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Native Americans hurt by federal health cuts, despite RFK Jr.’s promises of protection

Navajo Nation leaders took turns talking with the U.S. government's top health official as they hiked along a sandstone ridge overlooking their rural, high-desert town before the morning sun grew too hot.

3 Jun 2025

Fujifilm rebrands Life Sciences Companies to strengthen position as strategic partners for life, offering end-to-end solutions

FUJIFILM Corporation's Life Sciences Group companies, a portfolio of businesses offering products, services and comprehensive solutions that span all stages of therapeutic development from discovery through to commercialization, today announced new names and identities as part of a strategic positioning effort.

3 Jun 2025

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Live from AHCJ: Shock and awe in federal health policy

Cuts to health programs made by the second Trump administration in its first 100 days are already having an impact at the state and local level.

2 Jun 2025

MMR vaccination rates decline in most U.S. counties since the pandemic

A new county-level dataset from Johns Hopkins University researchers reveals a national decline in the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccination rate among U.S. children since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2 Jun 2025

Health harm warnings found most effective in discouraging e-cigarette use

Electronic-cigarette warnings are effective in discouraging vaping, with warnings specific to health harms being generally more effective than warnings about e-cigarette addiction, according to a meta-analysis of 24 studies conducted by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and their colleagues.

2 Jun 2025

Older adults accurately gauge their financial skills until dementia sets in

Older adults are quite aware of their financial abilities – and these abilities actually improve with age – that is, until dementia sets in, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

2 Jun 2025

Understanding why empathy is hard to maintain in clinical practice

Empathy is often seen as a natural and essential part of the patient encounter - but reality tends to look quite different.

2 Jun 2025

Cannabis use among older adults in the US reaches record levels

Marijuana use among older adults in the US has reached a new high, with 7 percent of adults aged 65 and over who report using it in the past month, according to an analysis led by researchers with the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research (CDUHR) at the NYU School of Global Public Health.

2 Jun 2025

Cannabis retailers found to be more concentrated in disadvantaged neighborhoods

A novel study reveals a significantly higher concentration of recreational (nonmedical) cannabis retailers in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas and neighborhoods with greater proportions of populations of color across 18 US states in which cannabis use is legal for adults.

2 Jun 2025

RFK Jr. says healthy pregnant women don’t need covid boosters. What the science says.

You're pregnant, healthy, and hearing mixed messages: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is not a scientist or doctor, says you don't need the covid vaccine, but experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Protection still put you in a high-risk group of people who ought to receive boosters.

2 Jun 2025

Role reversal: Millions of kids are caregivers for elders. Why their numbers might grow.

High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom survived a terrible car crash.

2 Jun 2025

Digital baby formula campaigns undermine breastfeeding and put child health at risk

A global resolution on digital marketing of breast milk substitutes must be rigorously enforced, writes Afshan Khan, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement.

1 Jun 2025

Tobacco-funded research continues to appear in leading medical journals

Tobacco-funded research is still appearing in highly-cited medical journals - despite attempts by some to cut ties altogether, finds an investigation by The Investigative Desk and The BMJ today.

1 Jun 2025

Diagnostics.ai launches fully-transparent machine learning platform for real-time PCR diagnostics

As the May 26th CE-IVDR compliance deadline comes into effect, Diagnostics.ai launches the industry's first fully-transparent machine learning platform for clinical real-time PCR diagnostics – demonstrating exactly how each result was achieved, a first for molecular-testing machine learning.

31 May 2025

Microfluidic contact lenses emerge as next generation tools for eye care

The tear film coating the eye offers a window into a person's systemic and ocular health, carrying biomarkers such as glucose, electrolytes, and proteins.

31 May 2025

New microfluidic device brings affordable kidney testing to the point of care

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects over 800 million people globally and is often diagnosed too late for effective intervention.

31 May 2025

New studies offer hope for easing primary care doctor burnout

America's primary care doctors are burning out, cutting back their hours, and leaving their practices early, driven in part by the demands of handling the flood of digital messages from their patients.

31 May 2025

Leading health organizations release guidance on nutrition support for GLP-1 obesity therapies

Four leading organizations in lifestyle medicine, obesity medicine, and nutrition-the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), the American Society for Nutrition (ASN), the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA), and The Obesity Society (TOS)-have jointly released a clinical advisory titled "Nutritional Priorities to Support GLP-1 Therapy for Obesity."

31 May 2025

Researchers report surge in at-home heart attacks and cardiac deaths since COVID pandemic

Heart attacks are the leading cause of death globally, yet some statistics from many different countries suggest these events declined in frequency since the COVID-19 pandemic.

30 May 2025

WHO calls on governments to ban flavors in all nicotine products

On World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) today launches a new publication and calls on governments to urgently ban all flavors in tobacco and nicotine products, including cigarettes, pouches, hookahs and e-cigarettes to protect youth from addiction and disease.

30 May 2025

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Native Americans hurt by federal health cuts, despite RFK Jr.’s promises of protection

Fujifilm rebrands Life Sciences Companies to strengthen position as strategic partners for life, offering end-to-end solutions

KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Live from AHCJ: Shock and awe in federal health policy

MMR vaccination rates decline in most U.S. counties since the pandemic

Health harm warnings found most effective in discouraging e-cigarette use

Older adults accurately gauge their financial skills until dementia sets in

Understanding why empathy is hard to maintain in clinical practice

Cannabis use among older adults in the US reaches record levels

Cannabis retailers found to be more concentrated in disadvantaged neighborhoods

RFK Jr. says healthy pregnant women don’t need covid boosters. What the science says.

Role reversal: Millions of kids are caregivers for elders. Why their numbers might grow.

Digital baby formula campaigns undermine breastfeeding and put child health at risk

Tobacco-funded research continues to appear in leading medical journals

Diagnostics.ai launches fully-transparent machine learning platform for real-time PCR diagnostics

Microfluidic contact lenses emerge as next generation tools for eye care

New microfluidic device brings affordable kidney testing to the point of care

New studies offer hope for easing primary care doctor burnout

Leading health organizations release guidance on nutrition support for GLP-1 obesity therapies

Researchers report surge in at-home heart attacks and cardiac deaths since COVID pandemic

WHO calls on governments to ban flavors in all nicotine products

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