Australian study finds hospitals unprepared for surrogacy births, prompting calls for guidelines

The government plans to redirect some children off the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and onto a new program called Thriving Kids. When announcing the change last month, health and disability minister Mark Butler explained:

It might seem like a harmless habit to linger on the loo with your phone while "taking care of business," but research shows that prolonged toilet time can increase the risk of several health problems. Here are the main ones.

New research from the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Center has found that genes play an active role in shaping the bacteria found in our gut, questioning the idea that gut health is influenced only by diet.

Accurate laboratory results are essential for clinical decisions—but every measurement carries some uncertainty.

Up to one-quarter of vapes confiscated in secondary schools in England contain the dangerous synthetic drug "spice," according to a new study in Addiction led by Professor Chris Pudney from the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Bath.

Scientists have identified a natural extract that could help boost the effectiveness of cancer drugs. The insights gained from their study may help formulate new combination drug therapies, using precision medicine to target and cure cancer and improve patient outcomes.

This Women's Health Week, we spoke with Dr. Vidanka Vasilevski from the Center for Quality and Patient Safety Research within Deakin's Institute for Health Transformation about her research published in Women and Birth on improving the induction of labor. As a researcher in maternity service delivery and maternal and child health, Dr. Vasilevski is passionate about improving women's health outcomes.

A multi-institutional collaboration led by the Center for Translational Cardiology and Pragmatic Randomized Trials at Copenhagen University Hospital-Herlev and Gentofte, University of Copenhagen, reports that RSVpreF vaccination reduced all-cause cardiorespiratory hospitalizations in adults aged 60 years or older.

Chronic pain is one of the most common and expensive health problems in the nation, affecting an estimated one in five U.S. adults and costing around $600 billion each year in medical expenses, lost productivity and disability, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Tuberculosis, one of the world's most deadly infectious diseases, has been reported in a handful of cases in Maine, North Carolina and California in recent weeks.

Most Americans disapprove of cuts to federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, a Northeastern University survey finds, including a majority of both Democratic and Republican voters.

CReATe Fertility Center in Toronto reports that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) reaches the ovarian follicle, aligns with higher oocyte maturation, and associates with lower embryo euploid rates in IVF, with in vitro exposure linked to chromosome segregation errors and abnormal meiotic spindles.

A multicenter study coordinated by the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) involving 26 European centers provides new insights into the course of the disease, prognosis assessment, and risk factors for severe myocarditis. The results have now been published in the European Heart Journal.

A new study by the Centenary Institute and the Sydney Local Health District has found that a specialized blood test can detect alcohol use in people with liver disease far more accurately than commonly used biomarker tests or patient self-reports. The breakthrough could help clinicians make better treatment decisions and guide eligibility for liver transplants.

The West Nile virus threat continues to increase in San Diego County, with routine monitoring picking up the presence of the pathogen in San Diego's City Heights and Skyline neighborhoods. The latest detection comes a little more than one month after workers sprayed about 4,000 parcels in the Rolando neighborhood just south and east of San Diego State University and parts of La Mesa in East County.

Modern imaging is contributing significantly to giving us a better understanding of how our brains work. In the long term, this will also help us to treat learning disorders in a more targeted way and develop new learning methods. Techniques for doing this are being developed at UZH.

While debate rumbles about how generative artificial intelligence will change jobs, AI is already altering health care. AI systems are being used for everything from drug discovery to diagnostic tasks in radiology and clinical note-taking. A recent survey of 2,206 clinicians found that most are optimistic about AI's potential to make health care more efficient and accurate, and nearly half of respondents have used AI tools for work.

Back-to-school is an exciting time for kids and parents, but it also marks the beginning of fall allergies as well as the cold and flu season.