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Anavex Life Sciences Reports Advances for Oral Alzheimer’s Disease Medication in Phase IIb/III Trial
Anavex Life Sciences Corp. has announced promising results from its Phase IIb/III clinical trial of blarcamesine (ANAVEX®2-73), an oral Alzheimer's disease medication, at the 2024 Alzheimer's Association International Conference. The study demonstrated that...
Causes of Increase in US Pedestrian Accidents
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths are up 77% according to the Governors Highway Safety Association data. Why did over 7,500 people die while walking or jogging on a roadway last year? Every day, on average, 20 Americans walk along a roadway and are killed by a vehicle. In...
How Health Systems Leaders Use Strategic Planning And Marketing In Healthcare Systems
Operating a healthcare facility is complicated. Without careful planning, problems can arise that impact the quality of care offered. Health systems leaders use a variety of tools and tactics to ensure that operations are well-managed and streamlined. Good planning...
The Role Of Nurses In Detecting Elder Abuse And Neglect
Going through aging comes with many happy and positive moments. However, some seniors living alone and those in elderly care homes face different challenges that can impact their physical and mental health. Many have to deal with loneliness, anxiety, depression and...
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An Arm and a Leg: Why ‘The Pitt’ Is Our Fave New Drama
People who work in real-life emergency rooms have raved about how the new TV drama “The Pitt” accurately captures the complex dynamics of their workplaces and the medical details of their cases. Host Dan Weissmann talks with Alex Janke, an emergency medicine doctor...
Trump Team’s $500 Million Bet on Old Vaccine Technology Puzzles Scientists
The Trump administration’s unprecedented $500 million grant for a broadly protective flu shot has confounded vaccine and pandemic preparedness experts, who said the project was in early stages, relied on old technology, and was just one of more than 200 such efforts....
Alabama Can’t Prosecute Groups Helping Patients Get Abortions Elsewhere, Judge Rules
Reproductive rights groups in Alabama wasted no time resuming their work after a federal judge ruled in early April that the state’s attorney general can’t prosecute — or threaten to prosecute — people or organizations who help Alabama residents seek an abortion by...
Doing nothing on social care ‘untenable’, MPs warn
A failure to fix England's social care system is costing the country in financial and human terms, cross-party MPs have warned.Doing nothing to reform social care for older and disabled adults is an "active" and "untenable" decision, according to a report from Health...
Teen mental health: When to seek help and what parents can do
6 hours agoShareSaveNick TriggleShareSaveGetty ImagesLucy says she's always been a bit of worrier, but two years ago she began to get anxious and started having panic attacks."I didn't know what was happening and my parents didn't either," says the 15-year-old. "It...
Are there more autistic people now?
5 hours agoShareSaveSimon Maybin & Michael BlastlandThe Autism Curve, Radio 4ShareSaveVenessa Swaby/Luke Nugent (Luke Nugent Studios) Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source
In Reversal, FDA Rehires Staff Tasked With Releasing Public Records
The FDA has rehired at least some workers tasked with releasing public records generated by the agency’s regulatory activities, two employees said. The recall reverses firings carried out roughly a month ago by the Department of Health and Human Services, which...
Assisted deaths could top 4,000 in 10th year after law change
The number of assisted deaths could be more than 4,000 in the 10th year after the law comes into force in England and Wales if MPs vote for it, a review of the policy says.The estimate forms part of the official impact assessment, carried out by civil servants to...
Covered California Pushes for Better Health Care as Federal Spending Cuts Loom
Faced with potential federal spending cuts that threaten health coverage and falling childhood vaccination rates, Monica Soni, the chief medical officer of Covered California, has a lot on her plate — and on her mind. California’s Affordable Care Act health insurance...
Government Watchdog Expects Medicaid Work Requirement Analysis by Fall
The country’s top nonpartisan government watchdog has confirmed it is examining the costs of running the nation’s only active Medicaid work requirement program, as Republican state and federal lawmakers consider similar requirements. The U.S. Government Accountability...
Streeting accused of ‘betrayal’ over maternity funding plan
7 hours agoShareSaveMichael BuchananSocial affairs correspondentShareSaveBBCCampaigners have questioned Health Secretary Wes Streeting's commitment to maternity safety after his department watered down funding levels.Almost £100m was invested into improving maternity...
KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: 100 Days of Health Policy Upheaval
The Host Members of Congress are back in Washington this week, and Republicans are facing hard decisions on how to reduce Medicaid spending, even as new polling shows that would be unpopular among their voters. Meanwhile, with President Donald Trump marking 100 days...