, 2025-05-06 06:51:00 Measles was officially eliminated in the United States in 2000. A quarter of a century later, with outbreaks currently underway in several states, the country is at risk of losing its elimination status. And in little more than two decades, measles could be endemic again. This outcome is not far-fetched but the…
, 2025-05-06 06:25:00 When it comes to preventing heart attacks and strokes, most people focus on eating well, staying active, and avoiding smoking. While these are the right strategies for preventing heart diseases, new research points to an unexpected source of protection: a routine vaccine typically given to older adults to guard against a common…
Heba Mahjoub, MD; Susan Tucker, MD; Amal Alwreikat, MD; Sarkis H. Soukiasian, MD , 2025-05-05 14:52:00 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 …
Daniel Payne , 2025-05-05 08:30:00 WASHINGTON — Hospitals, health centers, and patient advocates this week plan to escalate their pressure on federal lawmakers to oppose cuts to the Medicaid program. The groups are increasing their public calls to lawmakers, standing up new collaborations, and increasing investments in advertising to discourage lawmakers from cutting hundreds of billions…
, 2025-05-05 21:07:00 Retail pharmacies excluded from Part D networks were as much as 4.5 times more likely to close in the past decade. Credit: USC Schaeffer Center Retail pharmacies excluded from Medicare Part D networks maintained by drug benefits middlemen were much more likely to close over the past decade, according to new research…
, 2025-05-06 02:42:00 A decade ago, University at Buffalo researchers shed some light on an enduring neuroscience mystery: How exactly does a mutated huntingtin protein (HTT) cause Huntington’s disease? They found that HTT is something like a traffic controller inside neurons, moving different cargo along neuronal highways called axons in concert with other proteins key…
, 2025-05-06 05:07:00 TOPLINE: Among women aged 70 years or older with screen-detected breast cancer, those with a history of screening mammography within 5 years of their diagnosis were much more likely to be diagnosed at an earlier stage and much less likely to die from breast cancer, according to a new analysis of over…
Moira Mahoney , 2025-05-05 15:22:00 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….
Alonzo Plough , 2025-05-05 08:30:00 Extreme weather is now a common part of American life — and the associated health risks are impossible to ignore. During heat waves, babies are more likely to be born prematurely or at a lower birth weight. Wildfire smoke can worsen asthma and lung disease. Air pollution and heat exacerbate the effects of heart, lung, and kidney disease. The list…
, 2025-05-05 21:11:00 A playground scene in the virtual world of Tiny Town. Credit: Dilks lab, Emory University Many behavioral studies suggest that using landmarks to navigate through large-scale spaces—known as map-based navigation—is not established until around age 12. A neuroscience study at Emory University counters that assumption. Through experiments combining brain scans and a…
, 2025-05-06 02:50:00 An updated systematic review finds that consuming cannabis while pregnant appears to increase the odds of preterm birth, low birth weight and infant death. The study by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics. The lead author is a physician-scientist who provides prenatal care for…
, 2025-05-05 11:28:00 TOPLINE: People with celiac disease shouldn’t worry too much about sharing a kiss with someone who just ate food containing gluten, a small study found. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study with 10 couples — one partner with celiac disease and one without. To test variations in gluten content in saliva, the…
Andrew (Drew) Rhoades , 2025-05-05 15:32:00 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…
Karen Pennar , 2025-05-05 13:19:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Hi, Morning Rounds editor Karen Pennar, back again. First off, an update to Friday’s newsletter item on NIH’s freeze of subawards to foreign scientists: Megan Molteni has learned that privately, NIH leadership…
, 2025-05-05 21:16:00 Credit: Kampus Production from Pexels In Quebec, physiotherapists are getting involved in treating patients a lot earlier in the process of their care—and that’s a good thing, experts say. “The idea isn’t that patients shouldn’t seen by doctors but that physiotherapists can be the first point of contact and begin treatment without…
, 2025-05-06 02:56:00 People who are given a vaccine for shingles have a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart failure, and coronary heart disease, according to a study of more than a million people published in the European Heart Journal today (Tuesday). The protective effect of the vaccine lasts for up to eight…
, 2025-05-05 12:00:00 TOPLINE: The administration of the human papillomavirus nonavalent (9vHPV) vaccine after a surgical treatment for low- and high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia resulted in a significant reduction in the proportion of women positive for HPV over the 15-month study period. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine the effectiveness of the 9vHPV…
, 2025-05-06 00:08:00 Pakistan-based startup MedIQ has raked $6 million in a Series A funding round led by Rasmal Ventures and Joa Capital. WHAT IT DOES Founded in 2020, the company offers end-to-end solutions to enable a hybrid digital healthcare ecosystem for businesses (hospitals, insurers, and government agencies). These include EHR, revenue cycle management, telehealth, e-pharmacy, and…
Mark Leiser , 2025-05-05 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 articles are posted on . “ data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please try again later….
Meghana Keshavan , 2025-05-05 13:37:00 Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Today, we explore how an ambitious nonprofit is taking control of a shelved gene therapy, as it seeks to create a new model for commercializing treatments no longer deemed lucrative…
, 2025-05-05 21:19:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As the weather warms and people begin to spend more time outside, ticks and mosquitoes will do the same. While these pests are annoying, even more than that, they can be a threat to our health. As a medical entomologist, Associate Research Professor Lee R. Haines studies how…
, 2025-05-06 01:37:00 Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have identified what is believed to be the first intervention found in a randomized controlled trial to show large and very large improvements in multiple symptoms associated with Long COVID, and to result in people debilitated by those symptoms returning to work. The…
, 2025-05-05 12:00:00 TOPLINE: In a real-world analysis, the relative risk of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) was higher in patients who received chemotherapy plus poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor maintenance therapy than in those who received chemotherapy alone for advanced ovarian cancer; however, the absolute risk was low in both treatment groups….
, 2025-05-06 00:16:00 FaceHeart from Taiwan has obtained regulatory approval in the United States for its AI-driven contactless technology for measuring respiratory rate. It obtained a 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for the respiratory rate measurement component of its software development kit. WHAT IT’S ABOUT FaceHeart offers a SDK that utilises…
Justin Cooper , 2025-05-05 18:02:00 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….
Nick Stoico — Boston Globe , 2025-05-05 20:10:00 Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s chemistry department and renowned nanoscientist who was convicted of lying to federal agents about his ties to China, was recently announced as a new professor at a Chinese university. Lieber joined the full-time faculty at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School on…
, 2025-05-05 23:10:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who are given a vaccine for shingles have a 23% lower risk of cardiovascular events, including stroke, heart failure, and coronary heart disease, according to a study of more than a million people published in the European Heart Journal. The protective effect of the vaccine lasts for…
, 2025-05-06 00:03:00 Scientists harnessed AI to create mutation-resistant antibodies that outperformed conventional drug design, offering a powerful new tool against fast-evolving viruses like SARS-CoV-2. Study: AI designed, mutation resistant broad neutralizing antibodies against multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains. Image Credit: Lightspring / Shutterstock In a recent study in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers tested and leveraged several cutting-edge…
, 2025-05-05 12:00:00 TOPLINE: Bone marrow lesions (BMLs) were linked to collateral ligament lesions (CLLs) in the interphalangeal joints of patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA), with BMLs being less common than CLLs. CLLs showed persistence after their initial appearance and became more common over 4 years, whereas BMLs fluctuated in their occurrence over time. METHODOLOGY:…
Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-05 22:40:00 Proposed Medicaid work requirements may greatly limit access to health coverage, lead to substantial economic losses, and fall short of boosting employment, a new report warns. The report was released last week by the Commonwealth Fund and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. It comes as…
Eamon N. Dreisbach , 2025-05-05 20:00:00 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 articles are posted on . “ data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please try again…
Ed Silverman , 2025-05-05 22:32:00 Amid ongoing anticipation over tariffs on pharmaceuticals, President Trump on Monday signed an executive order designed to lower regulatory hurdles and make it faster for drug companies to manufacture their products in the U.S. The move also includes plans to place more pressure on foreign drugmakers to comply with quality…
, 2025-05-05 21:23:00 The Health Octo Tool is comprised of eight components designed to assess multidimensional health. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58819-x A novel health-assessment tool uses eight metrics derived from a person’s physical exam and routine lab tests to characterize biological age. It may be able to predict a person’s risk of disability…
, 2025-05-05 14:11:00 Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. This article aimed to identify molecular candidates to serve as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Integrative bioinformatics analysis was conducted and machine learning was used for key genetic screening. Gene expression profiles at the single-cell level…
, 2025-05-05 21:05:00 Whether clinicians are accurately diagnosing thyroid disease was at issue for Chinese researchers who demonstrated that adding subgroup differences according to age, sex, or race when testing for thyroid disease reduced by half the number of persons eligible for L-thyroxine, a treatment for hypothyroidism. It is the first study to examine the…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-05 21:01:00 A Johnson & Johnson gene therapy in development for an inherited vision-loss disorder has failed a Phase 3 study, the latest clinical research setback for a rare eye disease that so far has no FDA-approved therapies. The gene therapy, botaretigene sparoparvovec (bota-vec for short), was being evaluated as a treatment…
, 2025-05-05 20:47:00 Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink has successfully implanted its brain-computer interface into a man named Brad Smith, who has ALS and is completely non-verbal, allowing him to communicate now using telepathy. Smith released a video on X about his experience with Neuralink and how it works. The video is narrated using an AI-generated…
Stephen I. Feller , 2025-05-05 21:05:00 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…
Adam Feuerstein and Jason Mast , 2025-05-05 21:06:00 Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on…
, 2025-05-05 20:44:00 Hospital-onset antimicrobial-resistant infections increased across U.S. hospitals during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published online April 29 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Christina Yek, M.D., Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues examined the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant infections in U.S….
, 2025-05-05 14:18:00 What is the secret to happiness? Does happiness come from within, or is it shaped by external influences such as our jobs, health, relationships and material circumstances? A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour shows that happiness can come from either within or from external influences, from both, or neither – and which…
, 2025-05-05 12:10:00 TOPLINE: BRCA1-associated protein 1 (BAP1) was found to inhibit the browning of white adipose tissue in response to cold exposure in mice, offering a potential new drug target for a therapeutic strategy to enhance thermogenesis and treat obesity and related metabolic disorders. METHODOLOGY: Brown and beige fat tissue burns energy to produce…
, 2025-05-05 17:14:00 President Donald Trump’s Project Stargate, an at least $500 billion investment to build the physical and virtual infrastructure to power AI construction, is considering investment overseas, according to reporting by the Financial Times. The project, which Trump announced in January alongside three partners, Oracle’s Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
Robert Herpen, MA , 2025-05-05 18:05:00 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…
Christopher Boerner , 2025-05-05 19:00:00 Having grown up in rural Arkansas, I have an acute awareness of the challenges many in our country face when it comes to health care. Quality care wasn’t always accessible, and the decision of whether to pay medical or utility bills was a real dilemma for my family and others…
, 2025-05-05 19:04:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way. One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous male gametophyte of the plant kingdom. In the Southeastern U.S., where I live, you…
, 2025-05-05 14:30:00 Background and aims Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), is the most common form of chronic liver disease worldwide. This study aimed to explore the role of TM6SF2 in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced MASLD through the gut-liver axis. Methods The TM6SF2 gut-specific knockout (TM6SF2 GKO) mouse was constructed using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. TM6SF2 GKO…
, 2025-05-05 18:43:00 For circulatory support in cardiogenic shock, the best choice between Impella and intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) has been controversial. Now, new data is complicating the debate. Presenting at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions in Washington, DC, Godbless Ajenaghughrure, MD, an internist and resident at Trihealth Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio,…
, 2025-05-05 18:22:00 Data sharing technology company Datavant has expanded its collaboration with pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim to support Boehringer’s real-world evidence initiatives. The extended collaboration aims to leverage Datavant’s privacy-preserving tokenization and data connectivity technologies to strengthen clinical development and initiate strategies across 75 additional clinical trials and multiple new molecular entities. Through Datavant…
Jennifer Byrne , 2025-05-05 18:11:00 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….