Category: 4. Health

Once considered an illness confined to Central and South America, Chagas disease is increasingly being recognized as an endemic condition within the United States. A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published in September 2025 has called for official recognition of this infectious disease as endemic to…

When Canada legalized cannabis in 2018, its effects on human health were all over the news. Cyntia Duval, a women’s health researcher at the University of Toronto at the time, wondered how its consumption might affect female fertility. To her surprise, there was almost no information on the subject — though there was plenty of data on marijuana’s effects on pregnancy and male fertility.

Chemicals in cannabis may push eggs to become ready for fertilization. But this may…

When most people hear the term ADHD, they picture a child who can’t sit still or a professional who struggles to meet deadlines. For decades, the dominant narrative has painted ADHD as a deficit, a disorder to be managed or suppressed. Yet as more and more high performers with ADHD go public, their stories illustrate the ADHD strengths that drive their success.

The medical narrative largely includes tales of flunking out…

Prior authorization and clinical intelligence technology enablement company Cohere Health announced today that it will be acquiring ZignaAI to move into the world of clinical payment integrity.

With this new acquisition, the company will be launching an entire suite dedicated to payment integrity and optimizing revenue for stakeholders, marking a “shift right” from purely pre-care into…

U.S. hospitals are facing mounting financial pressures as President Trump’s tariffs hit prescription drugs and the Republican-led Congress’ cuts to healthcare spending begin to take hold as early as next year.

A parade of new reports on hospital and health system finances…

Biologic drugs, made from living organisms and usually taken by injection or infusion, are expensive treatments for complex chronic conditions such as cancer and autoimmune diseases. Biosimilars, clinically comparable to biologics and priced lower, create cost-saving opportunities for patients and plan sponsors. Many hoped that biosimilars would quickly gain ground once they entered the market. However, the reality has…

Will this be the House of the setting sun for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality? The Trump Administration has been trying to eliminate AHRQ, the one federal agency responsible for research into healthcare safety and quality. And now it looks like the House Appropriations Committee is going along with that plan.

The House committee’s new…

Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries of food supply in the wild, according to an international team of researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientist. The critically endangered primates outshine modern humans in avoiding obesity through their balanced choices of food and exercise, the…

You could say that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell really wanted to get to the core of things when he attended “Forward and Up NYC 2025” on August 29. There, he got a Pilates session with Daria Pace, a grandmaster instructor trainer and Principal Officer for Romana’s Pilates International, which organized the event. He…