Category: 4. Health

Here’s How Trump And Oz Can Fix Medicare

Dr. Benjamin Jin, a biologist working on immunotherapy for HPV+ cancers, holds test tubes as he works in the lab of Dr. Christian Hinrichs, an investigator at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. – (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Now that Dr. Mehmet Oz is in place to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), he must quickly and directly tackle one of the…

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May 5, 2025
An Expert’s Take On The Crisis Narrative Within College Mental Health

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As described in a 2025 report on Forbes.com, the president of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors argued that schools need to be proactive while addressing mental health concerns but also avoid an outdated crisis narrative. I’m on the executive board for the AUCCCD and know that many have described college mental health as being in a crisis. In 2023, the National Education Association even released a…

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May 5, 2025
How The Shortage Of Parkinson’s Disease Specialists Is Changing

So far, the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders has trained 40 new … More clinician-researchers. it was the result of the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Edmond J. Safra Foundation partnering together to address Parkinson’s Disease research and care.. Pictured here is Lily Safra and Michael J. Fox cutting the ribbon to launch the partnership in 2014. (Photo: Courtesy of Kristina Magana/Michael J. Fox Foundation)

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May 5, 2025
NIH Lab Studying Deadly Pathogens Goes Offline Over Safety Issues. Is The Public At Risk?

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) scientist in a protective air-tight suit pipetting specimens, … More Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005. Image courtesy Centers for Disease Control. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

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On April 29, 2025, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases within the NIH put the brakes on research at its high containment lab (known as the Integrated Research Facility) at Fort Detrick, Maryland for a…

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May 4, 2025
New radiotherapy technique aims to protect the heart during lung cancer treatment

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A new study presented at ESTRO 2025 introduces the RAPID-RT study, which uses an innovative rapid-learning approach to evaluate the impact of treatment modifications in radiotherapy. The paper also appears in Radiotherapy and Oncology.

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May 4, 2025
The MMR vaccine doesn’t contain ‘aborted fetus debris,’ as RFK Jr has claimed: Here’s the science

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the United States’ top public health official, recently claimed some religious groups avoid the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine because it contains “aborted fetus debris” and “DNA particles”.

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May 4, 2025
‘Ozempic Mouth,’ ‘Feet’ Are Latest Names For GLP-1 Med Side Effects

The popularity of GLP-1 receptor agonists have prompted some trainers to offer regimens that … More specifically deal with the side effects of the resulting rapid weight loss. Here personal trainer Mike Kimani guides his client Jessica Bunge, who declined to have her face shown, through a GLP-1 specific workout at LM Fitness Center in Los Angeles, CA. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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You may have heard of “Ozempic face”,…

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May 4, 2025
What are the symptoms of measles? How long does the vaccine last? Experts answer 6 key questions

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So far in 2025 (as of May 1), 70 cases of measles have been notified in Australia, with all states and territories except Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory having recorded at least one case. Most infections have occurred in New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia.

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May 4, 2025
A comprehensive look at what happens in the brain when we’re reading

(a) The functional reading network (n = 163) across all experiments, with contributions of the cerebellum. (b) The functional reading network for individual processing levels, including the main effect of letters (n = 7), words (n = 109), sentences (n = 33) and texts (n = 8). All meta-analytic maps were thresholded at a voxel-wise p < 0.001 and a cluster-wise p < 0.05 FWE-corrected. Credit:…

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May 4, 2025
Should You Get A Measles Vaccine Booster? Here Are The Considerations

The return of measles to the U.S. may have many people wondering whether they should get a measles … More vaccine booster. Pictured here is an information booth for measles vaccinations offered by Harris Public Health in Houston, Texas. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

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Now that measles, which was declared eliminated from the U.S. in 2000, has been let back into this country, here’s something you may be wondering about: whether you…

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May 4, 2025