WHO Report warns of slowing global health gains
On May 15, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it has published its World health statistics report…
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FDA Approves Teal Health’s Teal Wand™—The First and Only At-Home Self-Collection Device for Cervical Cancer Screening
On May 9, 2025, Teal Health® announced the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the Teal Wand™,…
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Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records
On My 7, 2025, researchers at the University College London (UCL) and King’s College London announced that an…
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Europe pledges half a billion euros to lure scientists as Trump battles universities
On May 5, 2025, The European Union (EU) and France announced half a billion euros worth of incentives…
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NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
On May 1, 2025, the staff members at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) were told to “stop…
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Annual Report to the Nation Shows Cancer Deaths Continue to Decline
On Apr. 21, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported that overall death rates from cancer declined steadily among…
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Cartoon Illustrating “The NIH and U.S. Healthcare in Crisis” Published
On Apr. 21, 2025, LifeScienceHistory.com published the cartoon: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Healthcare in…
End of U.S. Global Health Funding Could Result in 25 Million Deaths
On Apr. 17, 2025, a study was published that shows the United States spent roughly US$12 billion on…
Thousands of people could benefit from new twice-a-day tablet for advanced breast cancer
On Apr. 11, 2025, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended capivasertib (also called…
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HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
Visby Medical Receives Landmark FDA De Novo Authorization for First-Ever OTC PCR Test for Sexual Health
On Mar. 28, 2025, Visby Medical™ announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted De…
New EPA data shows 158 Million people exposed to ‘forever chemicals’ in U.S. drinking water
On Mar. 27, 2025, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released data that shows an additional 15 million Americans…
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75% of U.S. scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
On Mar. 27, 2025, a Nature survey of more than 1,200 scientists, three-quarters of the total respondents are…
First hormone-free male birth control pill clears another milestone
On Mar. 26, 2025, research from the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy, published in Communications Medicine, laid…
GSK’s Blujepa (gepotidacin) approved by U.S. FDA for treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections
On Mar. 25, 2025, GSK announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Blujepa (gepotidacin)…
More than half of adults and a third of children and adolescents predicted to have overweight or obesity by 2050
On Mar. 3, 2025, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reported that without urgent policy reform and…
CDC report adds to evidence that HPV vaccine is preventing cervical cancer in U.S. women
On Feb. 27, 2025, a new government report adds to evidence that the HPV vaccine, once called dangerous…
Breast cancer is on the rise: data reveal drastic gap in survival rates
On Feb. 24, 2025, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, but survival chances vary…
Child ADHD risk linked to mother’s use of acetaminophen
On Feb. 20, 2025, researchers from the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Research Institute announced findings from…
Parental Alcohol Use Linked To Increased Cancer Risk In Children, Texas A&M Researchers Find
On Feb. 19, 2025, research from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has discovered…
New blood test accurately predicts preeclampsia
On Feb. 12, 2025, a study led by researchers from the University of Washington announced that a new…
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U.S. FDA drops Support improving clinical trial diversity
Jan. 24, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies…
RSV vaccine 78% to 80% effective against infection, severe illness in older US veterans
On Jan. 24, 2025, researchers from the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System in Oregon reported results from…
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U.S. announces withdrawal from the World Health Organization
On Jan. 20, 2025, the White House announced the United States will exit the World Health Organization (WHO)….
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trust in scientists is high
On Jan. 20, 2025, a large international 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents found that in most countries, most…
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How healthy is your state? IHME’s briefings provide insights
On Jan. 10, 2025, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) reported that when it comes to…
U.S. Surgeon General Issues New Advisory on Link Between Alcohol and Cancer Risk
On Jan. 3, 2025, the U.S. General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a new Surgeon General’s Advisory on Alcohol…
AI can improve ovarian cancer diagnoses
On Jan. 2, 2025, an international study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that AI-based…
Microplastics in the Air May Be Leading to Lung and Colon Cancers
On Dec. 18, 2024, researchers from the UC San Francisco released a study showing that tires and degrading…
A Lipid Nanoparticle Delivered mRNA Cure for Pre-eclampsia
On Dec. 11, 2024, University of Pennsylvania Engineers announced they had made a critical breakthrough that bridges a…