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Cindy Eckert, Women’s Health Innovator, Named to TIME’s 2026 TIME100 Health List of the World’s Most Influential Leaders in Health
Cindy Eckert, Women’s Health Innovator, Named to TIME’s 2026 TIME100 Health List of the World’s Most Influential Leaders in Health RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TIME has named Cindy Eckert, Founder and CEO of Sprout Pharmaceuticals, makers of Addyi®, to the 2026 TIME100 Health list recognizing the world’s most influential leaders shaping the future of health. The honor follows a landmark period for both…
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S.F. healthcare workers say safety issues continue at city’s clinics
Two months after the lethal stabbing of a social worker at a San Francisco General Hospital clinic, seasoned city healthcare workers say safety problems still remain at many of the city’s clinics. Most of the dozen workers who spoke to Mission Local — including doctors, nurses, and counselors — asked to remain anonymous, saying they could lose their jobs for speaking…
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Post-exercise milk helps protect bone density in adults over 60
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: An 8-week community-based intervention suggests that pairing resistance training with whole-food protein and nutrition education may strengthen bones and improve physical performance in older adults. Milk, paired with carbohydrates, delivered a measurable advantage over soy for…
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Medicines, poison or just business? The boom of traditional remedies
Dar es Salaam. Something quite extraordinary is unfolding across Tanzania’s major cities: the rapid proliferation of traditional medicine shops. This trend is emerging at a time when the country has been making notable strides in modern healthcare. Over the past decade, Tanzania has expanded its capacity to offer specialised treatments, including cancer care, kidney transplants, heart surgery, neurosurgical procedures, bone…
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Do cocoa flavanols influence heart and fatty liver risk factors?
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 new review explores how cocoa flavanols may influence cardiovascular and hepatic risk pathways, while highlighting the limitations of current clinical evidence. Review: Beyond Taste: The Impact of Chocolate on Cardiovascular and Steatotic Liver Disease Risk…
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Blog – Ambient Intelligence as a Public Good in Healthcare: What Public Health Ethics Can Teach Us
This editorial appears in the February Issue of the American Journal of Bioethics Ambient intelligence (AMI) promises to transform healthcare across the continuum by embedding continuous sensing and interpretation into physical spaces where patients receive care. Ambient intelligence systems (AIS) use multimodal sensors to monitor and interpret activity in real time, offering more data, better predictions, and improved patient outcomes…
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Major gaps in federal health care and disability data, GAO finds
Real journalists wrote and edited this (not AI)—independent, community-driven journalism survives because you back it. Donate to sustain Prism’s mission and the humans behind it. Consider a deaf patient who joins a telehealth appointment only to discover that the platform only allows a single participant, shutting out their sign‑language interpreter. Federal surveys seeking feedback on their health care experiences might…
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Uncertainty clouds future of tibb colleges and hakeems in Pakistan – Pakistan
Hakeems believe they are the only practitioners consistently working in far-flung regions, noting that MBBS doctors, even those from rural backgrounds, rarely practise in their native areas. When Arsalan Ali walks into his classroom, he is no longer sure whether the degree he is working towards will exist by the time he graduates. He’s a trained pharmaceutical chemist with an…
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CT woman’s death raises questions about technology and staffing
Following the death of a 93-year-old woman who died after spending hours in frigid temperatures outside her nursing home Feb. 8, questions remain about staffing at the facility and an alert system that was supposed to keep her safe. Margaret Healey, an Alzheimer’s patient and resident at Bickford Health Care Center in Windsor Locks, was outside for more than three…
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Study explores how reversible RNA editing could transform future cardiovascular medicine
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: Emerging research suggests reversible RNA editing mechanisms may influence heart disease biology while opening new avenues for biomarkers and next-generation cardiovascular therapies. Review: RNA editing in cardiovascular health and disease. Image Credit: sizsus art / Shutterstock…
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