Opinion: Medical professionals: Make your plan to vote now. Then vote!
The U.S. is less than three weeks from the 2022 midterm elections, which will decide…
Category: Life Sciences
People Living With Tobacco Users Twice Likely To Develop Early Vision Loss: WHO
The World Health Organization tackled how smoking could lead to early vision loss and cataracts…
CDC Director Tests Positive For COVID-19 Amid Falling Cases In US
Dr. Rochelle Walensky has reportedly isolated at home after testing positive. Read Original Article: CDC…
Novavax vs. Bivalent Boosters: CDC Allows Monovalent Booster For Adults
People aged 18 and above can now receive the Novavax monovalent booster instead of the…
Exploring Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for PTSD – Psychiatric Times
Exploring Integrative Medicine and Nutrition for PTSD Psychiatric Times Read Original Article: Exploring Integrative Medicine and…
Root, Rind & Petal’s alternative approach to medicine promotes healing – The Bowdoin Orient – The Bowdoin Orient
Root, Rind & Petal’s alternative approach to medicine promotes healing – The Bowdoin Orient The Bowdoin…
Give Thanks for Good Health!
Mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, casseroles, turkey, gravy, cranberry sauce, creamy green beans, pies and…
Newsbriefs: Vitamin D; Red meat and CVD risk; Psyllium and constipation
MAJOR FINDING: Vitamin D Supplements Do Not Prevent Major Diseases Virtually every tissue in the…
Grain Products: Don’t Be Fooled by Healthy-Sounding Labels!
Eating more minimally processed whole grains and less refined grains is good for your health….
Top Reasons to Avoid “Top Foods” Lists
You see them everywhere: “The ten best/worst foods for your health.” “The top five reasons…
Diet and Hemorrhoids
Hemorrhoids affect about half of U.S. adults over age 50, yet few people want to…
Ask Tufts Experts: Relative Heath of Processed Foods; Calcium Intake Recommendations
On the spectrum of processed foods, where do supposedly healthy foods such as plant milks,…
Improve Your Cardiovascular Health with Eight Essential Steps
Earlier this year, the American Heart Association (AHA) released “Life’s Essential 8,” a checklist of…
Keep the “Healthy” In Your Holidays
It can be very challenging to stick with your healthy lifestyle during the holidays. Common…
Frontline: Heart Disease and Stroke; Replace Social Media Time; Glaucoma Risk
Improve Your Sleep and Lower Your Odds of Heart Disease, Stroke The more positive sleep…
Harvest the Bounty of Nutrients in Winter Squash
Need to add some variety to your menus this fall? “Add winter squash to your…
STAT+: This summer’s Covid surge was bad for hospital profits
This summer’s Covid-19 surge put a sizable dent in hospital finances, with two large investor-owned…
STAT+: Inside Michelle McMurry-Heath’s departure from BIO: Firings, internal clashes, and a pivotal job review
WASHINGTON — Only two years ago, Michelle McMurry-Heath was named chief executive of BIO, the…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer plans to quadruple price of its Covid-19 vaccine; pharma pushed to tie exec compensation to access to meds
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
FDA’s vaccines chief sees possibility of more Covid boosters — sooner than he’d like
Peter Marks, who leads the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccines operation, is still losing sleep…
Baby Bump Or Bust? US Saw ‘Unexpected’ Fertility Rate Increase Amid Pandemic
The average number of children over a woman’s lifetime declined from 2.1 to 1.6 from…
Opinion: Research funding is broken. Using a lottery approach could fix it
Thirty years ago, Katalin Karikó had what was then an outlandish idea: use messenger RNA…
Opinion: Support family caregivers to improve and diversify clinical trials
During the Covid-19 pandemic, America’s 53 million family caregivers gained some long overdue recognition for…
Medicare is going to cap patients’ spending on drugs. But there’s no such limit for hospital or doctor bills
By 2025, people on Medicare who take expensive medications will feel significant financial relief: They…
How Long Does Tinnitus Last?
According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, tinnitus is a…
Acetaminophen vs Ibuprofen: Uses & Side Effects
Ibuprofen is in a family of drugs called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Ibuprofen is the…
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What Is a Slipped Rib?
Slipped rib syndrome goes by many names. It may be called rib subluxation, rib tip…
What is a Pulse Oximeter?
If you have been to a doctor’s office or hospital in the last 30 years,…
Symptoms of Acid Reflux at Night
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), GERD can cause stomach juices to flow…
STAT+: Dozens of institutional investors urge drugmakers to link executive compensation to access to medicines
Three dozen institutional investors are urging the boards at several of the world’s largest pharmaceutical…
BU’s Covid tinkering, FDA on trial, & why it’s hard to take drugs off the market
What happens when approved drugs turn out not to work? Is it OK to make…
STAT+: Novartis agrees to license a best-selling cancer drug to dozens of low- and middle-income countries
Amid a push to widen access to medicines to poor countries, Novartis has reached an…
U.S. surgeon general says workplaces are taking a toll on Americans’ mental and physical health
Your job can be hazardous to your health, according to a new report from the…
STAT+: How one pharma insider sees the drug pricing reform law: the impact will ‘vary by product and by company’
After years of stops and starts, a law was finally passed in Congress this summer…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pharma tries to blunt Medicare power to negotiate prices; FDA panel supports withdrawal of premature birth drug
Top of the morning to you. Another deliciously shiny day is unfolding over the Pharmalot…
Salmonella: 2 Outbreaks Linked To Bearded Dragons Sickens 23 People
About half of the people who got sick were young children less than one year…
Opinion: How states can act to limit drug price increases, saving employers and workers billions
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 mandates that Medicare-covered drug sales will be protected from…
Tobacco companies shower Black Democrats with campaign cash
WASHINGTON — Tobacco companies generally don’t donate to many Democratic candidates for political office. But…
STAT+: As AI grows in medical image analysis, concern about building trust with doctors grows too
In 2018, the researcher Pranav Rajpurkar was working on an algorithm that could find blood…
‘Front of the line’: For Alzheimer’s patients in successful trial, a feeling of gratitude
When the news came out last month that an experimental Alzheimer’s therapy succeeded in a…
Opinion: What the Makena vote means about accelerated approval, trust, and the FDA
On Wednesday, the FDA advisory committee that oversees obstetrics, reproductive, and urologic drugs voted 14-1…
STAT+: Large insurer’s decision to cover some prescription digital therapies may be a milestone for app makers
A large commercial insurer’s decision to cover a controversial class of software-based treatments for psychiatric…
Opinion: To learn lessons from pandemics, don’t listen to big pharma
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the leaders of wealthy countries pledged to respond with “global…
FDA authorizes booster shot for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has authorized a booster shot for…
STAT+: FDA panel votes that a controversial premature birth medication should be withdrawn
After an extraordinary three-day hearing, an expert panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and…
Black Death may have influenced evolution of genes involved in immune responses, study finds
The phrase “Black Death mass burial site” tends to evoke images of haphazard piles of…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Merck KGaA probed by French court for misleading info; former Genentech scientists given prison terms over trade-secret theft
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it…
What Is Ocular Monkeypox? CDC Reports 5 Cases Of The Eye-related Infection
Ocular monkeypox is defined as the “presence of new ocular disease compatible with Orthopoxvirus (OPXV)…
Listen: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition
After years of deliberation, the FDA recently announced a new set of rules it proposes…
Opinion: STAT+: How digital health innovators can successfully navigate evolving FDA regulations
In the rapidly changing landscape of digital health, innovation has often outpaced regulations, especially for…