In a recent study published in the Labor Economics Journal, researchers investigated the effects of the 14-week paid maternity leave mandate in Switzerland. Study: Mothers at Work: How Mandating a Short Maternity Leave Affects Work and Fertility. Image Credit: Makistock/Shutterstock.com Background The rates of females joining the labor force have substantially increased over the past decades in high-income countries, paralleling the adoption […]

Photo: Mike Miliard/HIMSS Media The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced a new proposed rule on Tuesday, containing new statutory language for further implementation and certification criteria of the 21st Cures Act.  The rule – Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing, or HTI-1 – will be published next week in the […]

As Americans, we’ve become accustomed to the nearly unique experience of seeing commercials for medicines like prescription drugs on television—only the U.S. and New Zealand allow this kind of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising. The proliferation of such commercials in recent years has prompted concern among public health experts and consumer advocacy groups alike. Because they emphasize the potential benefits of a […]

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You’re driving your teen home from school when they open up to you about their vaping. What started off as an occasional puff of an e-cigarette has turned into something more serious. “I was curious and just wanted to try it,” they say. “All my friends were doing it and I wanted to do it too.” But now they are […]

There is growing interest among cancer patients in using probiotics to improve their health, but it is still unclear how gut microbes alter cancer immunotherapy responses. Now, researchers have shown that, in mouse models, the probiotic bacterium, or “good” bacterium, Lactobacillus reuteri travels to melanoma tumors, where it promotes antitumor immunity and facilitates cancer immunotherapy by releasing indole-3-aldehyde (I3A). They […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Monday appealed a Texas judge’s decision to suspend the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of a key abortion drug, saying the ruling endangered women’s health by blocking access to a pill long deemed safe. In a filing with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Department of Justice called Judge Matthew […]

Many cancer therapies do not produce the hoped-for results. A common reason for this is that the tumors develop resistance to the medications. This is the case, for example, with alpelisib, a drug that has been approved for use in Switzerland for the past few years as a treatment for advanced breast cancer. A research group at the Department of […]

The five foods you should avoid if you have hay fever Camembert and red wine could be triggers for hay fever like symptoms  Foods high in histamines can make your hay fever symptoms worse, experts say Other forms of hay fever can mean apples and melons make symptoms worse  Pollen counts have skyrocketed this month — signalling the start of six […]

In the latest blow to reproductive rights, a federal judge in Texas has halted the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortions in the United States. Here’s what this unprecedented ruling could mean for the future of abortion pill access nationwide. Late last week, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — an ultra-conservative Trump-era appointee — […]