Frank Vinluan , 2025-04-28 17:28:00 Merck KGaA is building up its portfolio and pipeline with a $3.9 billion deal to acquire SpringWorks Therapeutics, a company with two FDA-approved rare tumor drugs, both of which offer the potential to expand their uses to the treatment of several types of cancer. According to financial terms announced Monday,…
MNB Guest , 2025-04-28 17:12:00 Placing your loved one in a nursing home is an excellent way to ensure they receive professional care, consistent supervision, and the quality of life they deserve in their later years. Unfortunately, some nursing homes are staffed with caregivers who mistreat and neglect their patients. This abuse often goes unnoticed…
, 2025-04-28 17:10:00 Oncology-focused social media platform Belong.Life has announced a strategic partnership with AI-enabled patient engagement company Equiva, in which Belong’s conversational AI offerings will be integrated into Equiva’s platform. Belong’s conversational AI mentors include Dave, a cancer care focused AI, and Fred, a mentor for sustainable weight loss, better health and lifestyle enhancement. Belong.Life’s…
Gerard Gallagher , 2025-04-28 16:38:00 April 28, 2025 2 min read 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….
Bob Herman , 2025-04-28 16:36:00 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…
, 2025-04-28 18:08:00 HSF2 binds to the BZLF1 promoter and remodels the chromatin locally. Credit: PLOS Pathogens (2025). DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013108 A newly established team of researchers at Åbo Akademi University, led by Academy Research Fellow Silvia Gramolelli (Faculty of Science and Engineering), has discovered an additional function for Heat Shock Factor 2 (HSF2), a human…
, 2025-04-28 17:20:00 A study analyzing data from nationally representative dietary surveys and mortality data from eight countries (Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, United Kingdom, and United States) shows that premature deaths attributable to consumption of ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) increase significantly according to their share in individuals’ total energy intake. The new study, appearing in…
, 2025-04-28 16:20:00 A postmarketing study showed that the Optilume BPH system improved the flow of urine while leaving sexual function unchanged in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), researchers reported at the American Urological Association 2025 Annual Meeting. Approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2023, the Optilume BPH devices uses balloons…
Jared Kaplan , 2025-04-28 13:38:00 In all sectors – from eggs on the grocery store shelves, car repair costs, mortgage rates and what it costs to see your doctor – Americans everywhere are experiencing higher prices on goods and services. Like people, businesses are also seeing their costs rise. One place that’s being acutely felt…
Editorial Staff , 2025-04-28 15:25:00 Next generation OncoAssure Prostate Test offers clinicians a powerful new tool for personalized prostate cancer management OncoAssure, an Irish medtech company and a leading innovator in precision oncology diagnostics, today announced the launch of the OncoAssure Prostate Test in the US market. OncoAssure Prostate is a next generation prognostic test…
, 2025-04-28 12:00:00 Global clinical technology company Wolters Kluwer Health is extending its integration with electronic health record (EHR) company Epic to allow UpToDate Enterprise customers and their patients access to patient education content directly within the Epic EHR and MyChart patient portal. “If you are an UpToDate Enterprise customer, which means you get access…
Josh Friedman , 2025-04-28 15:30:00 April 28, 2025 4 min read 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…
Adam Feuerstein , 2025-04-28 14:58:00 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….
, 2025-04-28 16:00:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study involving researchers from Karolinska Institutet indicates that prostate cancer can be diagnosed at an early stage through a simple urine sample. With the aid of AI and extensive analyses of gene activity in tumors, they have identified new biomarkers of high diagnostic precision. The results are…
, 2025-04-28 14:50:00 Dr. Ho Sang Jung and his research team from the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), in collaboration with Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, have developed a technology that enables the diagnosis of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis within 10 minutes using synovial fluid. This…
, 2025-04-28 14:02:00 The government’s decision to abolish NHS England and reintegrate its functions into the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) within the next 2 years has sparked a debate about the implications for healthcare leadership, jobs, and patient care. Ministers have framed the move as essential for cutting bureaucracy, reducing costs, and…
Brian Drozdowicz , 2025-04-28 13:59:00 Adoption of value-based care (VBC) programs has continued to expand. For example, the share of healthcare payments from risk-bearing VBC programs where providers could lose revenue if they did not meet quality or cost goals reached 28.5% in 2023, up from 12.5% in 2019. Despite this steady growth, the Centers…
MNB Guest , 2025-04-28 13:33:00 Missing teeth can affect more than just your smile – they can impact your confidence, your ability to eat and speak clearly, and even your long-term oral health. Whether you’ve lost a tooth due to injury, decay, or aging, the good news is that modern dentistry offers a range of…
Susan Jaffe , 2025-04-28 09:00:00 For several years, Fred Neary had been seeing five doctors at the Baylor Scott & White Health system, whose 52 hospitals serve central and northern Texas, including Neary’s home in Dallas. But in October, his Humana Medicare Advantage plan — an alternative to government-run Medicare — warned that Baylor and…
Alex Young , 2025-04-28 14:24:00 April 28, 2025 1 min read 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…
Ed Silverman , 2025-04-28 13:10:00 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:…
, 2025-04-28 13:49:00 Credit: Aphiwat chuangchoem from Pexels Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have found that individuals with colon cancer and a documented history of high cannabis use were more than 20 times more likely to die within five years of diagnosis compared to those without such a history….
, 2025-04-28 10:53:00 To provide the right treatment for MS, it is important to know when the disease changes from relapsing-remitting to secondary progressive, a transition that is currently recognized on average three years too late. Researchers at Uppsala University have now developed an AI model that can determine with 90 per cent certainty which…
, 2025-04-28 13:10:00 The legacy of discriminatory housing policies continues to shape both economic and health outcomes. A study by Tulane University, New Orleans, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, reveals that patients in historically redlined neighborhoods experience significantly longer delays in achieving HIV viral suppression than those in non-redlined areas. Researchers analyzed 1132 newly diagnosed…
Editorial Staff , 2025-04-28 09:48:00 The marketing authorisation was based on results from the pivotal ReSTORE Phase III clinical trial Mundipharma has announced that rezafungin is now available in the Republic of Ireland for adult patients with invasive candidiasis following HSE’s reimbursement agreement.1 The authorisation is supported by results from the pivotal ReSTORE Phase III…
, 2025-04-28 12:00:00 Global clinical technology company Wolters Kluwer Health is extending its partnership with electronic health record (EHR) company Epic to allow UpToDate Enterprise customers and their patients access to patient education content directly within the Epic EHR and MyChart patient portal. “If you are an UpToDate Enterprise customer, which means you get access…
Paula Span , 2025-04-28 09:00:00 Paula Span It happened more than a decade ago, but the moment remains with her. Sara Stewart was talking at the dining room table with her mother, Barbara Cole, 86 at the time, in Bar Harbor, Maine. Stewart, then 59, a lawyer, was making one of her extended visits from…
Isabella Hornick , 2025-04-28 11:38:00 April 28, 2025 2 min read 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…
Andrew Joseph , 2025-04-28 10:00:00 A closely watched clinical trial testing what could be the world’s first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century has hit its enrollment target, ahead of expectations. The Phase 3 study of the M72/AS01E vaccine, which is taking place at 54 sites across five countries, started delivering shots to volunteers last…
, 2025-04-28 11:20:00 A newly developed AI can predict which cancer patients are at risk for a life-threatening wasting syndrome, a new study says. The syndrome, called cachexia, accounts for about 20% of all cancer-related deaths, statistics show. “Cancer cachexia is a serious complication affecting many patients with cancer and is characterized by systemic inflammation,…
, 2025-04-28 11:12:00 New research in eClinicalMedicine reveals that nearly half of people with obstructive sleep apnea are not obese, challenging long-held assumptions and calling for more inclusive screening strategies. Study: The relationship between obesity and obstructive sleep apnea in four community-based cohorts: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 12,860 adults. Image Credit: Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock.com…
, 2025-04-28 10:35:00 TOPLINE: Children with peanut allergy who achieved remission with sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) had lower basophil activation before treatment and greater suppression of basophils at 1 year than those who experienced treatment failure, a new study showed. Basophil activation might serve as predictive biomarker of treatment success, the study authors suggested. METHODOLOGY: Researchers…
, 2025-04-28 09:38:00 Those donuts, cakes, and ready-to-eat meals might satisfy your taste buds, but they come with a hefty price. Although, often convenient and delicious, ultra-processed foods (UPF) are increasingly being linked to serious health risks. Recent research adds more evidence to the link, revealing that these indulgent foods might not just harm your…
Michael McHale , 2025-04-28 10:10:00 Consultants committee head describes move to community psychiatric services as ‘a logistical mess’ with service availability ‘increasingly determined by a patient’s Eircode’. The ‘dumbing down’ of psychiatric services is having an adverse effect on patients through increased waiting lists, and poor governance and oversight of services, the chair of the…
Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact , 2025-04-28 09:00:00 Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s clashed with scientists about for years. Kennedy held an April 16 press conference pegged to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that found the prevalence of autism rising to…
Justin Cooper , 2025-04-28 09:30:00 April 28, 2025 2 min read 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…
Kathryn Connell, Eleanor Turi, and Mollie Hobensack , 2025-04-28 08:30:00 Every day, nurses make decisions that shape not only how patients recover but how they experience illness. Take patients recovering from sepsis, who are often under sedation on a ventilator. Evidence urges daily sedation breaks to prevent delirium, but guidelines rarely acknowledge the fear of…
, 2025-04-28 09:00:00 Through behavioral experiments in mice coupled with advanced neuronal imaging, researchers found how sleep helps consolidate past experiences in engram cells and prepare engram-to-be cells to store future experiences. Credit: Kaoru Inokuchi from the University of Toyama, Japan Memory formation, storage, and retrieval are fundamental processes that define who we are and…
, 2025-04-28 08:40:00 The salary gap among male and female hospitalists is moving in the right direction. In 2023, male hospitalists made $347,000 annually and female hospitalists, $289,000, a gap of 20%, according to the 2024 Medscape Hospitalist Compensation Report. That was slightly better than in 2022, when male hospitalists made $342,000 and female hospitalists,…
Owen Lewis , 2025-04-28 08:30:00 Who’s on the couch here? The psychiatrist or the poet? The poem or the practice of psychiatry? As a poet and a psychiatrist/therapist, I exist in both practices, and the worlds of each enrich the other. Each speaks with abandon, and each interrogates the other, and there are many ways…
, 2025-04-28 07:02:00 A carefully crafted hospital discharge plan, shared with outpatient doctors, is essential to help your patients finish their recovery after they leave. Hopefully, it will prevent them from coming back to the hospital anytime soon as well. “I tell my patients all the time — it was very nice to meet you,…
, 2025-04-28 08:08:00 Feeling concerned about your heart health but don’t have time for long workouts? New research brings good news for older adults who may lack the time or stamina for extended exercise sessions. Researchers found that just three minutes of moderate activity, naturally woven into daily life, may be enough to reduce heart…
, 2025-04-28 07:22:00 ORLANDO, Fla. — Treatments of the face with fully ablative carbon dioxide lasers and nonablative fractional lasers (NAFLs) have in recent years been shown to be associated with a reduced risk of developing keratinocyte-derived carcinomas (KCs) on treated areas of skin. At The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS) 2025…
Andrew Joseph , 2025-04-28 07:17:00 Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. After months of discussion, Germany’s Merck KGaA said Monday it would buy SpringWorks Therapeutics for $47 a share in cash, a deal with an equity value of nearly $4 billion. The…
, 2025-04-28 07:00:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A recent randomized controlled trial reveals the potential of a program designed to connect patients who have breast cancer to needed exercise and rehabilitation services starting at diagnosis and throughout care. Participants provided positive feedback about the program, supporting efforts to integrate exercise and rehabilitation services as part…
, 2025-04-28 07:04:00 TOPLINE: Investigators have identified a range of risk factors that significantly increase the odds of late-onset epilepsy (LOE) in people with cognitive decline (PWCD), including having the apolipoprotein E4 (APOE4) allele, early-onset dementia, severe cognitive decline, the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia subtype, a history of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA), and…
, 2025-04-28 06:42:00 Childhood obesity sets the stage for a lifetime of health risks, and scientists are racing against time to uncover the hidden causes. Now, new research points to an unexpected suspect: antibiotics, a medicine millions of people, including young children, take to fight infections, may be quietly fueling the problem. Although antibiotics are…
, 2025-04-28 06:03:00 TOPLINE: Patients with cancer who received prophylactic intravenous (IV) magnesium before starting cisplatin had a lower risk for cisplatin-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) than those who did not receive IV magnesium. METHODOLOGY: AKI is a frequent and serious complication of cisplatin chemotherapy and is associated with poor outcomes. Although preclinical studies have…
, 2025-04-28 06:00:00 A graphic showing the three types of ‘bad cholesterol’ lipoprotein carriers which all contain the apoB particle as a defining structural feature. Credit: Chalmers University of Technology | Jakub Morze For almost 60 years, measuring cholesterol levels in the blood has been the best way to identify individuals at high risk of…
, 2025-04-28 02:35:00 Numerous studies conducted by researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute report progress for cancers including head and neck cancer, metastatic breast cancer and lung cancer. The results of these studies, along with dozens of others led by Dana-Farber faculty, will be presented at this year’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting…