Medical Bulletin 15/October/2025

Here are the top medical news for the day: Quitting Smoking at Any Age May Protect Brain Health: Lancet Study A new study published in The Lancet reveals that quitting smoking even in your 40s, 50s, or later can significantly slow down memory loss...

Health Check: Less pain at Mayne after knock-out court win

Mayne Group looks to have won its battle with reluctant suitor Cosette, after the NSW Supreme Court delivered a telling uppercut. Pic:Getty Images The NSW Supreme Court has, in effect, ruled against Cosette’s attempt to abandon its $670m takeover...

Cedars-Sinai Embraces Synthetic Data for Research, Clinical Initiatives

Newswise — LOS ANGELES (Oct. 15, 2025) -- Cedars-Sinai is bolstering its machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities by adopting a synthetic data platform, a move set to transform the way medical data is leveraged for research...

Not All Depression Is Alike: Study Reveals Different Types Linked to Different Health Risks

A new study presented at the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress in Amsterdam and based on data from the Netherlands Epidemiology of Obesity (NEO) Study, reveals that not all depression is alike when it comes to health...

Mental health challenges more frequent among LGB+ people

Among LGB (lesbian, gay and bi-plus) people aged 18 or older, 61 percent experience anxiety or depression, compared with 42 percent of heterosexual people. Sleep prob-lems occur in 33 of LGB people and 25 percent of heterosexual people, and sleep...

Queen Máxima of the Netherlands revives her fringe tweed dress and stunning triple-pearl earrings

In Zaanstad, Queen Máxima of the Netherlands once again turned heads with her impeccable style during her official engagements, proving that her fashion choices remain as fabulous as ever. The royal, who was recently spotted in New York, joined...

Nestle slashing 16,000 jobs worldwide; Fate of 1,200 in Netherlands unknown

Nestlé is cutting 16,000 jobs worldwide, new CEO Philip Navratil announced on Thursday. The company wants to increase its sales growth, and Navratil is accelerating its reorganization only weeks after taking office. It is not yet clear in which...

Despite strong bipartisan support for extended ACA subsidies, Republicans continue the fight against healthcare

By Lori Lee NDG Contributing Writer In January, millions of Americans will wake up to a new year, with government letters explaining their insurance is going up, some health premiums doubling, others nearly tripling, explained former Executive...

GE HealthCare launches perinatal care platform

GE HealthCare has launched a new cloud-based platform aimed at improving the delivery of clinical insights to streamline maternal and foetal care. The medtech giant’s CareIntellect for Perinatal is available via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)...

B vitamins: Your natural defense against Alzheimer’s and heart disease

Elevated homocysteine levels are strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive impairment. B vitamins (B6, B9, B12) regulate homocysteine, reducing dementia risk. Deficiencies in B12 and folate accelerate brain damage (plaques, tangles,...

Bridging clinical and community care: a call to integrate social prescribing into health reforms

The introduction of a statewide Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in lutruwita/Tasmania is an opportunity to embed social prescribing and action on the wider social determinants of health, according to Dr Clare Smith, Dr Frank Nicklason and...

‘We can’t slack’: Big Sky leaders give wellness district update 

Coordinating Council of Big Sky highlights ongoing efforts to fund local health, wellness services By Jack Reaney SENIOR EDITOR While the passage of Senate Bill 260 felt like a major win for proponents of creating a Big Sky Wellness District,...

An end in sight for Huntington's disease?

[Previous: In vivo gene editing: The medicine of the future] It's taken years of diligent work, much frustration, and countless failures, but science is finally unlocking the potential of genetic engineering to cure disease. Our first successes...

Friends cycle from Amsterdam to Athens for local charity

TWO friends from Greater Manchester have embarked on an extraordinary 3,300km cycling journey from Amsterdam to Athens. Sam Webb and Jimmy Drent have been raising funds and awareness for Tameside, Oldham and Glossop (TOG) Mind. The pair – who have...

Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Sangram Singh to face Tunisia’s Hakim Trabelsi in a high-profile Amsterdam fight

New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): A high-profile press conference was held at Le Meridien, New Delhi, where the Levels Fight League (LFL) officially unveiled Sangram Singh's upcoming international fight card, as per a release from LFL. The...

The dark history of medical illustrations

Lucy E. Hyde They were pregnant. Some were prisoners. Others were the poorest of the poor, forgotten in death as in life. Yet dissection and depiction of their bodies have become the foundation of anatomical teaching. Cradled in the pages of...

Coveris and SABIC team up on circular plastic packaging for medical

October 14, 2025 | By Scott Jenkins Hospital plastic waste poses a serious and growing challenge. In Europe alone, an estimated 1,700 kilotons of non-contaminated polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) medical waste are incinerated annually –...

Bella Hadid's health battle takes dark turn: Loved ones reveal hellish new details about 'missing' model... as ominous texts emerge

It's been a long road to recovery for Bella Hadid. Intimate photos, taken inside a clinic in Germany and released last month, showed the supermodel teary-eyed in a hospital bed and hooked up to ominous oxygen tubes and invasive IVs. It was a mere...

Dutch soldier dies during nighttime training exercise in Germany

A Dutch soldier was killed Tuesday evening during a training exercise in Germany, the Ministry of Defense reported. The victim was a 28-year-old corporal first class with the Royal Netherlands Army. A Marechaussee spokesperson reported that the...

Sports News | Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion Sangram Singh to Face Tunisia's Hakim Trabelsi in a High-profile Amsterdam Fight

New Delhi [India], October 15 (ANI): A high-profile press conference was held at Le Meridien, New Delhi, where the Levels Fight League (LFL) officially unveiled Sangram Singh's upcoming international fight card, as per a release from LFL. The...