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How modern diets are driving rapid evolution in gut bacteria
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: By tracking how adaptive genes sweep through gut bacteria across continents, researchers uncover a hidden evolutionary response to modern diets and lifestyles, and a powerful new way to study microbiome evolution. Study: Gene-specific selective sweeps are…
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AI in health care: 26 leaders offer predictions for 2026
More hospitals and healthcare organizations have been incorporating artificial intelligence into their systems, and many healthcare leaders expect that to accelerate in the year ahead. We’ve gathered projections from 26 healthcare executives and thought leaders about the use of AI in 2026. While they offer many different perspectives, some common themes emerge. There’s a growing sense that executives will be…
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Advertisements promising patients a ‘dream body’ with minimal risk get little scrutiny
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: Lenia Watson-Burton, a 37-year-old U.S. Navy administrator, expected that cosmetic surgery would get rid of stubborn fat quickly and easily — just as the web advertising promised. Instead, she died three days after a liposuction-like…
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Looking for Mental Health Care Without Private Insurance? Here’s Where to Go
Community mental health services are widely known in Chicago, but access becomes far less clear outside city limits—particularly for people without private, employer-sponsored insurance. While a network of nonprofit providers offers low-cost or free care, availability varies sharply by geography, funding, and transportation. In Chicago, care is readily available: organizations like Thresholds, Trilogy, Center on Halsted and Howard Brown Health…
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How Health Tech Is Transforming Gyms & Clubs
From advanced body-composition scanning to personalized services including metabolic testing and GLP-1s, ATN breaks down how fitness facilities across the U.S. are morphing into preventive health hubs The long-predicted convergence between gyms and health-optimization services is no longer theoretical; it’s here and scaling fast Across the U.S., fitness brands are morphing into preventive health-tech zones. Access to biomarker testing is…
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Cheaper medicines, rules for cash and new state laws: what will change in Australia on 1 January? | Australia news
Cheaper medicines on the PBS, a Medicare phone service and new laws mandating businesses to accept cash payments are just some of the major changes coming into effect in the first week of 2026. Indexation increases to social security payments, changes to childcare settings and a new online mental health service will also kick in from the beginning of January.…
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Can Digital Therapeutics Unlock Better Health Outcomes in LMICs?
Over recent decades, Moore’s Law predicting the doubling of microchip processing power potential every two years has driven the integration of transformative technologies across all aspects of our daily lives, from professional to leisure activities. Devices and software are increasingly being used not just to gather data but also carry out treatment interventions (i.e. therapeutics) based on these data inputs.…
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Novo Nordisk beyond weight loss has investors wary, scientists hopeful
Ozempic is medicine for adults with type 2 diabetes that along with diet and exercise may improve blood sugar. (Photo by Steve Christo – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images) Steve Christo – Corbis | Corbis News | Getty Images Novo Nordisk has had a difficult year: a tumbling stock price resulting in the biggest leadership shakeup in the company’s 100-year history…
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$205M federal health grant kicks off flurry of policy work for Wyoming
Health care advocates are celebrating Monday’s announcement that Wyoming will be awarded $205 million in federal Rural Health Transformation Project funds in 2026. But the announcement is only step one in a process that will require drafting contracts, hiring staff, crafting bills and gaining legislative approval. State workers, contractors and healthcare providers will have to hustle to lay the groundwork…
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Bay leaves on radiators : exploring potential benefits and traditional uses
The billion-dollar home fragrance industry has convinced us that artificial scents pumped through electric diffusers represent the pinnacle of domestic comfort. Yet tucked away in kitchen cupboards across Europe sits a humble spice that transforms any heated room into a naturally purified sanctuary. Bay leaves, those aromatic guardians of slow-cooked stews, possess chemical properties that make them surprisingly effective air…
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