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After a week of turmoil, one thing needs saying about our NHS: slowly it is healing | Polly Toynbee

Times are tough and funding remains below the historic average, but in key areas there are welcome signs of hopeReorganisation – or re-disorganisation – is the perennial disease in the NHS.

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Mpowering Minds Summit 2025 addresses escalating youth mental health crisis

Neerja Birla announced the establishment of the Global Mental Health Consortium, a collaborative initiative with a vision to drive systemic change in the mental health landscape in India

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CitiusTech launches RWD platform HealthSPARX

The platform provides support in ingesting datasets from real-world data vendors and offers a flexible, customisable data pipeline to onboard newer datasets

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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World

Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

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Safer Antiplatelet Routines, Non-Statin Meds Feature in New Heart Attack Guidelines

(MedPage Today) -- In updated American recommendations for the management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS), bleeding reduction strategies on antiplatelet therapy are embraced, as are non-statin lipid

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CDC Reports Neurologic Complications of Flu in Kids This Year

(MedPage Today) -- During the current flu season, influenza-associated encephalopathy or encephalitis (IAE) was identified in 9 of 68 (13%) pediatric deaths, including four with acute necrotizing enc

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STAT+: Pfizer revises its DEI webpage to emphasize importance of ‘merit’

Pfizer made changes to its DEI webpage, joining other companies across different industries repositioning their messaging amid President Trump’s dismantling of DEI initiatives.

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House Hearing on PBMs a Tale of Two Discussions

(MedPage Today) -- A House hearing on a topic that both Republicans and Democrats agree on -- the need to more heavily regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) -- nonetheless devolved into two s

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Lyme Disease Researcher Fired by CDC

(MedPage Today) -- Joe Cardiello, PhD, had moved his entire young family to the Fort Collins, Colorado area in September to take a new job in the division of vector-borne diseases at CDC.

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Novel Agent Safe in ALS, Phase II Study Suggests

(MedPage Today) -- Tetramethylpyrazine nitrone was safe for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), but neither a high nor low daily dose of the drug outperformed placebo for the primary out

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