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We Need to Talk About Finasteride – and Growing Concerns Around the Hair-Loss Drug
Much like protein powder, creatine and Garmins, finasteride has slipped into men’s lives with barely a ripple – talked about in barbershops, dissected in group chats and ordered discreetly through subscription apps. What began in the 1990s as a prostate medication has since become the gold-standard treatment for male pattern baldness. Fast-forward to 2026 and it has become the backbone…
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New digital shield against metabolic disease in youth psychosis
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 clinic-ready web-based risk prediction tool called PsyMetRiC is now available to forecast the risk of young people with psychosis developing cardiometabolic disorders such as obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. The algorithms behind PsyMetRiC have…
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One-third of Americans making financial trade-offs to pay for healthcare
image: Reported trade-offs to pay for healthcare expenses in the last 12 months. view more Credit: West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare WASHINGTON, D.C. — March 12, 2026 — About one in three U.S. adults, the equivalent of over 82 million Americans, report having made at least one daily life trade-off in the past year to pay for healthcare expenses, according…
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Eating earlier in the day is linked to lower nighttime glucose in gestational diabetes
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: Starting the day’s first meal earlier may shift the body’s daily glucose rhythm and reduce overnight glucose levels in gestational diabetes, highlighting meal timing as a potential lifestyle factor worth exploring in pregnancy care. Study: Early…
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Hospital and insurer consolidation: Is bigger better for consumers?
UnitedHealthcare corporate headquarters in Minnetonka, Minn. in 2024. Photo by Chad Davis (CC BY 2.0) Over the past 30 years, consolidation of health care systems in the United States has accelerated through mergers and acquisitions, researchers reported last year in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. After reviewing 34 years worth of studies (1990 to 2024), researchers found…
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Hidden toxins in ‘natural’ remedies linked to severe liver failure: Study
A large study from India has found that many alternative and complementary medicines consumed by patients who later developed liver damage were contaminated with toxic heavy metals, undisclosed pharmaceutical drugs and other hidden ingredients—sometimes in dangerous amounts. The research, which analysed hundreds of products collected from patients treated at a liver centre in Kerala, suggests that the health risks linked…
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GLP-1 medications get at the heart of addiction: study – WashU Medicine
Visit the News Hub Diabetes and obesity drugs show promise in treating and preventing all substance use disorders Sara Moser / WashU Medicine WashU Medicine researchers find in a new study that GLP-1 use is tied to reductions in substance use disorders and serious outcomes across all types of addictive substances. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.…
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CHC Outlook 2026: Aaron Wilson & John Browne, CHAS Health
Transcript CHAD MULVANY On today’s episode of “Achieving Health,” I’ll be joined by my colleague Jeff Allen and special guests Aaron Wilson and John Browne from CHAS Health. They’ll explore the outlook for CHCs and FQs in 2026. Stay tuned. ANNOUNCER This is “Achieving Health,” a podcast from Forvis Mazars, where we delve into the topics that matter most to…
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DNA origami vaccine platform shows promise against multiple infectious viruses
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: The COVID-19 pandemic brought messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines to the forefront of global health care. After their clinical trial stages, the first COVID-19 mRNA vaccine was administered on 8 December 2020 and mathematical models suggest that…
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New review reveals complex polygenic architecture underlying common epilepsies
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 insightful mini-review published in Genomic Psychiatry synthesizes the rapidly expanding landscape of molecular genetic research on common epilepsies, assembling evidence from genome-wide association studies, whole-exome sequencing projects, and advanced statistical modeling to illuminate the polygenic…
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