Katie Adams , 2025-07-31 22:56:00 This roundup is published monthly. It is meant to highlight some of healthcare’s recent hiring news and is not intended to be comprehensive. If you have news about an executive appointment, resignation or layoff that you would like to share for this roundup, please reach out to [email protected]. Hires Lalith…

Dr Brendan O’Shea , 2025-07-31 10:13:00 Dr Brendan O’Shea discusses challenges and opportunities with former IGPNEA chair Rita Pender Rita Pender has recently stepped down as IGPNEA Chair to become interim Director of Nursing Education within the Association and will continue as Lead for GP Nursing on the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, within…

MNB Guest , 2025-07-29 12:17:00 Security gaps in pharmaceutical IT systems can lead to serious consequences. One of the most damaging cyberattacks in the industry struck Merck & Co. in 2017, when malware disabled 30,000 computers globally and halted production, resulting in $870 million in losses. In such a highly regulated field, maintaining a resilient…

Sandy West , 2025-07-30 09:00:00 Sandy West A child developed a rash after he was prevented from changing his underwear for four days. A little boy, bored and overcome with despair, began hitting himself in the head. A child with autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder was forced to go without his medication, despite his mother’s pleas….

Elizabeth Cooney , 2025-07-30 15:00:00 Biological aging is hot. Even if scientists don’t agree on its definition, estimating how old your body is despite what the calendar says has gained steam in recent years. Measuring telomeres or genetic variables may be more appealing than, say, predicting your chances of having a heart attack as a…

Flynn Murphy , 2025-07-29 15:06:00 South Korea’s new government has restarted talks with junior doctors and medical students, raising hopes for an end to a 17 month impasse over a plan to steeply increase medical school admissions, which drove 90% of Korea’s resident doctors to resign.1 The new consultative body, which includes health ministry and…

, 2025-07-29 16:37:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The United States spends significant amounts of money on health care every year, yet health outcomes have been declining. Scholars have long known that where a person lives, what they do for a living and other factors influence health, but new research from the University of Kansas has…

, 2025-07-29 11:58:00 Centauri Therapeutics Limited (‘Centauri’), an immunotherapy company with a unique and proprietary platform technology applicable across a wide range of therapeutic indications, announced today that CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) has provided an additional $5.1 M in funding for the development of their lead compound. The funds will contribute to the…

, 2025-07-28 21:01:00 High tibial osteotomy (HTO) slows articular cartilage damage in individuals with bowlegs and medial compartment knee osteoarthritis (OA) compared to nonsurgical management alone, according to a new study.   Patients who underwent HTO also reported less pain and higher overall knee function. “To our knowledge, this is the first study to show…

Dana McCalley , 2025-07-28 13:48:00 Two topics dominate almost every conversation about value-based care (VBC): risk adjustment and quality. They are, without question, foundational. Risk adjustment sets the financial baseline for each patient population, while quality metrics confirm we are delivering the right preventive and chronic-care services. Yet there is a third pillar that too…

Editorial Staff , 2025-07-28 13:02:00 By helping patients manage their condition in the community, the programme not only improves lives but is aligned with the Sláintecare principles of right place, right time, right person Osteoarthritis is one of the leading causes of disability in Ireland, particularly among adults aged 50 years and older. Joint stiffness,…

MNB Guest , 2025-07-23 16:11:00 Clear vision impacts your life because basic activities, such as reading, require it. Performing such routine tasks is frustrating unless you have visual aids like glasses. Nonetheless, even these visual aids may interfere with your comfort. Hence, corrective eye procedures help you regain control over daily life without having to…

Katheryn Houghton and Oona Zenda , 2025-07-23 09:00:00 Katheryn Houghton and Oona Zenda Illustration by Oona Zenda MISSOULA, Mont. — As congressional Republicans finalized Medicaid work requirements in President Donald Trump’s budget bill, one man who relies on that government-subsidized health coverage was trying to coax his old car to start after an eight-hour shift…

Helen Branswell , 2025-07-23 18:15:00 The H5N1 bird flu virus has historically extracted a heavy toll when it infects humans, with nearly half of confirmed cases ending in death over the past three decades. But of the 70 cases reported in the United States over the past 18 months, only a single death occurred, leaving…

Kate Bowie , 2025-07-23 13:50:00 Resident doctors will take to the picket lines this Friday, after talks between the BMA and the government failed to resolve the ongoing pay dispute. The BMA confirmed that a five day strike would go ahead after the health secretary, Wes Streeting, failed to make a “significant offer.”1 Union officials…

, 2025-07-23 15:49:00 Credit: Marko Garic from Pexels Restrictive practices in mental health settings—such as physical restraint and seclusion—are meant to be a last resort, used only when patients pose a risk to themselves or others. In 2021 and 2022 alone, NHS England reported that 6,600 mental health patients were subjected to physical restraint, and…

, 2025-07-23 13:53:00 Researchers developed a diagnostic test based on the LIMA1-alpha protein to distinguish patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who can be cured with surgery alone, without the need for radiation or chemotherapy. Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, led by Docent Sami Ventelä and Professor…

, 2025-07-23 09:08:00 A large-scale global study has identified genetic variants that are risk factors for long COVID, a discovery that helps researchers better understand the biological systems involving the disease and one small, early step toward the elusive goal of developing a long COVID diagnostic test. International researchers with the Long COVID Host Genetics…

Steve Buslovich , 2025-07-22 14:06:00 If your value-based care strategy doesn’t reach the bedside, can it really be called care? We’ve seen growing investment in population health platforms, analytics dashboards, and retrospective reporting tools. But far too often, those efforts stop short of impacting what truly matters — what happens in the moment, at the…

Michael McHale , 2025-07-22 05:30:00 Lobby group calls for Health Minister to resist pressure to delay alcohol health information labelling A public health advocacy group has accused some Government departments of ‘enhancing alcohol consumption’ through supports for the drinks industry. Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) described the Government’s alcohol policy as ‘disjointed and often contradictory’ and…

MNB Guest , 2025-07-18 15:45:00 Caring for a loved one isn’t always straightforward. It’s filled with choices – emotional, practical, and sometimes overwhelming. That’s where professional help becomes more than a convenience; it becomes a lifeline. Many families turn to in-home care when daily support, companionship, and medical oversight are needed – often reaching out…

Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News , 2025-07-21 09:00:00 A last-minute scramble to add a $50 billion rural health program to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law has left hospital and clinic leaders nationwide hopeful but perplexed. The Rural Health Transformation Program calls for federal regulators to hand states $10 billion a year…

Torie Bosch , 2025-07-19 11:00:00 First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to…

Jeffrey K Aronson , 2025-07-18 16:26:00 Jeffrey K Aronson Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Follow Jeffrey on X: @JKAronson In linguistics, collocation is the habitual and recurrent juxtaposition of words with particular other words, those words being known as collocates. Examples include the…

, 2025-07-19 17:50:00 Credit: Mike van Schoonderwalt from Pexels This article contains spoilers! I once leaped out of a train car because two strangers were loudly discussing the ending of the last Harry Potter book. Okay—I didn’t leap, but I did plug my ears and flee to another car. Recently, I found myself in a…

, 2025-07-19 03:54:00 Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP) – like chronic or gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia – are among the leading causes of maternal and infant death in the United States.  Between 2017 to 2019, 16% of all U.S. pregnancies were complicated by an HDP diagnosis, with much higher rates seen among non-Hispanic Black/African…

, 2025-07-18 17:40:00 Commenting is limited to medical professionals. To comment please . Comments on Medscape are moderated and should be professional in tone and on topic. You must declare any conflicts of interest related to your comments and responses. Please see our Commenting Guide for further information. We reserve the right to remove posts…

Marissa Plescia , 2025-07-18 22:34:00 Democratic attorneys general of 20 states, as well as the governor of Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday. It challenges a recent final rule that they argue will create significant barriers in accessing…

brendan , 2025-07-18 09:22:00 Opportunities for Occupational Physicians, GPs with LFOM. Corporate Health Ireland is a leading occupational health service provider.  Due to business expansion, we now have excellent opportunities for doctors to join our team. We would like to offer opportunities to established Occupational Health Physicians or those interested in pursuing a career in…

Treasure Adenusi , 2025-07-17 14:00:00 Doctors can predict a woman’s risk of hypertension later in life using her blood pressure readings during pregnancy-even if she has ‘normal’ numbers.  In April 2025, a study published in the journal Hypertension found that subtle changes in blood pressure during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy may serve as…

, 2025-07-17 19:25:00 The Host The Senate has passed — and sent back to the House — a bill that would allow the Trump administration to claw back some $9 billion in previously approved funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. But first, senators removed from the bill a request to cut funding for the…

Brittany Trang , 2025-07-17 18:00:00 For decades, structural biologists shoved what looked like shoddy data in the back of their closets, embarrassed. While attempting to gather the structures of proteins, they would sometimes find that all or at least a portion of the protein would just not show up correctly in the data.  Joel Sussman,…

Mun-Keat Looi , 2025-07-16 15:31:00 NIH director dismisses entire top advisory committeeScience reported that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) director, Jay Bhattacharya, dismissed all members of the agency’s top external advisory body, the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD).1 Asked to comment, the Department of Health and Human Services—the NIH’s parent agency—told The BMJ,…

, 2025-07-16 23:00:00 Credit: Cardiovascular Diabetology (2025). DOI: 10.1186/s12933-024-02564-w A simple digital photograph of the back of the eye can predict a major cardiovascular event—such as a heart attack or stroke—set to happen in the next decade with 70% accuracy, according to research supported by the British Heart Foundation and the National Institute for Health…

, 2025-07-16 16:40:00 Could moving into a neighborhood built around a working farm be the prescription for better health? A new Texas A&M University study is putting that question to the test, tracking how residents of a new “agrihood” community change their diet, exercise, and overall health after moving in. The prospective study, led by…

, 2025-07-16 04:49:00 Global childhood vaccination coverage plateaued between 2010 and 2023, according to a new analysis published in The Lancet by the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study vaccination research consortium. Between 2010 and 2019, 100 of the 204 countries monitored saw a decline in measles vaccine coverage. Notably, 21 of the 36 high-income…

Frank Vinluan , 2025-07-15 17:52:00 A Hengrui Pharma obesity drug designed to hit two targets led to an average of nearly 18% weight loss in a pivotal study, paving the way for a regulatory submission in China, where the trial was conducted and the company is based. These results are also encouraging for biotech startup…

brendan , 2025-07-15 11:20:00 By brendan 15th July 2025 2025-07-15 Source link

Edgardo Torres-Carmona PhD , 2025-07-11 14:00:00 Looking for ways to reduce the frequency of your herpes outbreaks and shorten their duration? You are in the right place. In this article we will introduce you to science-backed herpes treatments that really work and won’t drain your bank account. If you’ve been on the internet lately, you…

Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Stephanie Armour , 2025-07-14 09:00:00 Doctors, hospitals, and health insurers for weeks issued dire warnings to Republican lawmakers that millions of people would lose health coverage and hospitals would close if they cut Medicaid funding to help pay for President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill. But Republicans…

Bob Herman , 2025-07-14 15:53:00 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…

Kamlesh Khunti, Ash Routen, Riya Patel , 2025-07-14 09:21:00 Kamlesh Khunti, professor of primary care diabetes and vascular medicine1 2, Ash Routen, research fellow1 2, Riya Patel, research fellow1 2 1Diabetes Research Centre, Leicester General Hospital, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2Centre for Ethnic Health Research, University of Leicester Collection of ethnicity data in clinical…

, 2025-07-14 04:00:00 This image demonstrates the use of fluoropolymers poly(ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene) (ETFE) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) in common cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) lead constructions. A. Coaxial pacing lead; B. Coradial pacing lead; C. Lumenless pacing lead; D. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) lead. Credit: Heart Rhythm / Vatterott et al. The public, legislators, and media often group…

, 2025-07-12 22:42:00 People with an underactive thyroid may have an increased risk of developing small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), a risk that may be reduced with thyroid hormone treatment, according to a study being presented Saturday at ENDO 2025, the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Calif. We now know that people…

, 2025-07-11 16:20:00 The European Medicines Agency (EMA)’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has issued a safety update on the chikungunya vaccine after review of the Ixchiq live-attenuated jab. It said that it would now lift the temporary restriction put in place in May on vaccinating people aged 65 years and above as a result…

Katie Adams , 2025-07-11 18:14:00 This week, five federal policy makers introduced legislation that would extend CMS’ waiver for hospital-at-home reimbursement by five years.  Three representatives — Vern Buchanan (R-Florida), Lloyd Smucker (R-Pennsylvania) and Dwight Evans (D-Pennsylvania) — put forth a bill on Thursday, and a pair of senators — Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) and…

Michael McHale , 2025-07-11 10:30:00 Corporate plan points to digital health and new HSE regions as ‘time for opportunity’ to make essential improvements in key services Increasing productivity in acute outpatient services and reducing unnecessary diagnostics are among the objectives outlined in the HSE’s new corporate plan for the next three years. As part of…

MNB Guest , 2025-07-11 14:30:00 Back pain is one of the most common reasons people visit a doctor. It can start as a dull ache or strike suddenly with sharp intensity. But here’s the problem—what feels like the same pain to two different people might come from completely different causes. That’s where the challenge begins…

, 2025-07-12 09:00:00 Thank you for your interest in supporting Kaiser Health News (KHN), the nation’s leading nonprofit newsroom focused on health and health policy. We distribute our journalism for free and without advertising through media partners of all sizes and in communities large and small. We appreciate all forms of engagement from our readers…

Isabella Cueto , 2025-07-11 19:17:00 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday announced it would further curtail undocumented immigrants’ access to federally funded programs, including health care clinics, early childhood education, and nutritional support. The decision reverses a federal practice that has been in place for decades, and is likely to cause widespread fear among immigrant…