Category: 5. Health

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  • Now Trump Must Deliver On His Healthcare Promises

    Now Trump Must Deliver On His Healthcare Promises

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  • 5-minute STI test poised to transform sexual health diagnostics

    5-minute STI test poised to transform sexual health diagnostics

    Birmingham spin-out Linear Diagnostics has been awarded £1m funding to finalise the development of a rapid test for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), in partnership with the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) in Diagnostic and Technology Evaluation and the North East Innovation Lab,…

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  • Common supplement reverses premature aging in landmark human trial

    Common supplement reverses premature aging in landmark human trial

    Werner syndrome (WS), a rare genetic disorder that causes accelerated aging. From their twenties, patients develop gray hair, hair loss, cataracts, diabetes, and other age-related conditions normally seen in the elderly. Additionally, patients develop severe and untreatable skin ulcers, often…

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  • 3 New Studies Remind Us Eating Well Is About More Than Just Weight

    3 New Studies Remind Us Eating Well Is About More Than Just Weight

    If you’ve ever made a genuine, perhaps painstaking, effort to eat healthier, only to find that your weight doesn’t budge, it’s easy to feel like you’re failing. Or like your body isn’t behaving like it should. But a few new studies…

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  • RFK Jr. Will Shrink The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration. Here’s What That Means For Public Health

    RFK Jr. Will Shrink The Substance Abuse And Mental Health Services Administration. Here’s What That Means For Public Health

    Under Secretary of Health and…

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  • Big Beautiful Bill Looks To Reverse Affordable Care Act Coverage Gains

    Big Beautiful Bill Looks To Reverse Affordable Care Act Coverage Gains

    The House budget reconciliation bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,”…

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  • Hidden in your dna: The mutation combo that raises clot risk by 180%

    Hidden in your dna: The mutation combo that raises clot risk by 180%

    Blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. However, the reasons behind them differ, as do the consequences and the chances of preventing blood clots. In Sweden, almost half of all cases of venous thrombosis have a genetic explanation. A team of researchers from Lund University in Sweden…

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