NPR Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
January is a big time for drugmakers to hike prices. This year saw higher prices for 575 medications so far, including Ozempic, drugs for HIV, cancer and many others.
The Hill
JANUARY 14, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday released its second interim report on pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), saying the major industry middlemen generate billions in revenue through vertical integration, industry dominance and marking up the prices of speciality drugs. The report specifically looked at the business practices of the Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx, which are in turn owned by CVS Health, Cigna and UnitedHealth Group, respectively.
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NPR Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Analysis of gut microbiomes reveals co-colonization patterns and potential therapeutic targets against Enterobacteriaceae, addressing global health challenges.
NPR Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
The Princess of Wales revealed that her cancer is in remission after an emotional visit to the hospital where she received treatment last year.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Investigating the interplay of genetics, brain maturation, and mental health, this study reveals insights into adolescent eating behaviors and obesity risk.
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News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Research analyzes over 50,000 food products, highlighting the dominance of ultra-processed options in grocery stores and its implications for public health.
NPR Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
Syria's new rulers faces one of their first serious challenges: bread lines. For Syrians, the long wait is a struggle but for some, bread is a business opportunity.
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JANUARY 14, 2025
Wildfires that burn homes and vehicles could expose people to dangerous airborne compounds through ash and smoke. Research has shown that people returning to their unburned homes may also experience health symptoms months after a nearby fire is extinguished. Through a survey of people affected by the 2021 Marshall Fire in Boulder, Colorado, researchers found that headaches, sore throats and coughs were frequently self-reported by residents living near burned structures.
NPR Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
Today marks one week since the big fires in Los Angeles started. The disaster is taking a toll on peoples' mental health, but LA is working to help with their immediate- and long-term needs.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Researchers utilize explainable artificial intelligence to identify follicle sizes important for relevant downstream clinical outcomes during assisted conception.
NPR Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
The COVID-19 mRNA vaccine generates enough of an antibody response to protect against severe disease for six months. But other vaccines offer years-long even lifelong immunity, such as the measles or yellow fever vaccines. Is there a way for scientists to tell how long a person's immunity will last? A team at Stanford Medicine might have found a way to do just that with the help of some of the cells found in our bone marrow.
Your Local Epidemiologist
JANUARY 14, 2025
Oof, we are coming out of the holidays and seeing the impact on viruses: there is a lot of sickness out there. I’d wager that we are around peak respiratory season. While a few patterns are unusual, this is a pretty middle-of-the-road season overall. Here is your state of affairs. Source: André-Philippe Côté Influenza-like illnesses: Very high The climate of respiratory health in the United States (the CDC coined “influenza-like illnesses”) is very high.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Researchers examines how a high-fat diet modifies inhibitory control.
The Hill
JANUARY 14, 2025
A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from enforcing a requirement that cigarette packages include graphic warnings on the impacts of smoking. On Monday, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker in Tyler, Texas, ruled in favor of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and others, finding the FDA does not have the authority to require cigarette packaging and advertising to include one of 11 different warning labels.
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JANUARY 14, 2025
Engineers have demonstrated a well-known quantum thought experiment in the real world. Their findings deliver a new and more robust way to perform quantum computations and they have important implications for error correction, one of the biggest obstacles standing between them and a working quantum computer.
The Hindu
JANUARY 14, 2025
The patients contacts, including healthcare workers, have been identified and were being followed up, reports the World Health Organization
The Hill
JANUARY 14, 2025
Dementia cases in the U.S. are expected to double by 2060 when around 1 million Americans are projected to develop the memory-losing condition every year, according to a new study that was published Monday in the medical journal Nature Medicine. The study found that the risk of developing dementia after turning age 55 is around 42 percent. Dementia is a group condition that includes loss of concentration, judgment and memory.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Gut microbiota-derived phenylacetylglutamine accelerates aging by driving cellular senescence through mitochondrial dysfunction and DNA damage, offering insights into therapeutic interventions for age-related decline.
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JANUARY 14, 2025
Federal reservoirs could help meet the country's solar energy needs, according to a new study. Geospatial scientists and senior legal and regulatory analyst quantified exactly how much energy could be generated from floating solar panel projects installed on federally owned or regulated reservoirs.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Scientists uncover how Ffar4 regulates sugar cravings through gut microbiota, revealing pantothenate as a key mediator to curb sugar intake.
The Hindu
JANUARY 14, 2025
At The Hindu Lit for Life, Dr Issac Mathai will be in conversation with Dr E S Krishnamoorthy and Vasudha Rai
JPHMP Direct
JANUARY 14, 2025
This blog post focuses on the reasons why public health should be at the forefront of AI dialogue at all levels, highlights several AI-related efforts in Kansas, and provides ideas for next steps. The post Why and How Kansas Public Health Could Be Key in Shaping a Statewide AI Roadmap first appeared on JPHMP Direct.
The Hindu
JANUARY 14, 2025
On declining fertility levels, an update on HMPV, sudden cardiac death among athletes and more
HEALTHBEAT
JANUARY 14, 2025
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. Officials with Georgias Department of Public Health reiterated Tuesday that while respiratory diseases are at seasonal heights , there are signs that this winters wave could be milder than recent years. At the DPH boards meeting, state epidemiologist Cherie Drenzek shared charts that showed stark winter increases in three major viruses Covid-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Scientists mapped the serum proteome longitudinally to uncover biomarkers linked to healthy aging and cardiometabolic diseases, revealing potential therapeutic targets.
Nature Mental Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
Nature Mental Health, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s44220-024-00376-1 Dysfunction in the hippocampal circuitry in individuals with first-episode schizophrenia and delusions is linked to deficits in behavioral pattern separation and recognition memory.
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
JANUARY 14, 2025
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00643-4 Julie Edwards explains how quantitative wood anatomy helps refine records of past climate.
Nature Mental Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
Nature Mental Health, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s44220-024-00369-0 Using genome-wide meta-analyses of clinical measures of depression and biobank data, the authors investigate symptom-specific genetic associations between depression and subsequent risk for Alzheimers disease, finding an absence of a putative genetic overlap between disorders.
NPJ Vaccine
JANUARY 14, 2025
npj Vaccines, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.
Nature Mental Health
JANUARY 14, 2025
Nature Mental Health, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.1038/s44220-024-00374-3 We speak to Eric Garland, an endowed professor in Health Sciences at the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, director of UCSD ONEMIND (optimized neuroscience-enhanced mindfulness intervention design) and the developer of mindfulness-oriented recovery enhancement (MORE), an evidence-based mindbody therapy fo
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
A University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) study proves that the WIN55.
NPJ Vaccine
JANUARY 14, 2025
npj Vaccines, Published online: 15 January 2025; doi:10.
News Medical Health Sciences
JANUARY 14, 2025
Living in a family where there is genetic risk for dementia significantly affects choices about having children and how to parent, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
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