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Education Suffers After Even A Single Brush With Childhood Trauma
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 — Violence, addiction and abuse can keep children a step behind other kids when it comes to their education, a new study says. Children who’ve experienced only a single tra...
Wastewater Can Accurately Predict COVID-19 Surges
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 — Keeping tabs on COVID-19 outbreaks is as easy as tracking a city’s wastewater, a new study says. Levels of the COVID virus, SARS-CoV-2, found in wastewater samples acc...
Typos, Slang Trip Up AI Medical Assessments
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 — Common human typing errors can trip up artificial intelligence (AI) programs designed to aid health care workers by reviewing health records, a new MIT study says. Typos and ...
NIH Stops Canceling Research Grants Following Court Ruling
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has stopped canceling biomedical research grants after a federal judge said hundreds of those cuts were illegal. This decision comes j...
Senate Grills CDC Nominee Susan Monarez on Agency Cuts
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 — The woman tapped to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says she supports science, vaccines and public health programs — but she dodged key ques...
CT Perfusion and CT Angiography Not Useful as Standalone Tests for Establishing Death by Neurologic Criteria
THURDAY, June 26, 2025 – Neither computed tomography (CT) perfusion nor CT angiography meet the prespecified validation threshold as an ancillary test for death by neurologic criteria (DNC) in...
Two-Hour Observation Probably Safe for Most Children With Anaphylaxis
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 – For most children who present to an emergency department with an acute allergic reaction requiring epinephrine, a two-hour observation period is probably safe, according to...
CRC as First of Multiple Primary Malignancies Tied to Better Outcomes Than CRC as Only Malignancy
THURSDAY, June 26, 2025 – Compared with colorectal cancer (CRC) presenting as an isolated primary or second primary malignancy, CRC presenting as the first of multiple primary malignancies less...
Ex-Vaccine Panelist Speaks Out on Firing, New Committee
Thursday, June 26, 2025 — The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has been soberly and deliberately helping set U.S. vaccination policy for more than 60 years. During that t...
Acupuncture Can Make IVF More Comfortable, Study Says
WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 — Ancient Chinese medicine techniques could prove extremely helpful in modern fertility treatment, a new study says. Acupuncture significantly relieved stress and pain in w...
1 in 5 U.S. Food Products Contain Synthetic Dyes
WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 — Synthetic food dyes are added to 1 in 5 packaged foods and drinks sold by top U.S. food manufacturers, a new study says. The most common dye was Red 40, which was present i...
Fitness Trackers Aren't Accurate For People With Obesity
WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 — Fitness trackers aren’t accurately assessing the physical activity of people with obesity, a new study argues. Differences in walking gait, speed, energy burn and other fac...
Paternal Mental Distress Linked to Poorer Offspring Development
WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 – Paternal mental distress is associated with poorer child development, according to a study published online June 16 in JAMA Pediatrics. Genevieve Le Bas, D.Psych., from...
ADA: Orforglipron Reduces Glycated Hemoglobin in Early Type 2 Diabetes
WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 – The oral small-molecule glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, orforglipron, reduced glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) over 40 weeks in adults with early type 2 diabetes,...
BRCA Mutations Linked to Breast Implant Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
WEDNESDAY, June 25, 2025 – For women with breast cancer (BC), BRCA mutations are associated with increased risk of developing breast implant–associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), a...