Category: 4. Health

In diseases such as AMD, the light-sensitive retina tissue at the back of the eye degenerates. Scientists are testing…

The findings of the clinical study could pave the way for earlier detection, before symptoms worsen and become hard to treat.

“Alarmingly, more and more adolescents are being diagnosed with depression, and when it starts early, the effects can be…

A recent study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology has identified a widespread systematic bias in previous studies that may have caused them to overestimate the impact of physical fitness on mortality risk.

The study included data from over one million Swedish men who were conscripted for military service between 1972 and 1995. The participants were divided into five groups based on their fitness levels when they entered military…

Walgreens confirmed its only…

Treating artificial intelligence as just one ingredient in a business success recipe was a prominent theme at the MedCity INVEST 2025 conference, with this AI “best practice” advice epitomized by high-profile start-ups Inato and Prenosis.

“You need to build a business model that makes sense, then use AI,” cautioned Raffi Boyajian, principal at CIGNA…

I confess: If I think about skeletons, it’s around Halloween. I especially enjoy the yard displays of larger-than-life skeletons engaging in mundane activities, like walking skeleton dogs.

But our own skeletons are something we should be thinking about year-round, especially as we age. Heading into midlife and beyond, bones can lose their heft. A drop below a certain bone density leads to a diagnosis of osteoporosis and bones that are weak and fragile.

Osteoporosis can…

On March 20, 2025, members of the World Health Organization adopted the world’s first pandemic agreement, following three years of “intensive negotiations launched by governments in response to the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The U.S., however, did not participate, in part because of its intention to withdraw from the WHO.

Global health experts are hailing the agreement as a historic moment.

What does the agreement mean for the world, and how can it make…

I’ve always been a Law & Order fan. Decades after the show first aired, I remain a devotee of the various franchises and make time each week to catch the latest episodes—and, of course, plenty of reruns.

That’s why, when the opportunity arose to speak with Neal Baer, who served as showrunner on Law & Order: Special…

Fresh off a $275 million fundraise—the largest in digital health so far this year—Innovaccer’s cofounder and CEO Abhinav Shashank has a plan to pull together data and AI tools all in one place.

AI chatbots. Scribing tools. Insurance claims software. Electronic health records. Abhinav Shashank, cofounder and CEO of digital health startup Innovaccer, looks at all the new technology for healthcare providers and hospital systems and…