Category: 4. Health

Over a third of incident dementia cases may be linked to cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs), reported a recent study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia. The researchers behind the study suggest that new cases of dementia could be curbed by controlling CMDs.

Around 6.7 million Americans aged 65 and older live with Alzheimer’s disease, a figure which could increase to 13.8 million by 2060. Previous research has shown that CMDs, including diabetes,…

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Summer is an exciting time for many incoming college students and their families. Attending orientation sessions, university athletics, and deciding on a choice of major are common priorities for many students. Parents are typically focused on supporting their incoming students, and their impact can be significant. A 2024 report on Frobes.com highlighted three unique ways that parents can impact their college students. Some parents are particularly…

The future of work is arriving — not with a whisper, but with a powerful shift led by agentic AI, projected to fuel a $41.32 billion market by 2030, according to Mordor Intelligence report. These aren’t just digital assistants; they are AI collaborators capable of making decisions, adapting in real time and working alongside humans to solve complex problems.

As enterprises and healthcare systems become increasingly overloaded with…

On May 22, 2025, the White House released a new report highlighting what it claims are the causes of chronic disease in children.

The report fleshes out many of the themes that have emerged as priorities for the Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, movement promoted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

One major area of focus is the negative health effects of ultraprocessed foods. The report points to the prevalence of ultraprocessed foods in the American…

In trying to connect with or even influence someone, you may be making a valid point. Or multiple valid points. But maybe you should consider making…

Consider this round “whatever” in the ongoing Trump administration grudge match versus Harvard University. The latest big salvo from…

OpenAI, the famed company behind ChatGPT, released HealthBench, a new standard to measure AI outputs specifically for healthcare use cases. The company indicates that creation of the standard involved the partnership of 262 physicians across 60 countries to develop 5,000 conversations with customized “rubrics” for each to determine the efficacy and quality…

The Department of Government Oversight and Efficiency has uncovered waste, fraud and abuse that is troubling, but not unexpected. The real scandal, however, is that it’s gone on for decades. Where was Congress? Where was the oversight? As I’ve long said in healthcare and beyond: we have the money to provide access…

The data from the Launch-HTN trial, announced at the 34th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection, show that lorundrostat, an aldosterone synthase inhibitor, is a safe and effective treatment for people with uncontrolled or resistant hypertension, demonstrating consistent blood pressure reductions across a large and diverse patient…