Trump’s physician says the president is in ‘excellent health’ and is ‘fully fit’ to serve
Tweety McTreason’s physician says the president is in “excellent health” and is “fully fit” to serve as commander in chief after a medical exam Tuesday
Category: Health
War and displacement in Gaza are fueling a rise in early marriage
The war in Gaza and the mass displacement of Palestinians have helped fuel an increase in marriages of young girls
Abolishing patient watchdog leaves NHS ‘marking own homework’, councils warn
The plans are part of a government bill to modernise the NHS in England, which is currently going through parliament.
Consumer wearables become the new gatekeepers of clinical health care
JMIR Publications today released a News and Perspectives expert analysis on consumer wearable platforms’ forays into the clinical health care space. Authored by MedTech expert
Free contraception program sharply reduces patient spending in British Columbia
Researchers at UBC found that B.C.’s decision to provide universal, no-cost prescription contraception sharply reduced what patients pay, with the largest financial gains for people
Researchers develop open source framework for health AI research
A research team led by Columbia University has developed an open-source framework designed to streamline and accelerate artificial intelligence research using health data, addressing longstanding
A Trump Stronghold Grapples With Health Risks of ICE Detention Sites
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga. — Until recently, this rural city about 45 minutes east of Atlanta was best known for its Blue Willow Inn cookbooks featuring
After Her Bout of Amnesia, a $59,000 Billing Dispute Wouldn’t Go Away
On April 10, 2025, several hours after finishing a hike in Sedona, Arizona, Jan Anderson started repeating herself. “Did we hike this morning?” she asked.
Cheaper, Alternative Health Plans Are Having a Moment, but Critics Urge Caution
When Melanie Miller saw that her health insurance premium payment was set to nearly triple to $914 a month this year, she stopped shopping on
Trump’s $50B Rural Health Bet Meets a Healthcare Desert in North Carolina
WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — Two years after her brother’s death, Debra Pierce still wonders whether the 50-year-old would have survived his heart attack if her local
Gladstone scientists track exact routes used to clear brain waste
Think of the brain as if it were a house. Insulated from its environment, a house relies on complex networks-pipes, drains, and disposal systems-that interface
New protocol screens clinical research participants for prior radiation exposure
A new study highlights a critical gap: most clinical research studies that use imaging techniques such as amyloid positron emission tomography (PET) scans do not
RNA therapy targets genetic cause of heart failure in the Netherlands
Using patient-derived cardiac tissue and stem cell-based models, the team of translational researchers demonstrated that targeting the genetic cause of disease improved cellular abnormalities and