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Five Top CDC Leaders Step Down Amid Wave of Departures
THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is facing major changes, with five senior leaders stepping down Tuesday. These exits follow three other recent...
NIH Ends Funding for the Effects of Climate Change on Health
THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will no longer fund new research on how climate change affects people’s health, according to records reviewed by ProPublica. The n...
Use of Parallel Transmit 7T MRI Changes Management for Epilepsy Surgery
THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – Parallel transmit (pTx) 7 Tesla (T) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) changes management in more than half of adult candidates for epilepsy surgery, according to a study...
Study Looks at Recovery Potential in Comatose Patients Who Died After Halting Life-Sustaining Therapy
THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – Most comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest who died after withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy (WLST) were considered by experts to have recovery potential...
Longer PSA Monitoring in Patients With Persistent PSA May Reduce Overtreatment
THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – Assessment of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level for three months after radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer may minimize overtreatment, according to a study...
Funding Reductions Could Reverse Progress in HIV Response
THURSDAY, March 27, 2025 – Funding reductions could reverse progress in the HIV response by 2030, with the greatest effects anticipated in countries with a higher percentage of international funding...
Tuberculosis on the Rise Again in the United States
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – Preliminary data released this month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that more than 10,300 tuberculosis (TB) cases were reported last...
Black Americans Twice As Likely To Die During Childhood As Whites
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – Black babies and children are more than twice as likely to die as white kids, and that gap has grown since the 1950s, a new study says. Black kids died at a rate 2.15...
New Material Allows Amputees To Adjust Prosthetic Limb Fit Via Smartphone
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – Chafing, blisters and sores are common problems for people fitted with an artificial limb. The artificial limb’s fixed, rigid shape can’t adapt to changes in a person’s bo...
New Moms Benefit From Regular Workouts
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – Childbirth is an overwhelming accomplishment, but new mothers would do best not to rest on their laurels following delivery, a new guideline says. New moms should clock...
Urine Test Sensitive for Renal Cancer Recurrence After Surgery
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – Urine glycosaminoglycan profiles (GAGomes) have high sensitivity for nonmetastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (M0ccRCC) recurrence, according to a study presented at...
Black American Infants, Children Have Persistent Excess Mortality
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – Black Americans, including infants and children, have persistent excess mortality relative to White Americans, according to a study published online March 25 in the...
Coverage for Routine Childhood Vaccines Remains Below Prepandemic Levels
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – Three years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, coverage for selected routine childhood vaccines remained below prepandemic levels, according to a study published...
Federal Government Pulls Back $11.4 Billion in COVID Health Funds
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – The federal government is clawing back $11.4 billion in COVID funding, a move that could affect local and state public health efforts across the country. The U.S....
Gum May Be a Hidden Source of Microplastics
WEDNESDAY, March 26, 2025 – That stick of gum you’re chewing? It might be minty fresh, but it could also come with a little something extra: tiny bits of plastic. A new study finds that one piece of ...