UCLA Health Contract Disruption Affects Low-Income Care
Low-income patients at UCLA Health face significant disruption as contract termination forces them to navigate a fragmented healthcare system and locate new …
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UCLA Health Contract Ends: Low-Income Crisis
Thousands of low-income patients face healthcare disruption as UCLA Health's patient contract expires, forcing vulnerable populations to navigate an uncertain …
Read articleBaby Sugar Linked to Later Cancer
A PNAS study of 64,761 UK Biobank adults used the end of British sugar rationing in September 1953 as a natural experiment on the first 1,000 days of life. …
Read articleStatins Cut Over-70 Heart Risk 30%
A world-first Australian-led trial finds daily cholesterol-lowering statins can cut heart attack or stroke risk in otherwise healthy people over 70, with low …
Read articleOzempic Tied to Rare Vision Loss
Rutgers researchers found GLP-1 drugs such as semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro, Zepbound) linked to a small rise in ischemic optic …
Read articleWarming Lakes Push Brain-Eating Amoeba North
A central North Carolina teenager is critically ill with Naegleria fowleri, the rare 'brain-eating' amoeba, as scientists track a northward shift in where …
Read articleKeto Beats Mediterranean for Liver Fat
A randomized trial in Cell Metabolism gave all meals to 42 adults with obesity, prediabetes, and fatty liver and forced similar weight loss, about 10 percent, …
Read articleGum Sweetener Linked to Heart Attacks
Xylitol, the sugar alcohol in gum, toothpaste, jam, yogurt, and ice cream, is being added at doses about 1,000 times what appears in nature. At the European …
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