Category: 4. Health

Though AML is a genetically heterogeneous disease, all its subtypes share a common feature: impaired differentiation of myeloid progenitor cells in the bone marrow. This differentiation block results in the accumulation of immature precursors of these cells within the bone…

In research published in JAMA Neurology on April 7, UF researchers studied Medicare claims data of older adults with Type 2 diabetes to assess the association among glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, or GLP-1RAs,…

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the impact of Medicaid cuts, a $400 million obesity bet, a study of bias in clinical AI, Amgen’s AI hire from Nike, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.

The House of Representatives and the Senate both agreed to a budget framework over the weekend. The framework calls for spending cuts to pay for tax cuts that disproportionately go to the rich and funds to prevent…

On the eve of Daylight Saving Time, I flew home to Vermont from California. Crossing several time zones, I arrived near midnight. At 2 a.m., the clock jumped ahead an hour, leaving me discombobulated.

“How messed up am I?” I asked sleep researcher and evolutionary anthropologist David Samson days later. Jet lag can make people feel moody and hungry at weird times, but my extreme state probably masked chronic sleep dysregulation, he told me.

For most of human history,…

Mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services are continuing as the agency makes good on its intention, announced on March 27, 2025, to shrink its workforce by 20,000 people. Among workers dismissed in early April were several teams responsible for fulfilling requests for access to previously unreleased government data, information and records under a federal law known as the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.

At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the…

Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has always said that among the company’s most significant contributions to society will be improving healthcare. And rightly so, under his reign, Apple has made immense progress in the healthcare space.

Now, with the company’s rejuvenated push into artificial intelligence and AI agents, Apple is combining these interests to redesign and rethink the way that consumers approach…

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, millions of people receive generous subsidies to cover the cost of health insurance. Some people, in fact, receive coverage for free, their monthly premiums paid in full by the federal government.

Unfortunately, even a small change in price can cause people to lose their coverage. That’s important because of plans by Republicans to reduce or eliminate…

Patients who receive add-on cholesterol-lowering medication, ezetimibe, soon after a heart attack have a significantly better prognosis than those who receive the drug later or not at all. The corresponding study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 

Current treatment guidelines for patients immediately following a heart attack include high-potency statins to lower cholesterol levels and stabilize changes in blood vessels…

Published in Biology Letters, the researchers found that bereaved macaque mothers spent less time resting (sleep, restful posture, relaxing) than the non-bereaved females in the first two weeks after their infants’ deaths.

Researchers believe this physical restlessness could…

“I was very surprised by our findings. As far as I know, no one has previously discovered molecules like these bile acids that can interact with the…