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HHS Secretary Kennedy and Daphne Oz Release Third Real Food Show Episode on Affordable Meals
The latest HHS video shows a no-cook mock tuna chickpea salad for $2.64 per serving as the agency promotes updated Dieta...
Foodwatch Warns Three Influencer Supplement Brands Over Ashwagandha Health Claims
Consumer group Foodwatch has warned More Nutrition, Naturally You and ESN over allegedly unlawful EU health claims for a...
Danish Study: 49% Stop Wegovy Within a Year, One in Four Restart
A nationwide Danish cohort finds high first-year semaglutide discontinuation, driven partly by cost and side effects, wi...
Mark Cruz Confirmed as 12th Director of Indian Health Service
The Senate confirms Klamath Tribes citizen Mark Cruz for a four-year term leading the Indian Health Service, ending a le...
Instagram Marketing by Hemp Cannabinoid Brands Found Heavy on Youth Appeals, Rutgers Study Shows
A Rutgers review of 837 Instagram posts finds intoxicating hemp brands lean on cartoons, memes and lifestyle content, ev...
Diabetes Treatment Is a $966 Billion Global Market Led by Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Sanofi
Nearly 537 million people live with diabetes, and global health spending reached an estimated $966 billion in 2021. Here...
California Community Midwives Face Medicaid Barriers That Limit Perinatal Care Access
A University of California study identifies low reimbursement, costly liability insurance, and administrative complexity...
Doctors Cite Teen Deaths in Push to Curb NCAA-Monster Promotion
Physicians want the NCAA to pause youth-facing Monster Energy branding in Big 12 sports, citing teen deaths and data sho...
Mark Cuban's Pharmacy Cuts Heart Transplant Drug Cost to $300 After Insurer Raises Price to $1,000
A 26-year-old heart transplant survivor saw her off-label rejection drug rise from $180 to $1,000 per 90 days. Mark Cuba...
GLP-1 Drugs Are Moving Far Beyond Weight Loss — and Rewriting Chronic Disease Treatment
New trial data link semaglutide and tirzepatide to improvements in sleep apnea, kidney, liver and heart outcomes, recast...
India's Medicine QR Codes Must Move to Uniform Global Data Standards: GS1 CEO
As India extends QR codes to cancer drugs, narcotics, vaccines and antimicrobials, GS1 India's chief says standardised c...
Nicaragua's Chikungunya Surge Prompts US Travel Alert Amid Underreporting Claims
Health ministry data show 1,384 chikungunya-compatible cases since late May, with accusations that public doctors used v...
Why Blood Pressure Guidance Is Shifting From Salt Cuts to the Sodium-Potassium Ratio
A new journal report argues that pairing lower sodium with higher potassium intake may control blood pressure better tha...
Primate Study Finds Triple Therapy May Clear HIV-Like Virus in Newborns
In eight infant macaques, ART combined with two broadly neutralizing antibodies and leronlimab kept an HIV-like virus fr...
Appeals Court Backs Gilead in Ruling Threatening Overseas Drug Import Programs
A federal appeals court has found that international versions of Gilead's HIV drug Biktarvy are materially different fro...
FDA Upgrades Salmonella Egg Recall to Class I, Its Highest Risk Level
Nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs are under the FDA’s highest-risk classification after a salmonella outbreak sickened 98 pe...
Why Being Told Your Symptoms Are 'Normal' May Keep Patients From Treatment
A new study in Nature Human Behavior finds that reassuring patients their symptoms are normal can unintentionally lower ...
Cambridge Study: Why Activating and Blocking the Same Receptor Both Aid Weight Loss
A Nature Metabolism study in mice traces GIP receptor agonists to the brainstem and antagonists to the hypothalamus, exp...
Sodium Nitrite Poisoning Emerges as Growing Factor in UK Suicide Deaths
A BMJ Public Health study finds the preservative is implicated in 164 coroner-approved cases from 2019–24, mostly young ...
Sodium Nitrite Linked to Rising UK Suicide Deaths, Study Urges Access Curbs
A BMJ Public Health analysis ties widely available food preservative sodium nitrite to a rise in UK suicide deaths, with...
Colorado's Hospital Squeeze: What H.R.1's Medicaid Cuts Mean for Patients and Rural Care
Federal Medicaid cuts are colliding with Colorado's already fragile hospital finances. Lower reimbursements, new work ru...
Dushanbe Detains 10 Suspects Over Deliberate HIV Infections Amid Global Funding Squeeze
Tajik police say more than 60 people may have been exposed in a deliberate HIV transmission case, as UNAIDS warns of ris...
Trump's Childhood Vaccine Order Risks Measles Resurgence, Pediatrician Warns
The Aug. 10 executive order directs HHS to split MMR vaccines and space out childhood immunizations; the author argues i...
Fall COVID and Flu Vaccine Guidance Is Stuck in Federal Limbo
The FDA has set fall vaccine formulas, but a missing CDC advisory panel, a court ruling, and a new executive order have ...
Health Brief: AMA Billing-Code Suit, HHS Gender-Care Probe and New Alzheimer's Tracer
A healthcare advocacy group's lawsuit over AMA billing codes, an HHS request for a DOJ probe into gender-affirming care ...
Trump's New Medicaid Waiver Test Threatens Arkansas Coverage and Hospital Funding
CMS is refusing to renew Arkansas's 13-year Medicaid waiver under new budget-neutrality rules, a shift that may reshape ...
A 1-in-27,000 Finding: Newborn Blood Spots Could Reveal Childhood Cancer Risk
A Michigan study found cancer-risk gene variants in 6.8% of children who later developed tumours, strengthening the case...
What Hematologists Say About the Viral 'Ferritin Face' Trend
Social media users are diagnosing low iron from pale skin and dark circles. Hematologists say the visual signs have a re...
FDA Approves Pluvicto for Hormone-Sensitive Metastatic Prostate Cancer
The targeted radiation drug can now be used with hormone therapy in PSMA-positive metastatic prostate cancer after trial...
France's Top Court Approves Assisted Dying for Adults With Incurable Illness
The Constitutional Council upheld the July law in full, but ordered clarifications on conscience clauses and private hea...