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Cycling in Midlife Tied to Lower Risk of Dementia

(MedPage Today) -- Using physically active transportation modes in midlife -- particularly cycling -- was tied to lower dementia risk and greater hippocampal volume, a large U.K.

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RFK Jr. Removes All C.D.C. Vaccine Panel Experts

The U.S. health secretary chose to “retire” members of a committee that makes significant decisions about who receives immunizations, including the vaccines for children.

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RFK Jr to remove all members of CDC panel advising on US vaccines

Health secretary says he’s getting rid of members sitting on panel of vaccine experts and reconstituting the committeeThe health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, is getting rid of all members sitting

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Kidney Transplants With Looser Donor Criteria Not Always Linked to Better Survival

(MedPage Today) -- Kidney donor criteria impacted recipient survival in the 5 years after transplant, especially for older patients, a target trial emulation suggested.

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Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken the extraordinary step of firing the expert panel that advises the CDC.

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Georgia's Experience Raises Red Flags for Medicaid Work Requirement Nationwide

(MedPage Today) -- Georgia's experiment with a work requirement for Medicaid offers a test of a similar mandate Republicans in Congress want to implement nationally, and advocates say the results so

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Modest Blood Pressure Reductions With DASH-Like Diet in Type 2 Diabetes

(MedPage Today) -- A modified DASH-style diet modestly reduced blood pressure (BP) for patients with type 2 diabetes and hypertension, the DASH4D randomized trial showed.

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STAT+: National Resilience, startup hoping to reinvent drug manufacturing, to ‘wind down’ many of its facilities

National Resilience, a startup that has raised over $2 billion by promising to transform drug manufacturing, said it would “wind down” many of its facilities.

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Women and men diverge more than ever on support for abortion rights, poll shows

Gallup poll found 61% of women identify as pro-choice, while only 41% of men do so, in three years after fall of RoeThree years after the fall of Roe v Wade and months after an election that heavily f

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Polypill Approved for Hypertension, Including as Initial Therapy

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA approved a polypill containing telmisartan, amlodipine, and indapamide, known as Widaplik, for the treatment of hypertension in adults, including as initial treatment.

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