Category: 4. Health

The biggest names in health insurance, including Cigna, CVS Health’s Aetna, UnitedHealth Group’s UnitedHealthcare and Humana are…

Will AI replace doctors? A year ago, most physicians would’ve confidently answered “no.” Medicine, they’d argue, is too complex, too personal, too human to be handled by machines, no matter how advanced.

Now, that confidence is starting to waver. Physicians, like other highly educated workers, are watching what’s happening in another…

Researchers have discovered that the most aggressive melanomas, the deadliest form of skin cancer, overactivate two key processes in mitochondria, the components of cells that provide energy. Blocking these pathways with currently available drugs effectively killed melanoma cells.

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Many doctors abandon a potentially life-saving medical scanning technology soon after training, because systemic barriers prevent it from becoming part of their routine practice, a study published in Advances in Health Sciences Education has found.

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Giving birth to a child after 40 is becoming more and more common—but it can entail an increased risk to the child. A new study based on data from over 300,000 births in Sweden shows that children of older mothers are more often born prematurely or with complications, especially when the mother is 45 years of age or older.

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Neurologists at the University of Brescia reviewed records for 315 non-diabetic patients with cognitive deficits, including 200 with biologically confirmed Alzheimer’s disease. All subjects underwent an assessment of…

In April, Dr. Mehmet Oz became Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). While his appointment…

• In 2016, researchers discovered that colistin resistance could be transferred laterally among microbes.
• Researchers have isolated genes that confer colistin resistance from imported seafood purchased from markets in Atlanta, Ga.
• The findings suggest imported seafood could promote the spread of transmissible colistin resistance.

Colistin is a potent, last-resort antibiotic, used only to treat people with dangerous,…

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is set to vote later this week on the issue of thimerosal in flu vaccines. What exactly is thimerosal and is it actually harmful for people that take vaccines containing the…

Indeed, between 2000 and 2016, the number of adults aged 50 years and older living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa doubled. At present, their HIV prevalence is exceeding that of younger adults.

By 2040, one-quarter of people living with HIV in Africa will be aged 50 years and older; tailored awareness and treatment campaigns are pressing.

Dr Luicer Olubayo, a researcher at the…