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Despite years of patient complaints and quality-of-care concerns, Ballad Health—the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly—will now be held to a lower standard by the Tennessee government, and state data that holds the monopoly accountable will be kept from the public for two years.

New research shows that weight stigma—and not weight itself—has the biggest impact on mental health and healthy behaviors in the years after weight-loss surgery.

A Denver resident is the seventh Coloradan to get measles from a passenger on a Turkish Airlines flight last month—and they may have passed the highly contagious virus on to people at three stores along the Front Range.

Researchers estimate that there are at least 5.4 million U.S. children who provide care to an adult in their home. As state officials eye federal Medicaid funding cuts that could drastically reduce home care services for those who are disabled or have chronic health conditions, many predict that number will rise.

A small region of the brain, known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), plays a key role in how we process rewards. It produces dopamine, a neuromodulator that helps predict future rewards based on contextual cues. A team from the universities of Geneva (UNIGE), Harvard, and McGill has shown that the VTA goes even further: It encodes not only the anticipated reward but also the precise moment it is expected.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a gene therapy for Alzheimer’s disease that could help protect the brain from damage and preserve cognitive function. Unlike existing treatments for Alzheimer’s that target unhealthy protein deposits in the brain, the new approach could help address the root cause of Alzheimer’s disease by influencing the behavior of brain cells themselves.

Researchers from Kaiser Permanente Northern California reveal that adults aged 45 to 49 undergoing their first screening colonoscopy have neoplasia detection rates similar to those aged 50 to 54, supporting recent guideline changes to begin colorectal cancer screening earlier.

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting found that poor sleep quality is related to relationship insecurity, which moderates the effect of sleep quality on daily feelings of jealousy.

A powerful link between regular exercise and the gut microbiome that could change the way debilitating gut diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease are treated has been identified in new research.

A person aged 75 to 80 is less likely to have dementia today compared to someone of the same age several decades ago, a University of Queensland study has found.