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Dr Faye Bate, a trained medical doctor and women’s health expert, is also wary of advice suggesting all women should train differently according to their menstrual phase.”A one-size-fits-all model of ‘you should be exercising this way in this phase and a different way in a different phase’ shouldn’t be advice that applies to all women,” she says.She is concerned that repeatedly telling women they are likely to be weaker or less capable at particular points in their cycle could create a “nocebo” effect – where negative expectations themselves influence how someone feels or performs.McNulty tells the BBC that routinely easing…

 The Medtech Big 100 is bigger than ever Medical Design & Outsourcing’s Medtech Big 100 is the authoritative ranking of the world’s largest medical device companies, and after many months of work we proudly present you with our 2026 edition. Total revenue has broken the half-trillion-dollar mark for the first time as R&D spending and total employment grew from last year. But before you dive into our Medtech Big 100 rankings and industry analysis, I want to explain why this project is so special and worth the months our team spends every year compiling and crunching data. For more…

A health care provider consults with a patient in a clinical setting. Image courtesy CDC. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Gado via Getty ImagesLast week, OpenAI announced a new Epic integration that brings authorized patient data together with public sources covering clinical trials, CMS data and biomedical research from NIH, with the goal of giving clinicians more time with their patients. At first glance, this is another healthcare AI announcement, just from a company building the most advanced AI models. But buried underneath the technical capabilities is something more interesting. After decades of technology causing fragmentation in healthcare, we’re starting to…

Sept. 8, 2026 — Siemens Healthineers has incorporated Vuze2 guidance software for spinal surgery into its Cios Spin C-arm system and plans to expand integration to its other 2D mobile, 3D mobile, and 3D robotic C-arms in the future. The software supports K-wire placement for pedicle screws by fusing preoperative computed tomography (CT) or intraoperative cone-beam CT (CBCT) images with intraoperative X-ray images of the patient without relying on external tracking hardware like optical cameras, instrument markers, or physical reference frames attached to the patient. Spinal surgery volumes are rising steadily, driven by aging populations and lifestyle-related risk factors including sedentary…

This year’s Lasker Awards — coveted prizes for biomedical research that are sometimes called “America’s Nobel Prizes” — have gone to scientists behind fundamental discoveries in sleep science and to researchers who developed a groundbreaking treatment for hemophilia.Additionally, a Lasker Award for public service went to actor Michael J. Fox for his advocacy for patients with Parkinson’s disease that has helped advance research into the neurodegenerative condition.The prizes, each of which comes with an honorarium of $250,000, will be presented in person Sept. 17 in New York City. The awardees were announced Wednesday (Sept. 9) by the Lasker Foundation, which…

Prostate cancer is the second most common form of cancer among men globally. Yet, we still know relatively little about why the disease develops or why some men live with it for years while in others it progresses aggressively. In a new study from the University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet as well as University of Konstanz in Germany, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) in Canada and Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) in Spain, researchers analyzed the genetic material of 1,000 prostate cancer patients and identified a new way of tracking how the disease develops. The approach could help…

Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematician at New York University, had just spent months working on what he believed could be a life-defining mathematical proof. Then, during a Sept. 6 meeting with OpenAI employees, he claimed he was issued a stark warning: “Why would you ruin your career?”That exchange, which Buckmaster described in a detailed public statement this week, sits at the heart of a ballooning controversy around a famous set of mathematical equations called Navier-Stokes.OpenAI says its artificial intelligence (AI) model has solved an outstanding problem tied to this 200-year-old set of fluid dynamics equations. The set of equations appears on…

A bizarre squid has been filmed haunting the northeastern Pacific Ocean for the first time.Researchers spotted the bigfin squid (Magnapinna) via remote video while using an uncrewed submersible to explore underwater mountains, known as seamounts, at a depth of more than 10,000 feet (3,000 meters) off the coast of California.The footage, captured Aug. 7, represents the first confirmed live observation of a bigfin squid in the northeastern Pacific, according to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), whose scientists made the discovery with collaborators from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).Latest Videos FromLive Science MBARI researchers film chance encounter…

Upcoming statutory limits on providers’ state-directed payments (SDPs) are expected to trim tens of billions of dollars from states’ Medicaid spending, and for 17 hard-hit states could range from 10% to 25% of their total annual Medicaid spending, according to a newly published analysis warning of subsequent reductions in care access. The latest effort to quantify the fiscal impacts of 2025’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) on healthcare payments, published today in Health Affairs, leans on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) approved SDP applications from 2024 and 2025. It does not include the impacts of “uncertain”…

A study by researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons has found that new cutting-edge techniques can accurately edit genes in human embryos-giving scientists indispensable tools for understanding normal human development-but has also uncovered important risks that currently preclude the use of the techniques in the clinic. Editing the genome is an essential technique for scientists seeking to understand the genome. Editing genes in human embryos allows us to understand the earliest steps of human development. Early human embryos accrue a surprising amount of DNA damage as they grow, and most human embryos made with IVF stop their development in the first few days. …