Americans want weight-loss pills for cost and convenience
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON, April 6 (Reuters) – Americans starting weight-loss medicines for the first time want lower…
Children in psychosis need more help — and so do their families
I am sitting in a firm recliner with a wipeable surface during a two-day hospital admission for testing…
GPs worry about patients missing appointments, low medicine stocks as fuel prices soar
Pharmac said it was closely monitoring supply risks associated with the crisis. The impact of travel costs was…
PepGen Announces Topline Results from Lowest Dose (5 mg/kg) MAD Cohort in the Ongoing Phase 2 FREEDOM2 Study Demonstrating Favorable Safety, Splicing and vHOT Data
– PGN-EDODM1 was generally well-tolerated with all adverse events mild or moderate and no serious adverse events reported…
ADHD patients face another year of medication shortages in Whanganui
Wicksteed Pharmacy (Whanganui) and Eliza’s Pharmacy (Waverley) pharmacist Shannon Burroughs said the shortages made filling prescriptions harder and,…
What medicine can learn from the Undiagnosed Diseases Program
For decades, five siblings in rural Kentucky were slowly turning to stone. After walking for just a few…
Emergency room waits for mental health care are still too long
As of 2024, there were fewer mental health patients stuck waiting in hospital emergency departments than in 2022.…
New endometriosis guidance may help long-suffering patients
By her second period, Leah Chapman could not get out of bed. She was 12, on vacation with…
Epic claims patient data fraud in health information exchanges
In a recent court filing, electronic health records giant Epic Systems proved one of health care providers’ worst…
CT lawmakers push for affordable health care by variety of means
For decades, Connecticut and federal lawmakers have tried in vain to rein in medical costs as expenses have…
AI is exacerbating Americans’ distrust in health care
After OpenAI and Anthropic launched dedicated health care initiatives in January, a study published in February found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health had a 50% error rate,…
21 People Treated with Unsterilized Surgical Tools at Hospital. Patients Were Not Told for Weeks, Despite Risk of HIV
Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, WalesCredit: Google Maps NEED TO KNOW A hospital in the U.K. treated 21…