WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Monday it will invest $2.5 billion in women’s health over the next five years — one of its largest commitments to date. Bill Gates said too many health conditions that affect women, including preeclampsia, endometriosis andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There’s been a steep increase in colon cancer cases among adults 45 to 49 in recent years, and that’s a good thing, experts say. This upsurge means that more colon cancers are being caught at an earlier, more treatable stage, thanks to aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A large new study will follow the health and well-being of thousands of transgender and gender nonconforming young people in the U.K., researchers at King’s College London announced Thursday. The $14 million study will track up to 3,000 children and teens who haveContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The rise of “fake” science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ever-increasing pace, researchers reported in the Proceedings of the NationalContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — ChatGPT is likely to be hit-or-miss when it comes to figuring out symptoms for a particular illness, a new study says. The AI program has 49% to 61% accuracy when it comes to identifying symptoms associated with specific diseases, researchers reported recently inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors are regularly overlooking a common hormone-driven cause of high blood pressure, a new paper warns. As many as 30% of high blood pressure patients seen by heart specialists and 14% of those seen in primary care have a condition called primary aldosteronism,Continue Reading
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TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new AI tool can help doctors hone in on a patient’s particular type of dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says. The AI tool, StateViewer, helped researchers identify a person’s dementia type in 88% of cases, according to results newly publishedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Fasting is a well-known hassle associated with surgery. Patients are required to go without food or liquid for hours because of fears they’ll vomit while under anesthesia, potentially causing pneumonia if stomach contents are inhaled. But this long-standing practice might not be necessary,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A presentation scheduled for a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine meeting today claimed that a vaccine preservative could cause long-term brain effects — but the study it cited doesn’t appear to exist. The slide, posted online Tuesday, cited aContinue Reading