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Building a powerful and talented team is the most essential step to creating a successful business. Hiring the right people is the most important part of that process. But there’s one huge dilemma in finding the right new employees: All the great ones are already hired, and more often than not valued in their companies, […]

Taking folic acid supplements before conception and in the first trimester of pregnancy continues to be a major line of defense against neural tube defects. In a statement published in JAMA, the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommended that all people planning on becoming pregnant or who could become pregnant take a daily supplement […]

Benjamin Sumlin, PhD, a senior scientist at Washington University in St. Louis, blows into a device designed by researchers at the university. The device — a breath test that uses a biosensor — could become a tool for use in doctors’ offices to quickly diagnose people infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Scientists at […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk has launched blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy in Germany, its first big European market, hoping Germans will pay hundreds of euros out of pocket for a drug that public health insurance plans are so far barred from covering. The drug, shown to help patients reduce body weight by around 15% when […]

The Journal of Pediatrics has published a manuscript by Stacey Martiniano, MD, pulmonary specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado. Dr. Martiniano was primary author on the study titled, Late Diagnosis in the Era of Universal Newborn Screening Negatively Effects Short- and Long-Term Growth and Health Outcomes […]

TOPLINE: In a case series of 17 men with central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia, 47.1% had a family history of alopecia. METHODOLOGY: Central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA), a type of scarring alopecia, most often affects women of African descent, and published data on the demographics, clinical findings, and medical histories of CCCA in men are limited. Researchers retrospectively […]

The influenza (flu) virus is constantly undergoing a process of evolution and adaptation through acquiring new mutations. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have added a new layer of understanding to explain why and how flu viruses change. The “survival of the accessible” model provides a complementary view to the more widely recognized “survival […]

If you’re a store or website owner, one of your biggest goals is likely to increase customer conversions. After all, successful conversion rate optimization can make a world of difference when it comes to growing your business. What if we say you can take your struggling to store to a successful one by just making […]

Use of GLP-1 agonists, such as semaglutide, surged among US adults with type 2 diabetes in recent years, through March 2022, and dethroned DPP-4 inhibitors as the top incretin-based drug class, according to a retrospective review of insurance-claims data from more than 1 million individuals. By January-March 2022, 56.6% of US adults with type 2 […]

The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in […]