Category: 4. Health

Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced yesterday that the federal government’s emergency preparedness agency, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, will no longer fund work on messenger RNA vaccines.

BARDA is…

On July 28, 2025, a 27-year-old gunman entered a New York City office building that is home to the National Football League’s headquarters. He shot and killed four people and injured one other before killing himself.

In a note found in his wallet, he claimed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain condition believed to develop from repeated traumatic brain injuries. He asked experts to study his brain.

CTE has received much attention over the past two…

Oscar Health Wednesday reported a $228 million second quarter loss but sees profits returning next year as the health insurance industry navigates an influx of sicker-than-expected patients.

Oscar has more than 2 million health plan members as one of…

A snail may hold the key to restoring vision for people with some eye diseases.

Golden apple snails (Pomacea canaliculata) are freshwater snails from South America. Alice Accorsi became familiar with the species as a graduate student in Italy. “You could literally buy them in a pet store as snails that clean the bottom of the fish tanks,” she recalls. Turns out, the snails are among the most invasive species in the world. And that got Accorsi thinking: Why are they so…

The new research, led by Duke University School of Medicine neuroscientists Diego Bohórquez, PhD, and M. Maya Kaelberer, PhD, and published in Nature, centers on neuropods, tiny sensor cells lining the colon’s epithelium. These cells detect…

Cancer cells interact with this neighborhood — which scientists term the tumor microenvironment — in many ways, including obtaining extra resources needed to fuel their unchecked…

When clinicians review a patient’s file, MedSafer flags potentially inappropriate medications. In a new clinical trial, the software helped deprescribe such medications in 36 percent of long-term care residents, nearly triple as many as when reviews were done without the tool.

“Sometimes we blame aging for memory…

From the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill to CMS’s newly announced strategic direction, from executive orders on pharmaceutical pricing to ongoing scrutiny of PBMs, Medicaid and the 340B program, there’s no shortage of movement across the healthcare landscape. At first glance, these efforts may seem disconnected. Actually, they reflect a growing recognition of a system-wide problem: the incentives that govern our…

Look in your rearview mirror these days on suburban roads. You may do a double take. Is that a child zipping by on a motorcycle with no helmet? You look closely. It’s not actually a motorcycle. Maybe it’s an e-bike. Or an electronic dirt bike?

Across the country, kids and teens are increasingly riding light electric vehicles,…