July 2, 2025
(Knowable Magazine) – Canine and human cancers bear many similarities — studies in dogs are helping to develop treatments for both species Studying dogs and their cancers turns out to be an excellent way to learn more about cancer in … Read More
July 2, 2025
(Axios) – UC San Diego scientists are testing a new potential cancer treatment in space. Why it matters: The NASA-funded mission will analyze whether the drug rebecsinib works on ovarian cancer, metastatic breast cancer, leukemia and glioblastoma multiforme (an aggressive … Read More
July 2, 2025
(Axios) – Moderna is preparing to test Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tougher vaccine policies with a combination flu-COVID shot. The question is whether it gets approved for both viruses. Why it matters: The company this week reported positive … Read More
July 1, 2025
(KFF Health News via MSN) – In the early days of the West Texas measles outbreak, Thang Nguyen eyed the rising number of cases and worried. His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of … Read More
July 1, 2025
(Harper’s Magazine) – What were we if not obsessive-compulsive, we who so often traced our origins to a people whose very name, the Puritans, epitomized the perfectionistic delusion underlying this illness? A people so committed to virtue that they’d risked … Read More
June 25, 2025
(ABC News) – The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has expanded existing warnings on the two leading COVID-19 vaccines about a rare heart side effect mainly seen in young men. Myocarditis, a type of heart inflammation that is … Read More
June 24, 2025
(New York Times) – From a lone clinic in Texas to an entire school district in North Dakota, the virus is upending daily life and revealing a deeper crisis of belief. One morning about a week into his illness, Carrollyn … Read More
June 24, 2025
(ABC News) – The number of abortions in the U.S. rose again in 2024, with women continuing to find ways to get them despite bans and restrictions in many states, according to a report out Monday. The latest report from … Read More
June 24, 2025
(UPI) – Novo Nordisk announced Monday it has ended its partnership with Hims & Hers over its sale and promotion of cheaper versions of its weight loss drug Wegovy. The company said in a press release that Hims & Hers … Read More
June 24, 2025
(NBC News) – In the wake of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to shake up a key federal vaccine advisory committee, outside medical organizations and independent experts are looking for alternate sources of unbiased information and even considering … Read More
June 24, 2025
(Reuters via MSN) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time that includes evaluating how it would affect exports, the agency told Reuters this week. The actions … Read More
June 24, 2025
(Nature) – Liraglutide, a member of the family of blockbuster weight-loss drugs, reduces headaches by half in a small study. Head-splitting migraines could be the next ailment in a seemingly endless list that a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs might … Read More
June 23, 2025
(ProPublica) – When Joe DeMayo’s donated kidney started to fail earlier than expected, he didn’t know that the drug he was taking could’ve left him vulnerable — and that one of the most formidable drug regulators in the world may … Read More
June 23, 2025
(The 19th) – Doctors are pushing for laws in several states that would make it harder to detect who prescribed abortion pills. They say it would protect them from out-of-state prosecutions. Out-of-state doctors are pushing for laws that will make … Read More
June 23, 2025
(Washington Post via MSN) – When Mountain Trek launched its first wellness program in 2000, it attracted a steady stream of affluent guests looking to overhaul their health and drop pounds fast. Twenty-five years later, medications like Mounjaro and Ozempic … Read More
June 23, 2025
(Wired) – New data from a Phase 3 trial show that the daily anti-obesity pill may be as safe and effective as drugs like Mounjaro and Ozempic for weight loss and lowering blood sugar. Eli Lilly’s daily anti-obesity pill orforglipron … Read More
June 20, 2025
(Science) – Developing lenacapavir, the drug newly approved to protect against HIV for six months in one shot, took basic science, sophisticated chemistry, and perseverance The approval caps a tortuous, 2-decade-long scientific journey for Gilead Sciences, a pharma company specializing … Read More
June 20, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Ibogaine has been touted for its potential to erase years of addiction and withdrawal in one session. Banned in the U.S., the drug is prompting Americans to cross borders for treatment. Desperate to break free from … Read More
June 20, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Shipments have propelled Ireland, a country of 5.4 million, to the second-largest goods-trade imbalance with the U.S., behind China Planes have been jetting from Ireland to the U.S. this year carrying something more valuable than gold: … Read More
June 19, 2025
(Fox News) – The potential risk of cannabis use has been in the spotlight following recent research pointing toward negative health effects. This includes a new meta-analysis by French researchers, published in the journal Heart, which reviewed multiple studies to … Read More
June 19, 2025
(CBS News) – At least 3% of measles cases confirmed so far this year have been in people who received two doses of the measles vaccine, meaning they were fully vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. About … Read More
June 18, 2025
(NPR) – A drug with the potential to drastically curb the HIV epidemic just cleared its first regulatory hurdle. On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved lenacapavir for the prevention of HIV. Clinical trial data from last year suggest … Read More
June 17, 2025
(ProPublica) – Sun Pharma’s transgressions were so egregious that the Food and Drug Administration imposed one of the government’s harshest penalties: banning the factory from exporting drugs to the United States. But the agency, worried about medication shortages, immediately undercut … Read More
June 17, 2025
(Axios) – Dermatologists had hoped that an active sunscreen ingredient popular in Europe would be available in the U.S. by summer — but the Food and Drug Administration still hasn’t approved it. Why it matters: U.S. sunscreens lack some of … Read More
June 17, 2025
(Wired) – An experimental obesity pill that works in a different way from the wildly popular Ozempic may help people lose weight, according to results from a small, preliminary human trial. Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs reduce food intake by … Read More
