From 2018 to 2025, robotic-assisted surgery increased across hysterectomy, cholecystectomy, and inguinal hernia repair, with robotic use in cholecystectomy increasing more than six-fold over the study period. Across all procedures, patients with higher comorbidity...
As of December 2025, GLP-1 RA prescriptions account for more than 7% of all prescriptions. Tirzepatide continues to be the most prescribed anti-diabetic (ADM) and anti-obesity (AOM) medication (sold as Mounjaro and Zepbound, respectively) and showed the largest...
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects far fewer people than type 2, but the stakes for each person are higher. It’s a lifelong, minute-by-minute autoimmune condition. People with T1D depend on insulin to survive, and small improvements in glucose control can translate into...
Today, we are excited to introduce Truveta Live Link, a breakthrough solution that transforms how life science organizations generate real-world evidence. Truveta Live Link unites a life sciences organization’s proprietary data and continuously updated real-world...
For people who experience a first non-cardioembolic ischemic stroke (NCIS) or transient ischemic attack (TIA), the danger doesn’t end at hospital discharge. New research presented at the 2025 World Stroke Congress shows that the risk of recurrent events and...
Respiratory virus–associated hospitalizations increased overall in November 2025 (+91.1%) and now make up 2.5% of all hospitalizations. Respiratory virus–associated hospitalizations increased substantially among children aged 0-4 years old (+73.1%), reaching 3.9% of...
Among women prescribed a semaglutide or tirzepatide medication, the percentage with a PCOS diagnosis increased from 4.6% in 2021 to 5.7% in 2025, a 23.9% relative increase. Nearly all PCOS patients prescribed semaglutide or tirzepatide also had obesity or type 2...
Extracting meaning from unstructured clinical text remains one of the hardest problems in healthcare. To solve this, many researchers rely on BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), a model first developed at Google in 2018. BERT reads language...
Cannabis-related emergency department (ED) visit rates were significantly higher on Thanksgiving; 25% higher than the Thursday before and 26% higher than the Thursday after the holiday. Rates of cannabis-related ED visits varied by sex and age. Cannabis use has risen...
