RFK Jr.’s Lies About the Flu Vaccine; Chaos at Medicaid; Unexplained Infant Deaths
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. "Zero evidence that the flu shot prevents any ...
Day: January 29, 2025
PEPFAR, USAID Hit Hard by Trump Administration Orders
(MedPage Today) -- The global public health community is raising significant concerns about recent Trump administration actions, including a funding ...
HCV Cure Rate Quadruples With Peer-Assisted Telehealth
Pills can cure infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), but getting the medication to patients who need treatment can ...
Berlin Boy Dies From Diphtheria in Rare German Case, Paper Says
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 10-year-old boy has died from a diphtheria infection in a Berlin hospital, German newspaper Tagesspiegel reported ...
AHA Advisory Endorses EVT for Large Core Stroke
Results of six recent trials of endovascular treatment (EVT) for patients with large-core ischemic stroke (LCIS) provide strong evidence for ...
No Benefit with Pamrevlumab in Pancreatic Cancer
The results of the global phase 3 LAPIS trial suggest that the addition of pamrevlumab to standard chemotherapy fails to ...
Science Behind Approved OUD Risk Test Questioned
About a year ago, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted premarket approval to AvertD (SOLVD Health), the first ...
Sedative, Hypnotic Drug Misuse 5x in Young Adults Since 2001
More teens and young adults appear to be developing addiction or dependence on drugs that help them sleep, calm down, ...
Trump Health Pick Kennedy Comes Under US Senate Scrutiny Over Vaccine, Abortion Views
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's pick to lead the top U.S. health agency, appeared before the ...
Novel Brain Biomarker Accurately Predicts Pain Sensitivity
A novel biomarker signature may offer a more objective way of predicting pain sensitivity, new research suggested.Investigators utilized the biomarker, ...
Can Memory Influence Food Cravings, Food Intake, and Weight?
The hippocampus contains neurons that specifically encode memories of sugar and fat, influencing food intake and body weight in mice, ...
Preeclampsia Drives Maternal Risk in Hypertensive Pregnancy
TOPLINE:Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) rates are five times higher when preeclampsia develops in pregnancy, regardless of chronic hypertension status. Patients ...
Which Obesity Measure Best Predicts Periodontitis Risk?
TOPLINE:Two newer measures of obesity that include waist circumference — weight-adjusted waist index (WWI) and waist-to-height ratio (WtHR) — may ...
Investigative Treatments for Moderate to Severe Psoriasis Reviewed
NEW YORK — No fewer than four investigative therapies, ranging from an oral interleukin-23 receptor antagonist to oral tyrosine kinase ...
Survival in Lynch Syndrome Similar to General Population
TOPLINE:Patients with Lynch syndrome do not have an increased all-cause mortality rate, despite patient beliefs to the contrary; however, those ...
Brain Activity Mirrors Inflammation After Bariatric Surgery
TOPLINE:In the first study of its kind, researchers identified specific brain regions linked to a transient surge in patients’ inflammatory ...
Suboptimal Diets Tied to Global Doubling of GI Cancers
More than 1 in 5 of new gastrointestinal (GI) cancer cases globally were attributable to suboptimal dietary intake, according to ...
PharmDs, Not MDs, RNs in VA Hiring Freeze Exemption List
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has outlined > 300,000 exemptions to the federal hiring freeze to fill essential ...
Tuberculosis Hits Hard in Kansas City
State and local public health officials in Kansas are responding to a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak in the Kansas City area, ...
Alzheimer’s Disease: The Cholinergic Revival
Before the advent of the amyloid hypothesis in the 1990s, the cholinergic hypothesis offered key clues to the etiology of ...
