Biden Names Former North Carolina Health Secretary to Be New CDC Director
Mandy Cohen, M.D., comes with credentials that should help her lead the beleaguered agency, criticized for its response to the pandemic
National Health Expenditures Set to Increase Through 2031
Increase of 5.4 percent projected per year; expenditures set to account for about 20 percent of GDP in 2031
Feds Urge States to Slow Down on Dropping People From Medicaid
States are now reevaluating Medicaid eligibility after having been prohibited from dropping people during the early years of the pandemic
Topical Gel for Erectile Dysfunction Gets FDA Approval for OTC Sale
Timeline for when the product will be in the United States is unknown, but it could be 2025
Bladder Cancer Treatment May Lower Risk for Alzheimer and Related Dementias
Greater effect seen for patients aged 70 years and older at time of bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination
Lower Limb Spasticity Linked to Orchidopexy Risk in Cerebral Palsy
For boys with cerebral palsy, LLS presence linked to higher orchidopexy rate compared with spasticity absence
Clinical Language Model Can Predict Readmission
Model trained on clinical notes that accurately predict three clinical and two operational tasks
Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancer QoL Is Valid Patient-Reported Outcome Measure
LRRC-QoL consisted of nine multi-item scales and three single items; has convergent validity with other measures
U.S. Life Expectancy Disadvantage Began in 1950s, Worsened Over Time
Fifty-six countries from six continents surpassed U.S. life expectancy during 1933 to 2021
ChatGPT Offers Evidence-Based Answers for Common Public Health Questions
However, responses generally offered advice and not referrals to resources
