New appointments also made to lead the NIH and as Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the FDA

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration has decided not to expand Medicare and Medicaid coverage for popular obesity drugs, blocking a Biden administration initiative that could have helped millions of Americans access the medications.Catherine Howden, a spokeswoman for the Centers for Medicare …

Physicians should counsel patients considering whether to start treatment for chronic noncancer pain about benefits and harms of cannabis or cannabinoids

AI recommendations more often rated as optimal compared with treating physician decisions

74 percent of respondents unaware of FDA-approved treatments; 56 percent said these options had not been discussed by clinician

78.5 percent of unvaccinated adults are unsure if they were eligible for vaccination or thought they were not

Depressive effect among girls mediated through sleep quality, duration, and chronotype

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Some recent cuts at U.S. government health agencies may be reversed, including a key program that tracks lead exposure in children, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last week.The lead poisoning prevention and surveillance …

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. government has shut down or paused several major anti-smoking efforts.Public health leaders say the cuts could reverse decades of progress that have smoking rates in the country at all-time lows.Last week, the Department of Health and Human …

Mortality and disability-adjusted life-years declined globally but remained disproportionately high in lower SDI regions