August 7, 2025

UnitedHealth’s big data breaches

UnitedHealth-owned Change Healthcare has updated the total number of people affected by its ransomware data breach from last year: 192.7 million. That’s almost double from the 100 million that Change reported to HHS last year and up from the estimate of “one-third of all Americans” then-UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty gave when he testified before Congress last spring. (That would […]

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FDA approves breakthrough eye drops that fix near vision without glasses

By Bronwyn Thompson August 06, 2025 Facebook Twitter Flipboard LinkedIn Reddit Email These new drops offer up to 10 hours of clearer vision without glasses Depositphotos View 1 Images The first aceclidine-based eye drop to improve near vision in adults with presbyopia, which affects more than 100 million adults in the US alone, has been approved

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Invisible material could revolutionise smart tech

Peer-Reviewed Publication La Trobe University image: La Trobe University PhD candidate Luiza Aguiar do Nascimento. view moreCredit: La Trobe University Scientists at La Trobe University have produced a new, powerful electricity-conducting material, in research which could revolutionise smartphones and wearable technologies like medical devices. The new technique uses hyaluronic acid, well known due to its

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Drug kills mosquitoes when they feed through ingestion and surface contact

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance. A new study led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine shows that mosquitoes are killed when they feed on blood and then

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Exosomes found to play a double role in tumor growth and immune response

Peer-Reviewed Publication FAR Publishing Limited image: Dual Roles of Tumor-Derived Exosomes in Cancer and Immunity view moreCredit: The authors. Tiny extracellular vesicles known as exosomes are emerging as key regulators of the tumor microenvironment (TME), influencing how cancer progresses, spreads, and responds to treatment. In a new review published in Med Research, researchers from Haikou Affiliated

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Replacing brain immune cells in mice slows neurodegeneration: Technique may help with diseases like Alzheimer’s

by Stanford University Medical Center edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases, genetic disorders affecting the brain, have no effective treatment and are typically fatal within the first years of life. Scientists have reasoned that replacing the affected cells with those that are genetically healthy could slow or halt

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Scrambled RNA nudges millions of people towards type 2 diabetes, research reveals

by Center for Genomic Regulation edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan   Insulin‑positive β‑cells (green) display HNF1A (red), confirming its presence across endocrine subtypes; DAPI (blue) marks nuclei. Credit: Miguel Angel Maestro Garriga/Centro de Regulación Genómica Mutations in a single gene, HNF1A, are known to cause MODY3, a rare, early-onset form of diabetes. Smaller-scale mutations in

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Lithium loss ignites Alzheimer’s, but lithium compound can reverse disease in mice

by Harvard Medical School edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of lithium (left). Bottom row: The same was true for the Alzheimer’s neurofibrillary tangle protein tau. Credit: Yankner

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Youth athletes, not just professionals, may face mental health risks from repeated traumatic brain injuries

by David B. Sarwer, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain On July 28, 2025, a 27-year-old gunman entered a New York City office building that is home to the National Football League’s headquarters. He shot and killed four people and injured one other before killing himself. In a note found in his

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