When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care Peer-reviewed studies link private equity takeovers to more deaths and medical complications in nearly every corner of healthcare.

A growing wave of peer-reviewed studies supports the same troubling conclusion: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients – especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat – are more likely to be killed or harmed. usrtk.org/healthwire/w... #healthwire

World’s most used insecticides damage male fertility in rodents, researchers say Neonicotinoid insecticides cause reproductive toxicity in lab animals, raising concerns about damage to human fertility, according to a new review.

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Air pollution may weaken children's brain connections, study shows Children exposed to air pollution may develop weaker connections between key brain regions, with potentially long-lasting effects, a recent study says.

Children's early exposure to air pollution affected the brain regions involved in attention, movement and sensation, and hearing. #Healthwire usrtk.org/healthwire/a...

Billions in drug and medical device company payments to medical specialists may compromise patient care, reports show U.S. medical specialists received billions of dollars worth of individual non-research payments from drug and medical device industries in recent years, a series of new studies show.

New research finds that medical doctors are awash in drug industry money. This impacts how much you pay for health care, and which meds and medical devices doctors prescribe. "It's a very bad system."

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Pollution may promote stress, leading to obesity, study says Pollution may promote stress, leading to obesity, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, a new study suggests.

Chemicals from plastics to pesticides may worsen the body’s stress response in ways that cause excessive weight gain, according to the first systematic review to investigate the link between pollution, stress, and obesity. #Healthwire

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Baby admissions to neonatal intensive care units (NICU) soar due to late pregnancy air pollution exposure Outdoor air pollution exposure shortly before birth dramatically increases the odds of babies needing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) care, study shows.

Exposure to outdoor air pollution in the month before birth dramatically increases the odds of newborns being admitted to NICUs in the U.S., according to a new study of 3.6 million babies.

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Drug and medical device companies target next generation of physicians, put patients at risk, experts say Drug and medical device industries court medical students and early-career clinicians with marketing activities that endanger patient health, experts say.

Another example of how profit seeking industries shape health care: about 3/4 of cardiology fellows in the U.S. received payments from drug and medical device companies in the year before graduation. #RighttoKnow #Healthwire usrtk.org/healthwire/d...