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FridayJul 24, 2026 10:00 am

Health Insurance Keeps 25% of US Employees Locked in Their Jobs

According to the findings of a recent poll conducted by Gallup and West Health, almost a quarter of employees within the U.S., or about 23 million individuals, remain doing jobs they would have otherwise left. They stay due to their desire to retain their health insurance. The data shows that “job lock” has been growing over the years and this latest survey indicates an increase of 8% from the number of people who reported being stuck in their jobs due to health insurance concerns in 2021. This comes as costs of healthcare are increasing to levels that are widely considered a crisis that needs to be fixed to tame rising medical…

ThursdayJul 23, 2026 10:00 am

Recent Communicable Disease Outbreaks Highlight Gaps in Public Health Systems

The U.S. has recently had outbreaks of a number of infectious diseases, such as measles, mpox and HIV. These outbreaks have exposed critical gaps that exist in public health systems, according to Doctor Monica Gandhi, a medicine professor at UCSF (University of California, San Francisco). She explains that these outbreaks have highlighted the various vulnerabilities that exist in an environment that is already plagued by worsening staff shortages and funding shortfalls. She points out that vaccine coverage is dropping rapidly, especially over recent years. Such a trend is creating room for vaccine-preventable infectious diseases like measles to re-emerge and affect a lot more people. The current policies of…

TuesdayJul 21, 2026 10:00 am

Study Finds No Evidence That Mobile Phones Can Cause Brain Cancer

For a long time, many people have claimed that using a mobile phone can cause brain cancer. These fears were so widespread that the World Health Organization commissioned teams to conduct 13 reviews aimed at establishing whether electromagnetic waves, such as those that enable mobile phones to work, had any health effects. The reviews were commissioned back in 2019. The World Health Organization hasn’t released its own findings of those reviews. However, a study that was published last week provides an analysis of the WHO-funded reviews. The researchers show that the available data doesn’t provide any evidence to suggest that electromagnetic waves released by mobile phones cause brain cancer or cancer of the neck…

FridayJul 17, 2026 10:00 am

Study Links Gut Microbial Metabolites to Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy Sensitivity

Scientists have been racing to establish why some patients respond to cancer immunotherapy while others do not. A recent study has linked metabolites produced by certain bacteria in the gut to improved responses to cancer immunotherapy in patients. The study, whose findings were published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, was conducted by a large team led by researchers at the University of Nebraska and Cedars-Sinai, alongside collaborators based at other academic institutions. Ramer-Tait from the University of Nebraska led the research effort. Previous research has variously linked gut microbiota to improved responses to cancer immunotherapy. However, no study had pinpointed a specific microbe or microbial metabolite linked to immunotherapy response improvements…

ThursdayJul 16, 2026 10:00 am

Initiatives to Erase Medical Debt Gain Traction Across the US

According to KFF research conducted in 2022, about 100 million individuals in the U.S. are saddled with medical debt. This debt often makes it nearly impossible for them to afford other necessities of life, including additional medical care. As lawmakers on Capitol Hill drag their feet on enacting definitive remedies to the escalating healthcare costs, state governments and philanthropists are taking action to wipe medical debt away. Undue Medical Debt is a nonprofit organization that is focused on mobilizing donations and using the funds it gets to wipe away the crippling medical debt that low-income earners in the U.S. face. The nonprofit has come up with a model through which…

MondayJul 06, 2026 10:00 am

UCS Unveils Tool to Track Attacks Against Science in the US

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has unveiled an interactive tool geared toward documenting and highlighting the different ways through which science has come under attack from the time Trump took office for the second time. The tool also documents possible violations of draft legislation before Congress, called the Scientific Integrity Act. The tool, dubbed Attacks on Science Tracker, so far has a total of 576 attacks against science and 188 incidents that are categorized as possible violations of the Scientific Integrity Act. These cases span from January 2025 up to June 29, 2026. The developers of the tool aimed to bring to the public’s attention the different ways through which political and elected…

ThursdayJul 02, 2026 10:00 am

Comprehensive Review Shows Gut Microbiome Influences Immunotherapy Efficacy

Scientists have for long been concerned about why some people with liver cancer respond when given immunotherapy but others don’t. A recent comprehensive review provides key insights linking how patients respond to these treatments to the status of their gut microbiome. The review, published in the journal Cancer Biology and Medicine, was conducted by a team based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The scientists compiled recent scientific data detailing how the microbial composition of the gut impacts how different patients respond when they are given immune checkpoint blockade therapies against hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer. They found that anti-tumor immune activity is modulated or influenced…

TuesdayJun 30, 2026 10:00 am

Currently Approved Drug Could Boost Immunotherapy Against Liver Cancer

Researchers at University of Washington have discovered that a drug that is currently approved by the FDA could help in boosting the efficacy of immunotherapy against a rare type of liver cancer that has previously been unresponsive to checkpoint inhibitors. The preclinical study, whose findings appeared in the Gastroenterology journal, found that fibrolamellar carcinoma, an aggressive type of liver cancer, alters normal liver cells and causes them to produce the fibrous tissue that is characteristic of this type of cancer. T-cells that are meant to fight the cancer are then rechanneled into these fibrous bands and trapped there. As a result of this entrapment, the body’s immune…

FridayJun 26, 2026 10:00 am

US Health Care Expenditure Spiked to Nearly $6 Trillion in 2025

According to recent data released by CMS actuaries, spending on health care in the U.S. jumped to $5.7tn in 2025, the third consecutive year in which spending growth exceeded 7%. The data shows that one of the key drivers of this spike was pricey medications, such as GLP-1s, medications used to treat obesity. CMS actuaries note that this growth in spending stems from a number of factors that include people seeking more care and the uptake of expensive medications like the weight loss drugs mentioned earlier. Cost increases accounted for just a small fraction of this expenditure spike. Jacqueline Fiore, an economist working in the actuarial…

ThursdayJun 25, 2026 10:00 am

Researchers Urge Caution in Using Antibiotic Prophylaxis

The medical community has for long relied on antibiotic prophylaxis, the practice of prescribing antibiotics to safeguard at-risk individuals from bacterial infections. However, a new publication has sounded the alarm on the widespread use of these “just in case” treatments due to their risk of driving antibiotic resistance. The paper, published by researchers at Charles University in Prague, appeared in the Clinical Microbiology & Infection journal. The authors caution that the prophylactic use of antibiotics has become unsustainable due to its growing use by medical practitioners because it threatens the long term efficacy of these medications. As more people use these therapies, the risk of antimicrobial resistance is growing,…