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At the launch of On Your Side, a mental health toolkit created by the Prince of Wales and the Royal Foundation, BBC Sport's Nesta McGregor asks sporting stars, 'how has sport helped your mental health?'
The cases were reported in four states, and led to two hospitalizations. No deaths have been reported.
Can blending these popular fruits in a smoothie adversely affect the berries’ nutritional benefits? Experts weigh in This year was shaping up to be a banner year for bananas: they were lauded as “2026’s big viral taste”, landed pride of place as Prada’s new lip balm flavor, and were even deemed “the next pumpkin spice”. But this summer, the Mel Robbins Podcast featured Dr Rhonda Patrick, a biomedical scientist, who said that adding banana to a blueberry smoothie could adversely affect the nutrit
The legal basis for the $500 checks, and who would get them, isn't entirely clear.
Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
Dr. Rupa Narra is a U.S. pediatrician who arrived in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help care for stricken children. Nothing could have prepared her for what she'd face.
(MedPage Today) -- People who consumed their hot beverages at a "very hot" temperature had a threefold higher risk for squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus compared with those who drank them at a "warm" temperature, an analysis of two large...
Any MP not voting for it on Friday will condemn thousands of us to die in agony. The public is hugely in favour too, so do the right thing Once in a while, footsoldiers of the House of Commons, you are able to make history by leaving your own indelible footprints on the social fabric. Eras with a Labour majority always leave a legacy of progressive freedoms – whether on abortion, capital punishment, divorce, gay rights, racial discrimination, gender equality or, last time, civil partnerships. Bu
Platinum chemotherapy aged the liver cells of treated children, making them look more like adult liver cells and possibly raising the long-term risk of new tumors
More people are doing it to feel confident socialising - but what are the risks?
(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Is this a horse or a newborn baby? Pediatrician Gal Barbut, MD, went to the farm to help suss it out. Is...
We’d like to hear from people in the UK who have accessed medical cannabis from a private health provider and find out about their experience In 2018 Theresa May’s government changed the law to allow the NHS and private providers to prescribe cannabis-based medical products. The NHS prescribes medical cannabis for a few conditions such as children and adults with rare, severe forms of epilepsy and people with muscle stiffness and spasms caused by multiple sclerosis (MS). However, the vast majori
For anesthesiology residents working 24-hour shifts, providing brief, scheduled "nap opportunities" may lead to better clinical performance, reports a clinical trial in the October 2026 issue of Anesthesiology.
This week on "The Readout LOUD" podcast: Two experimental drugs were heralded as the next era in heart disease treatment — why did they fail?
(MedPage Today) -- In "Beyond Diagnosis: Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer," Cleveland Clinic oncologist Christopher Wee, MD, and host John Mangels discuss how clinicians can guide patients through the initial complexities of a metastatic...
Patients needing urgent care will be taken to Taunton or Dorchester instead.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have demonstrated a new approach to brain imaging that enables continuous monitoring of brain activity and the physiologic changes associated with neurological disease progression for more than 24 hours in freely moving mouse models. The cloud-based miniaturized microscope, called CloudScope, operates autonomously and allows scientists to access live imaging data remotely from anywhere in the world, creating new opportunities to study diseases as they develo
There has been rancorous debate over doctors accepting free gifts and speaking fees from pharma companies. That doesn't mean doctors have reconsidered.
(MedPage Today) -- The Trump administration is promising $500 rebate checks to an estimated 1 million Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollees across 30 states, who the White House alleged were overcharged by the Biden administration for exchange fees...
Health secretary says extreme demand no longer confined to winter as service in England warns of knock-on effects The NHS faced the “busiest summer in its history” as the UK experienced a series of heatwaves, health officials have said, while the waiting list for routine hospital treatment in England has risen to its highest level for nine months. The health secretary said “extreme demand” on the service was “no longer confined to winter” and NHS leaders warned that the service “never gone into
An abundance of clinical trials has shown that exercise reduces pain and facilitates everyday activities like climbing stairs for individuals with osteoarthritis. But researchers from the University of South Carolina, McMaster University and the University of Delaware believe it's time for a mindset shift. Instead of viewing exercise as a temporary treatment for the condition, clinicians and patients should view physical activity as a lifelong behavior.
Walking briskly may lower risk of death in some adults: Study abcnews.com Walking an extra 1,000 steps a day may help your heart, study finds washingtonpost.com You may not need 10,000 steps to get health benefits from walking CNN How Fast You Walk May Determine How Long You Live Nautilus | Science Is Your Step Count Too Low? Try Walking Faster Time Magazine
(MedPage Today) -- As we mark 25 years since 9/11, it's become clear that the devastation wasn't limited to that day, or even to the first decade after the events. Immediately after 9/11, the first wave of respiratory and mental health conditions...
Nominees for top federal health roles to face Congress, and Trump officials are betting on AI to help save rural health care.
A new wireless device—lighter than a U.S. dime and shaped like a tiny chef's hat—can track the brain waves of animals as they move in natural habitats, opening doors to understanding complex behaviors that are impossible to study in the lab.
Alcohol tied to surprising cancer death pattern in adults under 55, researchers find Fox News Alcohol-related cancer deaths have doubled, and 1 drink could increase risk USA Today How much alcohol it takes to increase your risk of dying of 9 cancers: study New York Post Alcohol-related cancer deaths in US have more than doubled over three decades The Guardian
Cancer care has got worse since the government announced plans to speed up waiting times and save more lives, BBC analysis shows.
(MedPage Today) -- The antibiotic cefepime was linked to higher odds of all-cause mortality compared with other beta-lactams, a systematic review and meta-analysis showed. Across 110 randomized trials including over 22,000 patients, there was...
UniQure readout tests durability of benefits, an AI effort to manage heart failure, and more biotech news from The Readout
A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Seattle Children's describes a complete regression of hepatoblastoma, the most common pediatric liver cancer, in a 3-year-old treated with a novel immunotherapy.
Autism Cuts 13.8 Years Off Life Expectancy—and the Causes Are Depressingly Preventable Gizmodo
(MedPage Today) -- Grisly details of the deadly crash that killed six people came to light at the first day of the trial for the nurse accused in the wreck, including camera footage of a blood smear from the remains of an unborn baby. (New York...
The leader of the Education Department's special education office told employees she is resigning less than four months in the role and as the agency overall is morphing and shrinking.
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is an inflammatory condition that causes chronic back pain and, if left untreated, can lead to fusion of the spinal or sacroiliac joints. The condition frequently remains underdiagnosed, with some studies suggesting that diagnosis can be delayed by up to 14 years. A new set of recommendations published in ACR Open Rheumatology aims to help improve the diagnosis of axSpA.
A major Novartis shareholder has called for a shake-up of the drugmaker's board after its shares suffered a record fall following trial setbacks
Nurse Teun Toebes and filmmaker Jonathan de Jong argue for a radical new approach to treating – and giving freedom to – people with dementia Teun Toebes was 17, a student nurse, when he first entered a care home. He entered, he remembers, “the closed ward”, where residents were locked inside. It illustrated perfectly, he thought, “how we have lost the plot” when it comes to treating dementia. Teun – together with filmmaker Jonathan de Jong – have just released a documentary, Forever Human, on hi
The technology will soon be routinely used within the NHS, MHRA chief Lawrence Tallon tells the BBC.
Pennsylvania coroner shares details on 2 infant measles-related deaths USA Today Pennsylvania surpasses 600 measles cases abc27.com Pennsylvania's measles outbreak grows to 624 cases 6abc Philadelphia Coroner confirms details of babies’ measles-related deaths amid growing Pennsylvania outbreak New York Post Data shows 30 new cases of measles reported in Pennsylvania since Sept. 8 KOMO
New guidelines expand the categories of high-risk children eligible for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccination and address COVID-19 vaccines for children in two policy statements and accompanying technical reports from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), published online Sept. 2 in Pediatrics.
An ongoing shortage of cancer medications continues to force leading cancer centers around the U.S. to seek work-around strategies to treat patients and a majority also report that clinical trials…
(MedPage Today) -- Note that some links may require registration or subscription. Billy Joel revealed he had a shunt implanted in his brain following his normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnosis. (People) Here's how Lasker award-winning sleep...
Pharmacies in England will soon offer treatments for a total of 12 common conditions which save people going to their GP first.
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Combining the targeted therapy olaparib with an additional immunotherapy may improve immune response in a subgroup of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer who responded poorly to initial treatment, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
(MedPage Today) -- This story was originally published by ProPublica. The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in CDC data have drawn little scrutiny or...
Feds invest in AI for heart failure, vaccines and this year's midterms, and more health news from Morning Rounds
Menstrual cycles are highly individual, making blanket advice found on social media difficult to apply, researchers say.
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A team led by researcher Guillermina López-Bendito at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has shown that the thalamus's own activity plays a fundamental role in the organization of visual circuits during development.
Before the end of September, UniQure is expected to report four-year results from the closely tracked clinical trial of its gene therapy for Huntington’s disease.
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In a new study, researchers from King's College London trained AI models on multiple types of clinical and biological data to determine whether they could predict which patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) would respond to chemotherapy. They found that behavior related to ancient viral sequences in the genome was associated with a poor response to treatment and that including this information made the models more accurate.
A Roivant lung disease drug has succeeded in a mid-stage study. But the drug’s origins are another fascinating aspect to the story.
A study found people who had their drinks "very hot" had around a three times higher risk of the cancer than "warm" tea or coffee drinkers.
A Cardiologist’s Best Way to Eat Eggs for ‘Amazing Protein’ and What He Never Eats With Them today.com
New research has found that how the brain responds to anticipated rewards plays a key role in building psychological resilience after a traumatic experience. The findings from the new study among 9/11 responders, appearing in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, support the premise that the capacity to notice and respond to positive information in the environment may buffer the negative effects of substantial trauma exposure.
A test to determine whether people who report out-of-body experiences could identify objects in another room produced results no better than chance. But afterward, something strange happened: Two participants described, unprompted, researchers' locations and activities behind closed doors.
“Nothing in the recent reporting about John Fetterman is medically surprising,” write Michael P.H. Stanley and Isaiah Kletenik.
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Cancer biology—and, in turn, cancer treatment—have come a long way in the last few decades. Most people recognize this progress in breakthroughs like immunotherapy, a treatment strategy first deployed in 2011 that leverages the body's own immune cells to fight cancer. It has revolutionized the treatment landscape. However, progress doesn't mean all the questions have been answered.
BANGOR, Maine — Rural health care providers, which have struggled for years, are facing nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the coming decade. The Trump administration is pointing to…
This Beloved Healthy Snack Is Quietly Destroying Your Teeth HuffPost
(MedPage Today) -- A broad population of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), current and former smokers alike, experienced fewer exacerbations taking a first-in-class biologic targeting interleukin (IL)-33, a pair of double...
The amount of DNA damage caused by certain chemotherapies used to effectively treat childhood cancer has been revealed, along with a hidden impact on the liver, paving the way for future research into new ways to mitigate these effects.
GOP candidates in Iowa and Florida are embracing vaccine skepticism, while Democrats in Michigan and South Carolina are ready for a fight.
Scientists are investigating whether popular supplements could harm the aging brain washingtonpost.com
(MedPage Today) -- Exposure to Helicobacter pylori, known for its role in gastric cancer, may also play a role in colorectal cancer (CRC), according to results from a risk-attribution modeling study. Based on estimates from 43 studies, H. pylori...
People living with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), a heritable heart condition that can significantly increase the risk of sudden cardiac death, are advised to avoid high-intensity aerobic exercise. However, questions remain about whether higher-intensity strength training, which affects the heart differently than endurance exercise, could be less risky.
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(MedPage Today) -- A panel of federal judges heard arguments Wednesday over whether prescribing rules should be tightened for mifepristone, a key drug used in the most common abortion method in the U.S., one of several ongoing efforts to restrict...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, gives researchers a powerful way to study brain activity. But the scans can be incredibly noisy for patients and research subjects, with peak sound levels reaching 120 to 138 decibels—about as loud as a jackhammer.
Ectopic pregnancy deaths have nearly doubled. It’s worse in states with abortion bans CNNSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News
(MedPage Today) -- Autoimmune reactions to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in cancer patients referred to rheumatologists were generally more severe than previously reported, German researchers found, with corticosteroids usually insufficient...
A city's sewers say a lot about its residents. Sick people often shed pathogens in their waste, adding traceable amounts of bacteria and viruses to wastewater. Testing that wastewater offers a simple, low-cost way to monitor the spread of disease—a practice that began with polio in the 1940s and became more widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, the CDC's wastewater monitoring program tests for a variety of common and emerging viruses.
Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus - Democratic Republic of the Congo World Health Organization (WHO) Unpaid Ebola Workers Let Families Touch the Dead WSJ Africa's top health body warns Congo’s Ebola outbreak is rapidly spreading beyond epicenter AP News Africa’s top health body warns Congo’s Ebola outbreak is rapidly spreading beyond epicenter The Seattle Times Ebola burial teams endure exhaustion, hostility from communities dailysabah.com
The two measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania last month involved infants, and the virus itself caused one of the deaths, a Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Wednesday.
With little historical data on the prevalence of West Nile virus in South Carolina, members of the Delores Marie Thomas Research Lab have assessed its presence in the Palmetto State. Led by associate professor of epidemiology Melissa Nolan, the team published its findings in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Drinking very hot beverages could triple cancer risk, large study finds CNN Drinking very hot drinks could triple risk of oesophageal cancer, study finds theguardian.com Some like it too hot — how to make the healthiest tea or coffee The Times Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk BBC Hot Beverages May Triple Your Risk of Developing a Certain Type of Cancer People.com
(MedPage Today) -- Connecticut psychiatrist Douglas Zelisko, MD, is under investigation for 21 alleged medical violations, including improper prescribing, misrepresenting a romantic partner as a licensed therapist, and engaging in inappropriate...
A U.K. commission has unveiled its recommendations for how the country should regulate artificial intelligence in medicine.
A recent study led by health services policy and management assistant professor David Anderson examined changes in Medicare Part D plans (both Medicare Advantage plans with drug coverage and stand-alone prescription drug plans) to assess how insurers may have changed various aspects of the plans in response to the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. Published in Health Affairs, the researchers' findings showed that insurers reacted primarily by lowering premiums and increasing deductibles.