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STAT+: Judge rules lawsuit over UnitedHealth’s AI care denials can move forward

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who are suing UnitedHealth Group over allegedly wrongful denials of care that were based on artificial intelligence scored a victory Thursday.

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CDC: Asymptomatic Cases of Bird Flu in Humans Are Flying Under the Radar

(MedPage Today) -- Suspicions that there may be more bird flu going around undetected were backed by a voluntary serosurvey among veterinary practitioners who work with cattle, CDC investigators said

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Trump makes RFK Jr. leader of presidential ‘MAHA’ commission to study chronic disease

RFK Jr.'s swearing in as health secretary officially puts the nation's health in the hands of the MAHA movement.

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Federal judge pauses Trump’s order restricting gender-affirming care for trans youth

A federal judge on temporarily blocked President Trump’s recent executive order aimed at restricting gender-affirming health care for transgender people under age 19.

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'Make Measles Great Again'; Docs Blast Super Bowl Ads; Big Food vs GLP-1 Drugs

(MedPage Today) -- The following contains links to social media websites including Bluesky, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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Public Health Is Under Assault. Here's How Doctors Can Fight Back.

(MedPage Today) -- Former President Barack Obama once said, "elections have consequences.

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Paris summit draws European ‘AI Champions’ including health care bigwigs

In this edition of STAT Health Tech: DeepMind veteran raises $40 million for AI protein design, Apple's new health study, and more.

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Meet the World's Healthcare Billionaires

(MedPage Today) -- Six of the world's 500 richest people are Americans who have reaped fortunes from healthcare -- and two of them are physicians.

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NIH funding cuts, a U.S. brain drain, and bold claims from AI drug developers

What are "indirect costs" for universities? Why are some young scientists looking at opportunities abroad? And why are AI drug developers so secretive? We bring on biotech reporter Jonathan Wosen̷

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GLP-1 Drugs and Colonoscopy; GI Symptoms Post-COVID; Identifying High-Risk Barrett's

(MedPage Today) -- A systematic review and meta-analysis of five studies suggested that patients on GLP-1 receptor agonists were more likely to have inadequate bowel preparation for colonoscopy.

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