https://www.healthnewspapers.com Daily health and wellness journalism, reported and sourced. en-us https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/social-support-cognition-postmenopausal-null https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/social-support-cognition-postmenopausal-null A secondary analysis of the ELITE hormone-therapy trial found hints that social ties tracked with cognition, but none survived correction for multiple testing. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT womens-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/maccabi-biobank-deafness-genomics https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/maccabi-biobank-deafness-genomics Linking exome data to electronic medical records solved 15% of unexplained hearing-loss cases and flagged new candidate genes — while showing what the records could not supply. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sleep/blue-enriched-light-older-adults-cleverlights https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sleep/blue-enriched-light-older-adults-cleverlights In a 12-person crossover trial, blue-enriched daytime light with reduced evening blue did not cut time spent awake at night, though it nudged a brainwave marker of sleep. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sleep https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/military-emergency-eua-acute-pain-drugs https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/military-emergency-eua-acute-pain-drugs A section 564 declaration, prompted by a July determination from the Secretary of War, opens the door to authorising unapproved drugs for acute pain in combat and CBRN casualties. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT policy https://www.healthnewspapers.com/mind/perinatal-depression-infant-mortality-new-jersey https://www.healthnewspapers.com/mind/perinatal-depression-infant-mortality-new-jersey In 415,000 New Jersey births, infants of mothers who screened positive for depression died before age one at more than three times the rate, an association steady across race, income and preterm birth. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT mind https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bhutan-dog-transmitted-rabies-elimination https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/bhutan-dog-transmitted-rabies-elimination WHO validated Bhutan's elimination of dog-transmitted human rabies, a disease almost always fatal once symptoms appear. The country has recorded zero such deaths since June 2023. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/dichloropropane-epa-tsca-risk-evaluation https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/dichloropropane-epa-tsca-risk-evaluation In a draft TSCA evaluation open for comment until 3 November, EPA preliminarily found the industrial solvent poses unreasonable risk to health. IARC classifies it as a Group 1 human carcinogen. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT climate-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/opioid-type-gi-events-glp1-users https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/opioid-type-gi-events-glp1-users A 411,000-patient claims study found adults on GLP-1 drugs who started oxycodone had more severe constipation and bowel obstruction at 30 days than those starting hydrocodone or tramadol. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT body https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/isthmin-2-first-trimester-preeclampsia-predictor https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/isthmin-2-first-trimester-preeclampsia-predictor Screening 2,904 proteins in early pregnancy, researchers found low maternal isthmin-2 was the strongest signal for later preeclampsia or fetal growth restriction, validated in two cohorts. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT womens-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-therapeutic-patellofemoral-pain-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/digital-therapeutic-patellofemoral-pain-trial In 216 patients with chronic patellofemoral pain across 10 Korean hospitals, an 8-week digital therapeutic beat education and exercise instruction on pain — by 12.5 mm on a 100 mm scale. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/colonoscopy-quality-feedback-trial-denmark https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/colonoscopy-quality-feedback-trial-denmark A Danish stepped-wedge trial gave endoscopists automated feedback on their technique after every procedure. Adenoma detection rose from 43.4% to 48.6% — a different tool from real-time polyp AI. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/t-wave-inversion-high-school-athlete-screening https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/t-wave-inversion-high-school-athlete-screening Across 16,893 high school athletes screened over 15 years, 0.36% had T-wave inversions. Four were later found to have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in the young. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/single-dose-caffeine-repeated-sprint-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/single-dose-caffeine-repeated-sprint-trial A small double-blind trial found a single 5.5 mg/kg dose lifted sprint power for hours, alongside higher noradrenaline and lower perceived effort — but it was 12 people, mostly men. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/acl-graft-type-revision-football-cohort https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sports/acl-graft-type-revision-football-cohort A Swedish study of 10,693 ACL reconstructions in registered football players found no link between graft type and revision surgery. Age and playing level mattered far more. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sports https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sleep/chronotherapy-emerging-adults-delayed-sleep-pilot https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sleep/chronotherapy-emerging-adults-delayed-sleep-pilot Two small pilot studies in 18-to-25-year-olds found morning bright light on its own shifted circadian timing little, while adding a timed schedule and evening blue-blockers advanced it about 35 minutes. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sleep https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/prenatal-water-fluoride-child-behaviour-echo https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/prenatal-water-fluoride-child-behaviour-echo In 5,520 children across 34 states, prenatal exposure to regulated public-water fluoride showed no association with emotional or behavioural problems overall — with one caveat in a secondary model. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/paradigm-azacitidine-venetoclax-aml-induction https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/paradigm-azacitidine-venetoclax-aml-induction In the 172-patient PARADIGM trial, azacitidine plus venetoclax more than doubled median event-free survival versus induction chemotherapy — but it was a phase 2 study not powered for overall survival. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/gildeuretinol-stargardt-tease-1-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/gildeuretinol-stargardt-tease-1-trial Stargardt disease, the most common inherited macular dystrophy, has no approved treatment. In the 50-patient TEASE-1 trial, gildeuretinol slowed atrophic lesion growth by a fraction of a millimetre a year. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/daraxonrasib-ras-mutant-nsclc-early-trial https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/daraxonrasib-ras-mutant-nsclc-early-trial In an early-phase trial of 136 previously treated patients, daraxonrasib produced responses in 31–37% depending on dose — but 54% had a serious side effect, and this is a phase 1–2 study. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/vaccine-integrity-project-respiratory-vaccines https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/vaccine-integrity-project-respiratory-vaccines The Vaccine Integrity Project, formed in 2025 amid disruptions to the CDC's immunisation advisory committee, sets out its process for reviewing 2026–2027 respiratory-season vaccines. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT policy https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/nih-mifepristone-license-hypercortisolism-insulin-resistance https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/nih-mifepristone-license-hypercortisolism-insulin-resistance The patented method uses mifepristone for hypercortisolism-related insulin resistance, with dosing capped to avoid over-activating the stress-hormone axis. The public can object before the deal closes. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT policy https://www.healthnewspapers.com/mind/serial-ketamine-treatment-resistant-bipolar-depression https://www.healthnewspapers.com/mind/serial-ketamine-treatment-resistant-bipolar-depression In the Ket-BD trial, four IV ketamine infusions over two weeks lowered depression scores more than an active placebo, with no manic switches observed in 63 analysed patients. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT mind https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/timor-leste-trachoma-elimination https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/timor-leste-trachoma-elimination WHO validated Timor-Leste's elimination of trachoma, the last suspected focus in its South-East Asia Region. A 2025 survey of 4,949 young children found no transmission requiring intervention. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/cyclosporiasis-michigan-outbreak-interim https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/cyclosporiasis-michigan-outbreak-interim An interim report in NEJM Evidence links the parasitic outbreak to iceberg lettuce and one restaurant chain, with cases spread across most of the state. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/prenatal-heat-wave-child-kidney-function https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/prenatal-heat-wave-child-kidney-function A Chinese birth cohort of 1,278 pairs found higher prenatal temperatures and heatwaves — especially in the second trimester — tracked with higher creatinine and urea in early childhood. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT climate-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/oil-gas-wells-coccidioidomycosis-kern https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/oil-gas-wells-coccidioidomycosis-kern A case-crossover study in Kern County found the odds of coccidioidomycosis were about 12.5% higher in the 90 days after a new well was developed within 5 km of home. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT climate-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/china-clean-air-act-cardiovascular-risk https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/china-clean-air-act-cardiovascular-risk A prospective, quasi-experimental study links the air-quality gains after China's 2013 Clean Air Act to an average 6.6-percentage-point reduction in predicted cardiovascular risk. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT climate-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/yemen-acute-kidney-injury-cholera https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/yemen-acute-kidney-injury-cholera Severe dehydration from diarrhoeal disease and sepsis can shut down the kidneys. In a health system with little dialysis, a review argues this is a preventable driver of death that surveillance is missing. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT body https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/strength-preservation-calorie-restriction-calerie https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/strength-preservation-calorie-restriction-calerie A transcriptomic sub-study of the CALERIE calorie-restriction trial links 151 genes to preserved leg strength during weight loss, independent of how much body mass was lost. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT body https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/edmonton-vs-lancet-obesity-classification-biobank https://www.healthnewspapers.com/body/edmonton-vs-lancet-obesity-classification-biobank Applied to 411,000 UK Biobank adults, the Edmonton staging system and the Lancet Commission's clinical-obesity model classified severe disease alike but diverged on who counts as early-stage. Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT body https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/maternal-bmi-weight-gain-offspring-cardiovascular https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/maternal-bmi-weight-gain-offspring-cardiovascular In 2.5 million Swedish births followed to adulthood, mothers' early-pregnancy obesity was linked to a stepwise rise in offspring cardiovascular disease, though sibling analyses temper the size. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT womens-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ecg-clip-foundation-model-label-efficiency https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ecg-clip-foundation-model-label-efficiency Trained on 1.7 million ECGs paired with clinicians' report text, ECG-CLIP reached the same accuracy as the best comparator with about 90% less training data — a bid at the field's labelling bottleneck. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-triage-digital-front-door-engagement https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-triage-digital-front-door-engagement In 6,772 users of a US health system's AI triage tool, people engaged about twice as often when the AI matched what they already planned — raising a hard question about what the tools are steering. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-medication-adherence-prediction-review https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/ai-medication-adherence-prediction-review A review of 41 studies found that the great majority of AI medication-adherence prediction models carried high risk of bias, and that fancier algorithms did not reliably predict better. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/nsabp-b59-atezolizumab-triple-negative-breast-cancer https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/nsabp-b59-atezolizumab-triple-negative-breast-cancer In the NSABP B-59 trial, adding the immunotherapy to neoadjuvant chemotherapy did not significantly improve event-free survival, while immune-related side effects more than doubled. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/fluconazole-mycobiome-inflammatory-bowel-disease https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/fluconazole-mycobiome-inflammatory-bowel-disease In 53 patients, oral fluconazole — but not a mouth-only antifungal — cut gut Candida and coincided with improved disease activity. The study was observational, brief and unblinded. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/respiratory-season-vaccine-effectiveness-2026-2027 https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/respiratory-season-vaccine-effectiveness-2026-2027 JAMA published paired systematic reviews for the coming respiratory season. Both found vaccines reduced hospitalisation across age groups, with no new safety signals, though protection wanes over time. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT policy https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/fda-hepatic-impairment-pk-guidance-update https://www.healthnewspapers.com/policy/fda-hepatic-impairment-pk-guidance-update A draft replacing a 2003 document would extend hepatic-impairment dosing studies to biologic drugs and to drug effects, not just blood levels. It is open for comment before the agency finalises it. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT policy https://www.healthnewspapers.com/mind/nutraceuticals-depression-network-meta-analysis https://www.healthnewspapers.com/mind/nutraceuticals-depression-network-meta-analysis A network meta-analysis of 163 trials found EPA, vitamin D and a St John's wort extract beat placebo by margins so large the researchers treat them as a warning about the evidence, not a green light. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT mind https://www.healthnewspapers.com/living-well/stevia-glucose-hormones-crossover https://www.healthnewspapers.com/living-well/stevia-glucose-hormones-crossover In 69 people across normal weight, overweight and type 2 diabetes, a stevia drink behaved like water — no shift in glucose, insulin, gut hormones, appetite or how much they ate next. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT living-well https://www.healthnewspapers.com/living-well/green-space-child-attention-abcd https://www.healthnewspapers.com/living-well/green-space-child-attention-abcd In nearly 12,000 US children, tree and park cover was linked to sharper directed attention and higher crystallized intelligence — and cleaner air seemed to explain part of it. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT living-well https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/umrah-meningococcal-w135-vaccination https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/umrah-meningococcal-w135-vaccination WHO recorded serogroup W135 disease in pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia in early 2025. A modelling study estimates high vaccination coverage would cut expected cases by more than 80%. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mpox-global-vaccine-stockpile-launch https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/mpox-global-vaccine-stockpile-launch Gavi is funding a standing mpox vaccine stockpile, coordinated by the same group that manages emergency supplies for cholera, yellow fever and Ebola, to avoid repeating the 2022 access gap. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/hypoxaemia-childhood-pneumonia-mortality-lmic https://www.healthnewspapers.com/global-health/hypoxaemia-childhood-pneumonia-mortality-lmic A meta-analysis of more than 155,000 children finds mortality is elevated even at oxygen saturations of 90–94%, above the threshold at which WHO advises hospital oxygen. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT global-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/air-pollution-life-satisfaction-twins https://www.healthnewspapers.com/climate-health/air-pollution-life-satisfaction-twins Analysing 4,504 German twins, researchers found the pollution–wellbeing link ran mostly between families, not within twin pairs — pointing to shared circumstances as much as the air itself. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT climate-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/periconception-b12-folate-birth-defects https://www.healthnewspapers.com/womens-health/periconception-b12-folate-birth-defects Among 3,032 couples sampled before conception, higher maternal and paternal vitamin B12 both tracked with lower predicted birth-defect prevalence. The paternal pattern was weaker, and this is observational. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT womens-health https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/acp-ai-ethics-position-paper https://www.healthnewspapers.com/tech-medicine/acp-ai-ethics-position-paper Relationality, self-governance, competence. The position paper's starting premise is that consensus on privacy, disclosure and fairness has not been reached, and clinicians need guidance anyway. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT tech-medicine https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sleep/titan-breathe-right-nasal-strips-mouth-tape-compared https://www.healthnewspapers.com/sleep/titan-breathe-right-nasal-strips-mouth-tape-compared Both brands sell drug-free external nasal dilators with much the same evidence behind them. The differences are range, materials, and the fact that only one also sells a mouth tape. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT sleep https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/ervebo-health-worker-vaccination-bundibugyo https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/ervebo-health-worker-vaccination-bundibugyo Ervebo was licensed against Zaire ebolavirus. WHO says it is not known whether it protects against Bundibugyo virus in humans — which is why a trial is running alongside the wider rollout. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/disease-modifying-osteoarthritis-drugs https://www.healthnewspapers.com/science/disease-modifying-osteoarthritis-drugs Lorecivivint improved pain modestly and changed nothing structural. Sprifermin grew cartilage and the effect made no difference by year five. Both illustrate the gap between a biomarker and a benefit. Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT science