On May 23, 2023, the United States Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA, issued a new advisory on social media use among pediatric populations. Acknowledging the benefits and utility of social media...
Earlier this month, researchers and clinicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Boston Children's Hospital took part in the first in utero cerebrovascular surgery to correct a deadly...
After investigations of fungal meningitis revealed a link between the condition and traveled to Mexico, the CDC issued a level 2 travel notice, urging United States residents to practice enhanced...
In a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the CDC on May 12, 2023, public health officials identified the first cases of drug-resistant ringworm in the United States. According to...
In a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine Tuesday, experts recommended that inpatient personnel indefinitely use masks to mitigate disease and the seasonal spread of respiratory viruses,...
A press release on May 15, 2023, by the WHO warns patients against using artificial sweeteners, also called non-sugar sweeteners (NSS), when trying to manage body weight or prevent chronic disease. The...
On May 11, 2023, the NIH launched one of its newest programs: the Common Fund’s Somatic Mosaicism Across Human Tissues (SMaHT). The program is a $140 million effort to accelerate research on...
An article published in SLEEP on May 11, 2023, reported a link between obstructive sleep apnea and an increased risk of long COVID. Using data from NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery...
On May 11, 2023, the WHO released a statement announcing the end of the global mpox public health emergency. Just days earlier, the CDC began investigating the potential resurgence of mpox in the...
A study published in Stem Cell Reports represents a significant initial stride toward personalized therapies for individuals with incurable neurodegenerative disorders. The novel technique utilizes...
At the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting, Eric Adjei Boakye, PhD, shared survey data revealing that most Americans do not comprehensively understand the link between human...
A collaborative study by researchers at the Mental Health Services in the Capital Region of Denmark and the investigators at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found a stronger link between...
On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, the HHS issued an advisory regarding social connection, loneliness, and isolation. The advisory included data and statements from the United States Surgeon General, Vivek H....
The Trevor Project recently released key findings from its 2023 United States National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ young people, revealing that nearly half of LGBTQ youth in the US have...
A CDC report published Tuesday found that drug overdose deaths increased significantly for several substances, including fentanyl which has emerged as the most common cause of overdose in the United...
On May 1, 2023, researchers from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) published a study on a combined therapeutic approach that...
On May 1, 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a research article identifying four profiles of psychiatric comorbidities that impact self-harm risk in pediatric patients: low-risk,...
In April 2023, Beyond Plastics, an environmental advocacy group, released a report that linked plastic polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes to adverse human health outcomes. According to the organization,...
In mid-April, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) released a detailed analysis of location preferences by residency applicants in a post-Roe world, noting a 10.5% obstetrics and...
As the COVID pandemic has progressed, the CDC has added yet another COVID-19 subvariant to the seemingly never-ending variants of concern. The new variant XBB.1.16, also known as Arcturus, is an...
