Healthbeat - Your Source for Daily Health Trends and Medical News

STAT+: RFK Jr. could resurrect a vaccine safety board — what it means

This week in health policy and politics: Reviving a defunct vaccine panel, NIH funding cuts on hold, DOGE's federal worker buyouts paused.

Opinion: Health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters

“Authoritarian regimes often rely on doctors and other health workers to provide a facade of legitimacy and willing hands armed with scalpels, syringes, pens, or simply locks on doors,” writesR

Trump's NIH Pick Co-Founded New Journal

(MedPage Today) -- A new journal purports to improve the publishing process through open access and public peer review, but it was co-founded by researchers who challenged the U.S.

Ozempic-Skinny Cardiologists; Oxygen Tx Wins as EVT Adjunct; Iron Deficiency & Afib

(MedPage Today) -- Some cardiologists and other doctors are becoming unrecognizable after losing weight on GLP-1 drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound).

Judge Tells CDC, FDA to Restore Webpages, Data Removed After Trump Order

(MedPage Today) -- A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by Presi

The Guardian view on the health service: the problems go deeper than the boss | Editorial

MPs are right to push for improvements.

Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data removed after Trump’s executive order

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with a Trump executive order.

Mutation Carrier Escapes Early Alzheimer's; TIA and Cognition; Selma Blair's MS

(MedPage Today) -- A PSEN2 carrier genetically destined to develop Alzheimer's while still young reached his mid-70s without cognitive decline, becoming the third reported case of resistance in domin

Plan to scrap high court signoff for assisted dying sends bill in ‘wrong direction’, say MPs

Kim Leadbeater’s amendment would replace decision of judge with an expert panelMPs have suggested they feel misled by a major change planned to the assisted dying bill by its sponsor Kim Leadbeater,

STAT+: As outcry builds over Trump cuts to NIH payments, drugmakers are MIA

Drugmakers — major beneficiaries of NIH-backed university research — have been largely silence on the Trump administration's cuts to agency research payments.

All News