Sen. Ron Wyden Seeks Answers on RFK Jr.’s Purge of FOIA Staff
Rachana Pradhan , 2025-05-08 16:27:00 Rachana Pradhan The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass dismissals of workers who release government records “raise grave transparency, accountability, and privacy concerns,” Oregon…
Socioeconomic status linked with worse eye structure, function in glaucoma
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Trump taps MAHA influencer for surgeon general, Vinay Prasad’s first speech at FDA
John Wilkerson , 2025-05-08 17:08:00 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…
Lab demonstrates key molecular factor in exhaustion of immune cells—with treatment implications
, 2025-05-08 17:13:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A key enzyme and its molecular pathway are critical to keeping certain immune cells active and away from "exhaustion," according to a new…
New brain imaging method shows promise for early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease
, 2025-05-08 16:55:00 An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown – for the first time in a realistic way – that it may be…
Europe Unites Against Alcohol Harm
, 2025-05-08 15:30:00 AMSTERDAM — Today, the EU launched a new coalition of health organizations and experts to advocate for the reduction of alcohol-related illnesses, injuries, and deaths here at…
Unpaid Bills Are Pushing Hospitals and Uninsured Patients to the Brink – Can AI Save Them?
Seth Cohen , 2025-05-08 13:44:00 Medicaid was meant to be the solution. Then came the Affordable Care Act. But while the uninsured rate in America has reached historic lows, the…
Chipiron raises $17M for miniature MRI prototype
, 2025-05-08 15:59:00 Chipiron, a deeptech startup that specializes in ultra-low MRI, announced it raised $17 million in Series A funding round led by Blast. EIC Fund and iXcore participated…
Psilocybin improves mood, motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease
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NIH canceled grants totaling $1.8 billion in Trump cuts: JAMA report
Anil Oza , 2025-05-08 15:15:00 It has been hard to quantify the scope of grants canceled by Trump administration health agencies, but in a paper published Thursday, researchers are putting…
Older adults benefit from exercising with people in their local area, study finds
, 2025-05-08 15:27:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mid and older life adults are choosing to exercise with people of the same age who they live near to and see often,…
Study uncovers how co-infection by two bacteria suppresses immune response
, 2025-05-08 14:01:00 The incidence of infection by Mycobacterium abscessus, is increasing in patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other chronic pulmonary diseases, leading to an…
MHRA Approves First UK Treatment for Thyroid Eye Disease
, 2025-05-08 14:20:00 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved teprotumumab (Tepezza, Amgen) as the first treatment to be licensed in the UK for adults with moderate…
Healthcare Marketing is Missing the Mark in Three Big Ways
Meg Dietzel , 2025-05-08 13:48:00 Innovative marketing practices are the goal of every marketer; however, sometimes, it’s essential to consider not what new marketing tactic will be influential but how…
Is this the real reason diets fail?
Mathuln Piraba , 2025-05-08 14:00:00 ‘Diets don’t work.’ You’ve probably heard this claim many times, and for most people, statistics say it’s true. The question is, why do diets fail?…
PCI at ambulatory surgery centers appears just as safe as at hospitals
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FDA’s Vinay Prasad, Eli Lilly, autism study
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Insulin resistance in youth may inform type 2 diabetes prevention
, 2025-05-08 13:24:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have identified a mechanism underlying insulin resistance in adolescents with obesity. The findings, published in Journal of Clinical Investigation, present a targetable…
Meet the Florida group chipping away at public benefits one state at a time
, 2025-05-08 11:29:00 As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor's desk in April, the nation's top health official joined…
Salmonella Outbreak Under Investigation
, 2025-05-08 12:32:00 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating a Salmonella outbreak that had infected seven individuals across six states as of April 24, 2025. According…
Startup HAYA Hauls In $65M to Shed Light on the Dark Genome With a Lead Drug for Heart Failure
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-08 12:00:00 Many drugs available and in development work by targeting proteins, an approach that comes with limitations. For one, proteins are not the root cause of…
Breztri for asthma meets primary endpoints in two phase 3 trials
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what are peptides, long covid, CDC fellowships
Theresa Gaffney , 2025-05-08 11:59:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning! We got some personnel news…
Eating ultra-processed foods may harm your health, research indicates
, 2025-05-08 10:26:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, potato chips and packaged cookies, may be associated with adverse health outcomes, according to research…
Seeking spending cuts, GOP lawmakers target a tax hospitals love to pay
, 2025-05-08 11:33:00 On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital within a 75-minute drive. The facility struggles…
Even ‘Weekend Warriors’ Can Reduce GI Disease Risk
, 2025-05-08 11:06:00 SAN DIEGO — The session started with a question that many in the audience at a May 4 session of Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025 seemed to…
Meet the Florida Group Chipping Away at Public Benefits One State at a Time
Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss , 2025-05-08 09:00:00 PHOENIX — As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor’s desk in…
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis contains multiple subtypes, more than ‘RA junior’
Rob Volansky , 2025-05-08 09:30:00 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…
How to cut Medicaid costs without hurting care
Sanjay Basu , 2025-05-08 08:30:00 As a primary care physician serving Medicaid patients, I recently witnessed a preventable hospitalization that perfectly illustrates America’s health care dysfunction. My homebound patient with…
Study traces sharp regional shifts in ischemic heart disease burden—a global warning signal
, 2025-05-08 10:20:00 Credit: AI-generated image A new study puts the spotlight on the rising burden of ischemic heart disease across Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania, and calls for…
Next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy shows promising results in lymphoma patients
, 2025-05-08 05:29:00 A next-generation "armored" CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer…
FAQs About Orthopedics Specialty
, 2025-05-08 09:18:00 Orthopedic specialists can be generally grouped into one of two categories: Surgical and nonsurgical. Within those categories, there are several subspecialties.Orthopedic surgeons may specialize in surgery of…
Seeking Spending Cuts, GOP Lawmakers Target a Tax Hospitals Love To Pay
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News , 2025-05-08 09:00:00 On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital within a…
Family history of diabetes may be linked to CKD progression
Shawn M. Carter , 2025-05-07 14:10:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email…
Inside the peptide craze: Hype, science, and risk
Alex Hogan , 2025-05-08 08:30:00 A constellation of social media wellness influencers, YouTubers, and podcasters have been extolling the health benefits of peptides. There seems to be a peptide for…
GP-led talking therapy eases PTSD symptoms after critical illness, trial indicates
, 2025-05-08 08:43:00 Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A brief spell of talking therapy with a general practitioner reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for survivors of critical…
Talking therapy by GPs eases PTSD symptoms after critical illness
, 2025-05-08 05:32:00 A brief spell of talking therapy with a general practitioner reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for survivors of critical illness, finds a trial from Germany…
Frail Medicare Patients Face Primary Care Follow-Up Gaps
, 2025-05-08 08:09:00 TOPLINE:Vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries with frailty and those needing short-term skilled nursing facility care post-hospitalization were less likely to receive timely primary care follow-up after returning home.METHODOLOGY:Researchers conducted…
For some women with infertility, GLP-1s may hold an unexpected benefit: Pregnancy
Erin T. Welsh, MA , 2025-05-07 14:28:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your…
We’re reading about FDA CBER pick, Trump drug-pricing plan
Ed Silverman , 2025-05-07 13:05:00 Hello, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you, especially since the middle of the week is upon us. After…
One-week breast cancer radiotherapy proven as safe and effective as standard three-week treatment
, 2025-05-07 20:20:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Presented at ESTRO 2025 in Vienna, Austria, a 10-year study involving over 4,000 UK patients confirms that a one-week course of post-surgery radiotherapy…
Eating disorders affect all races and genders on college campuses
, 2025-05-08 05:41:00 What does a person with an eating disorder look like? The picture may not be as clear-cut as many people think. Researchers at Washington University in St.…
LSD for Anxiety and Depression: Worth the Trip?
, 2025-05-07 12:15:00 A year after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) opened the door to clinical use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), US-based MindMed has launched phase 3…
Robotic surgery upskilling in Korea, India and more briefs
, 2025-05-08 04:13:00 Intuitive Surgical signs investment, workforce training in Korea, India Intuitive Surgical, a developer of robotic surgical systems based in the United States, has signed deals in South…
A letter to my future physician self
Kayla R. Vaccaro , 2025-05-07 15:01:00 Dear future me (aka Dr. Probably Still Running on 4 Hours of Sleep, DO) ... Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when…
Marea, Novo, Inductive Bio, Met Gala
Elaine Chen , 2025-05-07 13:28:00 Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning. Biotech was…
New guidelines on the role of emerging therapies in managing adults with metastatic brain tumors
, 2025-05-07 20:30:00 Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) has updated its guidelines on using emerging therapies to treat metastatic brain tumors, reflecting improvements in…
Study shows no connection between PM2.5 spikes and major cardiovascular events
, 2025-05-08 03:55:00 Despite concerns over air pollution spikes, this decades-long Danish study finds that repeated PM2.5 peaks are not linked to increased cardiovascular risk, highlighting the greater importance of…
Anticoagulation in Subclinical AF May Offer Little Benefit
, 2025-05-07 12:17:00 TOPLINE:In a modeling analysis, initiating direct acting or nonvitamin K oral anticoagulants (DOAC/NOAC) in patients with device-detected subclinical atrial fibrillation (AF) provided a net gain of approximately…
Anticoagulation in Subclinical AF May Offer Little Benefit
, 2025-05-07 12:17:00 TOPLINE:In a modeling analysis, initiating direct acting or nonvitamin K oral anticoagulants (DOAC/NOAC) in patients with device-detected subclinical atrial fibrillation (AF) provided a net gain of approximately…