, 2025-05-05 06:13:00 TOPLINE: A 90-minute nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) in the emergency department (ED) showed significant reductions in both undertreatment and overtreatment rates among women with Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrheae (CT/NG) infections, according to a real-world study. METHODOLOGY: This two-site, retrospective, before-after study included women tested for CT/NG across two 70-week periods…
, 2025-05-05 04:10:00 Credit: Pixabay from Pexels New research in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found an increase in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits across Ontario following heavy smoke in early June 2023. Canada experienced the most destructive wildfire season to date in 2023, with difficult-to-control fires across the country, including 29 mega-fires. One fire…
, 2025-05-05 02:47:00 Men often face higher disease and death rates, but women show better outcomes in care. This global review uncovers where health systems succeed and fail across the gender divide. Study: Sex-disaggregated data along the gendered health pathways: A review and analysis of global data on hypertension, diabetes, HIV, and AIDS. Image Credit:…
, 2025-05-05 02:08:00 New research finds that the fertility rate needed to sustain a population is much higher than once thought, especially when sex ratios or mortality rates shift. This raises important questions for human societies and endangered species. Study: Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions. Image Credit: sogane / Shutterstock In a…
, 2025-05-05 01:21:00 In an interim analysis of an ongoing global trial, semaglutide resolved steatohepatitis in 63% of patients and reduced liver fibrosis, while also promoting weight loss and improving metabolic health in people with advanced fatty liver disease. Study: Phase 3 Trial of Semaglutide in Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatohepatitis. Image Credit: Douglas Cliff / Shutterstock In a…
, 2025-05-05 01:45:00 Too much of a good thing? A new study reveals that while healthier gut-friendly diets lower infertility risk, going beyond a certain dietary threshold may reverse the benefit, underscoring the need for balance in nutritional planning. Study: Association between the dietary index for gut microbiota and female infertility: a cross-sectional study of…
Helena Plater-Zyberk , 2025-05-05 01:30:00 Given last year’s almost six billion dollars invested in AI-driven health-tech, the answer might seem to be “yes.” Well, not so fast. Optimists forecasting therapy-bots’ mental health savior role fail to consider the roots of America’s mental health struggles, how artificial intimacy can or cannot address these roots, and how…
, 2025-05-05 00:01:00 A major study quantifies the global toll of plastic-derived phthalates on cardiovascular health, revealing that chemical exposure from everyday plastics may be silently fueling heart disease across developing regions. Study: Phthalate exposure from plastics and cardiovascular disease: global estimates of attributable mortality and years of life lost. Image Credit: Shutterstock AI Generator /…
, 2025-05-05 00:09:00 A large Korean study shows that drinking black coffee, especially among women, is linked to better glucose control and reduced insulin resistance, highlighting coffee’s potential role in metabolic health. Study: Association Between Coffee Consumption and Glucose Metabolism Markers in Korean Adults. Image Credit: Shutterstock AI Generator / Shutterstock.com A recent study published in…
, 2025-05-04 23:52:00 New research links ultra-processed food intake to higher psoriasis risk, even after accounting for genetics, BMI, and lifestyle, highlighting the potential of dietary changes in preventing chronic skin conditions. Study: Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and the Risk of Psoriasis: A Large Prospective Cohort Study. Image Credit: Ekaterina Markelova / Shutterstock.com A recent study published in the…
Eamon N. Dreisbach , 2025-05-04 21:12:00 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 continue to have…
, 2025-05-04 21:00:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in highly-developed countries, most often affecting women after menopause. The majority of women are diagnosed at an early stage, when treatment outcomes are generally favorable. For women with high-intermediate risk disease, adjuvant radiotherapy—particularly vaginal brachytherapy (a form of internal radiotherapy…
Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-04 21:19:00 There is no shortage of recent policy announcements affecting healthcare, from potential Medicaid cuts to changes in the administration. Several of these announcements have major implications for employers as they develop their health benefits strategies. In a recent interview at the Business Group on Health conference in Nashville, Ellen Kelsay,…
, 2025-05-04 21:00:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study presented at ESTRO 2025 introduces the RAPID-RT study, which uses an innovative rapid-learning approach to evaluate the impact of treatment modifications in radiotherapy. The paper also appears in Radiotherapy and Oncology. Traditional clinical trials are often lengthy and are not representative of real-world patient populations…
Alex Young , 2025-05-04 20:25:00 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 continue to have this…
, 2025-05-04 19:00:00 Credit: National Cancer Institute Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States’ top public health official, recently claimed some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains “aborted fetus debris” and “DNA particles”. The US is facing its worst measles outbreaks in years with nearly 900 cases across…
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Katie Adams , 2025-05-04 17:20:00 As hospitals brace for rising costs tied to President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs, a new report from the American Hospital Association reveals that drugs and supplies are just part of the problem. Overall, hospital expenses are climbing steadily — driven by chronic underpayments from payers, growing administrative requirements and increasing…
, 2025-05-04 15:00:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain So far in 2025 (as of May 1), 70 cases of measles have been notified in Australia, with all states and territories except Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory having recorded at least one case. Most infections have occurred in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia. We’ve…
John Syme , 2025-05-04 14:01:00 Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements, colloquially known as ICHRAs, have entered the zeitgeist. ICHRAs allow employers to provide employees a fixed amount of pre-tax money to purchase individual healthcare coverage and pay for health expenses. Recent articles have called out the VC interest in the space with some healthcare players…
, 2025-05-04 13:00:00 (a) The functional reading network (n = 163) across all experiments, with contributions of the cerebellum. (b) The functional reading network for individual processing levels, including the main effect of letters (n = 7), words (n = 109), sentences (n = 33) and texts (n = 8). All meta-analytic maps were thresholded at a voxel-wise p < 0.001 and a cluster-wise p < 0.05 FWE-corrected. Credit:…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-04 12:30:00 The numbers for first quarter 2025 biotech financings are in and they show a downturn in investments. A total of $6.5 billion was raised in the first quarter compared to $8.1 billion in the same period in 2024, according to figures tallied by data analytics company GlobalData. The firm counted…
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, 2025-05-04 09:15:00 Researchers at Dartmouth College, seen here, believe they have developed a reliable AI-driven app to deliver psychotherapy, addressing a critical need for mental health care. Researchers at Dartmouth College believe artificial intelligence can deliver reliable psychotherapy, distinguishing their work from the unproven and sometimes dubious mental health apps flooding today’s market. Their…
Helen Branswell , 2025-05-03 20:13:00 When word broke this week that the Department of Health and Human Services was investing half-a-billion dollars on a National Institutes of Health project to develop a vaccine platform for pathogens that could trigger pandemics, a number of scientists who work in the field of vaccinology had decidedly mixed feelings….
, 2025-05-02 14:55:00 Rifamycin screening cascade and optimized leads. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2423842122 In a classic example of scientific problem solving, scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues have published a paper introducing a promising new drug candidate they engineered to target…
, 2025-05-02 15:00:00 Divers haul the day’s catch out onto shore. Credit: Melissa Ilardo A new analysis of a group of all-women extreme divers off the coast of Korea has uncovered genetic differences that could help them survive the intense physiological stresses of free-diving—and could ultimately lead to better treatments for blood pressure disorders. The…
, 2025-05-02 15:00:00 Schematic diagram of the inflammatory RNA editing model in Parkinson’s disease. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adp8504 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the α-synuclein protein abnormally aggregates within brain cells, causing neuronal damage. Through international collaboration, researchers at KAIST have revealed that RNA editing plays a crucial role…
, 2025-05-02 15:00:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The massive national effort to return the Medicaid enrollment process to its pre-pandemic rules starting in April 2023 may have disrupted the care of people receiving treatment for opioid addiction, a new University of Michigan study suggests. The researchers call this finding concerning, because the disruption may increase…
, 2025-05-02 15:04:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The BCG vaccine protects against tuberculosis, but by inducing trained immunity it also protects against many more respiratory infections. International research led by Radboud University Medical Center shows how this process works. Lactate, a product of scaled-up energy production, appears to play a leading role. The immune system…
, 2025-05-02 15:19:00 Longitudinal changes in frequency of pertussis-specific IgG-secreting memory B-cell responses according to infant group and study timepoint. Credit: The Lancet Infectious Diseases (2025). DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(25)00072-6 Researchers at the University of Turku have participated in a study in which vaccinating women with acellular pertussis vaccine in pregnancy boosted the quantity and quality of…
, 2025-05-02 15:27:00 Illustration based on figure from the paper. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2406684122 Our brains begin to create internal representations of the world around us from the first moment we open our eyes. We perceptually assemble components of scenes into recognizable objects thanks to neurons in the…
, 2025-05-02 15:39:00 Associations of brain morphology and severity of insomnia, depression and anxiety symptoms. Credit: Nature Mental Health (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44220-025-00412-8 Insomnia, depression, and anxiety are the most common mental disorders. Treatments are often only moderately effective, with many people experiencing returning symptoms. This is why it is crucial to find new leads for…
, 2025-05-02 15:54:00 The lightweight and flexible electrode, which looks like a strand of hair, attaches directly to the scalp and delivers stable, high-quality recordings of the brain’s signals. Credit: Zhou Lab / Penn State. Creative Commons The future of electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring may soon look like a strand of hair. In place of the…
, 2025-05-02 15:55:00 Credit: Photo By: Kaboompics.com from Pexels Despite decades of public health messaging, Canadians are spending more time in the sun and using less sun protection—raising alarms among researchers as melanoma cases continue to climb. That trend is highlighted in a McGill University-led study that analyzed national survey data collected between 2011 and…
, 2025-05-02 16:01:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Around the world, people are starting to engage in outdoor activities after a winter spent largely indoors and perhaps with less physical activity than during more temperate seasons. In other climates, people may be starting an indoor, less-active time. Gosia Wamil, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic…
, 2025-05-03 16:40:00 Credit: cdd20 / Unsplash “Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness—the question of how we have a subjective experience of anything at all—it’s not too far from the truth….
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, 2025-05-02 16:03:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New analysis from the EARLY TAVR trial showed patients between the age of 65 and 70 years old derived the most benefits of a strategy of early intervention with transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) compared to other age groups, especially in regards to stroke risk, and in regards…
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, 2025-05-02 16:04:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New data from a large, international registry showed balloon-assisted anterior mitral leaflet modification (BATMAN) was safe, effective, and resulted in shorter procedure times among patients undergoing transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR). The data were presented today as late-breaking clinical research at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions…
, 2025-05-03 05:33:00 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which the α-synuclein protein abnormally aggregates within brain cells, causing neuronal damage. Through international collaboration, researchers at KAIST have revealed that RNA editing plays a crucial role in regulating neuroinflammation, a key pathology of Parkinson’s disease. KAIST (represented by President Kwang-Hyung Lee) announced on…
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, 2025-05-03 13:50:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers led by the Trondheim University Hospital in Norway report that two hours of immediate skin-to-skin contact between mothers and very preterm infants after birth does not improve cognitive, motor, or language development by age 2 to 3 years. Infants receiving the intervention did show significantly improved breastfeeding…
, 2025-05-03 05:51:00 Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle weakness to stroke-like episodes. Some of these conditions result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the genetic material housed in these organelles. For patients with the common m.3243A>G mutation, which can cause MELAS syndrome (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy,…
, 2025-05-02 07:25:00 On April 28, the Spanish Iberian Peninsula experienced a general blackout starting at 12:33 PM Central European Summer Time (CEST). Despite the disruption, hospitals across the country maintained urgent medical care thanks to independent power systems and the efforts of healthcare professionals. Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez confirmed that emergency services continued…
Andrew (Drew) Rhoades , 2025-05-02 13:24:00 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 continue to have…
, 2025-05-03 14:00:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Patients with severe dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, or EB, have skin so fragile, the slightest touch can lead to blistering and, eventually, large, open wounds that never heal, causing immense pain. A treatment developed at Stanford Medicine, skin grafts, can treat those large, open wounds. Genetically engineered from a…
, 2025-05-03 06:26:00 New research from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience maps the similarities and differences between the three most common brain disorders. Insomnia, depression, and anxiety are the most common mental disorders. Treatments are often only moderately effective, with many people experiencing returning symptoms. This is why it is crucial to find new leads…
, 2025-05-02 07:48:00 TOPLINE: Audiometry-measured hearing loss in older adults accounted for up to 32% of incident dementia cases over 8 years in new research, significantly larger than previously reported estimates. Investigators found larger dementia prevalence estimates in people aged 75 years or older, women, and White individuals, whereas self-reported hearing loss was not associated…