Category: 4. Health

PetMed Express Inc., the parent company of PetMeds and PetCareRx has entered a strategic partnership with virtual veterinary care provider Dutch to expand its provider ecosystem with affordable, accessible pet healthcare options. The new partnership will enable pet owners to leverage Dutch’s technology and veterinary team to secure prescriptions for PetMeds’ medications.

Pet owners, through the partnership, can sign…

In 1985, contaminated milk in Illinois led to a Salmonella outbreak that infected hundreds of thousands of people across the United States and caused at least 12 deaths. At the time, it was the largest single outbreak of foodborne illness in the U.S. and remains the worst outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning in American history.

Many questions circulated during the outbreak. How could this contamination occur in a modern dairy farm? Was it caused by a flaw in engineering or…

Globally, measles is on the rise across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America and parts of Europe. In 2025, North and South America saw 11 times more cases than during the same period last year. In Europe, measles rates are at their highest point in 25 years.

In the U.S., as of May 2, 2025, health authorities have confirmed 935 cases of measles affecting 30 states. This is a huge surge compared with the 285 cases reported in 2024. A large measles outbreak is happening in Canada, too,…

The interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia has been sending letters to a handful of influential medical journals asking questions concerning influence from funders, competing viewpoints and misinformation.

Among the journals targeted include the New England Journal of…

Congressional Republicans are under pressure to find savings to make the math in their budget reconciliation package add up.

Medicaid, which accounts for just under 10% of federal spending, has become an obvious target. But instead of addressing the flawed incentives driving the…

When lives hang in the balance, there’s no script. The Pitt captures the controlled chaos of emergency medicine, with detailed accuracy and documentary-level hyperrealism. Like 24, this Max series unfolds in real time, set in the frenetic, unforgiving realm of a Pittsburgh ER — affectionately called “The Pitt.” Here, the…

Oscar Health reported a $275 million first quarter profit as the health insurer’s enrollment hit yet another record, surpassing two million individual and small group members.

The provider of individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known…

The findings remained unaltered by the girls’ body mass index (BMI) or height, both of which have been associated with the earlier onset of periods.

The study has implications for health in later life as it is well known that women who started their periods at an early…

An analysis of sleep data and health outcomes for nearly 5,000 people in 20 countries revealed that the hours of sleep required for good health varies significantly across different cultures, challenging the common belief that everyone needs the same amount.

“Despite the common advice to get eight hours of sleep, our findings suggest that sleep recommendations need to be adjusted…

President Trump’s recent executive order on pharmaceuticals includes a section on facilitating switches of prescription-only drugs to over-the-counter status. Attempts to address the issue of accelerating the pace of switches aren’t new, particularly as they relate to medications in therapeutic areas previously off limits for reclassifications. But without innovative ways to spur reclassifications, barriers to…