Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed a new manufacturing platform for producing targeted mixtures of beneficial gut bacteria, an approach that could help expand access to…
Researchers found racial/ethnic gaps persist and overdose deaths involving only stimulants continued to rise, despite national declines overall U.S. overdose death rates dropped 24.4% between 2023 and 2024. Deaths involving fentanyl together…
Preclinical study findings may help explain why women are at higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease ‘Females — but not males — may be uniquely sensitive to loss of brain estrogen at old…
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a soft, wearable ultrasound patch that can continuously monitor a fetus for hours at a time — and it can do so…
Individuals’ genetic background may affect ceramide metabolism to influence whether they benefit from androgen receptor pathway blockers Ceramides- lipid molecules in cells that affect many physiological functions including cell differentiation, migration, and…
Private equity investment in health care requires increased regulatory oversight and policies to better protect patients and physicians from the adverse impact of growing corporate interests, says the American College of Physicians…
A report comparing the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC) to copayments or coinsurance under employer-sponsored insurance found that patients with high-cost generic prescriptions could lower their out-of-pocket costs from $140…
Megan Sweet slices tumors. A normal day in the lab finds the Virginia Tech graduate student with hands deep inside a refrigerated metal box, pulling a mounted mouse-grown tumor incrementally closer to…
How animals expanded the evolutionary legacy of our unicellular ancestors Almost all animal species — including humans — have blood cells, but between different species our blood tells different stories. The lineage…
A new Lancet Regional Health – Europe Series led by ISGlobal calls for liver disease to be embedded in broader national and EU-level policies on diet, alcohol, obesity, public health and non-communicable…