Category: 4. Health

You could say that the status of Caitlin Clark for the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup is of groin concern. The star point guard has missed the Indiana Fever’s last two games not because of a fever,…

“The rising number of adults diagnosed with ADHD raises important questions about diagnostic validity — especially since many were never identified in…

The Trump administration’s retreat from providing…

Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old woman from Georgia who had been declared brain-dead in February 2025, spent 16 weeks on life support while doctors worked to keep her body functioning well enough to support her developing fetus. On June 13, 2025, her premature baby, named Chance, was born via cesarean section at 25 weeks.

Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she suffered multiple blood clots in her brain. Her story gained public attention when her mother criticized doctors’ decision to…

Direct-to-patient care has been gaining momentum. Rachel Cohrs Zhang at Bloomberg reported that officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services met with Walmart and Amazon to streamline direct-to-patient drug purchases, bypassing insurance companies. President Trump’s executive order mandated that most-favored-nation pricing be made available for…

Primary care physician compensation hit $330,000 last year as doctors see heavier workloads due in part to a shortage of medical care providers.

A new report by the American Medical Group Management Association (AMGA) shows median primary care physician compensation at nearly…

Every year, millions of Americans gather and celebrate Independence Day with awe inspiring fireworks, parades and backyard barbeques. With this historic tradition comes a sobering reality- a rising number of firework-related injuries and visits…

It’s hard to overstate the importance of rivers like Peripa to residents of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. “For us, losing a river means losing our life, losing our identity, because there we find healing medicine, because we use the waters as a source of cleansing. For us, it’s something very sacred,” says Ricardo Calazacón, who has continued the centuries-old Indigenous Tsáchila tradition of…

New drugs take too long to get to market because of clinical trial bottlenecks. Two cancer doctors built AI-enabled tech to speed up the process.

As longtime cancer doctors with regulatory experience, Pi Health cofounders Geoff Kim and Bobby Reddy knew that completing clinical trials took far too long. There was the painfully slow process of signing up patients and after that a grueling slog through vast swamps of data to prepare voluminous regulatory filings–something that few hospitals…

In just a few short years, artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT have gone mainstream. Today, AI writes emails, plans vacations and even helps predict stock market trends. AI in healthcare can answer complex medical questions, analyze lab results and even pass medical board exams.

So will AI soon replace doctors?

Bill Gates seems to think so. In a…