Kristin Haluch , 2025-05-06 13:37:00 Recently, I had the privilege of chairing the virtual RISE Bedrock of Healthcare Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) event and attending their national in-person SDOH Conference. SDOH has been a hot topic in healthcare over the last several years, and for good reason. The data is clear: a very small…
, 2025-05-06 15:17:00 Copenhagen-based digital health company specializing in chronic disease management, Dawn Health secured $13 million (€11.5 million) from existing investors Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker, the export and investment fund of Denmark (EIFO) and Trifork. WHAT IT DOES Dawn Health’s platform and products are used in oncology, multiple sclerosis and for rare pediatric conditions, like…
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Elaine Chen , 2025-05-06 13:36:00 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, there’s been a lot of discussion lately about how the U.S. can stay competitive in science, biomedical innovation, and drug development. We’ve got several pieces of news relevant…
, 2025-05-06 14:31:00 Credit: George Pak from Pexels Mental health counseling (MHC) may help U.S. veterans recover and build resilience after experiencing military sexual trauma (MST), according to a new study from researchers at Penn State. “We’ve long known that MST can have devastating consequences,” said Mary Mitchell, research professor at the Clearinghouse for Military…
, 2025-05-06 13:26:00 Retail pharmacies excluded from Medicare Part D networks maintained by drug benefits middlemen were much more likely to close over the past decade, according to new research from USC published in Health Affairs. Independent pharmacies and those located in low-income, Black or Latino communities were more likely to be excluded from “preferred”…
, 2025-05-06 13:14:00 Adding pembrolizumab to standard-of-care treatment improved event-free survival (EFS) in locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), according to new results of the KEYNOTE-689 trial. “This new information supports changing the current standard of care to now include neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab. For the first time in more than 20…
Pat Youngblood , 2025-05-06 13:42:00 Nearly three in four providers say payers deny treatments they prescribe some of the time. More importantly many indicate this happens too frequently, takes up too much time and a significant number have considered quitting over the demands these engagements add to their jobs. That’s according to a recent survey…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-06 12:21:00 Transfer is part of agreement with World Health Organisation, which also saw eight children from Palestinian region come here for healthcare last December A group of four children from Gaza have arrived in Ireland to receive medical treatment here. The Tánaiste and Minister for Health confirmed the successful medical evacuation…
Darius Tahir , 2025-05-06 09:00:00 Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They’re not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past few weeks, he told KFF Health News, his Schenectady, New York, office has seen people come in…
Richard Gawel , 2025-05-06 12:18:00 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….
Jonathan Wosen and Jason Mast , 2025-05-06 08:30:00 The National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, billed as the nation’s largest hospital devoted solely to medical research, is struggling to carry out its mission of running clinical trials for the hardest-to-treat diseases amid growing disruptions from the Trump administration. Fewer patients are being treated, and some…
, 2025-05-06 12:20:00 by Bernard J. Wolfson, Vanessa G. Sánchez Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Sumana Reddy, a primary care physician, struggles on thin financial margins to run Acacia Family Medical Group, the small independent practice she founded 27 years ago in Salinas, California, a predominantly Latino city in an agricultural valley often called “the salad…
, 2025-05-06 11:45:00 An international team of scientists led by the Medical University of Vienna has identified similarities in the mechanisms of diabetes and cancer: as the researchers show, the protein PPARγ, which is central to the regulation of metabolic processes, can also influence the growth of prostate cancer cells. PPARγ is already known to…
, 2025-05-06 11:50:00 Consuming foods high in carotenoids appeared to be modestly linked to a reduced risk for pediatric hearing loss, according to a poster presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2025 Meeting. “Pediatric hearing loss increases with age due to otitis media, trauma, ototoxic medications, and/or noise exposure, impacting behavioral and language development,”…
Stephanie Baum , 2025-05-06 11:30:00 Gaining greater insight into the patient journey from diagnosis through treatment is of great interest to drug developers as they aspire to produce more effective drugs. Using non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as an example, PurpleLab and Genentech will explore how to leverage RWD to eliminate blind spots in the…
Amy Maxmen , 2025-05-06 09:00:00 JACKSON, Miss. — Storm clouds hung low above a community center in Jackson, where pastor Andre Devine invited people inside for lunch. Hoagies with smoked turkey and ham drew the crowd, but several people lingered for free preventive health care: tests for HIV and other diseases, flu shots, and blood…
Rob Volansky , 2025-05-06 09:30:00 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….
Scott Gottlieb , 2025-05-06 08:30:00 Five years ago, U.S. pharmaceutical companies didn’t license any new drugs from China. By 2024, one-third of their new compounds were coming from Chinese biotechnology firms. Why are U.S. drugmakers sending their business to China? As in many other industries, it’s so much cheaper to synthesize new compounds inside Chinese…
, 2025-05-06 10:30:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state’s attorney general can’t prosecute—or threaten to prosecute—people or organizations who help Alabama residents seek an abortion by traveling to another state. One of the plaintiffs, the…
, 2025-05-06 02:16:00 A major population study reveals that diets high in ultra-processed foods are tied to poorer mental health, and uncovers biological markers that help explain the link. Study: Associations of Ultra-Processed Food Intake and Its Circulating Metabolomic Signature with Mental Disorders in Middle-Aged and Older Adults. Image Credit: Lightspring / Shutterstock In a recent study…
, 2025-05-06 09:49:00 INCHEON, South Korea — A shoe-based biomechanical intervention worn for a short time each day may achieve greater improvements in low back pain and greater reductions in the risk for total knee replacement surgery than standard physical therapy, according to two studies presented at the World Congress on Osteoarthritis (OARSI) 2025 Annual…
Rosemary Westwood, WWNO , 2025-05-06 09:00:00 When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the network of doctors and medical clinics who engage in similar work. “It’s scary. It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of…
Priya Narang, MS; Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth , 2025-05-05 14:52:00 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…
Charles M. Silver , 2025-05-06 08:30:00 In “We’ve Got You Covered,” Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein describe America’s existing patchwork of health care payment arrangements as a “teardown.” I agree. I support downsizing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), eliminating many programs, rolling back regulations, and creating a new system modeled on Social…
, 2025-05-06 08:41:00 This 2009 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a large group of Gram-negative Salmonella typhimurium bacteria that had been isolated from a pure culture. Credit: Janice Haney Carr/CDC via AP, File A new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry has sickened at least seven people…
, 2025-05-06 02:31:00 The MED13L Foundation today announced a nearly $250,000 grant to help launch an innovative natural history study at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center (RSZ TNC). The MED13L Syndrome Investigation of Natural History and Development (MIND Study) is a three-year research initiative designed to build on existing data and…
, 2025-05-06 07:54:00 The discovery of the Camp Hill virus marks the first detection of a henipavirus in Alabama in North America. This event highlights henipaviruses, a group of highly dangerous pathogens known to cause severe, often fatal infections characterized by fever, respiratory symptoms, and cerebral edema. Thanks to advancements in genetic analysis, nearly 20…
Andrew Schimel, MD; Kenneth A. Beckman, MD, FACS , 2025-05-05 14:52:00 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…
, 2025-05-05 21:05:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers from Aging Research Center (ARC), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with National Family Care Competence Center (Nka), recently sent out a survey to 31,000 older adults to learn more about those that take care of a loved one, in or…
, 2025-05-06 02:35:00 Wheat is a major source of calories, carbohydrates and protein worldwide, and its distinctive gluten proteins are what gives bread and pasta dough texture and elasticity. But it also can cause autoimmune reactions such as celiac disease, which is growing in prevalence worldwide. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have deleted…
, 2025-05-06 06:51:00 Measles was officially eliminated in the United States in 2000. A quarter of a century later, with outbreaks currently underway in several states, the country is at risk of losing its elimination status. And in little more than two decades, measles could be endemic again. This outcome is not far-fetched but the…
, 2025-05-06 06:25:00 When it comes to preventing heart attacks and strokes, most people focus on eating well, staying active, and avoiding smoking. While these are the right strategies for preventing heart diseases, new research points to an unexpected source of protection: a routine vaccine typically given to older adults to guard against a common…
Heba Mahjoub, MD; Susan Tucker, MD; Amal Alwreikat, MD; Sarkis H. Soukiasian, MD , 2025-05-05 14:52:00 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 …
Daniel Payne , 2025-05-05 08:30:00 WASHINGTON — Hospitals, health centers, and patient advocates this week plan to escalate their pressure on federal lawmakers to oppose cuts to the Medicaid program. The groups are increasing their public calls to lawmakers, standing up new collaborations, and increasing investments in advertising to discourage lawmakers from cutting hundreds of billions…
, 2025-05-05 21:07:00 Retail pharmacies excluded from Part D networks were as much as 4.5 times more likely to close in the past decade. Credit: USC Schaeffer Center Retail pharmacies excluded from Medicare Part D networks maintained by drug benefits middlemen were much more likely to close over the past decade, according to new research…
, 2025-05-06 02:42:00 A decade ago, University at Buffalo researchers shed some light on an enduring neuroscience mystery: How exactly does a mutated huntingtin protein (HTT) cause Huntington’s disease? They found that HTT is something like a traffic controller inside neurons, moving different cargo along neuronal highways called axons in concert with other proteins key…
, 2025-05-06 05:07:00 TOPLINE: Among women aged 70 years or older with screen-detected breast cancer, those with a history of screening mammography within 5 years of their diagnosis were much more likely to be diagnosed at an earlier stage and much less likely to die from breast cancer, according to a new analysis of over…
Moira Mahoney , 2025-05-05 15:22:00 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….
Alonzo Plough , 2025-05-05 08:30:00 Extreme weather is now a common part of American life — and the associated health risks are impossible to ignore. During heat waves, babies are more likely to be born prematurely or at a lower birth weight. Wildfire smoke can worsen asthma and lung disease. Air pollution and heat exacerbate the effects of heart, lung, and kidney disease. The list…
, 2025-05-05 21:11:00 A playground scene in the virtual world of Tiny Town. Credit: Dilks lab, Emory University Many behavioral studies suggest that using landmarks to navigate through large-scale spaces—known as map-based navigation—is not established until around age 12. A neuroscience study at Emory University counters that assumption. Through experiments combining brain scans and a…
, 2025-05-06 02:50:00 An updated systematic review finds that consuming cannabis while pregnant appears to increase the odds of preterm birth, low birth weight and infant death. The study by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. The lead author is a physician-scientist who provides prenatal care for…
, 2025-05-05 11:28:00 TOPLINE: People with celiac disease shouldn’t worry too much about sharing a kiss with someone who just ate food containing gluten, a small study found. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study with 10 couples — one partner with celiac disease and one without. To test variations in gluten content in saliva, the…
Andrew (Drew) Rhoades , 2025-05-05 15:32:00 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…
Karen Pennar , 2025-05-05 13:19:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Hi, Morning Rounds editor Karen Pennar, back again. First off, an update to Friday’s newsletter item on NIH’s freeze of subawards to foreign scientists: Megan Molteni has learned that privately, NIH leadership…
, 2025-05-05 21:16:00 Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels In Quebec, physiotherapists are getting involved in treating patients a lot earlier in the process of their care—and that’s a good thing, experts say. “The idea isn’t that patients shouldn’t seen by doctors but that physiotherapists can be the first point of contact and begin treatment without…
, 2025-05-06 02:56:00 People who are given a vaccine for shingles have a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart failure, and coronary heart disease, according to a study of more than a million people published in the European Heart Journal today (Tuesday). The protective effect of the vaccine lasts for up to eight…
, 2025-05-05 12:00:00 TOPLINE: The administration of the human papillomavirus nonavalent (9vHPV) vaccine after a surgical treatment for low- and high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia resulted in a significant reduction in the proportion of women positive for HPV over the 15-month study period. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine the effectiveness of the 9vHPV…
, 2025-05-06 00:08:00 Pakistan-based startup MedIQ has raked $6 million in a Series A funding round led by Rasmal Ventures and Joa Capital. WHAT IT DOES Founded in 2020, the company offers end-to-end solutions to enable a hybrid digital healthcare ecosystem for businesses (hospitals, insurers, and government agencies). These include EHR, revenue cycle management, telehealth, e-pharmacy, and…
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