Health Matters newsletter: Digital vitals: tech in health care
On the AI Impact Summit and new schemes unveiled, research that measures blood clotting time, social media and mental health, ...
Parental Obesity Before Pregnancy Linked to Kids’ Chronic Liver Disease Risk
(MedPage Today) -- Children born to obese parents were more likely to develop a common chronic liver disease and to ...
States Sue Trump Admin Over Changes to Childhood Vaccine Recommendations
(MedPage Today) -- More than a dozen states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its rollback of vaccine recommendations for ...
FDA Approves a Balloon That Patients Swallow to Lose Weight
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA granted premarket approval to a gastric balloon system for short-term weight loss alongside lifestyle intervention, ...
Semaglutide Not Linked to Depression Symptoms in People With HIV
(MedPage Today) -- DENVER -- People with HIV didn't have a significant rise in depressive symptoms after starting semaglutide (Ozempic, ...
Conservatives press Liberal government to limit health care for some refugee claimants
MPs in the House of Commons will vote Tuesday on a Conservative motion that asks the Liberal government to review ...
Apollo Speciality Hospitals perform zoom-assisted endoscopic procedure on 80-year-old woman
The woman underwent successful removal of a 15-cm laterally spreading adenoma in the sigmoid colon through a minimally invasive endoscopic ...
I Was a CDC Senior Leader. From What I Saw, No One Should Run Two Agencies.
(MedPage Today) -- Running a major federal health agency is a significant, high-stakes leadership role, particularly during an outbreak or ...
Sleep Apnea Measure Predicts Complications After Major Surgery
(MedPage Today) -- A metric for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) that accounts for oxygen desaturation along with frequency of obstruction ...
Reining in Overdiagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Cancer: Easier Said Than Done
(MedPage Today) -- As many as 94% of ultrasound-based papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) diagnoses represented overdiagnosis, particularly among women, according ...