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Could clinician entrepreneurs benefit Canada’s health and economy?

, 2025-05-20 04:10:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Clinical entrepreneurs—physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals—who understand Canada’s health care challenges first-hand could help improve the health system and grow the economy, argue two physicians in a commentary published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. “Successful Canadian-controlled private corporations developed by these entrepreneurs could fuel economic…

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First Hormone-Free Male Pill? YCT-529 Shows Early Promise

, 2025-05-20 06:26:00 For decades, oral contraceptive options have been limited to women, while men have had only two choices: Condoms or vasectomy. That could change with the development of YCT-529, a nonhormonal male contraceptive currently in phase 2 clinical trials, which offers a novel mechanism for inhibiting the production of viable sperm. Developed by…

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Study combines NLP, conventional coding to improve dementia detection

, 2025-05-20 04:50:00 The National Centre for Healthy Ageing, a research institute by Monash University and Peninsula Health in Australia, has developed a new AI-driven method to efficiently identify dementia in hospitals.  It researched ways to uplift dementia detection in healthcare settings by combining traditional and AI-driven case identification approaches.  FINDINGS Based on a media…

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Regeneron buying 23andMe; Novavax Covid shot approved

Ed Silverman , 2025-05-19 12:57:00 Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was relaxing and invigorating, because that oh-so-familiar routine of meetings, deadlines, and messages has returned. But what can you do? There is no pause button to stop the world from spinning. So this means one thing:…

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How neurons survive botulinum neurotoxin type A exposure

, 2025-05-20 05:00:00 BoNT/Aintoxication of LAN5 cells induces massive tRF changes. (A) Experimental design: 2×106 LAN5 cells/well were intoxicated by 10,000 MsLD50/mL BoNT/A, and small RNA-seq profiles from these cells were compared to nontreated (NT) cells, revealing differences in miRNAs and tRFs. Volcano plots of DE transcriptomes (FDR < 0.05) were generated from three biological…

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US withdrawal from global health bodies threatens millions with hunger and disease

, 2025-05-20 03:49:00 Experts sound the alarm: abrupt US policy changes could trigger a worldwide humanitarian disaster, endanger millions of vulnerable lives, and set back decades of global health progress. USAID-funded programs by region and category, FY2023 In a recent perspective paper published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, experts elucidate the devastating potential impacts…

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Flooding Triggers Major Melioidosis Outbreak in Australia

, 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…

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AI captures ancient Indian concept of emotions

, 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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IUD guidance, vaccine approval, NIH grants

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…

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Study links residual inflammation in psoriasis patients to obesity and fatty liver disease

, 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…

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New guidance provides recommendations for use of anti-amyloid monoclonal antibodies

, 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…

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Diversity in Dermatology Residencies Improves; Gaps Remain

, 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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Blood Detection Capsule May Help in Upper GI Bleeding

, 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,…

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Amid US Budget Cuts, France Welcomes Displaced Scientists

, 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…

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Trump retira servicios sociales de Medicaid, y pone en peligro la nutrición y la alimentación

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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Sixty seconds on . . . spy scales

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…

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Genomic analysis shows widespread mpox transmission in West Africa prior to 2022 global outbreak

, 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…

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Adjuvant Pertuzumab Shows OS Benefit in Breast Cancer

, 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…

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How One Company Aims to Save Lives with Its Smartwatch

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…

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Veteran presidential health reporter weighs in

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…

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Building a sustainable model for global maternal health

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…

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Mortality, Cardiovascular Risk Elevated in Adult-Onset T1D

, 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…

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How Smarter AI Strikes Back for Hospitals

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…

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Dazos raises $25M for customer relationship management platform

, 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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GOP focuses on Medicaid work requirements for budget savings

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…

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