2025

Lizzy Lawrence , 2025-05-15 16:21:00 WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency is planning to unveil new guidance for vaccine makers, focused primarily on Covid-19 shots, in the coming weeks.  “We want to be very transparent, and we want to create a framework for vaccine makers that they can use…

, 2025-05-15 21:15:00 Researchers at WashU Medicine have shown in mice that brain cells known as astrocytes are required for a signaling chemical called norepinephrine to modify brain activity, changing the textbook understanding that norepinephrine acts directly on neurons. Above, a mouse astrocyte labeled with a fluorescent green marker. Credit: Yifan Wu Researchers at Washington…

, 2025-05-16 05:06:00 The spring COVID-19 vaccination program in Sweden is in its final stages in several parts of the country. The program has encompassed free booster doses for those at increased risk of serious illness, including the very oldest members of society. Parallel to this, research is being presented on the factors that have…

, 2025-05-15 12:37:00 In the United Sates, heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups. Not only that but also the number of heart-disease related deaths began increasing in 2012, following decades of progress. There are numerous theories as to why, but the bottom…

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Tyler Shultz , 2025-05-15 16:31:00 I always knew Elizabeth Holmes would have a second act. But I’m shocked it’s starting while she’s still behind bars. Elizabeth is now serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors in Theranos and has been banned from participating in federal health programs. The company was built on her claim that,…

, 2025-05-16 03:30:00 Credit: Dianne from Pexels The combination of air pollution, dense urban development and limited green spaces increases the risk of asthma in both children and adults. This is shown by a new study conducted as part of a major EU collaboration led by researchers from Karolinska Institutet. The findings have been published…

, 2025-05-16 03:25:00 Adoption of lecanemab, a novel infusion treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), has been disproportionately higher among patients who are male, white, from urban areas, and have higher socioeconomic status, new research suggests. The findings, published in the peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open, highlight how certain populations are more likely to access potentially breakthrough…

, 2025-05-15 12:43:00 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved belzutifan (Welireg, Merck) for adult and pediatric patients aged 12 years or older with locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma (PPGL). It is the first US approval of “an oral therapy for PPGL,” the FDA said in a press release. The…

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Anil Oza , 2025-05-15 18:58:00 Attacks on efforts to diversify the sciences. Research grant terminations. Fear among scientists to speak out against the government. Cuts to international aid.  These were some of a long list of concerns shared by three research leaders as they discussed the state of U.S. science at STAT’s Breakthrough Summit West…

, 2025-05-15 22:30:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in collaboration with the Clínic-IDIBAPS, has shown, for the first time, how lung capacity evolves from childhood to old age. The findings, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, provide a new basic framework for assessing lung health….

, 2025-05-16 02:18:00 Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have upended decades-old dogma of how connections between brain cells are rearranged during states of heightened vigilance or attention. The team found that a brain chemical associated with alertness, attention and learning alters brain connectivity and function not by acting directly on…

wlim , 2025-05-15 11:45:00 Every minute matters in healthcare. Outdated systems and disjointed workflows can stall the flow of critical clinical information. Today’s providers often face the challenge of retrieving vital data locked in isolated platforms—a process that delays important decision-making and overburdens their already packed schedules. Addressing these challenges is about more than system…

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Jason Mast , 2025-05-15 21:15:00 NEW ORLEANS — Greetings from ASGCT, where the gene therapy field had some great news for once, about a highly photogenic infant.  Baby KJ gets a custom CRISPR edit to his genome Kiran Musunuru, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, announced on stage Thursday that he and collaborators had, for the…

Nathan M Stall, Kieran L Quinn, Jenny T van der Steen, Johanna Trimble, A Mark Clarfield, Susan L Mitchell , 2025-05-15 11:51:00 Nathan M Stall, geriatrician, general internist and health services researcher focused on ageing, long term care, dementia, and family caregiving123, Kieran L Quinn, palliative care physician, general internist and health services researcher focused…

, 2025-05-16 01:10:00 The bile duct network collects waste from your liver and gallbladder and then empties into your small intestine. Credit: Madeline McCurry-Schmidt, La Jolla Institute for Immunology Your bile duct network is a true tree of life. A floppy, pink tree of life. The branches, smooth like spaghetti noodles, reach up to collect…

, 2025-05-16 00:50:00 The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A…

, 2025-05-15 12:52:00 Drug overdose deaths declined by almost 27% in 2024, new provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed. The decline continues a downward trend that began in 2023, with a 3% decline that year, followed by steady drops each month of 2024. Overall, there were 80,391 predicted…

Katie Adams , 2025-05-15 20:36:00 Israeli startup SpoititEarly launched in the U.S. on Thursday, aiming to close a significant gap in the cancer diagnostics market. The company is developing a breath-based early detection test for multiple types of cancer — one that involves dogs and their powerful noses.  The test uses AI and trained canines…

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Isabella Cueto , 2025-05-15 22:12:00 Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to announce that the Department of Health and Human Services will stop recommending Covid vaccines for children and pregnant people, a close Kennedy ally said Thursday.  The news arrived between panels at a daylong event marking the launch of a new Make…

Nathan Davies, Kanthee Anantapong, Victoria Vickerstaff, Elizabeth L Sampson , 2025-05-15 12:01:00 Nathan Davies, professor1, Kanthee Anantapong, associate professor2, Victoria Vickerstaff, senior lecturer3, Elizabeth L Sampson, professor4 1Centre for Psychiatry and Mental Health, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK 2Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University,…

, 2025-05-15 23:10:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Having school dinners rather than packed lunches could encourage picky-eating 13-year-olds to eat a wider variety of foods, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The findings are published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics today. The research showed that when children who were picky…

, 2025-05-15 18:04:00 For decades, doctors and researchers have puzzled over a basic heart rhythm mystery: Why do women tend to have faster heartbeats while men are more likely to develop irregular rhythms like atrial fibrillation (AFib)? Now a new study from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center provides some insight. The research shows…

, 2025-05-15 13:15:00 Endometriosis affects roughly 190 million (10%) women and girls of reproductive age globally. Still, and despite its debilitating symptoms, it can take years to get a diagnosis. For example, it takes about 7.4 years for a diagnosis in the Netherlands, almost 9 years in the UK, and 10.4 years in Austria and…

Marissa Plescia , 2025-05-15 22:15:00 Medbridge, a digital care company, launched new AI-powered motion-capture capabilities on Thursday through its digital musculoskeletal and movement-based medicine platform. The Bellevue, Washington-based company works with clinicians, hospitals, and health systems to tackle musculoskeletal (MSK) issues. Its customers include Intermountain Health, Kaiser Permanente and AdventHealth. The company provides an AI-driven…

Michela Cimberle , 2025-05-15 20:20:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ” data-action=subscribe> Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this…

Daniel Payne , 2025-05-15 21:49:00 The Make America Healthy Again movement is coalescing around a new effort to turn its goals into federal policy. The Trump administration is listening. The MAHA Institute, a policy center launched Thursday, is pushing to change the American health and food systems: from rethinking vaccine availability and review to removing…

Jacqui Wise , 2025-05-15 12:21:00 MPs have criticised the lack of a clear plan for the forthcoming abolition of NHS England and the halving of staff in integrated care boards across the country, demanding that the government set out how such a major structural change will affect key services. The report by the House of…

, 2025-05-15 21:22:00 Validation of AgRP neuron inactivation. Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2025). DOI: 10.1172/JCI189842 Successfully treating type 2 diabetes may involve focusing on brain neurons, rather than simply concentrating on obesity or insulin resistance, according to a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. For several years, researchers have known that…

, 2025-05-15 18:46:00 Becoming an organ donor has never been easier. Registration is available online when renewing a driver’s license or, for iPhone users, through an app. Still, the people who desperately need transplants far outnumber the available organs. Every eight minutes, someone in the United States is added to the waiting list and every day, 17…

, 2025-05-15 20:30:00 Orlando, Florida — New data add to the evidence supporting use of crinecerfont for the treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency, in both adults and children.  The latest findings from the company’s pediatric and adult phase 3 trials suggest that crinecerfont enables the dual goals of decreasing glucocorticoid…

Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-15 19:53:00 When lung cancer advances after initial lines of therapy, the treatment options dwindle. An AbbVie drug gives patients a new choice as the first FDA-approved treatment for advanced cases of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) driven by a particular cancer protein. Approval of the drug, telisotuzumab vedotin, brand name Emrelis,…

, 2025-05-15 19:47:00 Cognixion, a developer of noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI) technology, announced that Blackrock Neurotech, a company that makes implantable BCIs, will provide Cognixion’s Axon-R wearable neural interface platform to research institutions via its distribution network. Blackrock Neurotech will act as an unrestricted distributor of Cognixion’s Axon-R, a noninvasive wearable that allows exact measurement and…

, 2025-05-15 19:15:00 The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics…

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Elaine Chen and Adam Feuerstein , 2025-05-15 19:21:00 Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on…

Kamran Abbasi , 2025-05-15 13:16:00 Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief The BMJ kabbasi{at}bmj.com At a conference in Hong Kong last year almost every presentation enthused about the potential of artificial intelligence. The conference wasn’t even about AI, the great global hope to solve every problem and save us money to boot. If you’re out of…

, 2025-05-15 18:44:00 A person with impulsivity / ADHD is struggling with physical exercise and binge eating while living in a city. Credit: Tian Gan, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) might contribute to obesity by reducing physical activity—a relationship that can also be mediated by the features of the urban environment in which a…

, 2025-05-15 18:32:00 In a historic medical breakthrough, a child diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder has been successfully treated with a customized CRISPR gene editing therapy by a team at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Penn Medicine. The infant, KJ, was born with a rare metabolic disease known as severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase…

, 2025-05-15 16:44:00 SAN DIEGO—Gastroenterologists have debated the best course of action for patients with Barrett’s esophagus for decades. Which is better for detecting early malignancy and preventing progression to esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) — surveillance endoscopy at regular intervals or only when symptoms occur? Does one offer a better chance of survival than the other?…

Alistar Fleming , 2025-05-15 12:59:00 At the renowned AI for Surgery lab in Baltimore, Maryland, a STAR was born. The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) was brought to artificial life by Axel Krieger and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University. STAR can perform complex keyhole anastomosis surgery with minimal human intervention with astounding accuracy, helping to…

, 2025-05-15 17:30:00 SpotitEarly, a biotech startup that uses AI and dogs to detect cancer using an at-home test, announced its launch into the U.S. market with $20.3 million in funding.  The company has received funding from Menomedin VC, Jeff Swartz (former CEO of Timberland), Avishai Abrahami (CEO of Wix.com), Hanaco VC and others.  Additionally,…

Brett Kelman , 2025-05-15 15:18:00 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors sought a maximum prison sentence of nearly 20 years for the CEO of Pain MD, a company found to have given hundreds of thousands of questionable injections to patients, many reliant on opioids. It would have been among the longest sentences for a health care…

Jill Rollet; Melanie Betz, MS, RD, CSR, FNKF, FAND , 2025-05-15 15:23:00 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “ data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe We were unable to…

Jason Mast , 2025-05-15 17:00:00 For the first time, scientists say they have reached into the genome of a severely ill child and rewritten the unique misspelling in his DNA.  The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday, are a landmark in the 50-year quest to read and repair the code…

Scarlett McNally , 2025-05-15 15:16:00 Scarlett McNally, professor Eastbourne scarlettmcnally{at}cantab.netFollow Scarlett on X @scarlettmcnally NHS England is making its last call for evidence for a review on postgraduate medical education.1 There have been dozens of similar reviews in my 35 years as a doctor, but this one has a chance to make a difference. It…

, 2025-05-15 16:30:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Despite the popularity of semaglutide drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss, surveys suggest that most people still prefer to lose weight without using medications. For those preferring a drug-free approach to weight loss, research shows that certain nutrients and dietary strategies can naturally mimic the effects…