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New study refines the limits of brain mapping
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: When removing cancerous tissue in the brain, neurosurgeons often use “awake brain mapping” to minimize the risk of causing unintended disruptions to a patient’s quality of life while removing as much tumor as possible. This practice,…
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Problems remain after prison officials pledged to overhaul health services
A year after Oregon prison officials pledged to overhaul health services, an inspection by a national accrediting group found the women’s correctional facility still isn’t meeting standards. During a September visit, inspectors found administrators weren’t ensuring prisoners are healthy enough to work, nurses’ competencies weren’t reviewed annually and that staff lacked training needed to respond to medical needs. The report also…
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FDA Accepts Viatris Supplemental New Drug Application for MR-141 (Phentolamine Ophthalmic Solution 0.75%) for the Treatment of Presbyopia
FDA PDUFA Goal Date Set for October 17, 2026 PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Viatris Inc. (Nasdaq: VTRS), a global healthcare company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for MR-141 (phentolamine ophthalmic solution 0.75%) for the treatment of presbyopia. The FDA has assigned a PDUFA goal…
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Circular RNAs in metabolic health: bridging the gap between molecular biology and therapy
Kwok KHM, Lam KSL, Xu A. Heterogeneity of white adipose tissue: molecular basis and clinical implications. Exp Mol Med. 2016;48:e215. Google Scholar Lowell BB, Spiegelman BM. Towards a molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis. Nature. 2000;404:652–60. Google Scholar Scheja L, Heeren J. The endocrine function of adipose tissues in health and cardiometabolic disease. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2019;15:507–24. Google Scholar Bartelt A,…
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As more Americans embrace anxiety treatment, MAHA derides medications
By Phillip Reese for KFF After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had long been part of her life, but something deeper, more distracting. “Every little ache, like my knee hurts,” she said, made her worry that “this is the end of the road for me.”…
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Mental health disorders in cancer: A survival risk factor
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 many patients, the emotional toll of cancer can become a hidden risk factor, one that may influence survival as much as the disease itself. Study: Association of mental health disorders and all-cause mortality for patients…
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Evolent Health Q4 Earnings Call Highlights
Evolent Health logo Evolent beat the midpoint of guidance in Q4 with $469 million revenue and $37.8 million Adjusted EBITDA, and management’s baseline full‑year 2025 metrics (adjusting for the ACO divestiture) were about $1.7 billion revenue and $141 million Adjusted EBITDA; 2026 guidance is for $2.4–$2.6 billion revenue and $110–$140 million Adjusted EBITDA (midpoint $125M) with EBITDA expected to be…
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Pharmacists call for medicine review program to be expanded
When fire brigade officer Colin O’Rourke left hospital after a heart procedure, he ended up on 32 different medications. Not all of them agreed with him. “When I got home, I felt that the meds were having adverse side effects … I was suffering from nausea and vomiting,” he said. “I ended up back in [hospital] and spent the…
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Opioid Overdose Deaths: National Trends and Variation by Demographics and States
Since the opioid epidemic was declared a public health emergency in 2017, it has claimed more than half a million lives. While the epidemic was initially driven by prescription opioids and heroin, it has evolved in recent years, to be dominated by illicit synthetic fentanyl—a substance significantly more potent than morphine. By 2023, most counterfeit opioid pills contained a deadly…
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ChatGPT Health fails critical emergency and suicide safety tests
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: ChatGPT Health, a widely used consumer artificial intelligence (AI) tool that provides health guidance directly to the public-including advice about how urgently to seek medical care-may fail to direct users appropriately to emergency care in a…
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