Primary Care Safety: Australia’s Monash-led team has added 23 new quality prescribing indicators for adults in primary care, aiming to curb medication harm and guide safer starts, monitoring, high-risk combinations to avoid, and deprescribing. Aging & Dementia Workforce: A government-funded program is inviting aged care staff to join free dementia training, building skills to manage changed behaviours and improve day-to-day dementia support. Healthy Brain Aging: More than 200 seniors gathered to celebrate research linking exercise to brain health, including the role of irisin and a larger hippocampus in people who are more active. Home Care Oversight: Australia’s Department of Health will run a Support at Home payment assurance review, checking whether providers’ care management claims match program rules. Alzheimer’s Delivery Innovation: Curtin researchers are developing a bile-acid nasal spray approach to deliver an Alzheimer’s compound to the brain, funded with $125,000 for early lab and preclinical work. Cancer Progress: The AACR reports U.S. cancer death rates fell 35% from 1991 to 2024, preventing millions of deaths, though gains vary by cancer type. Drug Pricing & Access: In the UK, NICE reversed course on Enhertu after changes to QALY thresholds and a U.S. trade-linked medicines deal, raising the bar for what the NHS will pay per extra year of good quality life. HIV Prevention: Apretude (cabotegravir) remains a key long-acting injectable PrEP option, with approvals spanning dozens of countries. Healthcare Costs: A KFF survey of 25,000+ adults finds high costs and prior authorization are pushing chronically ill people to delay care and skip medications. Iron Deficiency Testing: ASH issued new ferritin cutoffs for diagnosing iron deficiency across ages and pregnancy, even without anemia. Cybersecurity Rule Uncertainty: HHS OCR says the HIPAA Security Rule’s next steps on encryption are still being worked through, leaving covered entities in a holding pattern.