Category: 5. Health

CVS Health chief executive officer Karen S. Lynch speaks Monday, Dec. 4th at The Jazz at Lincoln … [+] Center in New York. Jamel Toppin CVS Health Friday said chief executive officer Karen Lynch has stepped down as the company’s top executive and will be replaced by David Joyner who has been… Continue Reading

ORLANDO, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 17: Tiger Woods of the United States during the final round of the PNC … [+] Championship at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club on December 17, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. By then, Woods had undergone five spine surgeries. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images). Getty… Continue Reading

A new UC Davis MIND Institute study offers critical insights into Rett syndrome, a rare genetic condition that affects mostly girls. The research reveals how this condition affects males and females differently, with symptoms progression linked to changes in gene responses in brain cells. Rett… Continue Reading

A multi-state study, published in The Lancet, is one of the first real world data analyses of the effectiveness of the RSV — short for respiratory syncytial virus — vaccine. VISION Network researchers report that across the board these vaccines were highly effective in older adults, even those… Continue Reading

Elevance Health has signed a deal to purchase Carebridge, a manager of home care and community-based … [+] services, the health insurer’s chief executive said Thursday during the company’s third quarter earnings call October 17, 2024. In this photo is signage at the corporate headquarters of… Continue Reading

Tobacco use rates among youth have dropped to their lowest level in 25 years, driven by the decline … [+] in e-cigarette use by high schoolers. getty Tobacco use among U.S. high school students has dropped to it’s lowest level in 25 years according to a new report by the CDC. Adolescence is… Continue Reading

In a peer-reviewed study believed to be the first of its kind published, a research team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine provides scientific evidence that a healthy diet may reduce the chance of low risk prostate cancer progressing to a more aggressive state in men undergoing active surveillance… Continue Reading

Increased risk for autism appears to be linked to the Y chromosome, a Geisinger study found, offering a new explanation for the greater prevalence of autism in males. The results were published today in Nature Communications. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition… Continue Reading

A multi-institutional group of researchers led by the Hubrecht Institute and Roche’s Institute of Human Biology has developed strategies to identify regulators of intestinal hormone secretion. In response to incoming food, these hormones are secreted by rare hormone producing cells in the gut… Continue Reading

Countless bacteria call the vastness of the oceans home, and they all face the same problem: the nutrients they need to grow and multiply are scarce and unevenly distributed in the waters around them. In some spots they are present in abundance, but in many places they are sorely lacking. This… Continue Reading