Author: Healthcare Propulsion Staff

There are things that can be done, say both Simon and Johal. But first, it is important to distinguish whether your partner is simply snoring, or whether they have sleep apnoea.”What you don’t want to do is simply make someone quieter at night while potentially missing an underlying sleep-related breathing disorder,” Simon says. Signs of sleep apnoea, a disorder that causes a person’s breathing to repeatedly stop and start during sleep, include pauses in breathing, choking at night, waking frequently, and suffering from morning headaches. If this is what you are dealing with, you could be recommended a Continuous Positive…

Extreme heat has become more common-both research and lived experience document this-but when it arrives is a different question. A new study finds that rather than occurring only during warm seasons, extreme heat events have become more frequent in the months before and after, too. That timing matters. Extreme heat is harder on the body when it comes before people have acclimated to the season, or if it comes after people have already had to endure months of it. It’s also harder for communities to prepare for, since cooling centers and heat alerts are built around a summer calendar. In…

New research has uncovered that how the brain responds to anticipated rewards plays a key role in building psychological resilience after a traumatic experience. The findings from the new study among 9/11 responders, appearing in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier, support the premise that the capacity to notice and respond to positive information in the environment may buffer the negative effects of substantial trauma exposure. Thousands of workers involved in rescue, recovery, and clean-up efforts after the events of September 11, 2001, showed remarkable resilience despite having experienced unprecedented trauma. In fact, resilience is a common…

BANGOR, Maine — Rural health care providers, which have struggled for years, are facing nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the coming decade. The Trump administration is pointing to a cutting-edge, if unproven way to save them: artificial intelligence. “The best way to help” rural communities, is “AI-based avatars,” Mehmet Oz, who leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said at an event on mental health this year. His comments are among the grand promises administration officials have made about AI. They’ve also touted the prospect of concierge care for every American and AI nurses as good as…

A test to determine if people who report out-of-body experiences could identify objects in another room produced results no better than chance, but afterward something strange happened: Two participants described, unprompted, researchers’ locations and activities behind closed doors. The participants’ unexpected observations were not part of the trial’s predefined outcome measures and therefore can’t be considered evidence for out-of-body experiences, or OBEs, UVA Health investigators say. But the unexplained results may help researchers design better, more effective ways to evaluate the potential validity of a phenomenon that has been reported for decades. I hope this study encourages researchers to…

Today, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)-an alliance of leading cancer centers-published updated data on the current impact of generic cancer medication shortages in the United States. The data comes from survey responses from pharmacy directors and other clinical and administrative leadership at NCCN Member Institutions from late August. According to the results, 100% of responding cancer centers are experiencing a shortage for at least one anti-cancer agent; with more than 20% of centers currently in shortage for five or more different medications. Of the responding centers, 94% noted a shortage of ifosfamide, a generic chemotherapy that is used in…

Brain tumors develop within an organ that changes substantially with age. A new review in Ageing and Cancer Research & Treatment examines evidence that the aging brain microenvironment may influence brain tumor progression, treatment resistance, and cognitive outcomes. The article, “Navigating the aging brain: The interplay between brain malignancy and the aging microenvironment,” brings together emerging evidence from aging biology, cancer neuroscience, and neuro-oncology. Rather than viewing aging as a background clinical variable, the review proposes that the aging brain may actively shape the biology of tumors that arise within it. The review highlights several interconnected processes associated with brain aging, including…

Federal healthcare agencies are accelerating efforts to expand artificial intelligence’s role in healthcare, with clinical AI emerging as a top strategic priority for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. At a healthcare AI event hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Stephanie Carlton, deputy administrator at CMS, outlined the agency’s evolving AI strategy as it aims to establish clearer pathways for AI market access and regulation while also exploring reimbursement frameworks for AI-enabled technologies. Carlton also serves as chief clinical AI officer at CMS, a newly created position that signals the Trump administration’s push…

Longstanding aging metrics have focused on how long people live and how long they live free of chronic disease, but both overlook a core component of daily well-being: the ability to move through the world with ease and confidence. Professor Li Li from Georgia Southern University, USA, formally proposes a groundbreaking conception “Movement Span” as a new and independent dimension of aging, reshaping how we define, measure, and address age-related functional decline.  The article was made available online on June 02, 2026, and published in Volume 15 of the Journal of Sport and Health Science. The opinion paper is the first formal proposal to position movement span as a standalone construct alongside life span and health…

Plans to build a new, $2 billion-plus patient care tower and other accompanying upgrades at the University of Iowa Health Care’s main campus are off the table in favor of smaller-scale upgrades to existing facilities, the academic system said Wednesday.  Iowa Health Care had previously described the new patient tower as “critical to our ability to meet the healthcare needs of Iowans for years to come.” Primary construction wasn’t scheduled to begin in earnest until 2028 and targeted a 2032 completion. The organization is still facing a capacity crunch, noting in Wednesday’s announcement that it turns away 3,000 to 5,000…