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Nurses Say Hospital AI Tools Arrive Without the Bedside Review That Catches Errors EarlyNurses Say Hospital AI Tools Arrive Without the Bedside Review That Catches Errors Early

Surveys show most nurses had no say in choosing the AI tools they use, and many report acuity algorithms that contradict their own assessments.

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A Major Telehealth Company Will Sell Longevity Peptides That Clinical Evidence Has Not Yet Backed

Hims and Hers plans to sell sermorelin, glutathione, and NAD+ before year-end. Here is what evidence exists for the uses driving demand.

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Fatigue and Low Mood Often Trace to Sleep and Stress Rather Than Testosterone, Urologists Tell Patients

Symptoms blamed on low testosterone overlap heavily with sleep loss, stress and other conditions. Urologists explain what a real workup requires.

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A Flathead Valley Clinic Reports COPD and Asthma Flare Ups as Wildfire Smoke Settles Over Western Montana

Wildfire smoke from Oregon and Washington pushed Columbia Falls air to very unhealthy levels, and a Flathead Valley clinic reports COPD and asthma flare-ups.

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St. Clair County Loses an Emergency Department September 1 and Residents Should Map the Next One Now

Henry Ford River District Hospital ends emergency and inpatient care September 1. Here is where East China area residents will need to go instead.

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Rural Hospital Closures Slowed This Year While Individual Services Kept Disappearing

New federal cost report analysis puts 720 rural hospitals at risk of closing, even as whole hospital closures slow and service lines keep ending.

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Magnet Toy Sends a Child to the Hospital as Federal Regulators Post 17 Recalls and Warnings in One Day

CPSC posted 17 recalls and safety warnings on one August day, including magnet toys tied to a child's hospitalization, banned crib bumpers, and noncompliant infant walkers.

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Skin Can Keep All of Its Collagen and Still Be Falling Apart, and a New Imaging Study Shows How

Hiroshima researchers found dermal tissue kept normal collagen content while its molecular order collapsed. Amount and quality came apart completely.

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The Study Saying Metformin Works in Your Brain Leaves One Awkward Question About How Much Gets There

Baylor researchers showed metformin needs brain Rap1 to lower blood sugar. But metformin barely crosses the blood-brain barrier, and key tests bypassed it.

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A Heart Defect in 3 of Every 10,000 Babies May Start in DNA That Does Not Code for Anything

Genome sequencing of 428 patients with tetralogy of Fallot identified seven variants in the TBX1 switch. Deleting it broke vessel formation in lab organoids.

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The Heart Has Two Types of Nerve Cells, and Removing Either One Stopped Mouse Hearts

A Cell study mapped the heart's own nervous system and found two neuron types. One keeps the heart running. The other guards it under stress.

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Airless Graves Can Preserve Human Brains for Thousands of Years, and Scientists Finally Know Why

Oxford researchers found oxygen-starved graves flip decay into preservation, welding brain proteins together. The chemistry echoes neurodegeneration.

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Hospital Antibiotic Use Has Not Moved in Eight Years Despite Near-Universal Stewardship Programs

A CDC survey found that half of hospital patients received antibiotics in 2023, unchanged from 2015, even as stewardship programs became near-universal.

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Heavy Drinking Is Falling Among Most Veterans but Rising in One Group Now Entering Midlife

Veteran drinking is declining overall, but heavy drinking rose among those aged 35 to 49 in a new analysis of 2016 to 2024 survey data.

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CVS Pharmacists in Three States Cite Unsafe Staffing as They Clear the First Step Toward a Strike

Unionized CVS pharmacy workers in three states approved a strike sanction over staffing. Here is what that step means and what each side says.

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A New Imaging Method Finds Sperm That Standard Laboratory Review Misses, with Limited Published Results So Far

AI imaging can locate rare sperm in men with azoospermia that technicians miss. The published clinical evidence remains very limited.

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Alabama Midwives Deliver Care in Counties Where the Nearest Labor and Delivery Unit Has Closed

More than half of US counties have no hospital labor and delivery services, a new March of Dimes report finds, reshaping who delivers care.

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Massachusetts Removes Its Abortion Time Limit, Becoming the Tenth State Without a Gestational Cutoff

Massachusetts eliminated its 24-week abortion limit, shifting later-pregnancy decisions to physician judgment. Here is what the law now says.

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Bacterial Infection Follows Roughly One in Twenty Gunshot Hospitalizations, with Head and Spine Surgery Highest Risk

About 5% of adults hospitalized for gunshot wounds developed bacterial infections, with head, neck and spine surgery carrying the highest risk.

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Night Shift Workers Faced Far Higher Long COVID Risk in New Study, Though Infection Rates Did Not Differ

Night shift workers had an 88% higher risk of long COVID in a Spanish cohort study, but were not more likely to contract the virus in the first place.

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Survival Gaps in Ovarian Cancer Track with Neighborhood Conditions, Pointing Toward Treatment Access

Women with ovarian cancer in highly vulnerable neighborhoods faced 20% higher mortality in a new study. Researchers point toward care access.

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FDA Turns Down a Radiopharmaceutical Cancer Therapy on Manufacturing Grounds, Not on Whether It Works

The FDA rejected a neuroendocrine tumor radiopharmaceutical over manufacturing issues, not efficacy. Here is what that distinction means for patients.

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The Sparkling Water Study Making Headlines Left Out the Flavored Cans You're Probably Drinking

A Purdue study found sparkling water barely dents mouth pH. It tested plain and calcium-fortified versions, not the flavored seltzers Americans buy.

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This Colorful Pet Gecko Gets Cancer at an Astonishing Rate, and Scientists Think It Could Help Humans

The lemon frost gecko was bred for its color. Over 80% develop aggressive tumors. Genome sequencing found changes shared with human cancers.

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Eight Weeks of Salsa Classes Cut Depression Scores at Oxford, But Not the Thing the Trial Was Built Around

Oxford put 121 young adults with depressive symptoms into salsa classes. Depression and social anxiety fell. Loneliness did not separate the groups.

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