, 2025-05-20 03:54:00 Australia has recorded its highest number of cases of the tropical bacterial infection melioidosis, which is thought to have been triggered by major rainfall and flooding. The outbreak has placed pressure on already strained hospitals in the area. The northeastern state of Queensland has recorded an unprecedented 215 cases of melioidosis so…
, 2025-05-20 04:55:00 The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences in India will embark on research to explore various clinical applications of an AI-powered tool for detecting emotions. It signed a memorandum of understanding with global IT consultant Nihilent, which created the emotion detection platform called Emoscape. The AI tool captures Navarasa or the nine fundamental…
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Theresa Gaffney , 2025-05-19 13:10:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning. Yesterday, we learned that former President Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. In 2016, he told STAT in an interview that he planned to dedicate his…
, 2025-05-20 04:10:00 A study links residual inflammation in psoriasis patients to obesity and fatty liver disease, underscoring the importance of the development of targeted and effective treatments that address the systemic aspects of psoriasis, beyond just the skin. Credit: Journal of Investigative Dermatology / González-Cantero et al. New research shows that in patients with…
, 2025-05-20 03:53:00 The new guidelines for the use of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) published in Neurodegenerative Diseases, serve as exemplary clinical recommendations for clinicians and healthcare providers, supporting the advancement of Alzheimer’s disease treatment in Switzerland. The Swiss Memory Clinics (SMC) network, a group of specialized clinics in Switzerland that diagnose and treat patients with…
, 2025-05-19 12:51:00 TOPLINE: Dermatology residency programs saw modest gains in racial and ethnic diversity from 2020 to 2024, but underrepresented groups remain disproportionately low compared with their share of the US population. METHODOLOGY: Researchers analyzed national data on dermatology residents from the Association of American Medical Colleges from 2020 to 2024. They evaluated racial…
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Bob Herman , 2025-05-19 17:29:00 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…
, 2025-05-19 21:13:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Food cravings are the downfall of many dieters, who feel locked in an eternal battle with their willpower to resist the tempting sweets, snacks and other foods they love. However, researchers in food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say in a new study…
, 2025-05-20 02:28:00 A deep learning model was able to predict future lung cancer risk from a single low-dose chest CT scan, according to new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference. The model, called Sybil, which was originally developed using National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) data by investigators from the Massachusetts Institute of…
, 2025-05-19 12:55:00 SAN DIEGO — A real-time, blood-sensing capsule (PillSense) is a safe and effective diagnostic tool for patients with suspected upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding that can aid patient triage, reduce unnecessary procedures, and optimize resource use, a study found. Notably, patients with negative capsule results had shorter hospital stays and lower acuity markers,…
Katie Adams , 2025-05-19 21:40:00 The only way to achieve clinical AI adoption at scale is to design products that serve doctors in a way that feels natural and personalized, according to one startup CEO. This was a claim made by Tom Kelly, CEO of AI scribe company Heidi Health, during an interview last week…
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Jonathan Wosen , 2025-05-19 17:37:00 President Trump’s science adviser, Michael Kratsios, called for a return to reproducible and transparent research to kickstart what he characterized as years of stalled scientific progress, in his first detailed public remarks on science policy since taking office in March. Kratsios, who heads the Office of Science and Technology Policy,…
, 2025-05-19 21:18:00 Credit: Cnordic Nordic from Pexels Findings from a first-of-its-kind virtual trial in pulmonary medicine, conducted at Rutgers and many other institutions, suggest adding an inhaled corticosteroid to rescue therapy could sharply reduce the danger of severe attacks for millions of people with mild asthma. The phase III study, published in the New…
, 2025-05-20 00:55:00 Researchers led by Hiroshi Ohno at the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan have discovered a new way to reduce obesity. Their study shows that supplying the gut with extra acetate reduces fat and liver mass in both normal and obese mice, as long as bacteria of the Bacteroides…
, 2025-05-19 13:01:00 Amid a wave of layoffs and major federal research funding cuts under the Trump administration, many US-based scientists are reevaluating their careers and considering relocation. According to a recent survey published in Nature, three quarters of 1200 researchers polled said they were contemplating leaving the United States. In this context, and with…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-19 23:19:00 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a company that has been analyzing genetic data as part of its drug research for more than a decade, is augmenting its capabilities in a big way with the $256 million acquisition of assets from genetic testing company 23andMe. The acquisition follows the selection of Regeneron’s bid as…
Angela Hart , 2025-05-19 23:05:00 Durante su primer gobierno, los principales funcionarios de salud del presidente Donald Trump autorizaron a Carolina del Norte a utilizar dinero de Medicaid para servicios sociales que tradicionalmente no estaban cubiertos por el seguro médico. Fue un experimento pionero en el país para canalizar fondos de atención médica hacia vivienda,…
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Anil Oza , 2025-05-19 21:42:00 Molecular biologist Chiara Masnovo spent weeks filling out an application for a research fellowship earlier this year — taking it over the finish line as she was 38 weeks pregnant and starting a new job. The chance of getting this fellowship was well worth the toil. The Hanna Gray fellowship, created…
Jacqui Wise , 2025-05-19 08:26:00 A new gadget for James Bond?Not quite. The term refers to digital “smart scale” technology currently being piloted by 15 specialist NHS clinics to support severely obese children to lose weight.1What’s so smart about it?The idea is that the young person is encouraged to stand on the scale at home…
, 2025-05-19 21:26:00 Participants from the Pan-African mpox consortium collaborated to produce and analyze mpox genomic data from West and Central Africa, resulting in a dataset that is around three times larger than any previous mpox dataset. Credit: Fikayo Oyewale Historically, most human mpox infections have resulted from zoonotic transmission—meaning from animals to humans—and these…
, 2025-05-19 17:07:00 Using the gene scissors CRISPR and stem cells, researchers at Stockholm University and the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) at King’s College London have managed to identify a common denominator for different gene mutations that all cause the neurological disease ALS. The research shows that ALS-linked dysfunction occurs in the energy…
, 2025-05-19 13:06:00 Adding adjuvant pertuzumab to standard adjuvant chemotherapy and trastuzumab improved overall survival at 11 years of follow-up in patients with early human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)–positive operable breast cancer, according to a new analysis of a phase 3 trial. The benefit was driven only by those with node-positive cancer, according…
Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-19 22:12:00 Steve Muth, like many in the healthcare space, launched ZEM Life for personal reasons. ZEM Life has built a smartwatch, which it’s currently seeking FDA approval for, that will be able to deliver Narcan in the case of fentanyl overdose, as well as other medications for other needs. The company…
, 2025-05-19 20:05:00 Tech giant Microsoft announced it is adding Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI’s Grok 3 to its Azure platform. Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini will be available through Azure’s AI Foundry platform, which allows developers to design, manage, customize and support enterprise-ready AI agents and apps. Grok 3, xAI’s flagship model, comprises…
Arielle Zionts , 2025-05-19 20:21:00 WINNER, Dakota del Sur — Sophie Hofeldt tenía previsto hacerse los controles de embarazo y dar a luz en el hospital local, a 10 minutos de su casa. En cambio, ahora, para ir a la consulta médica, tiene que conducir más de tres horas entre ida y vuelta. Es que…
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Lawrence K. Altman , 2025-05-19 19:15:00 News of former President Biden’s aggressive and incurable prostate cancer has surprised the public (and presumably him). Based on the public record of Biden’s medical care and standard medical recommendations, as recently as a year ago there was no reason to perform screening tests for the disease, despite his age, 81…
Ozge Tuncalp, Joshua P Vogel, Seni Kouanda, Tippawan Liabsuetrakul , 2025-05-19 14:21:00 Özge Tunçalp, executive director1, Joshua P Vogel, professor2, Seni Kouanda, professor3, Tippawan Liabsuetrakul, professor4 1Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium 2Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health Program, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia 3Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS) and Institut Africain de…
, 2025-05-19 20:27:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A study conducted at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has examined the influence of personality traits on the development and perpetuation of insomnia and found that there is a direct relationship between the two. Two findings caught the researchers’ attention:…
, 2025-05-19 17:11:00 An experimental drug developed at Duke University School of Medicine could offer powerful pain relief without the dangerous side effects of opioids. The drug, called SBI-810, is part of a new generation of compounds designed to target a receptor on the nerves and spinal cord. While opioids flood multiple cellular pathways indiscriminately, SBI-810,…
, 2025-05-19 13:14:00 TOPLINE: Individuals who developed type 1 diabetes (T1D) in adulthood faced a higher risk for all-cause mortality and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) than individuals from the general population without diabetes. Factors such as smoking, poor glycemic control, and overweight or obesity contributed to poor prognosis in these patients. METHODOLOGY: Current knowledge…
Stephanie Baum , 2025-05-19 13:01:00 Smarter Technologies is a new automation platform developed for hospitals and health systems. It brings together three companies: revenue cycle management (RCM) services businesses Access Healthcare, AI-powered revenue cycle automation platform Thoughtful.ai, as well as clinical insights AI business SmarterDx, all recently acquired by New Mountain Capital. Smarter Technologies CEO…
, 2025-05-19 18:41:00 Dazos, a company that offers a customer relationship management (CRM) platform for behavioral health organizations, has secured $25 million in Series A funding from New York-based Radian Capital. WHAT IT DOES The Florida-based company, founded in 2021, offers a revenue and admissions platform for the behavioral health sector. Its tools include a…
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John Wilkerson , 2025-05-19 18:51:00 WASHINGTON — Over the weekend, House Republicans discussed squeezing additional savings from Medicaid to pay for President Trump’s tax cuts. Medicaid policy remains one of the main unresolved areas of House Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill. On late Sunday night, Republicans on the House Budget Committee passed a reconciliation bill with…
Clare Dyer , 2025-05-19 14:26:00 MPs considering a bill to introduce assisted dying laws in England and Wales are at odds over whether doctors should be allowed to raise the option with a terminally ill patient or should have to wait for the patient to raise it first. The disagreement emerged as the UK parliament…
, 2025-05-19 18:24:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a new report, health policy experts at Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) showed significant increases in food insecurity and poor physical health following the end of federal pandemic-era emergency assistance programs. The investigators’ findings are…
, 2025-05-19 17:15:00 Emerging contaminants from rubber tires N-(1,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N’-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and its oxidation product 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ)-are raising new red flags for aquatic ecosystems. A recent study reveals that prolonged exposure to these chemicals at environmentally realistic levels disrupts lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, causes liver injury, and alters behavioral patterns in zebrafish. The research shows that…
, 2025-05-19 13:26:00 SAN DIEGO — With the recently updated recommendations by the US Preventive Services Task Force lowering the age for colorectal cancer screening to 45 instead of 50, an additional 19 million patients now require screening, Asma Khapra, MD, a gastroenterologist at Gastro Health in Fairfax, Virginia, told attendees at Digestive Disease Week…
Mike King , 2025-05-19 13:11:00 Digital transformation within healthcare, especially the life sciences sector, is alive and well and currently driven by the ongoing expansion of artificial intelligence, inclusive of generative AI, whether in healthcare products themselves or within organizations’ Quality Management Systems. According to a recent McKinsey survey, only 5% of more than 100…
, 2025-05-19 16:50:00 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC) are asking for public input on how best to promote a seamless, safe, patient-centered digital health infrastructure for Medicare. According to CMS, the aim is to unharness the…
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Jason Mast , 2025-05-19 15:48:00 Prime Medicine, a biotech whose wild ambitions for a powerful gene editing technology sank as the biotech market slumped, announced Monday it is replacing its CEO, laying off 25% of its staff, and scrapping its lead program. The reorganization comes amid a prolonged winter for the gene editing field that has…
Jacqui Wise , 2025-05-19 14:31:00 An infant with a rare genetic condition made headlines last week after successfully receiving personalised CRISPR therapy. Jacqui Wise summarises what we know so far about the breakthrough What has happened? US doctors have developed and safely delivered a customised gene editing therapy to treat a baby boy with carbamoyl…
, 2025-05-19 16:10:00 Credit: Newcastle University A powerful new short film sheds light on the urgent need to address the impact of climate change on brain health. Produced by the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center and Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medicine and Health Sciences, in collaboration with the International League Against…
, 2025-05-19 13:05:00 A new frontier into advancing treatments for children and adults with bone marrow failure, leukemia and other blood disorders will be achieved under a new partnership between Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and US biotechnology company Retro Biosciences. MCRI, a flagship member of the Melbourne Biomedical Precinct and the Melbourne arm of…