, 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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