“Is pneumonia contagious?” is the most-Googled respiratory health question in the U.S., drawing an estimated 137,000 searches per month, according to a Sept. 22 analysis from healthcare staffing firm Soliant Health. The data offer a glimpse at patients’ health concerns…
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The White House is reportedly drafting an executive order that would create an external committee empowered to veto National Institutes of Health research grants that conflict with President Donald Trump’s policy agenda, The Washington Post first reported Sept. 18. The…
The CDC said it is still reviewing measles deaths reported by states this year, even as Pennsylvania has confirmed four fatalities tied to its outbreak. In a Sept. 18 update, the CDC’s dashboard listed 3,471 confirmed measles cases nationwide and…
With chronic diseases consuming 90 cents of every healthcare dollar spent in the United States, the focus on how we care for patients has to change. Eighty percent of chronic disease is driven by lifestyle factors: what people eat, how…
The U.S. cancer death rate declined 35% between 2015 and 2024, averting more than 4.8 million deaths, according to the American Association for Cancer Research’s 16th annual Cancer Progress Report, published Sept. 16. While the overall cancer death rate continues…
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Nearly three weeks after the FDA approved updated COVID-19 vaccines, about half of U.S. children still cannot access them through a federal program because HHS has not decided whether to distribute the shots through the Vaccines for Children program, according…
San Francisco-based Sutter Health is the first nonprofit health organization to have an official partnership with a national park site. Sutter Health is partnering with the Presidio Trust on a model that will bring healthcare, nature and community well-being together,…
The Pennsylvania Department of Health confirmed a fourth measles-associated death Sept. 15, an unvaccinated 18-year-old who lived in Mifflin County. The Mifflin County coroner’s office said the cause of death was acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, a rare and severe neurological complication…
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is showing signs of slowing. “The peak has been reached since the beginning of the third week of the month of August,” Congo Minister of Communication Patrick Muyaya wrote on X.…
The nonprofit parent organization of OpenAI — the Open AI Foundation — has given $40 million to Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center to generate data that can be used to develop more precise, personalized cancer vaccines. UNC…