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WASHINGTON — Doctors and staffers in emergency rooms in nine states and the District of Columbia are treating a new patient with a firearm injury every 30 minutes, according to new research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which was published last week in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, aims to fill a long-standing gap in firearm injury data. While both the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project and the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System collect such data, neither has historically captured information on the precise day or time of an injury. The study analyzed over 93,000 emergency room visits for firearm injury through data from the CDC’s Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms, or FASTER, which collects real-time data from select jurisdictions. The timeframe for the analysis was Jan. 1, 2018, through Aug. 31, 2023, and, in addition to the District of Columbia, the states included in the research wer

A hot potato: Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) faces mounting scrutiny over its cyber vulnerabilities. While NGS has revolutionized fields ranging from cancer diagnostics to infectious disease tracking, a new study warns that the systems enabling these advances could also be exploited as a gateway for hackers and malicious actors.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is trying to decide whether to keep an Affordable Care Act provision that requires insurers to offer no-cost preventive care tests. The court heard arguments Monday on whether the procedure for deciding which tests can be included under the national insurance program is legally flawed. A group of Christian plaintiffs are most bothered by the requirement for insurers to provide free HIV tests and medications. They said in their court filings that their contributions to the health insurance fund are inadvertently making them “complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior.” If they win their lawsuit, insurers could be relieved of the costs of the tests, passing them back to patients and undercutting a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The free tests are one of the most popular parts of the 15-year-old health insurance law, allowing early warning detection of high cholesterol, cancer, diabetes and other potentially deadly ailments. Obamacare is credi

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it plans to end the use of petroleum-based synthetic food dyes in America’s food supply within the next two years in a bid to combat a myriad of health concerns, especially among children. The policy was announced by Marty Makary, the newly confirmed head of the Food and Drug Administration, at a press conference Tuesday afternoon at the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services. Also in attendance were Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and several representatives of the Make America Healthy Again movement. “For the last 50 years, we have been running one of the largest, uncontrolled scientific experiments in the world on our nation’s children, without their consent,” Makary said. “Today, we are ending that experiment, by removing petroleum-based chemicals from their food supply.” Though he quickly acknowledged eliminating what he called “chemical toxins” from the food supply is “not a silver bullet that will instantly