April 22, 2026
(WSJ) – After an uproar among oncologists, the FDA last fall agreed to reconsider RP1 and selected a second panel to eliminate what it called “bias.” Dr. Prasad believed the first panel was biased because it recommended the drug. So … Read More
April 22, 2026
(The Hill) – With spring in full force and summer on the way, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is raising the alarm on tick bites. The agency says the bites are sending Americans to the emergency room … Read More
April 21, 2026
(The Conversation) – The first time the placebo effect really got under my skin was when I read that roughly one-third of people with irritable bowel syndrome improve on placebo treatments alone. Usually this statistic is presented as a fascinating … Read More
April 21, 2026
(Bloomberg via MSN) – Measles has been spreading in the US, reaching infection levels not seen in decades and threatening the country’s elimination status. This year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 1,748 infections as of April 17 — … Read More
April 21, 2026
(Aeon) – Neat ethical principles have nothing to say to doctors like me, faced with the brutal, bloody compromises of hospital life Other than the principles of informed consent and patient confidentiality, the field has had no impact on my … Read More
April 20, 2026
(Futurism) – It just takes two sprays into the nasal cavity to make a difference. A team of scientists at Texas A&M University say they’ve developed a nasal spray that improves the working memory of older lab mice. They believe … Read More
April 20, 2026
(NBC News) – Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later. She and her husband, Ed, were on the next flight home. Nine … Read More
April 20, 2026
(BBC) – A vaccine during pregnancy which protects newborns against nasty chest infections is cutting hospital admissions of babies by more than 80%, UK health officials say. A virus, called RSV, affects many babies in the first few months of … Read More
April 17, 2026
(WSJ) – A trip to the emergency room helped me realize my generation is in trouble—and that we can’t give in to defeatism about our chronic health issues I emerged from surgery four and a half hours later with 72 … Read More
April 17, 2026
(WSJ) – While many ER visits for dizziness result in expensive CT scans and sedatives, researchers are finding there are more-effective options Of the many age-related problems that pose a risk to adults in midlife and beyond, so-called vestibular and … Read More
April 17, 2026
(NYT) – On Thanksgiving she ran a Turkey Trot with her daughters — her first race since the accident. She described the turnaround to me as “miraculous.” Like so many other people who are taking these drugs for intractable and … Read More
April 16, 2026
(Axios) – Black women remain three times more likely than white and Hispanic women to die from pregnancy-related complications, according to the latest maternal mortality rates released last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why it matters: … Read More
April 16, 2026
(NYT) – The review said a certain class of drugs had little clinical benefit, but many Alzheimer’s experts criticized the analysis, saying it unfairly lumped failed drugs with two recently approved treatments. Since the approval of new Alzheimer’s drugs in … Read More
April 15, 2026
(Fox News) – Two patients became sicker after refusing standard transfusions, researchers found An increasing number of patients are requesting “unvaccinated” blood for transfusions, which can delay care and pose risks to patients’ health, experts warn. There is no evidence … Read More
April 15, 2026
(Nature) – The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients. Dubious data sets are being used to train artificial-intelligence models that are designed to predict people’s risk … Read More
April 15, 2026
(NYT) – Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky tried to persuade his colleagues in the operating room that the liver he removed from a 70-year-old patient was a spleen, according to Florida’s Health Department. When an Alabama man visited a hospital near Miami … Read More
April 14, 2026
(WDKY Lexington via Yahoo!) – It’s now Kentucky law that if any medical provider observes any indication of life from the donor during organ harvesting, the procedure must stop. House Bill 510 was signed into law on April 7, standardizing “pause … Read More
April 13, 2026
(WSJ) – We all took an oath to do no harm. That includes killing our patients. Throughout medical school and residency, I always believed that people mattered. But it wasn’t until my conversion to Christianity that I understood why. Scripture … Read More
April 10, 2026
(NYT) – Prescribing produce, crafting meals: More medical schools are teaching students how to cook and use food as a tool for treating patients. “It’s unfortunately a big misconception that medicine doesn’t have anything to do with food,” she said, … Read More
April 10, 2026
(Wired) – Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor. Meta claims that Muse Spark was designed, in part, to be … Read More
April 9, 2026
(The Atlantic) – In desperation, the woman’s care team reached out to Müller, a hematologist-oncologist at the University Hospital of Erlangen, a roughly three-hour drive away by ambulance. In recent years, he and his colleagues have made a name for … Read More
April 9, 2026
(New York Times) – New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices. The vegetative state, as it turned out, was not fixed — though, practically, the label tended to stick. Tabitha … Read More
April 9, 2026
(New York Times) – While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice. At a time when health care costs top Americans’ financial worries, more patients are … Read More
April 8, 2026
(Nature) – Study of almost 28,000 people also identifies genetic variants that raise the risk of gastrointestinal side effects from GLP-1 medications. Scientists have identified a set of genetic variants that could help to explain why responses to obesity drugs … Read More
April 8, 2026
(Wired) – The trial focused on tumor types where HER3 signaling is implicated. HER3 is a membrane-bound protein that mediates cell-to-cell communication on growth and division. But when cancer is present, HER3 signaling can act as a pro-cancer driver, contributing … Read More
