May 5, 2026
(Vox) – A medical field that almost died is quietly fixing one disease at a time. In a lab room, a toddler, deaf from birth, sits while a tone plays. There’s no reaction. His face does not change. Six weeks … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NBC News) – By the time doctors detect pancreatic cancer, it’s often too late to treat effectively. But a new study suggests that artificial intelligence might be able to find signs of the disease before tumors are visible on a … Read More
May 4, 2026
(WSJ) – Support systems and spouses reminding partners to take care of themselves may contribute Marriage is linked to a lower risk of developing cancer, recent research found. A study of more than 4 million cancer cases in the U.S. … Read More
May 4, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 4, 2026
(KERA News) – The class is Experiential Medical Reasoning, designed to help these students like 22 year old Sahar Bavandi pass the MCAT, the test needed for acceptance into medical school. Even though Bavandi had never played Minecraft before, she … Read More
May 4, 2026
(KFF Health News) – Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – Researchers based at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center found that an AI reasoning model, developed by OpenAI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors … Read More
May 1, 2026
(NPR) – “So for a long time, we have been trying to make the diagnosis of tuberculosis easier, cheaper, and quicker,” says Alfred Andama, a microbiologist at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda. That desire was fulfilled last … Read More
April 30, 2026
(NYT) – A “rich face” is stretched taut, often incapable of varied expressions and plumped with filler or implants or a person’s own grafted fat. Once, this face belonged to a villainous class of elites in sci-fi depictions of a … Read More
April 29, 2026
(NPR) – Experts suspect several factors may be leading to these more frequent, virulent cancers: One is our greater reliance on ultra-processed foods, as well as plastics and chemicals that can leach into water and our bodies. Plus, there are … Read More
April 29, 2026
(BBC) – Eleven cancers are becoming more common in young people in England, a major analysis shows. A full explanation for why levels of cancer are increasing remains elusive. But the study reveals that a decades-long pattern of people becoming … Read More
April 29, 2026
(The Assembly) – The demand for organ transplants has prompted an innovative procedure that reanimates a dead body. A North Carolina surgeon worries that when it’s done incorrectly, donors might feel pain in their last moments. She looked back at … Read More
April 28, 2026
(Washington Post via MSN) – The Trump administration’s decision to drop the long-standing recommendation that newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth will likely lead to hundreds of additional infections among children, along with more cases … Read More
April 27, 2026
(New York Times) – Before the rise of GLP-1s, obesity experts didn’t study the internal buzz that compels people to eat. Now that food noise is being switched off, they want to understand it. Before the new obesity drugs came … Read More
April 24, 2026
(KFF Health News) – Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward. We had already learned the hard way that if you need admission to the hospital, you can … Read More
April 23, 2026
(NYT) – The report found that the shots cut the likelihood of hospitalizations, but the agency’s acting head said it gave an inaccurate picture of the vaccines’ effectiveness. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who has been overseeing the agency’s operations in the … Read More
April 23, 2026
(NBC News) – By 2035, rectal cancer death rates could exceed deaths from colon cancer, new research suggests. Deaths from rectal cancer are rising rapidly among younger adults, an alarming trend that is confounding scientists trying to understand why millennials … Read More
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
