US drug overdoses fall for the first time in five years
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…
Placenta bandages have far more health benefits than risky placenta pills—a bioengineer explains
, 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…
Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly set to begin in May 2025
, 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". …
Hospitalists Lead Charge Against HAIs
, 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…
Using RWD to Improve Clinical Trial Recruitment, Endpoints, and Inform Market Access Strategies
Stephanie Baum , 2025-05-16 11:30:00 Gaining greater insight into the patient journey from diagnosis through treatment is a priority for drug developers as they seek to produce more effective drugs.…
Irish Pharmacy Union reaches agreement on providing free HRT
Michael McHale , 2025-05-16 11:04:00 New deal will see community pharmacies receive €2,000 once-off grant on top of €5 dispensing fee per product The Minister for Health has reached an…
Even Where Abortion Is Still Legal, Many Brick-and-Mortar Clinics Are Closing
Kate Wells, Michigan Public , 2025-05-16 09:00:00 On the last day of patient care at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Marquette, Michigan, a port town on the shore of Lake…
Uplizna ‘even better’ for IgG4-related disease with GI involvement
Robert Stott , 2025-05-16 11:00:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address…
Ensuring equitable vaccine access during the next pandemic
Stephanie Psaki and Ashish K. Jha , 2025-05-16 08:30:00 Next week at the World Health Assembly in Geneva, 193 member countries of the World Health Organization (with the U.S. notably…
Spiralling cases of dengue in Latin America
Claudia Codeco, Celina Turchi Martelli, Patricia Brasil, Marilia Sa Carvalho , 2025-05-16 09:25:00 Claudia Codeço, senior researcher1, Celina Turchi Martelli, senior researcher2, Patricia Brasil, senior researcher3, Marilia Sá Carvalho, senior…
Plant-based proteins may help lower high blood pressure risk, research indicates
, 2025-05-16 10:23:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Eating more minimally processed plant-based proteins—such as beans, nuts and lentils—may lower the risk for high blood pressure, according to new research. The…
Optimer licensing agreements and repeat custom
, 2025-05-16 09:22:00 Aptamer Group plc, the leading developer of next-generation synthetic binders delivering innovation to the life science industry, has announced two new development contracts for Optimer binders and…
NICE Recommends Two Monoclonal Antibody Treatments
, 2025-05-16 09:54:00 Two monoclonal antibody targeted therapies have been recommended for routine NHS use in England by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).Spesolimab has been endorsed…
General Practitioner – Castleisland, Co. Kerry
brendan , 2025-05-16 08:40:00 HSE South West currently has the following opportunity: General Practitioner, General Medical Services Scheme Castleisland, Co. Kerry. (Post held under GMS Contract) SWMDS79506 The GMS…
Californians Receiving In-Home Care Fear Medicaid Cuts Will Spell End to Independent Living
Ronnie Cohen , 2025-05-16 09:00:00 OAKLAND, Calif. — With a Starbucks coffee cup in her hand and a half gallon of milk under her arm, Florence Owens let herself into…
Women with autoimmune disease face more death from heart disease than men
Scott Buzby , 2025-05-15 14:00:00 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…
The FDA must earn trust on AI in product reviews
Jennifer Goldsack , 2025-05-16 08:30:00 In an industry known for its caution, the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to rapidly deploy generative AI across all medical product review offices by the…
Polio outbreak declared in Papua New Guinea
, 2025-05-16 08:31:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A polio outbreak has been declared in Papua New Guinea, sparking concern about the disease's spread in a country with low vaccination rates,…
Wuxi Biologics completes first commercial PPQ campaign at 15,000L production line in Hangzhou site
, 2025-05-16 04:53:00 WuXi Biologics ("WuXi Bio"), a leading global Contract Research, Development and Manufacturing Organization (CRDMO), announced the successful completion of the first commercial project Process Performance Qualification (PPQ)…
Med Students Prepped to Care for Patients With Disabilities?
, 2025-05-16 07:55:00 Medical school graduate Eshani Kishore never received any formal education in how to treat patients with disabilities, considered one of the largest minority groups in the nation.“If…
An illness that could save your life
Editorial Staff , 2025-05-16 06:00:00 Many people with Barrett’s Oesophagus have never heard of it and don’t know they have it but getting a diagnosis could save them from cancer…
Obesity-related heart attack deaths increased from 2007 to 2019
Erik Swain , 2025-05-15 14:13:00 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…
STAT+: An RFK Jr. doubleheader and a very long Medicaid markup
John Wilkerson , 2025-05-15 15:08:00 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…
Violence between parents or in the community increases risk of child punishment
, 2025-05-15 20:58:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exposure to higher rates of violence in the larger social context may spill over to family violence, including caregivers' use of physical child…
Study links air pollution, urban development and lack of green spaces to asthma
, 2025-05-16 04:54:00 The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults. This is shown by a…
Imlunestrant Benefit Holds After CDK4/6 Therapy Progression
, 2025-05-16 05:55:00 Combination therapy with imlunestrant and the CDK4/6 inhibitor abemaciclib led to a significant progression-free survival (PFS) benefit compared with imlunestrant alone in women with estrogen receptor (ER)–positive…
Isolated, combined MPFL reconstruction yielded high return-to-sports rates
Casey Tingle , 2025-05-15 14:51:00 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…
FDA commissioner: New vaccines guidance coming in weeks
Lizzy Lawrence , 2025-05-15 16:21:00 WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency is planning to unveil new guidance for vaccine makers, focused primarily on Covid-19…
An overlooked cell type orchestrates brain rewiring during states of heightened attention
, 2025-05-15 21:15:00 Researchers at WashU Medicine have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing…
Socioeconomic gaps persist in COVID-19 vaccination among older Swedes
, 2025-05-16 05:06:00 The spring COVID-19 vaccination program in Sweden is in its final stages in several parts of the country. The program has encompassed free booster doses for those…
Role of Inflammation in Heart Disease: What PCPs Should Know
, 2025-05-15 12:37:00 In the United Sates, heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups. Not only that but…
Care options ‘declining’ in radiation oncology due to consolidation, physician preferences
Josh Friedman , 2025-05-15 18:00:00 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…
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz on Elizabeth Holmes’ second act
Tyler Shultz , 2025-05-15 16:31:00 I always knew Elizabeth Holmes would have a second act. But I’m shocked it’s starting while she’s still behind bars. Elizabeth is now serving an…
1 in 10 asthma cases can be avoided with a better urban environment, large-scale study finds
, 2025-05-16 03:30:00 Credit: Dianne from Pexels The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults. This…
Disparities in access to novel infusion treatment for Alzheimer’s disease revealed
, 2025-05-16 03:25:00 Adoption of lecanemab, a novel infusion treatment for Alzheimer's disease (AD), has been disproportionately higher among patients who are male, white, from urban areas, and have higher…
FDA Okays Belzutifan for Pheochromocytoma or Paraganglioma
, 2025-05-15 12:43:00 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved belzutifan (Welireg, Merck) for adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years or older with locally advanced, unresectable, or…
AI-based large language models may benefit pre-surgery decisions in epilepsy
Robert Herpen, MA , 2025-05-15 18:19:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email…
Leaders in American research warn of rising threats to science
Anil Oza , 2025-05-15 18:58:00 Attacks on efforts to diversify the sciences. Research grant terminations. Fear among scientists to speak out against the government. Cuts to international aid. These were…
Loss of lung capacity begins between the ages of 20 and 25, study suggests
, 2025-05-15 22:30:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in collaboration with the Clínic-IDIBAPS, has shown, for the first time, how…
Astrocytes found to drive brain rewiring during attention states
, 2025-05-16 02:18:00 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance…
Why Workflow Chaos Is Undermining Care – and What Providers Can Do About It.
wlim , 2025-05-15 11:45:00 Every minute matters in healthcare. Outdated systems and disjointed workflows can stall the flow of critical clinical information. Today’s providers often face the challenge of retrieving…
Crinecerfont enables reductions in androstenedione, improves reproductive hormones
Erik Swain , 2025-05-15 18:52:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address…
ASGCT news: Baby KJ and the dream of personalized gene editing
Jason Mast , 2025-05-15 21:15:00 NEW ORLEANS — Greetings from ASGCT, where the gene therapy field had some great news for once, about a highly photogenic infant. Baby KJ gets a custom…
Enteral tube feeding in people with advanced dementia
Nathan M Stall, Kieran L Quinn, Jenny T van der Steen, Johanna Trimble, A Mark Clarfield, Susan L Mitchell , 2025-05-15 11:51:00 Nathan M Stall, geriatrician, general internist and health…
Betrayed by bile ducts? Researchers look for clues to treating a mysterious autoimmune disease
, 2025-05-16 01:10:00 The bile duct network collects waste from your liver and gallbladder and then empties into your small intestine. Credit: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt, La Jolla Institute for Immunology Your…
GOP poised to cut billions in health benefits
, 2025-05-16 00:50:00 The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News' weekly health policy news podcast, "What…
As Drug Overdose Deaths Decline, Experts Worry About Future
, 2025-05-15 12:52:00 Drug overdose deaths declined by almost 27% in 2024, new provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed.The decline continues a downward…
Meet the Startup Using Dogs to Sniff Out Cancer
Katie Adams , 2025-05-15 20:36:00 Israeli startup SpoititEarly launched in the U.S. on Thursday, aiming to close a significant gap in the cancer diagnostics market. The company is developing a…
Experts scrutinize HHS report on gender-affirming care for minors
Sara Kellner; Emma Bascom , 2025-05-15 19:15:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your…
Ally of RFK Jr. says HHS will end routine Covid shots for some groups
Isabella Cueto , 2025-05-15 22:12:00 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that the Department of Health and Human Services will stop recommending Covid vaccines for children…