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AI and clinicians compared in handling complex medical cases

A University of Maine study compared how well artificial intelligence models and human clinicians handled complex or sensitive medical cases.

4 Jun 2025

An Arm and a Leg: A mathematical solution for US hospitals?

What do the KGB and the former CEO of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have in common?

4 Jun 2025

Newsom’s push to block law could save California nursing homes over $1 billion

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to block a California law from taking effect next year that will require nursing homes to have a 96-hour backup power supply, potentially giving the industry a reprieve from having to spend over $1 billion in capital investments.

4 Jun 2025

Two patients faced chemo. The one who survived demanded a test to see if it was safe.

JoEllen Zembruski-Ruple, while in the care of New York City's renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, swallowed the first three chemotherapy pills to treat her squamous cell carcinoma on Jan. 29, her family members said. They didn't realize the drug could kill her.

4 Jun 2025

Faster health campaigns possible with Generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence could take years off the time between identifying public health risks and launching impactful mass media campaigns.

3 Jun 2025

Scientists develop new system for classifying processed foods

Recent years have seen growing scrutiny and debate around processed foods, but researchers have struggled to pin down what aspects of food processing are most relevant to health.

3 Jun 2025

Promoting more respectful and inclusive care in reproductive health cinics

Millions of young women around the world face stigma and bias when seeking reproductive health services, often limiting their access to contraception and quality care.

3 Jun 2025

Study finds strong connection between incarceration and early death

This study shows individual incarceration rates and rates at the county level (the number of incarcerated individuals per 100,000 residents) are strongly associated with increased mortality in the United States.

3 Jun 2025

Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ continues assault on Obamacare

Millions would lose Medicaid coverage. Millions would be left without health insurance. Signing up for health plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces would be harder and more expensive.

3 Jun 2025

Daily bean consumption linked to improved heart and metabolic health

A new study suggests that regularly eating a cup of beans a day may offer measurable benefits for heart and metabolic health.

3 Jun 2025

Understanding barriers to treatment for cannabis use disorder in the United States

As cannabis becomes more potent and widely used in the United States – especially among young adults – concerns about cannabis use disorder are growing. More than 16 million Americans meet the criteria, yet most never receive treatment.

3 Jun 2025

Ochsner Health shares roadmap for pharmacogenomics integration into clinical practice

In a report recently published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, the Ochsner Health system delves into the multifaceted implementation of pharmacogenomics-a rapidly evolving field that examines how genetics influence individual responses to medication.

3 Jun 2025

Understanding why older Americans switch Medicare Advantage plans

More than half of older Americans now get their Medicare coverage through an insurance company's Medicare Advantage plan.

3 Jun 2025

Ballad Health’s hospital monopoly underperformed. Then Tennessee lowered the bar.

Despite years of patient complaints and quality-of-care concerns, Ballad Health — the nation's largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly — will now be held to a lower standard by the Tennessee government, and state data that holds the monopoly accountable will be kept from the public for two years.

3 Jun 2025

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