Medline’s founding family (from left to right): Jim Abrams, Charlie Mills and Andy Mills.
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Category: 5. Health
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PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study finds
When pregnant women drink water that comes from wells downstream of sites contaminated with PFAS, known as “forever chemicals,” the risks to their babies’ health substantially increase, a new study found. These risks include the chance of low birth weight, preterm birth and infant…
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Forget The Perfect AI Model
HHS has released an AI strategy outlining how the agency plans to use AI to improve efficiency, drive innovation, and strengthen national health outcomes. Healthcare CIOs share similar goals, and the HHS plan provides a practical model for scaling AI responsibly.
HHS organizes its strategy around…
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Under RFK Jr., Vaccine Development Is Facing Unprecedented Challenges
The entire vaccine ecosystem is under threat, prompted less by data than a seeming desire to upend a system that has worked well for the American population for decades.
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Her food cravings vanished on Mounjaro then roared back
A unique opportunity to observe deep brain activity in a person with obesity and loss of control eating provided new insight into how tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, interacts with the brain. Recordings showed that the medication reduced activity in the brain’s reward center, a…
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Health insurance premiums rose nearly 3x the rate of worker earnings over the past 25 years
Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times, according to our newly published research in the journal JAMA Network Open.
Premiums can rise if the costs of the medical services they cover increase….
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Gut molecule shows remarkable anti-diabetes power
An international group of scientists led by Professor Marc-Emmanuel Dumas at Imperial College London & CNRS, along with Prof. Patrice Cani (Imperial & University of Louvain, UCLouvain), Dr. Dominique Gauguier (Imperial & INSERM, Paris) and Prof. Peter Liu (University of Ottawa Heart Institute),…
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With Subsidies In Limbo, Obamacare New Sign-Ups Lag Last Year’s Pace
Enrollment in individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, lags last year’s record pace in new sign-ups, according to figures released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on December 5, 2025 for the 2026 plan year. In this December 2, 2013 photo, a…
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Childhood Vaccine Upheaval Won’t Stop With Changes In Hep B Guidance
Dr. Retsef Levi speaks during a meeting of the Advisory Committee in Immunization Practices. ACIP is changing its recommendation regarding timing of administration of the hepatitis B vaccine (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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The Advisory Committee on…
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GLP-1 drugs failed to slow Alzheimer’s in two big clinical trials
Tantalizing results from small trials and anecdotes raised hopes that drugs like Ozempic could help. Despite setbacks, researchers aren’t giving up yet.
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