, 2025-05-14 06:42:00 The New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that harms both cattle and humans and was once eradicated from the U.S. after more than three decades of effort, is raising new concerns amid an outbreak in Mexico. In response to the looming threat, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced a halt…
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Andrew Joseph , 2025-05-13 16:45:00 Andrew Joseph covers health, medicine, and the biopharma industry in Europe. You can reach Andrew on Signal at drewqjoseph.45. LONDON — In announcing his plan to lower prescription drug prices, President Trump argued that both Americans and drug companies could benefit. Critical to making this happen, he said, would be…
, 2025-05-13 20:18:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain The secret to psychedelic drugs’ links to greater empathy and insight may lie in their ability to coax the right hemisphere of the brain into a position of dominance over the left, according to a proposed new theory. Researcher Adam Levin has combined his experience in therapeutic psychedelics…
, 2025-05-14 04:59:00 Asynt is delighted to announce a unique and inspiring live demo at this year’s highly anticipated CHEMUK exhibition, taking place on 21st–22nd May 2025 at the NEC, Birmingham. Visitors to Stand H102 on day two will be treated to a special “edible chemistry” demo, presented by Dr Josh Smalley, chemist, science communicator,…
, 2025-05-14 05:30:00 From vector-borne illnesses to pavement burns, climate change poses wide-ranging threats to skin health, particularly in vulnerable populations, according to some of the authors of a clinical image series recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine’s Images in Clinical Medicine section. The cases were accompanied by a note that said…
Andrew (Drew) Rhoades , 2025-05-13 16:08:00 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 , 2025-05-13 18:51:00 File this under “Lower your price — or else!” Tucked inside the executive order on drug pricing from President Trump is a sentence that appears to threaten pharmaceutical companies that their medicines may be withdrawn if they do not lower prices. Specifically, the order issued on Monday contains a provision…
, 2025-05-13 20:41:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The measles outbreak that began in Gaines County has officially reached the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with two cases now linked to the outbreak. One measles case in Collin County and one case in Rockwall County are now included in the outbreak numbers, according to a Tuesday update from…
, 2025-05-14 04:49:00 Solgate – a biotech start-up based in Klosterneuburg, Austria – is accelerating the development of new therapies targeting solute carrier (SLC) transporters using automated liquid handling systems from INTEGRA Biosciences. This overlooked family of membrane proteins mediates the transport of nutrients, metabolites, signalling molecules and ions across cell membranes, and it is…
, 2025-05-13 12:00:00 TOPLINE: In women with uterine fibroids (UFs), pain relief with linzagolix was largely driven by a reduction in heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB), with a smaller contribution from a reduction in fibroid volume (FV). Hormonal add-back therapy (ABT) also affected these effects. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a post hoc mediation analysis of pooled data…
Stephanie Baum , 2025-05-13 11:30:00 A webinar discussion sized up the current capital markets and how healthcare and life science investors and startups can best navigate it. The webinar conversation revealed the role of automation, alternative funding mechanisms and how these factors are creating new investment and funding opportunities. They also shared how they perceive…
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Brittany Trang , 2025-05-13 19:24:00 A small but powerful nugget is buried in the text of the House budget reconciliation bill released this week: a clause that would ban state and local governments from enforcing any laws on AI, even ones that have already been put into effect. While policy experts have been calling for…
, 2025-05-13 20:56:00 Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels Many older LGBTI+ people feel pressure to “straighten up” and “blend in,” concealing their identities to feel safe in aged care facilities, say researchers at the University of South Australia. In a study published in The Gerontologist journal, UniSA researchers found that aged care experiences for older…
, 2025-05-14 02:55:00 The skin microbiome plays an important role in health and disease. Researchers have now substantiated that certain skin bacteria can protect us from the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation specifically by metabolizing cis-urocanic acid using an enzyme called urocanase. This enables the skin’s ability to fine-tune how it responds to UV radiation The…
, 2025-05-13 12:00:00 TOPLINE: In a 4.3-year follow-up study, few asymptomatic patients with preclinical left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) progressed to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), with a higher incidence noted in women. High blood pressure and decreased kidney function were associated with elevated levels of N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). METHODOLOGY: The…
Stephanie Baum , 2025-05-13 14:15:00 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. Using non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as an example, PurpleLab and Genentech will explore how to leverage real world data (RWD) to eliminate blind spots…
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Arjun Sharma , 2025-05-13 19:43:00 Earlier this spring, Pope Francis was hospitalized for more than five weeks. A pneumonia riddled both of his lungs, and his doctors thought he was in imminent danger of death. But he recovered enough to return to the Vatican and appear for one last Easter Sunday Mass before his death…
Andrew Douglas, Peter Maxwell , 2025-05-13 10:41:00 bmj;389/may13_11/r924/FAF1faJames Douglas was born in Portadown in 1938, the son of James Douglas, an army padre killed in Normandy in 1944, and Annie Hildegard Douglas. After attending Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, James won a scholarship to study law at Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 1960 with the top…
, 2025-05-13 22:30:00 Credit: CC0 Public Domain Long working hours may alter the structure of the brain, particularly the areas associated with emotional regulation and executive function, such as working memory and problem solving, suggest the findings of preliminary research, published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. Ultimately, overwork may induce neuroadaptive changes that might…
, 2025-05-14 01:20:00 A large percentage of American children are growing up in households with at least one parent who uses alcohol or other drugs in problematic ways-raising the risk that those children will go on to do the same, a new study suggests. Using data from 2023 to give as current a view as…
, 2025-05-13 12:28:00 Whether among passengers or crew, seasickness remains one of the most frequent medical issues encountered on board ships. At the 131st Congress of the German Society for Internal Medicine, Andreas H. Leischker, MD, specialist in internal medicine, emergency medicine, aviation medicine, and sports medicine and an experienced ship physician, shared practical insights…
, 2025-05-14 00:08:00 The healthcare industry is undergoing rapid transformation, and with it comes the growing demand for support professionals who can ease the administrative burden on medical practitioners. One of the most promising career paths in this domain is that of a medical virtual assistant. Whether you’re looking for a flexible remote job or…
Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-13 23:01:00 So far, 2025 has been anything but smooth for UnitedHealth Group. The healthcare giant announced Tuesday that Andrew Witty will step down as CEO due to “personal reasons.” He is being replaced by Stephen J. Hemsley, who served as the company’s CEO from 2006 to 2017. Hemsley will remain as…
, 2025-05-13 19:44:00 Pharmaceutical and diagnostics giant Roche announced it will fund a $550 million diagnostic center in Indianapolis by 2030. The manufacturing hub will produce Roche’s continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems for diabetes management. The center will include research and development, laboratories, manufacturing, distribution, IT and administrative tasks. According to the company, the new…
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O. Rose Broderick , 2025-05-13 19:44:00 For a recent therapy session, Andria Donaghy’s insurance plan paid her psychiatric nurse practitioner only $11 on a $125 service. “To even put that on paper is insulting,” she said. “These people give their lives [to help others] and that’s what you pay them?” Andria Donaghy knows firsthand the…
Alison Shepherd , 2025-05-13 11:57:00 bmj;389/may13_13/r971/FAF1faAbdulRahman Sadeq/MSFA child with burns injuries plays in the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Atmeh, Idlib, in north west Syria.After more than 13 years of war in Syria and the fall of the Assad regime, more than 7.2 million people remain internally displaced, living in camps without basic services, such…
, 2025-05-13 22:30:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Physical activity in early childhood, especially taking part in organized sports, may ward off several mental health disorders in later childhood and adolescence, suggests research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. But there seem to be clear sex differences in the observed protective effects, depending…
, 2025-05-13 22:51:00 Just a little less meat, a little more veg: Researchers show that even small weekly swaps from red or processed meat to plant-based foods can lower your risk of heart disease. Study: Partial substitution of red or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of cardiovascular disease. Image Credit: Chalee2500 / Shutterstock A…
, 2025-05-13 12:38:00 An artificial intelligence (AI) model using routinely collected data predicted subsequent development of active tuberculosis (TB), Swiss researchers reported. The AI model outperformed biological tests for latent TB in identifying HIV-positive patients at high risk of developing TB. As well as immune function and sociodemographic variables, the AI model retained several biomarkers…
, 2025-05-13 19:34:00 The UnitedHealth CEO abruptly stepped down on Tuesday, six months after the CEO of UnitedHealth’s subsidiary UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was murdered. Andrew Witty cited “personal reasons” for stepping down from the top position. He was replaced by Stephen J. Hemsley, who previously served as the CEO from 2006 to 2017. Hemsley will…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-13 18:04:00 Galapagos believed so strongly in its work developing new cancer cell therapies that it pinned its future on them. This past winter, the Belgian drugmaker unveiled a plan to spin out the rest of the company as a standalone business, leaving legacy Galapagos to focus exclusively on its new approach…
Dr Leslie O’Looney , 2025-05-13 07:30:00 Welcome to this week’s issue of The Week in Medicine – a round-up of all the happenings in the world of Irish medicine The abysmal management of our health service has come under the spotlight once again with a conference in Maynooth being told that Ireland is a decade…
, 2025-05-13 19:53:00 Olio, a platform that links hospital teams with post-acute providers for care collaboration, scored $11 million in Series B funding led by Fulcrum Equity Partners. Mutual Capital Partners also participated in the round. WHAT IT DOES Olio’s care coordination platform allows a hospital’s care team, including doctors and administrators, to obtain information…
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Megan Molteni , 2025-05-13 19:58:00 Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach Megan on Signal at mmolteni.13. Leading trade organizations representing the makers of cell and gene therapies are calling for a…
Gareth Iacobucci , 2025-05-13 12:41:00 An NHS programme designed to improve safety in maternity care and help prevent brain injuries during childbirth is set to be rolled out in England.The government said that the Avoiding Brain Injuries in Childbirth (ABC) programme would provide a nationally standardised approach for detecting and responding to fetal deterioration during…
, 2025-05-13 20:22:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most vaccines—and boosters—are injected directly into muscle tissue, usually in the upper arm, to kickstart the body’s immune system in the fight against disease. But for respiratory diseases like COVID-19, it can be important to have protection right where the virus enters: the respiratory tract. In a new…
, 2025-05-13 19:04:00 A pioneering research study published today in Cell Metabolism details how the hormone FGF21 (fibroblast growth factor 21) can reverse the effects of fatty liver disease in mice. The hormone works primarily by signaling the brain to improve liver function. University of Oklahoma researcher Matthew Potthoff, Ph.D., is the lead author of…
, 2025-05-13 14:18:00 Mental health inpatient services in England continue to ignore critical safety recommendations, putting patients and staff at risk, according to a new report. The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) based its findings on multiple investigations into inpatient mental health care between September 2024 and January 2025. The report highlighted persistent systemic…
, 2025-05-13 17:31:00 U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. seemingly revealed Big Pharma paid President Donald Trump $100 million but added “he can’t be bought.” The president and RFK Jr. held a joint press conference in the White House on Monday to reveal an executive order that plans to dramatically reduce the cost of…
Katie Adams , 2025-05-13 19:20:00 Hospitals are under pressure to undergo a digital transformation — but success in this arena requires more than just shiny new tools. It demands cultural readiness, frontline buy-in and a clear-eyed view of what success looks like. On Monday during a panel at the Reuters Digital Health conference in Nashville,…
Michael McHale , 2025-05-13 07:30:00 Initiative unveiled at Maynooth University’s Digital Health Summer School A new initiative could ‘leapfrog’ Ireland from one the of the worst European countries for adopting digital health to one of the best, a conference has heard. The plan, entitled Mission 10X, promises to deliver healthcare in Ireland that is 10…
Georg Hafner PhD , 2025-05-13 14:00:00 Viruses are mostly known for causing diseases, but a recent study from Harvard Medical School identifies a type of virus that could be more ‘friend’ than ‘foe’. In a provocative take, Harvard scientists suggest that Beta human papillomavirus might protect us from skin cancer rather than causing it.1 When…
, 2025-05-13 18:10:00 Israeli startup PhaseV, an AI-enabled clinical development company for life sciences, has secured $50 million in Series A funding in a round co-led by Accel and Insight Partners. Existing investors Viola Ventures, LionBird and EXOR also participated in the round. The round brings the company’s total raise to $65 million. WHAT IT…
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Tara Bannow and Bob Herman , 2025-05-13 17:50:00 Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care. He is also the…