Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM)

Atopy, asthma symptoms and eosinophilic airway inflammation in British woodworkers

Objectives Despite reducing exposures to wood dust, woodworkers remain at increased risk of asthma. There have been no recent studies of wood dust exposure, respiratory symptoms or asthma in British ...
BMJ Open

Hydroxychloroquine as an adjunct therapy in the management of type 2 diabetes in pregnancy: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Introduction The increasing incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among women of reproductive age poses significant health risks for both mothers and their fetuses. Optimising blood glucose ...
News-Medical.Net

Vegetarian women show subtle changes in cellular health markers

Slovak university women on vegetarian diets exhibit small bioelectrical impedance variations, suggesting potential insights ...
Yahoo Finance

Lightbeam Health Solutions Acquires Syntax Health, Expanding Value Based Contracting and Incentive Design Capabilities

Acquisition strengthens Lightbeam's AI-enabled operating system for value-based care by integrating Syntax's innovative incentive modeling platform and adds actuarial services DALLAS, Dec. 4, 2025 ...
Ars Technica

Syntax hacking: Researchers discover sentence structure can bypass AI safety rules

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...
STAT

Function Health has won over consumers. When will it publish evidence?

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...
TechCrunch

Function Health raises $298M Series B at $2.5B valuation

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...
STAT

Wellness startup Function Health raises $300 million as consumer lab testing picks up steam

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...
PC Gamer

Microsoft launches Copilot AI function in Excel, but warns not to use it in 'any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility'

Certain Windows 365 Copilot users now have access to a new feature in Excel that lets you use Microsoft's Copilot AI to generate formulas, but you might want to be careful how you use it. Microsoft is ...
eLife

Doubling dolutegravir dosage reduces the viral reservoir in ART-treated people with HIV

In a randomized trial, ART intensification by doubling the dolutegravir dosage in people with HIV stably suppressed on ...
New York Post

Trump bans risky — and controversial — virus research that likely led to COVID pandemic

WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries without proper oversight of the ...