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AstraZeneca CEO: Match 'Chinese Speed' or Lose
AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot warned the drugmaker must match 'Chinese speed' in innovation or risk losing to rivals, as the company posted 6% first-half revenue growth and reaffirmed its $80bn 2030 s
STAT+: RA Capital backs upstart rival to Ultragenyx and Ionis in rare brain disease
RA Capital and other investors are putting $175 million into Oak Hill Bio, a startup resurrecting a shelved Roche Angelman syndrome drug to challenge Phase 3 frontrunners Ultragenyx and Ionis.
UK's iconic Jodrell Bank telescope faces axe in science cuts
Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the UK's largest telescope for nearly 70 years, has lost its £2.8m annual UKRI funding and faces closure with all scientific observations expected to end on 1 April 2
How midwives fight vaccine misinformation
A nurse-midwife shares how midwives can build trust with vaccine-hesitant patients through respectful, evidence-based conversations without judgment, amid rising vaccine-preventable diseases and erodi
Medical Schools Take Kennedy's Nutrition Call, Skip MAHA Parts
Medical schools are selectively adopting HHS's 71-topic nutrition curriculum, embracing culinary medicine and food-based approaches while explicitly avoiding MAHA-aligned topics lacking scientific evi
Opinion: E-bikes, e-scooters are a burgeoning pediatric public health emergency
Pediatric orthopedic surgeons at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia warn that e-bike and e-scooter injuries among children have become a public health emergency, citing a 71% one-year spike in e-scoo
UPFs linked to depression, dementia and faster cognitive decline
Multiple recent studies tie higher ultra-processed food consumption to faster cognitive decline, elevated risk of dementia, Parkinson's disease and depression, though researchers caution the evidence
Argenx to Buy Forte Biosciences for $2.2B
Belgium-based immunology drugmaker Argenx announced Monday it will acquire Dallas-based Forte Biosciences for $2.2 billion in cash, paying a 41% premium to expand its autoimmune disease pipeline.
Shropshire Volunteer Scheme Transforms Redundant Man's Life
A 27-year-old Shropshire man made redundant from catering during COVID credits a volunteer placement at Fordhall Farm with pulling him out of a difficult mental health period, as the wider programme r
World's Oldest Grassland Experiment Marks 170 Years
Rothamsted Research's Park Grass Experiment in Hertfordshire — the world's oldest continuous experiment on permanent grassland, running since 1856 — keeps producing cutting-edge science, with research
Summer Triangle Returns: Vega, Deneb, Altair Visible Now
The Summer Triangle — an unofficial asterism of three bright stars, Vega, Deneb, and Altair — is again prominent in the northern hemisphere's summer night sky, framing the Milky Way's dense central st
NASA behavioral scientist details Artemis crew health work
A day-in-the-life profile of Dr. Suzanne Bell, the organizational psychologist leading NASA's behavioral health lab at Johnson Space Center, who is preparing crew psychology research for the Artemis l
Restricted eating hours may reduce cognitive decline in older age, researchers find
A pilot study of 47 older women found that confining meals to a nine-hour window improved cognitive test performance compared with eating over a longer period, despite similar weight loss between the
AI Calorie Apps Undercount by Up to 345 Calories Per Meal
Four popular AI-powered calorie-tracking apps underestimated calories by 250–345 per meal and fat by ~30 grams when tested against 102 precisely prepared meals at the NIH Clinical Center, with high-fa
CRISPR restores immune signal in prostate cancer
Researchers developed a CRISPR-based tool that restores a molecular signal letting immune cells detect prostate cancer, dramatically improving immunotherapy response in mice and potentially opening im
Fat Cell Death Can Trigger Diabetes, Study Finds
University of Michigan researchers found that when fat cells become inflamed and die off—as happens in the rare condition familial partial lipodystrophy type 2—the body loses its ability to store lipi
Brain Immune Cell Shift May Gate Alzheimer's Dementia
Researchers have identified a biological tipping point in the brain's immune cells that may determine whether Alzheimer's pathology progresses to dementia, potentially opening new treatment avenues fo
BCP Council urges Big Butterfly Count participation
BCP Council urged residents to join Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count, running until 9 August, to help scientists assess how this year's hot weather has affected butterfly populations.
Millions of people are losing weight using GLP-1s. How do the drugs affect their love lives?
As millions use GLP-1 drugs like Mounjaro for weight loss, patients and therapists report the medications expose — rather than resolve — longstanding relationship problems, with early studies showing
Starship Flight 13 Succeeds Despite Booster Engine Failures
SpaceX's 13th Super Heavy-Starship test flight achieved a mostly successful mission, with the upper stage deploying 20 Starlink satellites and splashing down intact in the Indian Ocean, though the boo
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