Health

Commercial truck drivers navigating American highways increasingly rely on continuous phone conversations to manage the profound isolation of long-haul routes, even as state regulations and employer monitoring technologies tighten around the industry, according to interviews and reports compiled by CalMatters. The Mental Health Toll of Long-Haul Trucking Operating an 80,000-pound commercial vehicle for hours on … Read more

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Merck & Co’s Lipfendra, known generically as enlicitide, to lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients whose levels remain elevated despite standard statin treatment, according to the company. Enlicitide is a macrocyclic peptide and the first oral inhibitor of PCSK9, providing a novel alternative to injected antibody therapies … Read more

A fridge-free tetanus and diphtheria vaccine has advanced to phase 2b clinical trials after a phase I study confirmed the SPVX02 formula remains stable and effective without cold-chain storage for up to two years at 30°C, according to the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR). The trial, which completed in March, tested the … Read more

Orexin neurons in the brain play a direct role in sustaining motivation when tasks demand high physical or mental effort, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan. The findings offer new insight into how … Read more

Mental health support providers have welcomed a long-awaited action plan launched by the minister for mental health, Matt Doocey, at Parliament to improve the system under the Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Act, according to the article. AI Navigation and Long-Term System Accountability The newly launched plan focuses heavily on deploying artificial intelligence navigation tools designed … Read more