In March 2025, I was laid off from my public health research role at a time when the issues I work on were only getting worse. Substance use, infectious disease, behavioral health — none of it slowed down. Overdose rates may be declining, but the crisis is far from over, and infectious disease threats continue…
Hospital CEOs came under fire at a House hearing Tuesday, with Republicans accusing them of overcharging patients and exploiting the system. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Executives from HCA Healthcare, CommonSpirit Health, New York-Presbyterian and ECU Health testified before the House Ways and Means Committee,…
A neuroscientist offered a guide to reading studies about high coffee consumption and low dementia risk. (Washington Post) A longitudinal study of U.K. Biobank participants showed that focal epilepsy patients with poor sleep had a higher risk of dementia compared with stroke patients and healthy controls. (Neurology) An analysis of cognitively unimpaired adults with Alzheimer’s…
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The Supreme Court seemed divided Monday over whether to block thousands of lawsuits alleging the maker of the weedkiller Roundup failed to warn people it could cause cancer. The case came before the justices after a tidal wave of litigation that included some multibillion-dollar verdicts against the global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer, which owns Roundup maker…
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New York State Department of Health Commissioner James McDonald talking in New York last year about measles outbreaks Jim Franco/Albany Times Union via Getty Images Gamblers are increasingly placing bets on the number of people infected with measles in the US. Since January alone, nearly $9 million dollars have been bet on future cases of…
At the recent American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) annual meeting, a presentation called “Psoriasis Beyond the Skin: Obesity, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Risk,” featuring Joel M. Gelfand, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, highlighted the growing recognition of psoriasis as a systemic disease. In this MedPage Today video, Gelfand discusses the unique and causal…
I can’t stand when a subscription tells me its “monthly” price, when, in actuality, the plan charges me annually. Sure, when you divide the yearly cost by 12, the price looks better, but if I’m paying all at once for the year, then it’s really not that amount per month. It’s all a way to…
A humanoid robot from Honor crosses the finish line during the 2026 Beijing E-Town Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon Lintao Zhang/Getty Images Last weekend, Sabastian Sawe set a new world record with a sub-2-hour marathon, but he isn’t the only one raising the bar for runners. On 19 April, a robot from Chinese smartphone maker Honor surpassed…
