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and invigorating, because that oh-so-familiar routine of meetings, deadlines, and messages has returned. But what can you do? There is no pause button to stop the world from spinning. So this means one thing:…
, 2025-05-20 05:00:00 BoNT/Aintoxication of LAN5 cells induces massive tRF changes. (A) Experimental design: 2×106 LAN5 cells/well were intoxicated by 10,000 MsLD50/mL BoNT/A, and small RNA-seq profiles from these cells were compared to nontreated (NT) cells, revealing differences in miRNAs and tRFs. Volcano plots of DE transcriptomes (FDR < 0.05) were generated from three biological…
, 2025-05-20 03:49:00 Experts sound the alarm: abrupt US policy changes could trigger a worldwide humanitarian disaster, endanger millions of vulnerable lives, and set back decades of global health progress. USAID-funded programs by region and category, FY2023 In a recent perspective paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, experts elucidate the devastating potential impacts…
, 2025-05-20 03:54:00 Australia has recorded its highest number of cases of the tropical bacterial infection melioidosis, which is thought to have been triggered by major rainfall and flooding. The outbreak has placed pressure on already strained hospitals in the area. The northeastern state of Queensland has recorded an unprecedented 215 cases of melioidosis so…
, 2025-05-20 04:55:00 The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in India will embark on research to explore various clinical applications of an AI-powered tool for detecting emotions. It signed a memorandum of understanding with global IT consultant Nihilent, which created the emotion detection platform called Emoscape. The AI tool captures Navarasa or the nine fundamental…
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Theresa Gaffney , 2025-05-19 13:10:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Yesterday, we learned that former President Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. In 2016, he told STAT in an interview that he planned to dedicate his…
, 2025-05-20 04:10:00 A study links residual inflammation in psoriasis patients to obesity and fatty liver disease, underscoring the importance of the development of targeted and effective treatments that address the systemic aspects of psoriasis, beyond just the skin. Credit: Journal of Investigative Dermatology / González-Cantero et al. New research shows that in patients with…
, 2025-05-20 03:53:00 The new guidelines for the use of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) published in Neurodegenerative Diseases, serve as exemplary clinical recommendations for clinicians and healthcare providers, supporting the advancement of Alzheimer’s disease treatment in Switzerland. The Swiss Memory Clinics (SMC) network, a group of specialized clinics in Switzerland that diagnose and treat patients with…
, 2025-05-19 12:51:00 TOPLINE: Dermatology residency programs saw modest gains in racial and ethnic diversity from 2020 to 2024, but underrepresented groups remain disproportionately low compared with their share of the US population. METHODOLOGY: Researchers analyzed national data on dermatology residents from the Association of American Medical Colleges from 2020 to 2024. They evaluated racial…
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Bob Herman , 2025-05-19 17:29:00 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 author of the Health Care Inc. newsletter. You can reach Bob on Signal at bobjherman.09. This is the…
, 2025-05-19 21:13:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Food cravings are the downfall of many dieters, who feel locked in an eternal battle with their willpower to resist the tempting sweets, snacks and other foods they love. However, researchers in food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say in a new study…
, 2025-05-20 02:28:00 A deep learning model was able to predict future lung cancer risk from a single low-dose chest CT scan, according to new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference. The model, called Sybil, which was originally developed using National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) data by investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of…
, 2025-05-19 12:55:00 SAN DIEGO — A real-time, blood-sensing capsule (PillSense) is a safe and effective diagnostic tool for patients with suspected upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding that can aid patient triage, reduce unnecessary procedures, and optimize resource use, a study found. Notably, patients with negative capsule results had shorter hospital stays and lower acuity markers,…
Katie Adams , 2025-05-19 21:40:00 The only way to achieve clinical AI adoption at scale is to design products that serve doctors in a way that feels natural and personalized, according to one startup CEO. This was a claim made by Tom Kelly, CEO of AI scribe company Heidi Health, during an interview last week…
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Jonathan Wosen , 2025-05-19 17:37:00 President Trump’s science adviser, Michael Kratsios, called for a return to reproducible and transparent research to kickstart what he characterized as years of stalled scientific progress, in his first detailed public remarks on science policy since taking office in March. Kratsios, who heads the Office of Science and Technology Policy,…
, 2025-05-19 21:18:00 Credit: Cnordic Nordic from Pexels Findings from a first-of-its-kind virtual trial in pulmonary medicine, conducted at Rutgers and many other institutions, suggest adding an inhaled corticosteroid to rescue therapy could sharply reduce the danger of severe attacks for millions of people with mild asthma. The phase III study, published in the New…
, 2025-05-20 00:55:00 Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a new way to reduce obesity. Their study shows that supplying the gut with extra acetate reduces fat and liver mass in both normal and obese mice, as long as bacteria of the Bacteroides…
, 2025-05-19 13:01:00 Amid a wave of layoffs and major federal research funding cuts under the Trump administration, many US-based scientists are reevaluating their careers and considering relocation. According to a recent survey published in Nature, three quarters of 1200 researchers polled said they were contemplating leaving the United States. In this context, and with…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-19 23:19:00 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a company that has been analyzing genetic data as part of its drug research for more than a decade, is augmenting its capabilities in a big way with the $256 million acquisition of assets from genetic testing company 23andMe. The acquisition follows the selection of Regeneron’s bid as…
Angela Hart , 2025-05-19 23:05:00 Durante su primer gobierno, los principales funcionarios de salud del presidente Donald Trump autorizaron a Carolina del Norte a utilizar dinero de Medicaid para servicios sociales que tradicionalmente no estaban cubiertos por el seguro médico. Fue un experimento pionero en el país para canalizar fondos de atención médica hacia vivienda,…
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Anil Oza , 2025-05-19 21:42:00 Molecular biologist Chiara Masnovo spent weeks filling out an application for a research fellowship earlier this year — taking it over the finish line as she was 38 weeks pregnant and starting a new job. The chance of getting this fellowship was well worth the toil. The Hanna Gray fellowship, created…
Jacqui Wise , 2025-05-19 08:26:00 A new gadget for James Bond?Not quite. The term refers to digital “smart scale” technology currently being piloted by 15 specialist NHS clinics to support severely obese children to lose weight.1What’s so smart about it?The idea is that the young person is encouraged to stand on the scale at home…