April 10, 2025 | Volume XVI | Issue 15

Pain pathway in a dish

NPR reports via Health News Florida:


Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish.


This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and offer a new way to test potential analgesic drugs, a Stanford team reports in the journal Nature.


"It's exciting," says Dr. Stephen Waxman, a professor at Yale School of Medicine who was not involved in the recent research.


Currently, prospective pain drugs are typically tested in animals — whose responses are often different than a human's — and in individual nerve cells, which may not reflect the behavior of entire brain networks.

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The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations

Patricia Callahan | ProPublica


Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff in late March not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.


In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.


A CDC spokesperson told ProPublica in a written statement that the agency decided against releasing the assessment “because it does not say anything that the public doesn’t already know.” She added that the CDC continues to recommend vaccines as “the best way to protect against measles.”

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How telecardiology helps the supply-demand mismatch

Healthcare IT News reports:


As chief medical officer at Heartbeat Health, a virtual-first cardiology practice, Dr. Jana Goldberg is at the intersection of telehealth and cardiology care.


She has several concerns when it comes to telemedicine and cardiac care. She's worried about access, because...

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RFK Jr. on measles, food additives, more

CBS News


In his first network TV interview since becoming Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about a range of topics, including measles, food additives and weight loss drugs.

Watch the video HERE.

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