By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, March 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a sweeping effort to downsize the federal workforce, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has offered buyouts of up to $25,000 to many of its 80,000 employees.The offer, announced in an email sent to a …

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, March 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. government program that provides free at-home COVID tests is no longer accepting orders.The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) has not said whether the program will ever restart.“The free at-home COVID-19 test distribution program is not …

By I. Edwards HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, March 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is cutting or canceling more than 40 grants focused on vaccine hesitancy and ways to increase vaccine acceptance, according to an email obtained by The Washington Post.The message — sent Monday by Michelle …

Review looks at data regarding barriers to and facilitators of breast and cervical cancer screening among people with disabilities

Findings seen among U.S. adults, with trend driven by adults younger than 44 years

Decline in mortality rates seen from 1990 to 2022 for women aged 40 to 74 years for all cohorts except Asian women

Majority of respondents unaware HPV is more common in men than women

Balance of benefits and harms of screening for food insecurity on health outcomes cannot be determined

Patients who continued Ozempic through total joint arthroplasty had the highest risk for complications

Remibrutinib results in significant improvement in composite measure of itching and hives at week 12 after second-generation H1-antihistamine treatment