Category: 4. Health

Three-dimensional printing is transforming medical care, letting the health care field shift from mass-produced solutions to customized treatments tailored to each patient’s needs. For instance, researchers are developing 3D-printed prosthetic hands specifically designed for children, made with lightweight materials and adaptable control systems.

These continuing advancements in 3D-printed prosthetics demonstrate their increasing affordability and accessibility. Success stories like…

Children and teenagers of any age who sip or taste alcohol with their parents’ permission are more likely to engage in risky drinking in young adulthood. That was the finding of a new study my colleagues and I published in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

In the study, we examined questionnaires filled out annually between 2009 and 2018 by 387 adolescents starting at age 11 and an accompanying parent. Topics included history of child and parent alcohol use, beliefs about alcohol…

Last week, Oracle Health, Cleveland Clinic and G42, a cloud computing and AI development company based in the United Arab Emirates, announced a partnership to co-develop and launch an AI based healthcare analytics and clinical intelligence platform.

The initial goals for the platform will be to:

• Provide population level health data for systemic analyses on health outcomes
• Understand and help drive cost reductions for…

Across America’s hospitals and physician organizations, familiar refrains echo louder each year:

“Medicare Advantage isn’t paying us enough.”

“We are losing money on Medicare Advantage.”

The frustration is real—and in many cases, justified. As someone who has led both provider and payer organizations, I’ve seen the games that are played….

President Trump recently completed a whirlwind tour of the Middle Eastern countries of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE. As part of the welcome fanfare in Qatar his motorcade was escorted by royal camels. I wondered whether…

The study, published in Precision Clinical Medicine, tracked more than 70,000 people with hypertension and over 224,000 without it, using data from the UK Biobank. Researchers followed participants for nearly 14 years to understand how managing…

However, researchers in food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign say in a new study that eating dessert may be the optimal strategy for losing weight, keeping it off and keeping cravings at bay. Dieters in a clinical trial who incorporated craved foods into a balanced meal plan lost…

Published in Nature on May 19, 2025, the study notes that mpox transmitted among humans in Nigeria for eight years before sparking the international outbreak in…

We live in a culture that rewards overachievement but often overlooks the importance of rest. But here’s the truth: sleep is not a luxury. It’s a biologically encoded necessity, essential for emotional resilience, cognitive clarity, long-term health and sustainable well-being.

And the science has never been more unmistakable about just how much of it we need and why too…

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, it’s also infiltrating one of the most intimate and culturally charged domains of the…