March 26, 2025
(Nature) – The molecule targets bacteria in a way that other drugs don’t. Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic molecule that targets a broad range of disease-causing bacteria — even strains resistant to commercial drugs — and is not toxic … Read More
March 26, 2025
(New York Times) – A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs. The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped … Read More
March 21, 2025
(Nature) – The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded its cuts to science funding, terminating a growing list of research projects that now encompasses hundreds of grants funding studies on a wide range of topics — from HIV … Read More
March 21, 2025
(New York Times) – Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. By the next morning, Dr. Fajgenbaum had replied, suggesting an unconventional combination of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and steroids previously untested as a treatment … Read More
March 20, 2025
(NPR) – “It is completely life-changing to take a bite of these triggering foods and just be like, enjoy it, say, ‘Yup, that was good and now I’m full,’” he says. But the compounded drugs that the Agars and others … Read More
March 20, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – The U.S. is making progress against one of its most devastating public-health threats: drug overdoses. Over the 12 months ended in October 2024, the country saw a 25% decline in overdose deaths compared with the same … Read More
March 20, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 19, 2025
(Aeon) – Millions are turning to an unregulated herbal extract to curb their opioid addiction. But do the risks outweigh the benefits? Harm reduction is a contested and evolving concept that was first used in the 1980s as a shorthand … Read More
March 19, 2025
(NBC News) – The new analysis by researchers at the National Institute on Drug Abuse also looked into how the medications are being misused. Prescriptions for ADHD medications have been spiking in recent years, with the sharpest increase among middle-aged … Read More
March 19, 2025
(Associated Press) – Texas state health officials said Tuesday there were 20 new cases of measles since last week, bringing the total to 279 across 11 counties — most in West Texas. Two more people were hospitalized, for a total … Read More
March 18, 2025
(Associated Press) – Sarepta Therapeutics said Tuesday that a patient died while taking its closely watched gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, sending company shares plummeting in morning trading. The young man died of acute liver injury, a known side effect, … Read More
March 17, 2025
(New York Times) – Ms. Delano is not a doctor; her main qualification, she likes to say, is having been “a professional psychiatric patient between the ages of 13 and 27.” During those years, when she attended Harvard and was … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Psychiatrists and primary-care doctors regularly prescribe the drugs for everything from mild anxiety to insomnia, making benzodiazepines some of the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications in America. The pills’ omnipresence has left a mark on pop … Read More
March 14, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Measles isn’t just making a comeback in the United States. In a report out this week, the World Health Organization found that cases of the vaccine-preventable disease surged in Europe and Central Asia last year, reaching the highest … Read More
March 14, 2025
(New York Times) – A new study found that fair prices for medications like Wegovy and Zepbound would be hundreds less per month than they are now. It’s easy to make a medical case for blockbuster weight loss drugs like … Read More
March 14, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – Every year, my colleagues and I put together a list of what we think are the top 10 breakthrough technologies of that year. When it came to innovations in biotech, there was a clear winner: lenacapavir, … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Wired) – The mRNA technology behind coronavirus vaccines is now being used to create bespoke vaccines for cancer patients. Lennard Lee, a UK National Health Service oncologist and medical director at the Ellison Institute of Technology in Oxford, calls himself … Read More
March 13, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Hims and other telehealth firms make finasteride easy to get and don’t have to disclose side effects in ads Finasteride, the generic name for Propecia, is a popular hair-loss treatment that has been on the market … Read More
March 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Prescription drugs like lorazepam — used to treat anxiety, panic attacks and sleep disorders — play a role in popular TV shows like “The White Lotus” and “The Pitt.” This isn’t a case of Hollywood taking … Read More
March 12, 2025
(Gizmodo) – The surging measles outbreak, which has already sickened hundreds and hospitalized dozens in Texas and New Mexico, will get worse before it gets better. In a recent alert sent to health care providers, the Centers for Disease Control … Read More
March 11, 2025
(Axios) – The surge of online weight-loss drug providers is unexpectedly fueling demand for a much older, once-stigmatized treatment: hormone replacement therapy. Why it matters: Facing a dearth of providers for treating menopause symptoms including weight gain, women are looking … Read More
March 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Research suggests benefits beyond what popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs were first approved to treat This accumulating body of research has led longevity clinics to market and prescribe GLP-1s as so-called gerotherapeutics—drugs that can target certain … Read More
March 11, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Pueblo, Colo., had high hopes for a legal-marijuana boom; financial troubles now plague the industry In Pueblo and elsewhere, though, market dynamics have crippled the legal-cannabis industry. Even after legalization, illicit growers and sellers thrived in … Read More
March 11, 2025
(MedPage Today) – It’s much more than just dexamethasone works, hydroxychloroquine doesn’t Four early clinical trial efforts — two in the U.K. and two in the U.S. — are regarded by infectious disease experts as the most important for delivering … Read More
March 11, 2025
(NPR) – The deadliest phase of the street fentanyl crisis appears to have ended, as drug deaths continue to drop at an unprecedented pace. For the first time, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have now seen at … Read More
