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The majority of American hospitals are still not transparent on their pricing of hospital procedures, even though transparency policies were initiated in 2019, according to recent studies on hospital pricing for joint replacements and other procedures. A study by Cleveland Clinic Foundation found that only around a third—32 percent—of hospitals were totally transparent with their

The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that the outbreak of monkeypox across multiple countries does not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) “at present,” according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and the International Health Response (IHR) Emergency Committee. In the meeting statement, released on June 25, the WHO determined that monkeypox

Health officials across 33 countries have received reports of 920 probable cases of severe acute hepatitis of unknown origin in young children, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In a press release on Friday, the health agency said the latest update on the outbreak is an increase of 270 cases since it published data

A new study into monkeypox holds a possible clue as to why the virus is spreading so quickly, with researchers saying they have discovered that the virus contains an unusually high number of mutations, which may represent “accelerated evolution.” The new monkeypox strain was found to have an average of 50 mutations in samples examined

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Wednesday it was notified of one more infant death in January potentially related to Abbott Laboratories’ baby formula and the agency has started an investigation. Abbott initiated a recall of its baby formula products and closed its Michigan plant in February after reports of serious bacterial infections

Researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute have discovered a new way to improve response to immunotherapies in mice for the treatment of tumours. Co-authors of the study, Associate Professor Fiona Pixley and Jay Steer from UWA’s School of Biomedical Sciences, discovered that isolating a specific molecule present

The nature of the monkeypox outbreak might be muddled by gender self-identification, according to experts, as it emerged that the one percent of infected female individuals in the UK could in fact be biologically male. An Infectious Disease Behaviorist told The Epoch Times that while it’s true for accuracy that data on both sex and

The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on June 23 falsely said that COVID-19 has been one of the five top causes of death for children since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director, offered the misinformation during a press briefing in which Biden administration officials promoted

Berberine’s effect on lung cancer has just been published in the journal Pharmaceutics, showing potent anticancer activity in a study that crosses the divide between Eastern and Western medicine. While the natural compound found in plants such as turmeric and barberry has been used in traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years, it has

Freshpet Inc. announced a recall of its “home-cooked” dog food on June 17, due to potential contamination by salmonella, which presents a risk of infection in dogs and humans. The food product recall concerns a single lot of Freshpet Select Fresh From the Kitchen Home Cooked Chicken Recipe, 4.5 pound bags, with a sell-by date

There was evidence as early as the last month of 2020 that people who had received COVID-19 vaccines could still get COVID-19, Dr. Deborah Birx said on June 23. “We knew early on in January of 2021, in late December of 2020, that reinfection was occurring after natural infection,” Birx, the White House COVID-19 response

The Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) banned all of JUUL Labs Inc’s products on June 23 from the market, delivering a blow to the popular e-cigarette company. “Today’s action is further progress on the FDA’s commitment to ensuring that all e-cigarette and electronic nicotine delivery system products currently being marketed to consumers meet our public

COVID-19 vaccines should not have been recommended for all children aged 5 and up, a top Danish health official has said. Søren Brostrøm, the director general of the Danish Health Authority, told TV 2 that it was a mistake to broadly vaccinate children based on the knowledge that has accumulated since late 2021. Children aged

Scientists from Australia’s Monash University have worked out a new technology to help people with aphasia to communicate. Teaming up with Monash Health speech pathologists and their patients, students from the Monash Institute of Medical Engineering (MIME) and Monash Young Medtech Innovators (MYMI) have designed Project QWERTY, a free website that offers a high-tech but

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted against the approval of Acadia Pharmaceutical’s drug for hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer’s disease psychosis on Friday. The advisory voted 3 to 9 with no abstention after eight hours of discussion. The panel concluded that the studies were not enough to support the efficacy of