(MedPage Today) -- Lawmakers on Thursday explored the merits of a bill that would block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) from implementing a pilot program to test...

(MedPage Today) -- New federal guidelines from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) now include the option for women ages 30 to 65 years at average risk for cervical...

Trees floating towards the Arctic OceanCarl Christoph Stadie/The Alfred Wegener Institute Cutting down swathes of boreal forest and sinking the trees into the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove...

(MedPage Today) -- Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, opened up about her experience with chemotherapy during a visit to a London hospital. (ABC News) Use of SGLT2 inhibitors was...

The four crew members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission to the International Space StationSpaceX For the first time, astronauts are being evacuated from the International Space Station (ISS) for medical...

Microbial activity in the gut might affect our quality of sleepOleksandra Troian / Alamy We know that diet has a role in sleep conditions – and now it seems that...

(MedPage Today) -- Most Alzheimer's disease and nearly half of all dementia was associated with variations in the APOE gene, a study of 470,000 older adults suggested. In Alzheimer's disease,...

(MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Vaccines," Cleveland Clinic infectious disease specialist Donald Dumford, MD, and host John Mangels explore how clinicians can communicate effectively and empathetically with patients when...

The MHRA has strengthened addiction warnings for Z-drugs, benzodiazepines, and gabapentinoids after a review found risks of dependence and withdrawal. Medscape News UK Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/tougher-mhra-addiction-warnings-z-drugs-2026a10000r5?src=rss Author : Publish...

(MedPage Today) -- A small pilot program was not enough to prove that opportunistic genomic screening for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) put a dent in people's cholesterol. In the Million Veteran...

(MedPage Today) -- Bariatric surgery and GLP-1 receptor agonists both reduced fat mass over 2 years of treatment, but surgery was associated with a more favorable body composition, a cohort...

The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it's unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of minerals and oil in the near future Source link : https://www.newscientist.com/article/2510896-why-does-the-united-states-want-to-buy-greenland/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home...

Quantum computers could benefit from a path around the Heisenberg uncertainty principleMarijan Murat/dpa/Alamy The Heisenberg uncertainty principle puts a limit on how precisely we can measure certain properties of quantum...

(MedPage Today) -- At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, announced that his agency issued two new guidance documents aimed at easing regulation...

Righting a man’s microbial wrongs stopped his body from producing intoxicating amounts of alcoholScience Photo Library / Alamy A man in Massachusetts whose gut started brewing its own alcohol, which...

(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Doctors debunked five women's health myths on mammograms, menopause, exercise, and more. (NPR) The FDA rejected tasimelteon (Hetlioz)...

Athena, Electro, Dynamite and Giant share their top tips to stay fit and healthy. Source link : https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c8rm55dkej5o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss Author : Publish date : 2026-01-09 14:16:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs...

(MedPage Today) -- America has a gun violence epidemic; we all know that. However, as the number of shootings outnumber the days in a year, the idea of a safe...

UK regulators have approved nirogacestat as the first licensed drug for adults with progressive desmoid tumours. Medscape News UK Source link : https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/uk-approves-first-drug-option-desmoid-tumours-2026a10000qe?src=rss Author : Publish date : 2026-01-09 13:06:00...

An artist’s impression of CarbSAR orbiting EarthOxford Space Systems A new UK satellite is about to launch, wearing the latest in high‑tech knitwear. Called CarbSAR, it is due to go...