June 16, 2026
(Nature) – The shot reduced insulin use for people with type 1 diabetes and another autoimmune condition. A century-old vaccine against tuberculosis helps to regulate blood sugar in people with certain types of diabetes, such that they can reduce their … Read More
June 16, 2026
(NYT) – Thanks to new treatments, some patients with the disease are living longer — leaving them in limbo for years. Twenty years ago, the words “Stage 4” almost invariably meant “end of life.” A cancer had spread far from … Read More
June 16, 2026
(NYT) – Faith and science are coming together to reduce stigma and improve care in the African American community. Roughly one in five Black Americans 65 and older has Alzheimer’s, compared with one in 10 white Americans. But it can … Read More
June 15, 2026
(Ars Technica) – Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the independent schedule. ACOG’s 2026 Maternal Immunization Schedule differs most significantly from the CDC’s current schedule by including recommendations for COVID-19 and seasonal influenza vaccines. Those vaccines have been dropped from the … Read More
June 15, 2026
(Nature) – A participant in a landmark clinical trial has been given a cellular-reprogramming treatment that aims to rejuvenate damaged cells in the eye. Test time has arrived: the first person has been treated in a highly anticipated gene-therapy trial … Read More
June 15, 2026
(STAT News) – A major selling point for wearable devices is the promise that they’ll help identify hidden health conditions before they lead to major harm. But a nagging issue has been the connection to clinician guidance when a smartwatch … Read More
June 12, 2026
(CNN) – For the first time in 20 years, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new sunscreen ingredient — bemotrizinol, or BEMT — that experts say is a safer option than many chemical ingredients currently in use in … Read More
June 11, 2026
(NYT) – The current situation in eastern Congo and Uganda combines some of the most dangerous aspects of the 2014 and 2018 outbreaks — the worst Ebola outbreaks in history. The virus was already spreading for several months before it … Read More
June 10, 2026
(Axios) – The push to make medical records easier to share could be opening the door for rogue companies to sell patient information to law firms and other businesses without their knowledge. Why it matters: Americans assume their medical records … Read More
June 9, 2026
(The Guardian) – Diagnostic interviews seen as ‘gold standard’ vary in reliability from condition to condition, study says Even though evidence on the reliability of these interviews has long been mixed, “they continue to be widely viewed as the best … Read More
June 5, 2026
(Ars Technica) – The global health organization Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announced Monday that it will “urgently accelerate development” of three vaccine candidates against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV), pledging a little over $60 million in the effort to extinguish … Read More
June 3, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that process. In November 2024, Dong became one of the first people in China to be given … Read More
June 3, 2026
(Washington Post) – The highly anticipated results of a clinical trial for the pill, daraxonrasib, have been released, giving doctors hope for treating the stubbornly lethal disease. A pancreatic cancer drug more than four decades in the making has cracked … Read More
June 3, 2026
(Science News) – In opting for this treatment, called high-intensity focused ultrasound, Goings has joined a small but growing number of people choosing to control their Parkinson’s symptoms with permanent lesions in their brain. Already, an estimated 50 to 60 … Read More
June 3, 2026
(The Guardian) – My husband, Craig, didn’t want to spend his last days in the hospital. His fight with bladder cancer then became a battle to get him hospice care at home Nearly three months after that day in the … Read More
June 2, 2026
(Wired) – There might finally be a way forward for long Covid treatment—if only you were allowed to talk about it. All of this is very strange. Stranger still are patients’ stories of astonishing recoveries from severe long Covid, achieved … Read More
June 2, 2026
(WSJ) – Insurers warn of fraud and exorbitant charges from providers, including one that stuck a parent with a surprise $911,400 bill The autism-therapy industry, once a tiny corner of pediatric care, has exploded into a multibillion-dollar business, fueled by … Read More
June 2, 2026
(The Free Press) – The 33-year-old patient who comes to me in tears is the one the gynecologist never properly educated because the insurance codes wouldn’t pay for it. The annual visit for healthy women in their 20s and 30s … Read More
June 1, 2026
(NYT) – Yet legalizing medical aid in dying, or MAID, has been and remains a long, contentious process. Catholic leadership and many disability organizations staunchly oppose it. (Pope Leo XIV personally asked Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker not to sign the … Read More
May 29, 2026
(NYT) – I am a physician who runs her state’s health agency. I had good insurance, paid leave and a fluency with institutions most new mothers should never need. What I did not have was a single provider who could … Read More
May 29, 2026
(The Atlantic) – My generation—which is to say, the pillbox generation—came of age during the 1990s. The number of adults who were taking five or more prescription drugs doubled in that decade; the use of medications for depression and cholesterol … Read More
May 28, 2026
(WSJ) – The Trump administration is expected to deploy U.S. public-health officers to Kenya to staff a potential quarantine facility there amid the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to people familiar with the matter. The people … Read More
May 28, 2026
(WSJ) – The job for some can be unpredictable and lonely. But for others, it offers travel, friendship, and a whiff of glamour. Nursing is hardly known as a glamorous profession. Long shifts, late nights and demanding patients take their … Read More
May 27, 2026
(WSJ) – Employers are clamoring for workers who can do doctor-like work but who are trained faster and can cost them less These days, heading to the doctor’s office often doesn’t involve a doctor. At least not directly. Instead, nurse … Read More
May 27, 2026
(National Post) – In a second case, the same doctor failed to administer one of three drugs used in assisted deaths and the patient resumed spontaneously breathing after being pronounced dead As first reported Monday by the The Globe and … Read More
