In recent years, the concept of Food Is Medicine has gained rapid momentum across the U.S. healthcare sector and beyond, broadening understanding of the critical role that nutrition plays in maintaining health, preventing illness, and treating many chronic conditions.
The emergence of AI marks a point of inflection in the evolution of the top tech exec position, with greater strategic responsibilities and career growth on the horizon for those who embrace the challenge that change brings.
The biggest buzz around GLP-1 drugs these days has nothing to do with weight loss. And that might lead to some problems for patients and insurers. Blockbuster treatments like Ozempic have been found to lower the risk of everything from Alzheimer's and addiction, to sleep apnea, seizures and bacterial infections. More potential uses keep surfacing.
The U.S. is developing new safeguards for the organ transplant system after a government investigation found a Kentucky group continued preparations for organ donation by some patients who showed signs of life. While the organ removals were canceled, near misses that some lawmakers called horrifying should never happen. A House subcommittee asked how to repair trust in the transplant network for potential organ donors and families — some of whom have opted out of donor registries after these cases were publicized.
Researchers at the University of Florida are moving closer to developing what they have described as a 'universal' cancer vaccine, according to a study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The vaccine would work by 'waking the immune system up against something that looks dangerous, and then that response spills over to recognize and reject the tumor,' says Elias Sayour, MD, co-author of the study, director of the Pediatric Cancer Immunotherapy Initiative, and principal investigator at the RNA Engineering Laboratory at the University of Florida. Sayour believes the vaccine would apply to all types of cancer, because the treatment would result in the immune system being able to 'recognize and reject all forms of cancer.'