August 19, 2026

Deciphering New Study on Heart Disease Deaths Linked to Modifiable Risk Factors

U.S. adults have made significant progress in reducing deaths from ischemic heart disease over the past three decades, researchers say nearly 9 out of 10 of these deaths are still associated with risk factors that people can often prevent or control.

Baptist Health South Florida

August 19, 2026

Abdominal obesity plus vitamin D deficiency may signal higher mortality

Six-year ELSA data linked the coexistence of both conditions to more than twice the risk of death among adults aged 50 years or older.

MDSpire News

August 11, 2026

Patients Wary of Governments, Companies Pushing AI as a Rural Healthcare Solution

“The risk of signing contracts that rural healthcare organizations come to regret is pretty high.”

Kff Health News

August 11, 2026

CHEST Issues OSA Guidance for Pregnancy

Guideline recommends screening, diagnosis, positive airway pressure therapy, and postpartum reassessment while highlighting the very low certainty of available evidence.

MDSpire News

August 10, 2026

HHS Proposes Mandatory GRAS Notices

Manufacturers would be required to notify the FDA of GRAS determinations under a proposed rule, while HHS and USDA also submitted the first proposed federal definition of ultra-processed foods for final review.

MDSpire News

August 04, 2026

Semaglutide Study of COVID-19 Mortality

A retrospective analysis of more than 10 million commercially insured and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries examined whether semaglutide use was associated with COVID-19-related mortality.

MDSpire News

July 23, 2026

New Data for Acquired Hypothalamic Obesity

Researchers found greater reductions in body mass index and participant-reported hunger scores with setmelanotide than with placebo, although adverse and serious adverse events were more frequent in the setmelanotide group; only one serious adverse event was considered treatment-related.

MDSpire News

July 22, 2026

Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records

“Clearly, this administration has not earned our trust with Americans’ sensitive data."

Kff Health News

July 22, 2026

Trump’s Personnel Agency Says It Will Remove Some Identifying Info as It Sweeps Up Medical Records

“Clearly, this administration has not earned our trust with Americans’ sensitive data."

MDSpire News

July 20, 2026

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists May Reduce Metastatic Progression in Certain Obesity-Related Cancers

Real-world data suggest that GLP-1 receptor agonists may reduce metastatic progression in certain obesity-related cancers, particularly lung, breast, colorectal, and liver cancers, according to findin...

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