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Medicine & Health

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 3-Nov-2025 02:11 ET (3-Nov-2025 07:11 GMT/UTC)

29-Oct-2025

World’s leading medical journal details the climate emergency

University of Sydney
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New global findings in the 2025 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change reveal that the continued overreliance on fossil fuels and failure to adapt to climate change continues to be paid in people’s lives, health, and livelihoods, with 13 of 20 indictors tracking health threats now reaching unprecedented levels.

Journal: The Lancet
Funder: Wellcome Trust

29-Oct-2025

GLP-1 drugs effective for weight loss, but more independent studies needed

Cochrane
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Three new Cochrane reviews find evidence that GLP-1 drugs result in clinically meaningful weight loss, but industry-funded studies raise questions. The reviews were commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to inform upcoming guidelines on the use of these drugs to treat obesity.

Journal: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

29-Oct-2025

University hospitals research published in New England Journal of Medicine shows durability of limb salvage therapy for no-option amputation patients

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

An update in the New England Journal of Medicine has shown that transcatheter arterialization of the deep veins using the LimFlow System is a reliable and long-lasting therapy helping patients with chronic limb-threatening ischemia avoid amputation.

Journal: New England Journal of Medicine

29-Oct-2025

The NHS is reaching a crisis point in consultant recruitment, new report warns

BMJ Group
Reports and Proceedings

The NHS is reaching a crisis point in consultant recruitment as 1 in 3 consultant posts lie vacant in some parts of the UK and recruiting managers regularly wait over 12 months to secure a candidate, leading to increased locum costs, finds a new report published by BMJ Careers today.

29-Oct-2025

The future is decentralized: Expanding clinical trials from home

Medical University of South Carolina
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A set of three new tools out of the Medical University of South Carolina, introduced in recent articles in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, seeks to improve the rigor of decentralized clinical trials. CheatBlocker helps to address enrollment fraud; QuotaConfig aims to counter bias in clinical trials and MyTrials facilitates remote biomarker data collection throughout the trial.

Journal: Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
Funder: NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), HRSA Center of Excellence in Telehealth, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

29-Oct-2025

Emergency department pilot program serves rural families

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine showed that a pilot program in the MU Health Care emergency department successfully connected rural families to helpful resources.

Journal: Family & Community Health

29-Oct-2025

Capturing cancer cells from blood could help doctors choose the right breast cancer treatment

University of Michigan
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Doctors may be able to spare patients unnecessarily aggressive breast cancer treatments by collecting and testing cancer cells in patients' blood, research from the University of Michigan and the University of Kansas suggests.

Journal: Science Advances
Funder: U-M Forbes Institute for Cancer Discovery, Kansas University Cancer Center, Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences's Clinical, Translational Science Awards Program.