Category: 4. Health

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…

Led by researchers at NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center, the study showed that approximately 80% of stage III melanoma patients who had detectable levels of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) before they started treatment to suppress their tumors went on to experience recurrence.

The researchers also found that the disease returned more than four…

Focal epilepsy is a condition where seizures start in one part of the brain. It is the most common type of epilepsy.

Antiseizure medication is usually prescribed for people with the condition. However, for one in three people with epilepsy (around 20 million individuals worldwide), current antiseizure…

“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…

For the first time in 30 years, researchers have discovered a promising new antibiotic treatment for gonorrhoea, a potentially important milestone in the fight against growing antibiotic resistance.

Gonorrhoea is one of several sexually transmitted infections which is fast-gaining resistance to existing antibiotic treatments,…

Mitral annular disjunction, MAD, is a heart abnormality in which the…