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Top FDA official seeks to hire friend pushing new antidepressants warning
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s top drug regulator, Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, is working to hire a researcher and friend who wants the agency to add new warnings to antidepressants about unproven pregnancy risks, The Associated Press has learned. Dr. Adam Urato, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and critic of antidepressant safety, is pressing the FDA to add…
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Beth Israel Lahey CEO Dr. Kevin Tabb to step down
Under Tabb’s leadership, the system ran a $100 million operating gain last year — the first one in the black in four years. In an employee survey last spring, majority of respondents said they were happy working for the organization and would recommend the workplace. Beth Israel has also added dozens of primary care clinicians in the past year, including…
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Why we keep craving food even when we are full
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Even when people feel full, images of food may continue to activate reward signals in the brain. A new neuroscience study suggests that learned responses to food cues could help explain why we sometimes eat despite…
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Health-ISAC Annual Report 2025 shows surge in threat intel and tabletop drills, putting resilience in focus
As cyber and physical threats continue to disrupt healthcare delivery worldwide, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) is marking its fifteenth year by doubling down on sector-wide resilience. In its newly released Annual Report 2025, the organization details expanded global threat intelligence operations, including round-the-clock ‘follow-the-sun’ coverage with new analysts in Asia-Pacific, and broader international collaboration, such as…
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New HIV-seq tool advances understanding of persistent viral reservoirs
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: For people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), life-saving antiretroviral therapy keeps their HIV-infected immune cells from making new copies of the virus, preventing illness and transmission. Historically, these infected cells have been known as the…
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VA denies claims of limits on veterans’ mental health care – NBC Chicago
Reporter’s note: This story includes discussion on topics including therapy, suicide and sexual assault Veterans and psychologists say Veterans Affairs has quietly enforced internal policy changes that limit veterans’ access to mental health care. And it’s happening at a time when psychologists are in short supply within the largest integrated health care system in the country, an NBC 5 investigation…
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Ashwagandha was supposed to boost my health. Instead, it wrecked it.
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I used to start my day drinking a bright-green smoothie. I didn’t particularly enjoy the taste of pulverized kale or protein powders with mysterious ingredients, but I thought I was being healthy. My daily routine was immaculate: I exercised…
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Federal aid for lead cleanup is receding. That’s a problem for cash-strapped cities.
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Tighter regulations and an influx of federal money in recent years have helped communities across the U.S. initiate efforts to clean up lead contamination in soil, drinking water, and older homes. But Congress and the Trump…
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NYC Health + Hospitals Announces Second Year of Achievements Under the Behavioral Health Blueprint
NYC Health + Hospitals Announces Second Year of Achievements Under the Behavioral Health Blueprint In 2025, the health care system launched and expanded critical new programs to increase access to behavioral health care The health care system also provided behavioral health care to a higher annual volume of patients who visited psychiatric emergency departments, inpatient units, and…
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Puberty reshapes DNA to worsen or reverse insulin resistance
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: A longitudinal study shows that puberty may reprogram children’s epigenetic profiles in ways that track worsening or improving insulin resistance, uncovering early molecular signals of future cardiometabolic disease. Study: Novel epigenetic marks of insulin resistance trajectories…
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