By Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, April 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The death of a second child in a fast-growing U.S. measles outbreak brought the nation’s top health official to Texas this weekend.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended the funeral of an 8-year-old girl …

GNRI outperformed serum albumin or body mass index alone in predicting OAB risk in elderly

Incidence of RTOME is 5.83 percent in patients with head and neck cancer, with significant variation seen by cancer type

Expected breast shrinkage about 20 percent within one year after breast-conserving therapy/radiation therapy

Findings seen in patients with posterior circulation stroke and with no planned thrombectomy who received alteplase 4.5 to 24 hours after stroke onset

Increase in cervical artery dissection admissions was particularly high in older, Black, Hispanic populations

Machine learning model outperformed all comparators and achieved better concordance indices across myelofibrosis subgroups

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has not only lost nearly a fifth of its workforce, it has also been directed to slash $2.9 billion in contract spending.That’s about 35% of its total contract budget. The …

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has delayed the full approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine.The decision had been expected by April 1, but the agency now says it needs more information before moving forward.The Novavax shot is already …

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal judge has stopped the Trump administration from cutting $11 billion in public health funding — at least for now.U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy, who was appointed by President Donald Trump in 2019, said Thursday that she would …