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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 …

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

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

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

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