🩺 2025 Medical Headlines
This respiratory virus saw a resurgence during the 2024–2025 winter season, prompting renewed emphasis on vaccination campaigns.
What is RSV?
A melanoma vaccine, currently in successful trials and nearing the end of the clinical pipeline in 2025, was developed by these two pharmaceutical companies.
Who are Moderna and Merck?
In 2025, this U.S. agency launched a major initiative to improve climate-related health resilience.
What is the CDC?
The 2025 hypertension guidelines emphasize using this type of measurement for more accurate blood pressure monitoring.
What is ambulatory or home BP monitoring?
This ethical principle is often challenged when AI makes autonomous clinical decisions without clinician oversight.
What is autonomy?
In 2025, the FDA approved the first over-the-counter version of this life-saving allergy treatment.
What is an epinephrine auto-injector (EpiPen)?
This technology, with devices like the "stentrode" implant leading systems development, is showing promise in allowing paralyzed individuals to regain movement.
What is brain-computer interface (BCI) technology?
Experts say these crises, including wars, political instability, and climate change, are the source of the world's top health crises in 2025.
What are humanitarian disasters?
The increase in tick-borne diseases in 2025 has been linked to the expansion of this insect’s range due to warmer climates.
What is the blacklegged tick (deer tick)?
In 2025, the AMA released new guidance emphasizing that AI tools should support—but not replace—this professional responsibility.
What is clinical judgment?
This organization declared loneliness and social isolation a global public health threat in 2024, leading to 2025 policy initiatives.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This type of therapy, with the first FDA approval (Casgevy) in late 2024, is seeing its pipeline gain momentum in 2025, targeting a range of diseases from cancer to genetic disorders.
What is CRISPR gene editing (or gene therapy)?
In a major advisory in January 2025, the U.S. Surgeon General recommended that health warning labels on alcohol should be updated to include the risk of this disease.
What is cancer?
The obesity drug tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) was approved in 2025 for this additional indication beyond diabetes and weight loss.
What is cardiovascular risk reduction?
“Synthetic data” in healthcare AI refers to data generated through this process to protect patient privacy.
What is machine learning simulation or data modeling?
This AI tool received FDA clearance in 2025 to autonomously detect diabetic retinopathy from retinal images.
What is an AI diagnostic algorithm (e.g., EyeArt or IDx-DR)?
A 2025 breakthrough allowed lab-grown versions of this organ to be successfully transplanted into humans for the first time.
What is a kidney (or potentially thymus, depending on update)?
This social determinant of health has become a core screening element in 2025 for Medicare reimbursement under value-based care.
What is food insecurity?
The 2025 heart failure management update includes earlier initiation of this class of medication, regardless of diabetic status.
What are SGLT2 inhibitors?
A major debate in 2025 involves whether AI documentation assistants should be listed as this in the medical record.
What is a scribe (or documentation support)?
In February 2025, six dairy herds in this U.S. state tested positive for a newer variant of H5N1 bird flu associated with severe infections in humans.
What is Nevada?
In early 2025, a new universal vaccine targeting this virus entered Phase III clinical trials, showing broad protection across strains.
What is influenza?
The 2025 global “Blue Zone Initiative” aims to extend average lifespan by studying communities with high rates of this characteristic.
What is longevity (or healthy aging)?
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force revised its screening recommendations in 2025, lowering the age for this cancer’s routine screening to 40.
What is colorectal cancer?
(or breast cancer)
The 2025 “AI Transparency Act” requires healthcare organizations to disclose when patients are interacting with this type of system.
What is an AI chatbot or virtual assistant?