, 2025-05-08 20:02:00 The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval of combination avutometinib and defactinib (Avmapki Fakzynja Co-pack, Verastem, Inc.) for the treatment of certain patients with KRAS-mutated recurrent low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC). Specifically, approval is for adults who received at least one prior systemic therapy, including a platinum-based regimen,…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-08 20:43:00 A rare type of ovarian cancer that grows slowly and responds poorly to chemotherapy now has its first FDA-approved treatment, a combination drug developed by Verastem Oncology to address a pathway that drives tumor progression. The approval announced Thursday covers the treatment of low-grade serous ovarian cancer (LGSOC) driven by…
, 2025-05-08 19:25:00 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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Jason Mast , 2025-05-08 19:40:00 Insitro, the closely watched AI biotech from the Stanford professor and entrepreneur Daphne Koller, said Thursday it was laying off 22% of its staff, or around 60 people. It’s part of a series of cuts that have hit well-backed startups over the last couple years, amid a prolonged downturn in…
, 2025-05-08 19:43:00 Credit: Huy Phan from Pexels A recent doctoral dissertation reveals that adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse and neglect, predispose adolescents to suicidality. Girls had a higher risk of a suicidal event occurring during treatment, and suicidality risk screening at intake to behavioral and mental health services failed to predict a large…
, 2025-05-08 17:56:00 University of East Anglia scientists have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. Aortic stenosis is a progressive and potentially fatal condition, affecting an estimated 300,000 people in the UK. It affects about five per cent of 65-year-olds in the US, with…
, 2025-05-08 15:05:00 TOPLINE: In a cross-sectional study of 447 patients with vulvovaginal disorders, 52.8% considered ceasing care due to unaddressed concerns, while 39.4% reported being made to feel ‘crazy’ — rated as the most distressing behavior with a mean distress score of 7.39 out of 10. Patients reported that only 43.5% of past practitioners…
Katie Adams , 2025-05-08 18:30:00 Americans’ trust in the overall healthcare system is dwindling — but experts believe it can be rebuilt. Public trust in the U.S. healthcare system fell from 71.5% in 2020 to 40.1% in 2024, according to recent research from Johns Hopkins University. There are also various studies showing that feelings of…
MNB Guest , 2025-05-08 17:01:00 Your eyes capture joy, witness change, and reflect years. They face challenges as time passes. Vision may blur as a consequence of aging. Colors, once bright, now fade. Reading, which used to be a hobby, has become more difficult. These changes are unsettling. They affect how you see the world…
, 2025-05-08 15:54:00 AI-enabled voice technology platform Sonde Health announced it is partnering with Saaya Health, a virtual mental health and well-being platform, to extend its combined offerings to large blue-collar workforces. Sonde Health’s platform uses its patented voice technology that analyzes short voice samples to detect various health conditions from biomarkers in a person’s…
Rachana Pradhan , 2025-05-08 16:27:00 Rachana Pradhan The Department of Health and Human Services’ mass dismissals of workers who release government records “raise grave transparency, accountability, and privacy concerns,” Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said Thursday. In a May 8 letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. provided exclusively to KFF Health News, Wyden, the…
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John Wilkerson , 2025-05-08 17:08:00 You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’ve spent way too much time standing in the halls of Congress this week, hoping to catch lawmakers willing…
, 2025-05-08 17:13:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A key enzyme and its molecular pathway are critical to keeping certain immune cells active and away from “exhaustion,” according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The lab of Hai-Hui “Howard” Xue, Ph.D., and colleagues demonstrate in the new paper…
, 2025-05-08 16:55:00 An international team, led by researchers at the Champalimaud Foundation (CF), has shown – for the first time in a realistic way – that it may be possible to diagnose Parkinson’s disease (PD) years before it becomes untreatable, by scanning people’s brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Their results were published…
, 2025-05-08 15:30:00 AMSTERDAM — Today, the EU launched a new coalition of health organizations and experts to advocate for the reduction of alcohol-related illnesses, injuries, and deaths here at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) Congress 2025. The European Health Alliance on Alcohol aims to reduce alcohol’s impact on health,…
Seth Cohen , 2025-05-08 13:44:00 Medicaid was meant to be the solution. Then came the Affordable Care Act. But while the uninsured rate in America has reached historic lows, the financial burden on patients continues to rise. According to most recent estimates, 26 million Americans remain uninsured — half the number before the ACA —…
, 2025-05-08 15:59:00 Chipiron, a deeptech startup that specializes in ultra-low MRI, announced it raised $17 million in Series A funding round led by Blast. EIC Fund and iXcore participated in the round with support from France2030 (SGI), the EIC Accelerator (European Commission) and Bpifrance. WHAT IT DOES The company aims to “democratize” access to…
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Anil Oza , 2025-05-08 15:15:00 It has been hard to quantify the scope of grants canceled by Trump administration health agencies, but in a paper published Thursday, researchers are putting forth one topline number: $1.8 billion in grants from the National Institutes of Health terminated in just over one month, including $544 million that had…
, 2025-05-08 15:27:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mid and older life adults are choosing to exercise with people of the same age who they live near to and see often, regardless of the quality or quantity of those relationships, according to new research. The latest study, led by the University of Glasgow, found that adults…
, 2025-05-08 14:01:00 The incidence of infection by Mycobacterium abscessus, is increasing in patients with cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and other chronic pulmonary diseases, leading to an accelerated lung function decline. Remarkably, 58–78% of patients with M. abscessus infection are also infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most common pathogen in these conditions….
, 2025-05-08 14:20:00 The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved teprotumumab (Tepezza, Amgen) as the first treatment to be licensed in the UK for adults with moderate to severe thyroid eye disease. Thyroid eye disease, also known as Graves’ orbitopathy, affects up to 40% of individuals with this form of hyperthyroidism. Symptoms…
Meg Dietzel , 2025-05-08 13:48:00 Innovative marketing practices are the goal of every marketer; however, sometimes, it’s essential to consider not what new marketing tactic will be influential but how you can leverage existing marketing practices to solve larger business challenges. Within the healthcare space, marketing can now be used for much more than increasing…
Mathuln Piraba , 2025-05-08 14:00:00 ‘Diets don’t work.’ You’ve probably heard this claim many times, and for most people, statistics say it’s true. The question is, why do diets fail? Is it because they are badly thought out? Or, are we just misunderstanding how to follow them? Food scientists at William and Mary University, VA,…
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Elaine Chen , 2025-05-08 13:35:00 Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Good morning, we’ve got more news today about Vinay Prasad — let’s get into it. Vinay Prasad makes his debut at FDA One day after he was named the…
, 2025-05-08 13:24:00 Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers have identified a mechanism underlying insulin resistance in adolescents with obesity. The findings, published in Journal of Clinical Investigation, present a targetable pathway that could one day allow clinicians to intervene and prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. The number of youths with obesity has skyrocketed…
, 2025-05-08 11:29:00 As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor’s desk in April, the nation’s top health official joined Arizona lawmakers in the state Capitol to celebrate its passage. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said to applause that the legislation…
, 2025-05-08 12:32:00 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating a Salmonella outbreak that had infected seven individuals across six states as of April 24, 2025. According to the CDC website’s information on the investigation, the first case of Salmonella Mbandaka in the current outbreak was reported on February 9, 2025, and…
Frank Vinluan , 2025-05-08 12:00:00 Many drugs available and in development work by targeting proteins, an approach that comes with limitations. For one, proteins are not the root cause of disease, said Samir Ounzain, co-founder and CEO of HAYA Therapeutics. The driver of disease is the response of cells to their environment. Regulation of this…
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Theresa Gaffney , 2025-05-08 11:59:00 Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. Good morning! We got some personnel news from the Trump administration yesterday: The White House withdrew the nomination of Janette Nesheiwat for U.S. surgeon general. The new name came shortly after: Casey…
, 2025-05-08 10:26:00 Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Consumption of ultra-processed foods, such as sugar-sweetened beverages, potato chips and packaged cookies, may be associated with adverse health outcomes, according to research being presented at the ACC Asia 2025 Together with SCS 36th Annual Scientific Meeting taking place May 9–11 in Singapore. This risk for hypertension, other…
, 2025-05-08 11:33:00 On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital within a 75-minute drive. The facility struggles financially, given its small size and the area’s tiny population. But for over a decade, the Hugo, Colorado-based health system has remained afloat partially thanks…
, 2025-05-08 11:06:00 SAN DIEGO — The session started with a question that many in the audience at a May 4 session of Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2025 seemed to relate to: “How many of you find yourself squeezing workouts into a weekend after a hectic work week?” Although regular exercise three or more times…
Katheryn Houghton and Samantha Liss , 2025-05-08 09:00:00 PHOENIX — As an Arizona bill to block people from using government aid to buy soda headed to the governor’s desk in April, the nation’s top health official joined Arizona lawmakers in the state Capitol to celebrate its passage. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…
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Sanjay Basu , 2025-05-08 08:30:00 As a primary care physician serving Medicaid patients, I recently witnessed a preventable hospitalization that perfectly illustrates America’s health care dysfunction. My homebound patient with heart failure needed a routine lab test to adjust their medication. While commercially insured patients can access electronic lab orders, my patient’s Medicaid plan contracted…
, 2025-05-08 10:20:00 Credit: AI-generated image A new study puts the spotlight on the rising burden of ischemic heart disease across Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania, and calls for localized, equity-focused interventions in these regions. The researchers identified region-specific, modifiable risk factors that influence the increasing prevalence of ischemic heart disease, such as toxic…
, 2025-05-08 05:29:00 A next-generation “armored” CAR T cell therapy showed promising results in a small study of patients whose B-cell lymphomas continued to resist multiple rounds of other cancer treatments, including commercially available CAR T cell therapies. The new therapy diminished cancer in 81 percent of patients and resulted in complete remission in 52…
, 2025-05-08 09:18:00 Orthopedic specialists can be generally grouped into one of two categories: Surgical and nonsurgical. Within those categories, there are several subspecialties. Orthopedic surgeons may specialize in surgery of the hand, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow, spine, or in other areas, such as hip and knee replacement. Their training includes a 5-year…
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News , 2025-05-08 09:00:00 On the eastern plains of Colorado, in a county of less than 6,000 people, Lincoln Health runs the only hospital within a 75-minute drive. The facility struggles financially, given its small size and the area’s tiny population. But for over a decade, the Hugo, Colorado-based health system…
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Alex Hogan , 2025-05-08 08:30:00 A constellation of social media wellness influencers, YouTubers, and podcasters have been extolling the health benefits of peptides. There seems to be a peptide for just about anything you could dream of. Want to lose weight? There are GLP-1s, of course. Would you like to have a year-round tan? You…
, 2025-05-08 08:43:00 Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels A brief spell of talking therapy with a general practitioner reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for survivors of critical illness, finds a trial from Germany published by The BMJ. The effects of this brief psychological intervention were modest, but may help to bridge long…
, 2025-05-08 05:32:00 A brief spell of talking therapy with a general practitioner reduces symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for survivors of critical illness, finds a trial from Germany published by The BMJ today. The effects of this brief psychological intervention were modest, but may help to bridge long waiting times between discharge from…
, 2025-05-08 08:09:00 TOPLINE: Vulnerable Medicare beneficiaries with frailty and those needing short-term skilled nursing facility care post-hospitalization were less likely to receive timely primary care follow-up after returning home. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study using claims data from Medicare beneficiaries, including 94,248,326 hospital discharges (80.1% aged ≥ 65 years; 55.1% women) between…
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