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, 2025-04-23 07:22:00 CHICAGO — A new artificial intelligence (AI) model performed about as well as high-sensitivity troponin for the detection of non–ST-elevated myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) on an ECG, but better than clinicians. “Essentially, the model has rediscovered features on the ECG that we, as clinicians, already recognize as ischemic, but it qualifies these features…

, 2025-04-23 07:35:00 What you eat plays a crucial role in shaping your risk for conditions like heart attacks and strokes, but now, researchers suggest your diet may also influence how well your brain navigates the world around you. Western diet, typically high in fats and sugar, is well known to increase the risk of…

Robert Herpen, MA , 2025-04-22 13:00:00 April 22, 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…

Elaine Chen , 2025-04-22 13:12:00 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, today we look at seemingly conflicting messaging coming out of the NIH, the departure of a key executive at  Galapagos, and more. The need-to-know this morning Roche…

, 2025-04-22 20:26:00 Schematic illustration of ZNF451 regulating DNA damage repair mechanism. Credit: Zhao Guoping A research team has unveiled a crucial mechanism that helps regulate DNA damage repair, with important implications for improving cancer treatment outcomes. The result was published in Cell Death & Differentiation. The team was led by Professor Zhao Guoping at…

, 2025-04-23 03:41:00 Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, a Danaher company and a global leader in laboratory automation and innovation, announces the launch of the OptiMATE Gradient Maker, a groundbreaking instrument designed to automate the process of density gradient ultracentrifugation (DGUC). The new system accelerates purification processes by up to 75% while improving consistency and reproducibility….

, 2025-04-23 05:59:00 The closure of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Division of Viral Hepatitis in the wake of the administration’s restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services leaves clinicians and public officials with no resources to process specimens and track outbreaks, according to several experts.  The CDC’s website for…

, 2025-04-23 05:13:00 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a milestone step toward reducing artificial additives in the American food supply, a move that could reshape everything from cereal bowls to candy aisles. The agency is rolling out sweeping measures to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes, according to Health Secretary Robert…

Scott Buzby , 2025-04-22 13:08:00 April 22, 2025 3 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….

Mario Aguilar , 2025-04-22 16:13:00 You’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. In new memos released this month, the Trump administration spelled out its approach to artificial intelligence. At first glance,…

, 2025-04-23 04:10:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An analysis using data from the US National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) has found that in homicides with police shooters, victims have been shot far more times than in homicides with civilians as shooters. The new study, appearing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, showed that…

, 2025-04-23 04:07:00 New analysis shows that pairing a low-sodium diet with DASH eating habits reduces cardiovascular risk by over 14%, with the biggest wins for women and Black adults facing high blood pressure. Study: Dietary sodium reduction lowers 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk score: Results from the DASH-sodium trial. Image Credit: New Africa / Shutterstock In…

, 2025-04-22 11:19:00 A general practitioner (GP) recently reported that, by chance, he came across a life-threatening diagnosis. He had been chatting with a patient, during which the patient casually mentioned his favorite TV show, “Let’s Dance,” a popular dance competition show in Germany. The patient said that he usually used the commercial breaks to…

Anthony DeFino , 2025-04-22 18:00:00 April 22, 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…

Associated Press , 2025-04-22 16:42:00 Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings — colonoscopies, mammograms, and lung scans — for several months in 2020 as Covid-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. But that delay in screening isn’t making a huge impact on cancer statistics, at least none that can be seen yet by experts who track the…

, 2025-04-22 20:30:00 Illinois professor Bumsoo Han, left, and postdoctoral researcher Sae Rome Choi are authors of a new study exploring the use of DNA origami for better imaging of dense pancreatic tissue for cancer detection and potential treatment. Credit: Fred Zwicky One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate…

, 2025-04-23 03:04:00 Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a hepatic metabolic syndrome resulting from lipid metabolic imbalance. Interferon regulatory factor 8 (IRF8) is well known for its roles in immune cell differentiation and tumor pathogenesis; however, its role in regulating glucose homeostasis and lipid metabolism remains unclear. This research, published in the Genes &…

, 2025-04-22 11:52:00 GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Food Programme suspended malnutrition treatment for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia this week due to severe funding shortages, the U.N. agency said, with millions more at risk of losing access to aid. WFP gets financing from 15-20 donors including the United States but many of them…

Erin T. Welsh, MA , 2025-04-22 18:15:00 April 22, 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…

Adam Feuerstein , 2025-04-22 19:22:00 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….

, 2025-04-22 20:40:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that operations and jobs would be slashed as US funding cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred million dollars. “The sudden drop in income has left us with a large salary gap and no choice…

, 2025-04-23 01:55:00 Researchers at Tulane University have identified a potential new way to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a deadly and currently incurable lung disease that affects more than 3 million people worldwide. IPF is rapidly progressive and causes scarring in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe. Approximately 50% of patients die within…

, 2025-04-22 11:54:00 TOPLINE: Data over a 32-year period showed that the incidence of invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) infections in children remained stable before 2011, increased until 2020, declined during the pandemic, and subsequently sharply rose in 2023, with a notable surge contributed by respiratory tract infections. METHODOLOGY:  Researchers evaluated the incidence and clinical…

Justin Cooper , 2025-04-22 18:17:00 April 22, 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…

Elizabeth Cooney , 2025-04-22 21:24:00 Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. Federal funding for the Women’s Health Initiative, which as one of the largest research projects in women’s health has shaped treatment of menopause, osteoporosis, and nutrition, will stop in September, the program said Tuesday in…

, 2025-04-22 23:50:00 by I. Edwards The Trump administration has replaced two major federal websites for COVID information with a new page that promotes the theory that the virus came from a lab in China. COVID.gov and COVIDtests.gov, which once helped people order COVID tests and find public health information, now redirect to a new…

, 2025-04-22 18:52:00 A brief episode of anxiety may have a bigger influence on a person’s ability to learn what is safe and what is not. The research recently published in NPJ Science of Learning used a virtual reality game that involved picking flowers with bees in some of the blossoms that would sting the…

, 2025-04-22 12:00:00 TOPLINE: Adults with myocardial infarction (MI) and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were more likely to smoke, use snus, and have histories of bleeding and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) than those without ADHD. Although ADHD was associated with a higher rate of all-cause mortality, these patients were less likely to participate in follow-up…

Marissa Plescia , 2025-04-22 23:06:00 Free Market Health, a technology company focused on specialty drugs, has acquired Beeline Rx, another company in the specialty drug space, it announced on Tuesday. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Free Market Health offers payers, including Highmark, access to a marketplace of specialty pharmacies of all sizes. The payers are able to choose…

Josh Friedman , 2025-04-22 19:14:00 April 22, 2025 3 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…

Sarah Todd and Lizzy Lawrence , 2025-04-22 22:20:00 Food manufacturers will phase out eight synthetic dyes from all U.S. products by the end of 2026, the federal government announced today in a move that reflects the growing reach of the Make America Healthy Again movement. Decrying the “toxic soup of synthetic chemicals” in Americans’ food…

, 2025-04-22 22:30:00 Credit: Etatics Inc. from Pexels Research from ICES and Unity Health Toronto shows that safer opioid supply programs and methadone both reduce opioid overdoses, health care utilization, and costs. The work appears in The Lancet Public Health. Safer opioid supply (SOS) programs provide pharmaceutical-grade opioids such as hydromorphone to people struggling with…

, 2025-04-22 19:02:00 The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) is proud to announce the selection of 74 recipients to receive $2.4 million in research funding through the annual AGA Research Foundation Awards Program. AGA also announces today the addition of 10 pilot grants, totaling $400,000 in funding, to the 2026 awards portfolio to ensure that scientific discovery…

, 2025-04-22 12:00:00 TOPLINE: Patients with hyponatraemia exhibited higher 30-day mortality rates than those with normal sodium concentrations, and over time, the risk for mortality declined among patients with mild hyponatraemia; however, this trend was less pronounced in those with moderate hyponatraemia and absent in those with severe hyponatraemia. METHODOLOGY: Researchersanalysed the risk for mortality…

Sara Kellner , 2025-04-22 19:34:00 April 22, 2025 7 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…

Jason Mast , 2025-04-22 21:36:00 A landmark new treatment for schizophrenia didn’t provide additional benefits to patients when given on top of standard-of-care therapy, Bristol Myers Squibb announced Tuesday. The drug, Cobenfy, was approved last year based on data from three randomized studies comparing the drug to placebo. It was the first new mechanism-of-action approved…

, 2025-04-22 21:06:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Tulane University have identified a potential new way to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a deadly and currently incurable lung disease that affects more than 3 million people worldwide. IPF is rapidly progressive and causes scarring in the lungs, making it difficult to breathe. Approximately 50%…

, 2025-04-22 19:20:00 A preclinical study from scientists at Scripps Research finds that a drug already FDA-approved for treating inflammatory conditions may help reduce both alcohol intake and pain sensitivity-two issues that commonly co-occur with alcohol use disorder (AUD). The results, published in JCI Insight on April 22, 2025, suggest that the drug apremilast-a phosphodiesterase-4…

, 2025-04-22 12:09:00 A quartet of new medications may improve care of patients with hypertension, urinary tract infections (UTIs), hot flashes, and liver disease, said Gerald W. Smetana, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, in a presentation at the American College of Physicians (ACP-IM) Internal Medicine…

, 2025-04-22 20:13:00 Beyoncé‘s mom, Tina Knowles, has opened up about her private battle with breast cancer and shared and urgent message for other women. The author, who recently published her book “Matriarch,” spoke with People about the harrowing time in her life. In the interview, she reveals that she was diagnosed with stage 1…

Katie Adams , 2025-04-22 20:27:00 The nursing workforce crisis has improved slightly since the pandemic, but it’s far from over. New research from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) shows that nurses are still battling high levels of burnout and job dissatisfaction — and that many of them plan to leave the…

, 2025-04-22 17:11:00 California-based healthcare data and analytics company Reveleer has acquired Novillus, which offers a workflow platform for health plans.  Reveleer, formerly Health Data Vision, provides an AI-enabled platform for payers aimed at advancing value-based care. The company offers workflow, data and analytics tools for risk adjustment, quality improvement and member management. It also…

, 2025-04-22 19:52:00 April 22, 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 your request. Please try again later. If you…

John Wilkerson , 2025-04-22 19:47:00 You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. STAT won its first National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Not bad, huh? Help us keep up the good…

, 2025-04-22 19:32:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study by researchers from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and Vanderbilt University Medical Center has found that parental support for adolescent medical consent varied significantly depending on how the question was framed. Tennessee’s Mature Minor Doctrine, which allowed for adolescent medical consent in some instances,…

, 2025-04-22 19:09:00 Researchers led by Keigo Morita and Shinya Kuroda of the University of Tokyo have revealed a temporal disruption in the metabolism of obese mice when adapting to starvation despite no significant structural disruptions in the molecular network. This is a breakthrough discovery as research including the temporal dimension in biology has been…

, 2025-04-22 12:31:00 TOPLINE: Current smokers faced up to 12-fold higher risk for age-related macular degeneration, a threefold higher risk for primary open-angle glaucoma, and a fourfold higher risk for cataracts. The risk for certain ocular disorders persisted among individuals with a previous history of smoking. METHODOLOGY: Researchers searched PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science…

, 2025-04-22 17:56:00 Early-stage AgeTech venture capital firm Equitage Ventures announced the final close of a new $47.3 million fund. The round was led by an investment team that includes Daniel Kaplan, Russell Hirsch (a cofounder of Generator Ventures) and Adam Kaplan (CEO of Solera Senior Living). WHAT IT DOES  Equitage Ventures provides capital, distribution…

Caitlyn Stulpin , 2025-04-22 18:27:00 April 22, 2025 3 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…

Matthew Herper , 2025-04-22 18:12:00 A behind-the-scenes look at this year’s agenda Dear readers: You come to STAT for tough, smart journalism that helps you think about big topics like how AI will change medicine and the upheaval enveloping U.S. science. So join us in San Francisco on May 14, when we’ll do it live.  Those…