October 28, 2026
(NYT) – The chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors. Qun knew his daughter had at times tinkered with her medications because she didn’t like the side effects or thought they … Read More
October 23, 2026
(Ars Technica) – Personalized mRNA vaccines against melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—reduced the risk of death or recurrence by 42 percent compared to standard treatment in a late-stage trial, pharmaceutical partners Merck and Moderna announced Thursday. The results are … Read More
October 23, 2026
(KFF Health News) – Sunvozertinib, made by Shanghai-based Dizal Pharmaceutical, isn’t the only treatment drawing patients to China. Americans, Europeans, and others are trekking there to enter clinical trials for CAR-T therapy, an area in which China is now a … Read More
October 22, 2026
(Wired) – The company plans to offer testosterone replacement therapy, marking its first foray into prescribing controlled substances. Talk of testosterone deficiency is hard to escape these days, with podcasters and politicians obsessing over how to avoid a “low T” … Read More
October 15, 2026
(Nature) – Compounds inspired by the blockbuster weight-loss drugs are also being trialled for schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease, among other conditions. The quest for GLP-1 drugs that can treat brain disorders is getting a fresh infusion of energy and funding. … Read More
October 15, 2026
(WSJ) – Novel approaches go after 85% of disease drivers that researchers haven’t been able to attack A new class of medications—known as “protein degraders”—are showing promise in going after a certain kind of hard-to-target protein in diseased cells. Most … Read More
October 13, 2026
(Wired) – Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological substances. Some molecules are chiral, meaning a molecule has … Read More
October 9, 2026
(MIT Technology Review) – Drug giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk say patients taking their drugs age less quickly, according to readouts from molecular “aging clocks.” Such clocks assess a person’s biological age by looking at changes to DNA that … Read More
October 6, 2026
(Atavist Magazine) – When a little girl in Iowa was diagnosed with a rare incurable disease, her parents and their community came together to help her. They wound up making medical history. To patients with severe rare diseases, the drugs … Read More
October 1, 2026
(NYT) – A catheter carrying the drug may not have delivered the doses to Ms. Pike’s bloodstream, experts said. The drug itself may have been degraded. The execution team went through at least seven needles trying to find a vein … Read More
October 1, 2026
(WSJ) – Drugmakers targeting muscle preservation and fat loss as they build next generation of weight-loss medications For as long as drugmakers have been testing weight-loss drugs, the question has been: How much weight do people lose? Now it is … Read More
September 25, 2026
(ABC News) – Dozens of Americans have filed personal injury lawsuits against the makers of popular GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, claiming they were not properly warned of the risk of a rare type of sudden vision loss, … Read More
September 23, 2026
(The Economist) – Its components dissolve once it has done its job DEVICES THAT peer into the human body from the outside, like X-ray scanners and MRI machines, have transformed medicine. A new generation of ingestible sensors could do the … Read More
September 21, 2026
(WSJ) – The Ozempic maker is partnering with the artificial-intelligence firm to speed up drug development Novo Nordisk, the Danish drugmaker behind blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is partnering with Anthropic to use artificial intelligence for drug … Read More
September 16, 2026
(Wired) – WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges. WIRED sent the vials to Finnrick, an Austin-based startup that offers independent peptide testing. Consumers can request … Read More
September 15, 2026
(Nature) – An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data. For drug discovery, protein-folding models such as AlphaFold have a problem: there aren’t enough data in public … Read More
September 14, 2026
(NYT) – City officials — and one determined mother — are working to stop the spread of cychlorphine, which is far more potent than fentanyl. The death occurred in Ms. Lacourte’s three-bedroom apartment in the affluent Lower Nob Hill neighborhood … Read More
September 14, 2026
(WSJ) – As bootleg versions of an experimental drug from Eli Lilly flood the market, regulators try to curb supply Clinics and medspas, promising people transformational weight loss, have figured out how to procure and sell an experimental drug that … Read More
September 11, 2026
(WSJ) – Long a maker of low-end generic drugs, the country is now home to biotech firms that are innovating fast Today Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, with drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic, are the undisputed leaders of the $80-billion … Read More
September 10, 2026
(NYT) – Artificial intelligence was used to help develop a drug candidate, rentosertib, for a rare lung condition. Its maker says the drug also seems to reduce the biological hallmarks of age. Last year, a clinical trial conducted by Insilico … Read More
September 8, 2026
(NYT) – Doctors were hopeful the drug, which was being tested in a large clinical trial by Novartis, was going to be a powerful new tool to fight heart disease. Novartis announced on Friday that its experimental drug, pelacarsen, widely … Read More
September 7, 2026
(Gizmodo) – An AI-generated drug showed early signs of potentially slowing aging, according to a new study out today in Nature Biotechnology, possibly taking the first small step towards using AI to cure all the diseases tech companies companies keep … Read More
September 3, 2026
(Daily Nation) – For years, in various counties, small, low-profile HIV clinics operated almost like a separate world within Kenya’s health system, funded not by the National Treasury but by the United States government, and built, deliberately, to keep a … Read More
September 2, 2026
(Nature) – China is making waves in global health care. The country’s biotechnology companies are producing medicines at a speed and cost that has drawn interest from the world’s largest pharmaceutical groups. They manufacture drugs and medical equipment used across … Read More
September 2, 2026
(Wired) – How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy. One might be forgiven for wondering what isn’t a symptom of perimenopause. No lab test can reveal … Read More
