, 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 trend that began in 2023, with a 3% decline that year, followed by steady drops each month of 2024. Overall, there were 80,391 predicted…
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 breath-based early detection test for multiple types of cancer — one that involves dogs and their powerful noses. The test uses AI and trained canines…
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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 and pregnant people, a close Kennedy ally said Thursday. The news arrived between panels at a daylong event marking the launch of a new Make…
Nathan Davies, Kanthee Anantapong, Victoria Vickerstaff, Elizabeth L Sampson , 2025-05-15 12:01:00 Nathan Davies, professor1, Kanthee Anantapong, associate professor2, Victoria Vickerstaff, senior lecturer3, Elizabeth L Sampson, professor4 1Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK 2Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University,…
, 2025-05-15 23:10:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Having school dinners rather than packed lunches could encourage picky-eating 13-year-olds to eat a wider variety of foods, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics today. The research showed that when children who were picky…
, 2025-05-15 18:04:00 For decades, doctors and researchers have puzzled over a basic heart rhythm mystery: Why do women tend to have faster heartbeats while men are more likely to develop irregular rhythms like atrial fibrillation (AFib)? Now a new study from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center provides some insight. The research shows…
, 2025-05-15 13:15:00 Endometriosis affects roughly 190 million (10%) women and girls of reproductive age globally. Still, and despite its debilitating symptoms, it can take years to get a diagnosis. For example, it takes about 7.4 years for a diagnosis in the Netherlands, almost 9 years in the UK, and 10.4 years in Austria and…
Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-15 22:15:00 Medbridge, a digital care company, launched new AI-powered motion-capture capabilities on Thursday through its digital musculoskeletal and movement-based medicine platform. The Bellevue, Washington-based company works with clinicians, hospitals, and health systems to tackle musculoskeletal (MSK) issues. Its customers include Intermountain Health, Kaiser Permanente and AdventHealth. The company provides an AI-driven…
Michela Cimberle , 2025-05-15 20:20:00 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…
Daniel Payne , 2025-05-15 21:49:00 The Make America Healthy Again movement is coalescing around a new effort to turn its goals into federal policy. The Trump administration is listening. The MAHA Institute, a policy center launched Thursday, is pushing to change the American health and food systems: from rethinking vaccine availability and review to removing…
Jacqui Wise , 2025-05-15 12:21:00 MPs have criticised the lack of a clear plan for the forthcoming abolition of NHS England and the halving of staff in integrated care boards across the country, demanding that the government set out how such a major structural change will affect key services. The report by the House of…
, 2025-05-15 21:22:00 Validation of AgRP neuron inactivation. Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2025). DOI: 10.1172/JCI189842 Successfully treating type 2 diabetes may involve focusing on brain neurons, rather than simply concentrating on obesity or insulin resistance, according to a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. For several years, researchers have known that…
, 2025-05-15 18:46:00 Becoming an organ donor has never been easier. Registration is available online when renewing a driver’s license or, for iPhone users, through an app. Still, the people who desperately need transplants far outnumber the available organs. Every eight minutes, someone in the United States is added to the waiting list and every day, 17…
, 2025-05-15 20:30:00 Orlando, Florida — New data add to the evidence supporting use of crinecerfont for the treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency, in both adults and children. The latest findings from the company’s pediatric and adult phase 3 trials suggest that crinecerfont enables the dual goals of decreasing glucocorticoid…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-15 19:53:00 When lung cancer advances after initial lines of therapy, the treatment options dwindle. An AbbVie drug gives patients a new choice as the first FDA-approved treatment for advanced cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) driven by a particular cancer protein. Approval of the drug, telisotuzumab vedotin, brand name Emrelis,…
, 2025-05-15 19:47:00 Cognixion, a developer of noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, announced that Blackrock Neurotech, a company that makes implantable BCIs, will provide Cognixion’s Axon-R wearable neural interface platform to research institutions via its distribution network. Blackrock Neurotech will act as an unrestricted distributor of Cognixion’s Axon-R, a noninvasive wearable that allows exact measurement and…
, 2025-05-15 19:15:00 The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics…
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Elaine Chen and Adam Feuerstein , 2025-05-15 19:21:00 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…
Kamran Abbasi , 2025-05-15 13:16:00 Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief The BMJ kabbasi{at}bmj.com At a conference in Hong Kong last year almost every presentation enthused about the potential of artificial intelligence. The conference wasn’t even about AI, the great global hope to solve every problem and save us money to boot. If you’re out of…
, 2025-05-15 18:44:00 A person with impulsivity / ADHD is struggling with physical exercise and binge eating while living in a city. Credit: Tian Gan, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might contribute to obesity by reducing physical activity—a relationship that can also be mediated by the features of the urban environment in which a…
, 2025-05-15 18:32:00 In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine. The infant, KJ, was born with a rare metabolic disease known as severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase…
, 2025-05-15 16:44:00 SAN DIEGO—Gastroenterologists have debated the best course of action for patients with Barrett’s esophagus for decades. Which is better for detecting early malignancy and preventing progression to esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) — surveillance endoscopy at regular intervals or only when symptoms occur? Does one offer a better chance of survival than the other?…
Alistar Fleming , 2025-05-15 12:59:00 At the renowned AI for Surgery lab in Baltimore, Maryland, a STAR was born. The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) was brought to artificial life by Axel Krieger and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University. STAR can perform complex keyhole anastomosis surgery with minimal human intervention with astounding accuracy, helping to…
, 2025-05-15 17:30:00 SpotitEarly, a biotech startup that uses AI and dogs to detect cancer using an at-home test, announced its launch into the U.S. market with $20.3 million in funding. The company has received funding from Menomedin VC, Jeff Swartz (former CEO of Timberland), Avishai Abrahami (CEO of Wix.com), Hanaco VC and others. Additionally,…
Brett Kelman , 2025-05-15 15:18:00 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors sought a maximum prison sentence of nearly 20 years for the CEO of Pain MD, a company found to have given hundreds of thousands of questionable injections to patients, many reliant on opioids. It would have been among the longest sentences for a health care…
Jill Rollet; Melanie Betz, MS, RD, CSR, FNKF, FAND , 2025-05-15 15:23:00 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…
Jason Mast , 2025-05-15 17:00:00 For the first time, scientists say they have reached into the genome of a severely ill child and rewritten the unique misspelling in his DNA. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, are a landmark in the 50-year quest to read and repair the code…
Scarlett McNally , 2025-05-15 15:16:00 Scarlett McNally, professor Eastbourne scarlettmcnally{at}cantab.netFollow Scarlett on X @scarlettmcnally NHS England is making its last call for evidence for a review on postgraduate medical education.1 There have been dozens of similar reviews in my 35 years as a doctor, but this one has a chance to make a difference. It…
, 2025-05-15 16:30:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Despite the popularity of semaglutide drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss, surveys suggest that most people still prefer to lose weight without using medications. For those preferring a drug-free approach to weight loss, research shows that certain nutrients and dietary strategies can naturally mimic the effects…
, 2025-05-15 14:27:00 As concern grows over adolescent mental health, a new national study adds to the growing body of research showing that cyberbullying should be considered an adverse childhood experience (ACE) – a category of childhood trauma linked to long-term emotional, psychological and physical harm. While many assume that only extreme forms of online…
, 2025-05-15 14:27:00 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to telisotuzumab vedotin-tllv (Emrelis, AbbVie) for locally advanced or metastatic nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with high c-Met protein overexpression after prior systemic therapy. The FDA also approved the VENTANA MET (SP44) RxDx Assay (Roche Diagnostics) as a companion diagnostic…
Holly Urban , 2025-05-15 13:55:00 When I was in business school in 2016, I wrote a composition on Blockchain and its implications in healthcare. At the time, all the experts proclaimed confidently that this new technology would “revolutionize” healthcare. I remember thinking at the time that I really didn’t get it. The systemic issues that exist in healthcare, with misaligned economic incentives driving system…
, 2025-05-15 15:14:00 OpenAI has announced the launch of HealthBench, a benchmark to evaluate AI models in healthcare using real-world applicability and physician judgment. “The 5,000 conversations in HealthBench simulate interactions between AI models and individual users or clinicians. The task for a model is to provide the best possible response to the user’s last…
Renuka Rayasam , 2025-05-15 09:00:00 Brian Rigsby was lying with his right wrist shackled to a hospital bed in Montgomery, Alabama, when he learned he didn’t have long to live. It was September 2023, and Rigsby, 46, had been brought to Jackson Hospital from an Alabama state prison 10 days earlier after complaining of pain…
Brandon D. Ayres, MD; Nancy Hemphill, ELS, FAAO; Anthony DeFino , 2025-05-15 14:30:00 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 articles are posted on . “ data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe We were unable…
Tara Bannow , 2025-05-15 14:07:00 Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. SAN FRANCISCO — Lurking beneath the shiny promise of artificial intelligence in health care is a host of potential liability issues. Chief among them: a lack of consent from patients, whether any doctor checks the…
Adrian O’Dowd , 2025-05-15 13:31:00 The number of people dying prematurely after long waits in hospital emergency departments before admission rose by a fifth in England last year, an analysis has found. The analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine found that in 2024 there were 16 644 associated excess deaths related to stays of…
, 2025-05-15 13:50:00 What mattered most was the overall amount of cyberbullying: the more often a student was targeted, the more trauma symptoms they showed. Credit: Florida Atlantic University As concern grows over adolescent mental health, a new national study adds to the growing body of research showing that cyberbullying should be considered an adverse…
, 2025-05-15 13:28:00 Researchers from the University of Tokyo have found a way to observe clotting activity in blood as it happens – without needing invasive procedures. Using a new type of microscope and artificial intelligence (AI), their study shows how platelet clumping can be tracked in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), opening the…
, 2025-05-15 13:18:00 TOPLINE: The proportion of emergency department (ED) patients requiring multiple naloxone administrations increased from 10.1% in 2016 to 17.4% in 2022 in the MarketScan database and from 3.0% in 2016 to 7.3% in 2022 in the National Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) database, indicating an increasing trend. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective claims-based…
Luidgi Faubert , 2025-05-15 13:00:00 Mental health parity is an ethical imperative for health plans. Accreditation is an excellent way for health care leaders to ensure their organization meets parity standards. Discover who accredits health plans for mental health parity compliance and what the process entails. What Is Mental Health Parity? The Mental Health Parity…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-14 11:14:00 2024 progress report highlights reduction in trolley numbers but record ED presentations The Minister for Health has published an updated programme for the implementation of Slaintecare, highlighting 23 priorities in the areas of improving access, service quality and increasing capacity. ‘Path to Universal Healthcare: Sláintecare & Programme for Government 2025+’…
Phillip Reese and Oona Zenda , 2025-05-15 09:00:00 More Californians are talking to their therapists through a video screen or by phone than in person, marking a profound shift in how mental health care is delivered as record-setting numbers seek help. While patients and providers say teletherapy is effective and easier to get than in-person…
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Adam Feuerstein , 2025-05-15 10:30:00 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 Signal at stataf.54….
Simon Williams , 2025-05-15 10:06:00 Robert F Kennedy Jr’s confirmation as secretary of health and human services has arguably been President Trump’s most controversial appointment.1 But, beyond the catchy slogan, how do we know whether Kennedy will actually Make America Healthy Again (MAHA)? “Kennedy Jr is right that there is a chronic disease epidemic in…
, 2025-05-15 10:55:00 Credit: Marcus Aurelius from Pexels Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Teva Pharmaceuticals, in collaboration with multiple international institutions, report findings on the efficacy of fremanezumab (sold as Ajovy by Teva) in reducing migraine frequency and depressive symptoms among patients with comorbid major depressive disorder. Significant reductions in monthly migraine days and…
, 2025-05-15 10:55:00 Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday proposed that California roll back health care for immigrants without legal status, saying the state needed to cut benefits for some to maintain core services across the board. It’s a striking reversal for the Democrat, who had promised universal health care and called health coverage for immigrants…