Helen Branswell , 2025-05-16 21:55:00 Earlier this week, Lisa Blunt Rochester asked a seemingly simple question of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his testimony to the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee: “Who is the acting CDC director?” Kennedy, the secretary of Health and Human Services, offered the name “Matt Buzzelli,” who he described…
, 2025-05-16 18:09:00 Schulich Medicine & Dentistry researcher and bioinformatician Abayomi Olabode is working on an algorithm to help researchers better classify HIV’s constantly changing strains. Credit: Megan Morris/Schulich Medicine & Dentistry Hiding behind numerous disguises, HIV has been evading researchers for years, leaving the search for a vaccine as elusive as the virus itself. Once…
, 2025-05-16 15:04:00 In this interview, industry expert Blake Webb shares insights on the future of fluidic technology, highlighting trends in automation, microfluidics, and smart systems shaping medical diagnostics and laboratory workflows. Can you give us an overview of how fluidics has evolved in medical devices and laboratory equipment over the years? Over the years,…
, 2025-05-16 13:04:00 A quarter century of groundbreaking research has transformed the landscape for treating Philadelphia chromosome–positive leukemia. Medscape Medical News Source link
Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-16 20:03:00 Sprinter Health, a mobile healthcare provider, has raised $55 million in Series B funding to help the company expand its team and footprint, it announced Thursday. Menlo Park, California-based Sprinter Health works with health plans and offers both in-home and virtual care. Its community-based health staff, called Sprinters, and remote…
Editorial Staff , 2025-05-16 07:30:00 Service, operational since 2004, relocates to stand-alone setting on the grounds of southeast hospital The Sexual Assault Treatment Unit at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) has moved to a new home. Serving the southeast region, the unit, which had previously been accommodated within the hospital, has relocated to its own, dedicated,…
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Jason Mast , 2025-05-16 22:32:00 NEW ORLEANS — Greetings from the home stretch of American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy conference, where everyone is still talking about Baby KJ and no one wants to talk about Vinay Prasad. The Vinay Prasad in the room Last year, hundreds of people poured in to see Peter…
Kira Goodman, Liana Bailey, Megan Wright, Dave Lysecki , 2025-05-16 14:16:00 Kira Goodman, project director1, Liana Bailey, doctoral student and research coordinator2, Megan Wright, chief executive officer and executive director2, Dave Lysecki, associate professor and division head for pediatric palliative medicine3 on behalf of Canada’s Pediatric Palliative Care Alliance 1Canada’s Pediatric Palliative Care Alliance, Toronto,…
, 2025-05-16 18:23:00 Percentages of U.S. adults who know various ways that measles can be spread. Source: Annenberg Public Policy Center surveys in April 2024 and April 2025. Credit: Annenberg Public Policy Center The United States is in the midst of the second-highest year of measles cases since 2000, when the disease was declared eliminated…
, 2025-05-16 16:29:00 Stroke is one of the leading causes of long-term disability worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 15 million people suffer a stroke each year. Of these, 5 million die and another 5 million are left permanently disabled. It is also estimated that someone suffers a stroke every two seconds, and…
, 2025-05-16 13:48:00 BIRMINGHAM — A commonly used method by podiatrists and physiotherapists to manage osteoarthritis (OA) of the first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTPJ) is undergoing formal testing in a randomised clinical trial, a UK researcher said on the first day of The Primary Care Show 2025. Michael Backhouse The Big Toe OstEoarthritis (BigTOE) Inserts Trial…
Katie Adams , 2025-05-16 21:31:00 Trust is a major theme flowing through many of the conversations healthcare leaders are having about how to safely and effectively incorporate AI into the field, pointed out Joel Gordon, chief medical information officer at UW Health in Wisconsin. He made this observation during an interview this week at the…
Terence Cosgrave , 2025-05-16 07:30:00 RFK Jr’s cuts will have massive implications for the health of Americans, and the health of the world, writes Terence Cosgrave “You’ve been unable, in most instances, to answer any specific questions relating to your agency… You are the wrong person for this job.” That is what Democratic Senator Angela…
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Jason Mast , 2025-05-16 21:35:00 NEW ORLEANS — Last year, hundreds of people poured in to see Peter Marks, the FDA’s head of biologics, speak at the American Society for Cell and Gene Therapy conference. The regulator was seen by many advocates, researchers and executives as an ally in their efforts to get rare disease…
Jugdeep Dhesi , 2025-05-16 14:26:00 Jugdeep Dhesi, president British Geriatrics Society, Marjory Warren House, London, UK Jugdeep.Dhesi{at}gstt.nhs.uk Higginson and Ramjeeawon discuss whether the new palliative care commission in the UK can drive real change.1 Any review of palliative and end-of-life care must look at the needs of the ageing population. Approximately 670 000 people die every…
, 2025-05-16 19:07:00 The Gutruf Lab’s wearable device provides personalized health data without the constraints of adhesives and frequent reapplication. Credit: University of Arizona College of Engineering Wearable technologies are revolutionizing health care, but design limitations in adhesive-based personal monitors have kept them from meeting their full potential. A new University of Arizona study, published…
, 2025-05-16 16:35:00 Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the body’s immune system, sometimes for years. It turns out that the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, can shut down a key set of genes, rendering itself “immunologically invisible.” “This finding provides…
, 2025-05-16 19:48:00 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance to the first blood test to aid in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The Lumipulse G pTau217/Beta-Amyloid 1-42 Plasma Ratio, from Fujirebio Diagnostics, Inc., is for the early detection of amyloid plaques associated with AD in adults aged 55 years and older…
, 2025-05-16 17:49:00 As the GOP works to complete its “big, beautiful bill,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) defended proposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Rep. Dan Crenshaw on Medicaid: “The person we’re taking it away from is the able-bodied adult with no children who refuses to work.” pic.twitter.com/G4MmZCAcMA — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 16,…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-16 18:55:00 BioMarin Pharmaceutical is building up its pipeline with the acquisition of Inozyme Pharma in a $270 million deal centered on an enzyme replacement therapy that could become the first FDA-approved treatment for a rare disease that is often fatal to infants born with it. Terms of the acquisition agreement announced…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-16 07:30:00 Ahead of World IBD Day, Crohn’s and Colitis Ireland have published a new conversation guide to aid better understanding of gastrointestinal conditions among the public It’s a condition that few people talk about. Around 50,000 people live with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Ireland, with at least 20,000 of those…
, 2025-05-16 16:43:00 Data sharing technology company Datavant announced it will acquire Aetion, a company focused on real-world evidence (RWE) in healthcare. Aetion will join Datavant to offer an end-to-end real-world evidence platform, allowing healthcare and life sciences companies to respond to research questions about the clinical impact of therapies in development and in-market. Davavant’s platform…
Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News , 2025-05-16 18:30:00 Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News Uncertainty around federal efforts to expand high-speed internet — and with it telehealth access — to all Americans swirled fast this week after President Donald Trump vowed to end what he called the “racist” and “unconstitutional” Digital Equity Act. The…
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Lizzy Lawrence , 2025-05-16 14:35:00 WASHINGTON — Kevin Hall, a top nutrition scientist who departed from the National Institutes of Health last month, said he’s unlikely to return to the agency, despite NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya’s asking him back. Hall took the federal government’s early retirement offer last month after several incidents in which Health and…
Sally Howard , 2025-05-16 15:11:00 A survey of women’s aid organisations across 44 countries has found that 47% of those that provide crucial services in crisis contexts, including sexual and reproductive health services, expect to shut down within six months if current funding levels persist. The rapid global survey was conducted by UN Women in…
, 2025-05-16 18:00:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are approximately 3,500 sleep-related deaths among babies in the United States each year. The leading cause of death for infants 1 month to 1 year is Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUIDs). This includes sleep-related deaths and Sudden…
, 2025-05-16 17:21:00 NewsMedical and Vikram Devgan discuss how Bruker is advancing live single-cell functional analysis, helping to accelerate breakthroughs in immunology and beyond. How has single-cell research evolved over the past two decades? Over the past 20 years, single-cell research has evolved from identifying cell types using flow cytometry to uncovering molecular heterogeneity through single-cell…
, 2025-05-16 15:00:00 TOPLINE: High-quality carbohydrate and dietary fiber intake during midlife is associated with 31% and 17% higher odds of healthy aging in women, while refined carbohydrates show 13% lower odds of healthy aging. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a prospective cohort study using data from the Nurses’ Health Study from January 1984 to December 2016,…
Eric Esser , 2025-05-16 13:36:00 In today’s rapidly evolving scientific landscape, eliminating barriers to progress is more critical than ever. Precision medicine and targeted therapies hold great promise but are dependent on the ability to produce massive amounts of DNA in the early research and development phases. Innovations like the first synthetic flu vaccine and…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-16 07:30:00 Letter signed by 14 organisations urges Government to take the final steps needed to implement pre-action protocols A group of organisations representing patients, doctors and dentists – as well as legal firms in Ireland – have united to urge the Government to take steps to reduce the human and financial…
, 2025-05-16 16:21:00 On-demand, in-home care company Sprinter Health secured $55 million in a Series B financing round led by General Catalyst. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health and other existing investors including the Regents of the University of California, Google Ventures and Accel participated in the round. WHAT IT DOES Sprinter Health partners with…
Jackie Fortiér and Arthur Allen , 2025-05-16 09:00:00 In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows, one man’s defensive wall in a tariff war. Independent pharmacist Benjamin Jolley and his colleagues worry that the tariffs, aimed at bringing drug production to the United…
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Bob Herman , 2025-05-16 14:39:00 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. SAN DIEGO —…
David Oliver , 2025-05-16 12:01:00 David Oliver, consultant in geriatrics and acute general medicine Berkshire davidoliver372{at}googlemail.comFollow David on X @mancunianmedic The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill,1 which aims to legalise medically assisted dying in England and Wales, has brought greater public and political attention to palliative and end-of-life care. There’s a groundswell of…
, 2025-05-16 15:09:00 Graphical abstract. Credit: Neuron (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2025.04.017 While Alzheimer’s disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at…
, 2025-05-16 11:23:00 In the dim basement of a Salt Lake City pharmacy, hundreds of amber-colored plastic pill bottles sit stacked in rows, one man’s defensive wall in a tariff war. Independent pharmacist Benjamin Jolley and his colleagues worry that the tariffs, aimed at bringing drug production to the United States, could instead drive companies…
, 2025-05-16 14:28:00 The US Food and Drug Administration has approved two new indications for the PD-1-blocking antibody, retifanlimab-dlwr (Zynyz, Incyte), both for locally recurrent or metastatic squamous cell anal carcinoma. The first indication is for upfront treatment of inoperable disease in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel; the second is as monotherapy following progression on…
Sarah McLeod , 2025-05-16 13:46:00 Everything about the American healthcare system changed 15 years ago when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law. Perhaps the most significant health policy of our time, it revolutionized coverage and access, as well as the way healthcare companies communicated. With its future uncertain, now is the time…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-16 07:31:00 Review aims to assess whether equipment is being used to its maximum capacity The HSE and Department of Health are to conduct a review into how diagnostic equipment is being used in healthcare settings, the Health Minister has told IMT. “There are so many different things that we need to…
Michelle Andrews and Eliza Fawcett, Healthbeat , 2025-05-16 09:00:00 NEW YORK — On a recent visit to Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan, some floors in the mammoth office building bustled with people seeking services or facing legal proceedings at federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the lobby,…
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Ed Silverman , 2025-05-16 13:09:00 And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, you may recall, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda, for the most part, is rather modest. We plan to catch up on our reading, promenade with the…
Luke Taylor , 2025-05-16 10:11:00 The number of overdose deaths in the US has fallen for the first time in five years in a sign that the country may be finally turning the corner on fatalities attributed to fentanyl.1 A report published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday showed…
, 2025-05-16 12:51:00 Eating a placenta may not give you the health benefits some people want you to believe it has, but using it as a bandage might. The placenta is an organ created during pregnancy that provides nutrients to a growing fetus through an umbilical cord. It’s usually large and relatively flat, composed of…
, 2025-05-16 12:18:00 The Seventy-eighth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA78) will convene from 19 to 27 May 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland, under the theme “One World for Health”. The Health Assembly will bring together high-level country representatives and other stakeholders to address health challenges. This year’s gathering comes at a pivotal moment for…
, 2025-05-16 12:08:00 It reads like the alphabet soup of healthcare: CDI, MRSA, CAUTI, and VAE. Those letters all fall under the category of hospital or healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs), and they can wreak havoc on patient care. On any given day, about 1 in 31 hospital patients has at least one HAI, according to the…