Category: 4. Health

OpenEvidence has raised hundreds of millions of dollars. In its most recent funding round, it raised a $210 million Series B from prominent investors such as Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, bringing the company’s valuation to nearly $3.5 billion.

The company’s goal is straightforward and incredibly ambitious: to collate the entire corpus of medical knowledge and research developments in a way that is easily…

Long blamed for high cholesterol, eggs have been beaten up for their assumed role in cardiovascular disease (CVD). Now, UniSA researchers have shown definitively that it’s not dietary cholesterol in eggs but the saturated fat in our diets that’s the real heart health concern.

In a world-first…

Ambient AI is one of the most prominent trends in healthcare technology, particularly among frontline healthcare providers. Tools that can listen in the background and auto-generate clinical notes are reshaping how physicians, NPs, and PAs manage…

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Depression is increasingly common, to the extent that it is sometimes described as an epidemic. In the…

The study, published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, is the first systematic review and meta-analysis of global evidence examining time to diagnosis in dementia.

The researchers reviewed data from 13 previously published studies which took place in Europe, US, Australia and…

Many people think of college students as young adults living on campus and focused on developmental concerns, such as establishing new friends, feeling homesick, and academic pressure. Indeed, many campus support services are designed to fit these perceptions. For example, a 2024 report on Forbes.com outlined how many campus counseling centers were traditionally designed to treat developmental stress. However, because more students are now entering college with…

We’ve long been told that happiness is a mindset, a perspective, maybe even a daily practice. But something else is also deeply embodied, radical and accurate: happiness isn’t just in our heads, it’s in our nervous systems, too. From the firing of the prefrontal cortex to signals traveling along the vagus nerve, the body continually broadcasts cues about how safe, connected and emotionally stable it truly feels, whether or not we are…

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMSOM) Institute for Genome Sciences (IGS) co-led the study that…

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It has been just six months since President Trump has started his second term as Commander-in-Chief, and there have been profound changes in the healthcare landscape across…