TUESDAY, Nov. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Pharmaceutical companies are using the citizens of lower-income countries as guinea pigs to test cutting-edge drugs headed mainly for the United States and other well-off nations, a new study says. Only a quarter of medicines tested in other countries wound up available toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women undergoing a cesarean section delivery typically have the procedure while awake, with only a nerve blocker protecting them from the pain. For some, the pain can be overwhelming, even after the block, but this might be unnecessary, a new evidence review argues.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — People facing a major surgery might understandably think they need to conserve their energy, both for the procedure as well as the rehabilitation to follow. But they’d be better off if they engaged in “prehabilitation.” And a new study found prehab works bestContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new screening tool may help doctors and communities better understand why so many Americans struggle to eat a healthy diet, even when they have enough food. Researchers at Tufts University’s Food is Medicine Institute in Boston have created and tested a surveyContinue Reading
The small trial will start with six people and may expand to 50 people if early results are safeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new “smart toilet” device aims to help people track their health by analyzing their bathroom trips. The Dekoda device clamps around the rim of any standard toilet, where it uses advanced sensors to scan a person’s waste, says its manufacturer, Kohler Health.Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — President Donald Trump has confirmed that doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recently performed an MRI scan, his second medical visit of the year. The move seems to be drawing much attention to the 79-year-old president’s health, CNN reported. Speaking toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A 67-year-old New Hampshire man has set a medical milestone after living more than nine months with a gene-edited pig kidney, doctors announced Monday. The experimental transplant, performed by surgeons at Mass General Brigham, lasted 271 days, the longest anyone has survived withContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A young boy in New Zealand needed emergency surgery and lost part of his bowel after swallowing more than 80 small, high-powered magnets, according to a new case report published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. Doctors said the boy swallowed between 80Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence (AI) might be able to help doctors make glaucoma screening widely available, a new study says. A trained AI program correctly identified patients with glaucoma 88% to 90% of the time, compared with 79% to 81% for human graders, researchers reportedContinue Reading