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KLAS: Health data sharing improves, yet interoperability still lacking

KLAS' EHR Interoperability Overview 2025 highlights three areas in which challenges are holding back data sharing in healthcare.

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Physicians' telehealth use varies across specialties, practice type

New AMA data reveals that telehealth utilization among physicians has only dropped slightly since 2022; however, factors such as specialty and practice ownership impact its use.

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Sudan’s Darfur grapples with severe measles outbreak amid ongoing violence

MSF official tells Al Jazeera South Darfur hospital 'overwhelmed' by rapid increase in measles cases.

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Flu season is ramping up, and some experts are "pretty worried"

Doctors and scientists say this year's influenza season could be tougher than usual, with a new version of the flu virus, called H3N2, spreading quickly.

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STAT+: Your health care industry 2025, wrapped

UnitedHealth fallout, Medicaid upheaval, and Medicare Advantage woes.

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Study: High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous

New research suggests liver cells exposed to too much fat revert to an immature state that is more susceptible to cancer-causing mutations.

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1 in 4 patients delay care, cite healthcare affordability issues

A new study takes a longitudinal look at healthcare affordability problems, finding the issue is more pervasive than previously thought.

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MIT Reveals How High-Fat Diets Quietly Prime the Liver for Cancer

A fatty diet doesn’t just damage the liver — it rewires its cells in ways that give cancer a dangerous head start. Eating a diet high in fat is one of the strongest known risk factors for liver cancer. New research from MIT explains why, showing that fatty diets can fundamentally change how liver ce…

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CMS announces new ACO model as REACH ends

CMS unveiled the Long-Term Enhanced ACO Design, or LEAD, Model, that will run for ten years following the end of the popular ACO REACH Model.

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The throughline between Ozempic and Prozac

And more health news from Morning Rounds today

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Why one long walk may be better than many short ones

How you walk may matter just as much as how much you walk. A large UK study tracking more than 33,000 low-activity adults found that people who grouped their daily steps into longer, uninterrupted walks had dramatically lower risks of early death and heart disease than those who moved in short, scat…

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A new drug could stop Alzheimer’s before memory loss begins

New research suggests Alzheimer’s may start far earlier than previously thought, driven by a hidden toxic protein in the brain. Scientists found that an experimental drug, NU-9, blocks this early damage in mice and reduces inflammation linked to disease progression. The treatment was given before sy…

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Aging Sperm Are Mutating Faster Than Scientists Expected

Harmful genetic mutations in sperm become much more common as men grow older, and new research shows this is not simply due to random DNA damage over time. Instead, some of these mutations appear to be actively favored during sperm production. Mapping Age-Related Genetic Changes in Sperm In a major …

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What One Fructose Drink Does to the Immune System

Even with modern medicine, infections caused by bacteria and viruses remain a leading cause of death worldwide. Scientists are now exploring whether diet may play a role in shaping the body’s response to these threats. A research team led by Ina Bergheim from the Department of Nutritional Sciences a…

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‘I can’t forget the horror’: a young mother on giving birth twice during the Gaza war

Hadeel Al Gherbawi survived her two pregnancies despite extreme hunger and painChildbirth under attack: how women and babies became targets in conflicts around the worldHadeel Al Gherbawi was seven months pregnant when the war started in October 2023. Up until that point the 26-year-old had meticulo…

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Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts

In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.

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Opinion: STAT+: What Ozempic might tell us about the future of Alzheimer’s

Someday, there will be a game-changing drug for Alzheimer’s. It’s worth thinking about that now.

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Women Outlive Men, But Female Doctors Don't

Molly McDonough, Harvard Medicine In every country in the world, demographic data show that women tend to live longer than men. But that pattern may not hold true among U.S. physicians,...

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Resident doctors say they will resume talks to avoid further strikes with ‘can-do spirit’

BMA calls on Wes Streeting to be equally positive and says 11th-hour talks before five-day stoppage came too late but were encouragingResident doctors have said they will approach talks with Wes Streeting with a “can-do spirit” to avoid further strikes in the new year, as their five-day action ended…

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Parkinson’s breakthrough changes what we know about dopamine

A new study shows dopamine isn’t the brain’s movement “gas pedal” after all. Instead of setting speed or strength, it quietly enables movement in the background, much like oil in an engine. When scientists manipulated dopamine during movement, nothing changed—but restoring baseline dopamine levels m…