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Trump wants Americans to make more babies. Critics say his policies won’t help raise them.

Maddy Olcott plans to start a career once she graduates from college. But the junior at the State University of New York-Purchase College is so far not planning to start a family — even with the Trump administration dangling inducements like thousand-dollar "baby bonuses" or cheaper infertility drugs.

3 Dec 2025

Microbial warning signs that predict death risk in severe pneumonia

Researchers examine the gut and lung microbiota of severe community-acquired pneumonia patients.

3 Dec 2025

Study reveals the overlooked mental health challenges faced by new parents

Intrusive thoughts and psychotic-like experiences among new parents are far more common than previously thought - according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

2 Dec 2025

Nearly one million young children die each year due to growth failure worldwide

Nearly one million children around the globe fail to reach their fifth birthday every year due to devastating health consequences linked to child growth failure, making it the third leading risk factor for mortality and morbidity in children under five.

2 Dec 2025

Experts call for comprehensive measures to reduce injury risks for female athletes

reating a safe, gender-specific, supportive environment-one that is free of body shaming and idealised female forms, for example-is key to minimising female athletes' future risks of injury and protecting their health, emphasizes the Female/woman/girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) Consensus Statement-the first of its kind-published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

2 Dec 2025

Hospital payment caps linked to savings and stable care in Oregon

As health care costs continue to soar across the U.S., a growing number of states are setting limits on how much hospitals can charge.

2 Dec 2025

SCAI and CRT launch partnership to expand innovation and training in interventional cardiology

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) and Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) today announce a new collaboration to elevate the field of interventional cardiology through shared education programming, legislative activities, and future research initiatives.

2 Dec 2025

Hallucinogen-related hospital care linked to higher risk of future mania

People who have received emergency or hospital care in Canada due to hallucinogen use have a six-fold increased risk of receiving care for mania in the next three years, according to a study published December 2nd in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Daniel Myran from North York General Hospital in Canada and colleagues.

2 Dec 2025

Understanding dental drill acoustics to help reduce patient anxiety

Dental anxiety, also known as odontophobia, prevents people from getting their regular cleanings and keeping up with necessary dental hygiene.

2 Dec 2025

Study finds sharp rise in long-term antidepressant use among young Australians

Long-term antidepressant use in Australia has risen steadily over the past decade, with the largest increase seen in young people aged 10-24, where rates have more than doubled.

2 Dec 2025

Rising complexity in pediatric hospitalizations highlights urgent workforce and policy needs

A new national analysis shows that over the past two decades, inpatient care for children with complex chronic conditions (CCCs) has become far more intensive-and is now overwhelmingly concentrated in urban teaching children's hospitals.

2 Dec 2025

Pre-workout supplement use linked to dangerously short sleep in young people

A new study from the Canadian Study of Adolescent Behaviors reveals that adolescents and young adults who use pre-workout dietary supplements, such as Bang!, Jack3D, and C4, are significantly more likely to report dangerously short sleep durations.

2 Dec 2025

Medical humanities can illuminate the root causes of health disparities, study shows

A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, DC, found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified crucial barriers and opportunities for intervention that quantitative studies often miss.

2 Dec 2025

Study finds measurable influence of living environment on body weight

A Curtin University-led study has found that where Australians live has a measurable influence on their body weight, with local food environments and neighbourhood design playing a big part in shaping health outcomes.

2 Dec 2025

Asian IBD patients show lower PSC prevalence and better clinical outcomes

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, progressive inflammatory disease characterized by fibrosis and bile duct stricturing, which ultimately leads to cirrhosis and liver failure. PSC is strongly associated with both types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), namely, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

2 Dec 2025

Finnish research pinpoints a higher risk among cohabiting survivors

Researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, have identified significant differences in mortality among widows and widowers from cohabiting versus married relationships, depending on the deceased partner's cause of death. Accidental death increases the surviving partner's mortality risk more than death from illness. Mortality rises particularly sharply among those who had been living in cohabitation.

2 Dec 2025

Atelerix and Labskin partner to enable long-distance transport of advanced in vitro skin models

Atelerix, a biotech company revolutionizing cell preservation and biological transport with its pioneering hydrogel encapsulation technology, today announced an agreement with Labskin, a global leader in laboratory-grown human skin models used for research, testing and product development.

2 Dec 2025

Imaging reveals distinct injury patterns for victims of intimate partner violence with suicidal behavior

Victims of intimate partner violence with suicidal behavior have characteristic injury patterns on medical imaging, according to a new study being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

2 Dec 2025

WHO releases first guideline on the use of GLP-1 therapies for treating obesity

To address the growing global health challenge of obesity, which affects more than 1 billion people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released its first guideline on the use of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) therapies for treating obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease.

2 Dec 2025

WHO urges action to end the AIDS epidemic

On World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on governments and partners to rapidly expand access to new WHO-approved tools including lenacapavir (LEN) to drive down infections and counter disruption to essential health services caused by cuts to foreign aid.

2 Dec 2025

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Trump wants Americans to make more babies. Critics say his policies won’t help raise them.

Microbial warning signs that predict death risk in severe pneumonia

Study reveals the overlooked mental health challenges faced by new parents

Nearly one million young children die each year due to growth failure worldwide

Experts call for comprehensive measures to reduce injury risks for female athletes

Hospital payment caps linked to savings and stable care in Oregon

SCAI and CRT launch partnership to expand innovation and training in interventional cardiology

Hallucinogen-related hospital care linked to higher risk of future mania

Understanding dental drill acoustics to help reduce patient anxiety

Study finds sharp rise in long-term antidepressant use among young Australians

Rising complexity in pediatric hospitalizations highlights urgent workforce and policy needs

Pre-workout supplement use linked to dangerously short sleep in young people

Medical humanities can illuminate the root causes of health disparities, study shows

Study finds measurable influence of living environment on body weight

Asian IBD patients show lower PSC prevalence and better clinical outcomes

Finnish research pinpoints a higher risk among cohabiting survivors

Atelerix and Labskin partner to enable long-distance transport of advanced in vitro skin models

Imaging reveals distinct injury patterns for victims of intimate partner violence with suicidal behavior

WHO releases first guideline on the use of GLP-1 therapies for treating obesity

WHO urges action to end the AIDS epidemic

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