Category: Health
‘I Don’t Know How Many Died’: What We Heard This Year
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/i-dont-know-how-many-died-what-we-heard-this-year/ (MedPage Today) — In place of our usual “What We Heard This Week” feature, and as part of our year-end wrap-ups, we’ve selected some of the most notable quotes our reporters heard in 2025. “I don’t know how many died.” — HHS Secretary Robert… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/what-we-heard/119196 Author : Publish…
The CDC Shooting Isn’t What Broke Me
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/the-cdc-shooting-isnt-what-broke-me/ (MedPage Today) — In August, a CDC employee shared with us their experience of surviving the shooting at the CDC headquarters this summer. As part of our review of the past year’s biggest events, they revisited this traumatic experience to shed… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/119178 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-28…
The Year in Trump’s Health
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/the-year-in-trumps-health/ (MedPage Today) — Earlier this year, MedPage Today reported on President Donald Trump’s diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency. Here’s a look back at Trump’s health through the year. Mysterious hand bruises, severely swollen ankles, and nodding… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/119153 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-28 15:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content…
Do You Really Know 2025’s Top Stories?
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/do-you-really-know-2025s-top-stories/ (MedPage Today) — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our year-end quiz Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/quizzes/news-quiz/119192 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-27 22:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source. The post Do You Really Know 2025’s Top Stories? first appeared on News Health. —-…
Lung Cancer Screening Based on Smoking Duration; Herpes Antiviral and Alzheimer’s
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/lung-cancer-screening-based-on-smoking-duration-herpes-antiviral-and-alzheimers/ (MedPage Today) — TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of Texas Tech Health El Paso, look at the top medical… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/podcasts/healthwatch/119197 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-27…
Nick Jonas Shares Key Lessons Living with Type 1 Diabetes for 20 Years
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/nick-jonas-shares-key-lessons-living-with-type-1-diabetes-for-20-years/ Share on PinterestAs the Jonas Brothers celebrate their 20th year as a band, it’s also been 20 years since Nick Jonas’ type 1 diabetes diagnosis. Photo courtesy of Dexcom Lead singer Nick Jonas has been living with type 1 diabetes for 20 years. The Jonas Brothers band “JONAS20: Greetings from Your…
Nutrition Policy Rang Hollow in 2025
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/nutrition-policy-rang-hollow-in-2025/ (MedPage Today) — In early 2025, Daniel A. Zaltz, PhD, MPH, wrote about where the science stands on ultraprocessed foods and the public health response, highlighting that ultraprocessed foods appeared central to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/119170 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-27 17:00:00 Copyright for syndicated…
A Tale of Two ACIPs — How 2025 Upended CDC’s Influential Vaccine Panel
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/a-tale-of-two-acips-how-2025-upended-cdcs-influential-vaccine-panel/ (MedPage Today) — In February, the regularly scheduled meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was abruptly postponed shortly after the confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as HHS secretary. In this report, we follow… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/vaccines/119176 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-27 16:00:00 Copyright for syndicated…
Addiction-Stricken Community Struggles to Continue Syringe Program After Trump Order
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/addiction-stricken-community-struggles-to-continue-syringe-program-after-trump-order/ (MedPage Today) — JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Inside a storage room at the Clark County Health Department are boxes with taped-on signs reading, “DO NOT USE.” They contain cookers and sterile water that people use to shoot up drugs. The supplies… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/opioids/119133 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-27 15:00:00…
UK Prostate MRI Practice Shows Progress; Variations Persist
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/uk-prostate-mri-practice-shows-progress-variations-persist/ A new survey of UK radiologists finds that 100% of NHS trusts have now used pre-biopsy MRI, although variations persist in patient preparation and staging. Medscape News UK Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/uk-prostate-mri-practice-shows-progress-variations-persist-2025a1001091?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 12:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source. The post UK…
Habitual Motor Responses May Drive Smoking More Than Reward
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/habitual-motor-responses-may-drive-smoking-more-than-reward/ Appetitive responses to smoking cues seem limited in abstinence-motivated, non-deprived smokers, suggesting habitual motor responses play a more crucial role in dependence. Medscape News UK Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/habitual-motor-responses-may-drive-smoking-more-than-reward-2025a1001095?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 12:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source. The post Habitual Motor Responses May…
2025’s best photos of the natural world, from volcanoes to icebergs
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/2025s-best-photos-of-the-natural-world-from-volcanoes-to-icebergs/ Mount Etna erupting European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery Mount Etna in Sicily is the world’s most active stratovolcano, which is a high, conical volcano created by repeated eruptions of viscous lava. In February, it erupted with ash clouds and a lava flow that travelled 3 kilometres, forcing a local airport to…
Mathematicians spent 2025 exploring the edge of mathematics
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/mathematicians-spent-2025-exploring-the-edge-of-mathematics/ When numbers get large, things get weird Jezper / Alamy In 2025, the edges of mathematics came a little more sharply into view when members of the online Busy Beaver Challenge community closed in on a huge number that threatens to defy the logical underpinnings of the subject. This number is…
Medicare Is of Two Minds on Prior Authorization
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/medicare-is-of-two-minds-on-prior-authorization/ (MedPage Today) — Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an agreement with Medicare Advantage plans to lessen the use of prior authorization, but the agency also said it would conduct a demonstration… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/practicemanagement/reimbursement/119157 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 15:00:00 Copyright for…
Dismantling the American Research Enterprise
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/dismantling-the-american-research-enterprise/ (MedPage Today) — In April, Don Ingber, MD, PhD, wrote about his experience as one of the first scientists at Harvard to receive stop-work orders from the government, demanding that he immediately cease research on two federally funded projects… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/119160 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 18:00:00 Copyright…
GLP-1s and Obesity Cancers; Cannabis’ New Legal Status; Celebrity Cancer Diagnoses
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/glp-1s-and-obesity-cancers-cannabis-new-legal-status-celebrity-cancer-diagnoses/ (MedPage Today) — GLP-1 agonists may have little impact on risk of obesity-related cancers, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized studies. (Annals of Internal Medicine) The FDA granted accelerated approval for the subcutaneous… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/othercancers/119188 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 17:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content…
Doctor’s Orders? ‘Belly Laugh at Least Two to Five Days a Week’
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/doctors-orders-belly-laugh-at-least-two-to-five-days-a-week/ (MedPage Today) — Melanin Bee curves her spine like a stretching cat as she lets out a maniacal, forced laugh. The quick-fire pattern of manufactured giggles — “oh, hoo hoo hoo, eeh, ha ha ha” — soon ripples into genuine laughter, and she… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/generalprimarycare/119129 Author : Publish date…
Quality Counseling Empowers Teen Birth Control Choices
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/quality-counseling-empowers-teen-birth-control-choices/ Adolescents who receive person-centered contraceptive counseling are more than twice as likely to use their preferred contraceptive method. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/teen-birth-control-counseling-falls-short-adult-care-2025a100103e?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 16:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source. The post Quality Counseling Empowers Teen Birth Control Choices first…
Midlife weight acquire can get started lengthy ahead of menopause – however you’ll take steps early directly to assist your frame climate the hormonal shift
Source link : https://health365.info/midlife-weight-acquire-can-get-started-lengthy-ahead-of-menopause-however-youll-take-steps-early-directly-to-assist-your-frame-climate-the-hormonal-shift/ You’re for your mid-40s, maintaining a healthy diet and exercising steadily. It’s the similar regimen that has labored for years. But in recent years, the quantity at the scale is creeping up. Garments are compatible in a different way. Slightly of stomach fats seems, apparently in a single day. You take…
‘You’re Not Crazy’: AI Linked to Medical Professional’s Delusional Spiral
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/youre-not-crazy-ai-linked-to-medical-professionals-delusional-spiral/ (MedPage Today) — When a 26-year-old medical professional sought to resurrect her dead brother online, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot tried to help by providing “digital footprints” from his life and reassurance that “you’re not… Source link : https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/119158 Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 14:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs…
Advanced Therapies Improve Bowel Urgency in IBD
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/advanced-therapies-improve-bowel-urgency-in-ibd/ Advanced therapies reduce bowel urgency in nearly half of patients with inflammatory bowel disease, new research finds. Medscape News UK Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/advanced-therapies-reduce-bowel-urgency-ibd-2025a10010a7?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 12:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source. The post Advanced Therapies Improve Bowel Urgency in IBD first appeared…
Was 2025 the year we found signs of past life on Mars?
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/was-2025-the-year-we-found-signs-of-past-life-on-mars/ NASA’s Perseverance rover, the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith NASA/JPL-Caltech On Mars, it’s the little things that hint at past life. In 2025, tiny details in rocks across the Martian surface have revealed some of the most exciting clues yet that there may once have been…
Mixed Results for Lipoic Acid in Multiple Sclerosis
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/mixed-results-for-lipoic-acid-in-multiple-sclerosis/ Lipoic acid offers no improvements in walking speed or other outcomes in patients with progressive multiple sclerosis compared to placebo but is linked to less brain atrophy. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/mixed-results-lipoic-acid-multiple-sclerosis-2025a10010d1?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 10:05:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source. The…
Psoriasis: High-Dose Risankizumab Produces Rapid Response
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/psoriasis-high-dose-risankizumab-produces-rapid-response/ ‘Complete clearance lasts for a very long time due to knockout of resident memory T cells within the skin,’ said the study’s lead author, Andrew Blauvelt, MD, MBA. Medscape Medical News Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/psoriasis-high-dose-risankizumab-produces-rapid-response-2025a10010f6?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2025-12-26 10:19:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.…
‘Spectacular’ progress has been made towards useful quantum computers
Source link : https://newshealth.biz/health-news/spectacular-progress-has-been-made-towards-useful-quantum-computers/ Practical quantum computers are moving closer to reality Alexander Yakimov / Alamy Fully practical quantum computers haven’t arrived yet, but the quantum computing industry is ending the year on an optimistic note. At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in December, which brings together quantum business and science experts, the consensus seemed…