A smartphone app can help men last longer in bed / New Scientist

newscientist - In a randomised trial, men who experience premature ejaculation benefitted from using an app to learn techniques for extending intercourse

Severe COVID or Severe Flu May Raise Risk of Lung Cancer, But Vaccines Helped in Animal Tests / Discover

discovermagazine - Learn how severe respiratory illness leaves the lungs vulnerable to cancer, and how vaccines could prevent these vulnerabilities.

#healthcare #publichealth #vaccinesafety #oncology #animalhealth #infectiousdisease #cancerresearch

Amy C. Moore: Could Severe COVID-19 Increase Lung Cancer Risk?

2 days / oncodaily

Severe COVID-19 and flu can facilitate lung cancer months or years later

5 days / medicalxpress

Severe COVID or Severe Flu May Raise Risk of Lung Cancer, But Vaccines Helped in Animal Tests

5 days / discovermagazine

Friday, March 13, 2026, 9:23 pm / permalink 20726 / 3 stories in 2 days

6 Things to Know About Stryker’s Cyberattack / MedCity

Katie Adams / medcitynews - Stryker was hit by a cyberattack this week that knocked out its internal systems worldwide and caused delays to order processing and manufacturing. An Iran-linked group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the full impact remains unclear.The pos…

#healthcare #publichealth #digitalhealth #medicaldevices #hospitaloperations #cybersecurity #supplychain

What health systems learned from the Stryker cyberattack

11 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Giles Bruce

6 Things to Know About Stryker’s Cyberattack

3 days / medcitynews / Katie Adams

Stryker updates hospitals on platforms unaffected by cyberattack: 12 updates

3 days / beckershospitalreview / Naomi Diaz

Stryker cyberattack tied to Iran: 10 updates

4 days / beckershospitalreview / Naomi Diaz

Medical device maker Stryker hit with cyberattack

5 days / beckershospitalreview / Naomi Diaz

Stryker hit by international cyberattack linked to pro-Iran group

5 days / fiercehealthcare

Friday, March 13, 2026, 6:22 pm / permalink 20721 / 6 stories in 3 days

FDA Transparency Push Expands to Monitoring Safety of Vaccines and Other Regulated Products / MedCity

Frank Vinluan / medcitynews - The FDA said consolidating safety reporting into a single platform, the Adverse Event Monitoring System (AEMS), will increase transparency and reduce costs. But like the legacy systems it replaces, AEMS reports are unverified so causation and frequency of…

#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #publichealth #governmentpolicy #biotech #fda #vaccinesafety #digitalhealth #animalhealth

CDC panel advises tracking COVID-19 vaccine injuries

3 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Ella Jeffries

Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms

26 hrs / nytimes / Apoorva Mandavilli and Sheryl Gay Stolberg

The AI Adverse Event Problem Nobody Is Talking About

3 days / beckershospitalreview / Allie Woldenberg

FDA Transparency Push Expands to Monitoring Safety of Vaccines and Other Regulated Products

4 days / medcitynews / Frank Vinluan

FDA to unify agency’s ‘fragmented’ safety surveillance system

4 days / healthcaredive / Kristin Jensen

FDA launches single adverse event platform

5 days / beckershospitalreview / Elizabeth Gregerson

FDA merges adverse event trackers into one database

5 days / endpoints / Max Bayer

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 5:23 pm / permalink 20659 / 7 stories in 4 days

Gallup poll: One in three Americans cutting back on daily expenses to pay for healthcare / Fierce

fiercehealthcare - Healthcare affordability remains a significant challenge, with a third of respondents to a new Gallup poll saying they had to cut back on daily living expenses to afford care.

#healthcare #drugpricing #publichealth #governmentpolicy #healthcarefinance

Is It Worth Your Time and Money To Set Up an HSA?

16 hrs / kffhealthnews / Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio and Cara Anthony and Emily Siner, Nashville Public Radio

Reckoning With State and Federal Cuts, Los Angeles Safety-Net Clinics Push for a New Tax

16 hrs / kffhealthnews / Bernard J. Wolfson

Jesse Shoplock, Inbox Health

17 hrs / thehealthcareblog / matthew holt

Medical debt linked to deferred care, especially dental care

3 days / medicalxpress

Drug affordability worries highest since 2018: KFF poll

3 days / beckershospitalreview / Ella Jeffries

Families Scramble To Pay Five-Figure Bills as Clock Ticks on Promised Preauthorization Reforms

3 days / kffhealthnews / Lauren Sausser

Gallup poll: One in three Americans cutting back on daily expenses to pay for healthcare

4 days / fiercehealthcare

1 in 3 Americans say sacrificed for health care costs

4 days / medicalxpress

A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care

4 days / nytimes / Reed Abelson

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 2:23 pm / permalink 20648 / 9 stories in 4 days

Universal Health Services buys Talkspace for $835M / Endpoints

Ngai Yeung / endpoints - Universal Health Services, which operates hospitals and mental healthcare facilities, is acquiring Talkspace for $835 million in an area closely watched for consolidation, as virtual mental health companies grapple with falling valuations despite high dem…

#healthcare #mergersandacquisitions #corporatetakeover #digitalhealth #behavioralhealth #hospitaloperations #healthcarefinance

A new way to close the pediatric mental health gap: Primary care and psychiatry working together

6 hrs / medicalxpress

Problematic social media use predicts higher depressive symptoms in adolescents under 16

16 hrs / medicalxpress

UHS Florida hospital CEO resigns

3 days / beckershospitalreview / Kristin Kuchno

Universal Health Services to acquire Talkspace in $835M deal to build out virtual behavioral health

7 days / fiercehealthcare

UW Health appoints associate CMIO

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Naomi Diaz

Universal Health Services buys Talkspace for $835M

7 days / endpoints / Ngai Yeung

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 1:24 pm / permalink 20643 / 6 stories in 4 days

Aetna to pay $117.7M to settle Medicare Advantage upcoding allegations: DOJ / Fierce

fiercehealthcare - Aetna has agreed to pay $117.7 million to settle allegations that it submitted false or inaccurate diagnoses to juice Medicare Advantage payments.

#healthcare #governmentpolicy #healthcarefinance

In Switching to Original Medicare, Beware of Medigap Plan Refusals

16 hrs / kffhealthnews / Michelle Andrews

‘Dark Money’ Group Angles for Higher Medicare Advantage Payments

3 days / kffhealthnews / Fred Schulte, KFF Health News and Maia Rosenfeld and David Hilzenrath

The feds will overpay Medicare Advantage plans by $76B this year, MedPAC estimates

3 days / fiercehealthcare / ,

Medicare Advantage ‘Dark Money’ Group Attempts To Win Higher Payments for Insurance Companies

3 days / kffhealthnews / Fred Schulte, KFF Health News and Maia Rosenfeld and David Hilzenrath

The complexities in orthopedics that standardized codes miss

4 days / beckershospitalreview / Cameron Cortigiano

Medicare Advantage spending 14% higher than fee for service: Report

4 days / beckershospitalreview / Elizabeth Casolo

Medicare Advantage 'dark money' group tries to win higher payments for insurers

4 days / npr / Fred Schulte

Aetna to pay $118M to resolve Medicare Advantage upcoding allegations

5 days / beckershospitalreview / Jakob Emerson

Aetna to pay $117.7M to settle Medicare Advantage upcoding allegations: DOJ

5 days / fiercehealthcare

CVS to pay $118M to settle Medicare Advantage fraud allegations

5 days / healthcaredive / Rebecca Pifer Parduhn

Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 7:22 pm / permalink 20577 / 10 stories in 5 days

Leapfrog ordered to remove safety grade for 5 Tenet hospitals / Fierce

fiercehealthcare - A federal judge said a 2024 methodology update that adjusted the weighting of safety measures inputted for nonparticipating hospitals was "deceptive and unfair" under Florida law. Leapfrog plans to appeal, but said it will be making broader changes in rat…

#healthcare #publichealth #governmentpolicy #hospitaloperations #healthcarefinance

Leapfrog limits hospital grades to survey participants after court ruling

3 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Paige Twenter

Leapfrog must remove safety grades from 5 Tenet-owned hospitals, judge says

6 days / healthcaredive / Sydney Halleman

Leapfrog ordered to remove safety grade for 5 Tenet hospitals

7 days / fiercehealthcare

Judge orders Leapfrog to remove grades for 5 Florida hospitals

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Paige Twenter

Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 1:24 pm / permalink 20479 / 4 stories in 6 days

Effects of daily multivitamin–multimineral and cocoa extract supplementation on epigenetic aging clocks in the COSMOS randomized clinical trial / Nature

Sidong Li / nature - Nature Medicine, Published online: 09 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04239-3In a prespecified ancillary analysis of the COSMOS randomized trial, supplementation with daily multivitamins, but not with cocoa extract, over the course of 2 years decreased…

#healthcare #publichealth #researchfunding

Blood test may predict survival after 70

6 hrs / medicalxpress

New atlas maps aging brain epigenetic shifts across eight regions and 36 cell types

5 days / medicalxpress

A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ageing

7 days / newscientist

Daily multivitamins may slow biological aging, two-year trial suggests

7 days / medicalxpress

A daily multivitamin slows the ticking of epigenetic clocks

8 days / nature / Daniel W. Belsky

Effects of daily multivitamin–multimineral and cocoa extract supplementation on epigenetic aging clocks in the COSMOS randomized clinical trial

8 days / nature / Sidong Li

Monday, March 9, 2026, 6:24 pm / permalink 20417 / 6 stories in 7 days

White House autism briefing linked to swift shifts in prescribing patterns / Medical Express

medicalxpress - A White House briefing in September 2025 that raised concerns about acetaminophen use during pregnancy and promoted the drug leucovorin as a potential autism treatment was followed by sharp changes in how doctors prescribed those medications nationwide, a…

#healthcare #pharmaceuticals #publichealth #governmentpolicy #infanthealth #hospitaloperations

Claims data study ties epilepsy drugs in pregnancy to developmental risks

5 days / medicalxpress

Large-scale study challenges link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and autism risk in children

5 days / medicalxpress

White House autism briefing linked to swift shifts in prescribing patterns

10 days / medicalxpress

Fewer Pregnant Women Received Acetaminophen in E.R.s After White House Warnings

11 days / nytimes / Azeen Ghorayshi

Monday, March 9, 2026, 12:22 am / permalink 20354 / 4 stories in 7 days

MUSC Health acquires South Carolina's largest multispecialty practice for $111M / Fierce

fiercehealthcare - The deal, effective March 3, includes 126 physicians and advanced practitioners, expanding the academic system's primary care capacity.

#healthcare #mergersandacquisitions #corporatetakeover #hospitaloperations #healthcarefinance

How CEOs ‘thread the needle’ to integrate new hospitals

4 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Kristin Kuchno

MUSC Health names hospital CEO

3 days / beckershospitalreview / Kristin Kuchno

Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber to coordinate on split: Boston Globe

5 days / beckershospitalreview / Elizabeth Gregerson

COOs’ role gains complexity amid outpatient care shift

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Kelly Gooch

Wyoming hospital ‘resisting private equity’ to affiliate with Billings Clinic

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Alan Condon

MUSC Health acquires South Carolina's largest multispecialty practice for $111M

12 days / fiercehealthcare

MUSC Health buys primary care group for $111M

13 days / beckershospitalreview / Erica Cerutti

Monday, March 9, 2026, 12:22 am / permalink 20353 / 7 stories in 7 days

Eli Lilly's new program aims to boost employer coverage of GLP-1s / Endpoints

Shelby Livingston / endpoints - With insurance coverage of weight loss medications stalled, Eli Lilly has developed a program to give employers another way to pay for their workers' GLP-1 treatments. The pharma giant on Thursday announced the launch of ...

#obesity #healthcare #pharmaceuticals #drugpricing #elililly #weightloss #healthcarefinance

Concerning rise in US teen obesity over a decade

3 hrs / medicalxpress

Obesity, treatment, and shame: What women really think about pharmacotherapy

4 hrs / medicalxpress

Structure Therapeutics Oral GLP-1 Obesity Drug Achieves ‘Injectable-Like Efficacy’ in Phase 2 Test

6 hrs / medcitynews / Frank Vinluan

Bariatric surgery volumes continue falling amid GLP-1 boom

10 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Paige Twenter

Structure Therapeutics reports more Phase 2 data for oral GLP-1

14 hrs / endpoints / Kyle LaHucik

At SXSW, Cuban and eMed CEO Draw Contrast Between Them and Other “Marketing” Companies

25 hrs / medcitynews / Arundhati Parmar

Fat cells burn energy to make heat, making them the next frontier of weight loss therapies

2 days / medicalxpress

Kroger pharmacies add Zepbound KwikPen

3 days / beckershospitalreview / Ella Jeffries

What happens when patients stop taking GLP-1 drugs? New study reveals real world insights

3 days / medicalxpress

Eli Lilly warns of risks tied to compounded tirzepatide with B12

4 days / beckershospitalreview / Ella Jeffries

3 updates on potential GLP-1 uses, risks

4 days / beckershospitalreview / Paige Twenter

Compounders prescribing GLP-1s put pricing pressure on Novo, Lilly

4 days / endpoints / Shelby Livingston

Lilly warns of impurity risk in certain compounded forms of Mounjaro and Zepbound

4 days / endpoints / Elizabeth Cairns

Carrum, Virta Join Forces on Employer Weight Management Solution

5 days / medcitynews / Marissa Plescia

Q&A: How small steps can help GLP-1 users build healthier habits

5 days / medicalxpress

Lilly plots GLP-1 pill production boost in China, $500M pledge to South Korea

5 days / endpoints / Anna Brown

Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks seeks 'exit velocity' for pharma's future

5 days / endpoints / Andrew Dunn

GLP-1 medication changes may support long-term weight management

6 days / medicalxpress

Wegovy may have highest 'eye stroke' and sight loss risk among semaglutide GLP-1 agonists

6 days / medicalxpress

2018 to 2025 saw rise in GLP-1 receptor agonist Rx for bariatric surgery-eligible patients

6 days / medicalxpress

Carrum Health teams up with Virta Health on a comprehensive weight loss solution

6 days / fiercehealthcare

Ascletis touts GLP-1 quarterly dosing data; Mineralys apnea Phase 2 misses

6 days / endpoints / ENDPOINTS

Mouse brain study reveals why blockbuster weight-loss drugs may work differently in females and males

6 days / medicalxpress

Digital nudges help GLP-1 users: Stanford

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Giles Bruce

Hims & Hers makes deal with Novo Nordisk as it shifts obesity strategy

7 days / fiercehealthcare

10 drugs poised to be global best-sellers in 2030

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Paige Twenter

AbbVie, Gubra post obesity data; Regeneron obesity drug succeeds in China

7 days / endpoints / ENDPOINTS

Amazon Pharmacy expands Zepbound access

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Ella Jeffries

Hims agrees to limit compounding, ending feud with Novo Nordisk

7 days / endpoints / Shelby Livingston

Novo, Hims strike GLP-1 deal after legal feud

7 days / beckershospitalreview / Ella Jeffries

Roche, Zealand Pharma Obesity Drug Meets Clinical Trial’s Weight Loss Goals, But Can It Compete?

8 days / medcitynews / Frank Vinluan

Lilly Employer Connect Adds Flexibility for Employers But Isn’t Revolutionary, Expert Says

11 days / medcitynews / Marissa Plescia

Eli Lilly's new program aims to boost employer coverage of GLP-1s

11 days / endpoints / Shelby Livingston

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 10:21 pm / permalink 20341 / 33 stories in 8 days

Patients with multiple chronic diseases are a looming threat to health systems' financials: Vizient / Fierce

fiercehealthcare - A recent claims data analysis shows the 11% of people with multiple chronic conditions are behind 52% of inpatient admissions and about a third of outpatient visits. Their projected increases and unfavorable payer mix spell trouble for health systems' bot…

#healthcare #publichealth #hospitaloperations #healthcarefinance

When scale adds work: The invisible labor of healthcare consolidation

7 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Erica Cerutti

Brown Health posts -1.5% operating margin in Q1

7 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Andrew Cass

WellSpan cuts 21.5% of post-acute spending with 3 changes

7 hrs / beckershospitalreview / Mariah Taylor

How Moneyball Economics in Healthcare is Taking Shape with AI

3 days / medcitynews / Conrad Gudmundson

Hospital expenses grew twice as fast as prices in 2025: 4 AHA findings

5 days / beckershospitalreview / Madeline Scheetz

11% of US population accounts for 52% of admissions: Vizient

12 days / beckershospitalreview / Paige Twenter

Patients with multiple chronic diseases are a looming threat to health systems' financials: Vizient

13 days / fiercehealthcare

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 10:21 pm / permalink 20340 / 7 stories in 8 days

How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health / Medical Express

medicalxpress - Most of America "springs forward" Sunday for daylight saving time. Losing that hour of sleep can do more than leave you tired and cranky the next day; it also could harm your health.

#healthcare #publichealth #behavioralhealth

Nearly half of U.S. kids lack adequate sleep, survey shows

28 hrs / medicalxpress

B.C.’s switch to permanent DST adds to the ‘perfect storm’ for poorer adolescent sleep and mental health

7 days / theconversation / Elizabeth Keys, Assistant Professor (Nursing), University of British Columbia

Circadian rhythm drives metabolic dysfunction in fat cells, study finds

7 days / medicalxpress

Study finds no seasonal spike in fatigue despite widespread 'spring tiredness'

7 days / medicalxpress

Teenagers are getting far less sleep now than they did in late 2000s, finds new study

8 days / medicalxpress

How springing forward to daylight saving time could affect your health

9 days / medicalxpress

Vicki Durston: Day 2 at the Breast Screen Australia Conference

10 days / oncodaily

Daylight saving time triggers more migraines, cuts deep sleep

11 days / medicalxpress

How to get ready for daylight saving time

13 days / medicalxpress

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 6:21 pm / permalink 20336 / 9 stories in 9 days

Elizabeth McKenna: New Cancer Grand Challenges Teams Announced / OncoDaily

oncodaily - Elizabeth McKenna, Executive Editor of Cancer Discovery, shared a post on X: “The new Cancer Grand Challenges teams have just been announced! Read about the teams tackling cancer avoidance, mechanisms […]

#healthcare #biotech #drugdevelopment #oncology #healthcarefinance #cancerresearch #researchfunding

Lantheus Secures Two FDA Milestones in Four Days: Lutathera Radioequivalent and PSMA PET Upgrade

2 days / oncodaily

Health Canada Approves Selumetinib (Koselugo) for Adult NF1 Plexiform Neurofibromas

2 days / oncodaily

Mark Lawler: Building New Academic Partnerships with Westfield State University

2 days / oncodaily

Preparing to Welcome Researchers to the SIOG Masterclass in Florida – SIOG

2 days / oncodaily

Daniel Stover: New Insights into Resistance in Breast Cancer from Nature Study

3 days / oncodaily

Olubukola Ayodele: Why Cancer Care Must Go Beyond Tumor-Focused Medicine