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Semaglutide Dosing Errors Fueled Poison Call Spike
Research from the University of Texas at San Antonio links a dramatic surge in U.S. poison control calls about semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy) to the drug's 2021 FDA approval for weight management, w
Silica nanoparticles cured aggressive prostate cancer in mice
Weill Cornell researchers engineered ultrasmall silica nanoparticles that selectively killed aggressive prostate cancer cells and reactivated the immune system in mice, producing complete remissions w
Bacterial 'docking domains' unlock cancer drug engineering
University of Warwick researchers have decoded how bacterial enzymes cooperate to produce multiple variants of powerful anti-cancer drugs, identifying molecular 'docking domains' as the connectors beh
MenB Vaccine Fails to Prevent Gonorrhoea in Major Trial
A major Australian trial has found the MenB vaccine offers no protection against gonorrhoea in men, undermining earlier studies that had prompted the NHS to begin offering the jab to gay and bisexual
Healey Summons Mass General Brigham, Nurses to State House
Governor Maura Healey summoned Mass General Brigham and its striking nurses to the State House for a late-afternoon meeting aimed at ending the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history, the firs
Drug Softens Ovaries, Doubles Conception in Older Rats
A drug that softens aging ovaries more than doubled conception rates and quintupled litter sizes in older rats and mice in a study led by Chinese researchers, raising hopes that a similar intervention
Trump Officials Push Pharma to Onshore Generic Drug Production
Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., met privately with pharmaceutical leaders to push for bringing production of 86 essent
Bryan Johnson Reveals Autoimmune Gastritis Diagnosis, Eyes CAR-T
Bryan Johnson, the 48-year-old longevity entrepreneur behind Blueprint, revealed he has autoimmune gastritis — a notoriously hard-to-diagnose condition where antibodies destroy the stomach's acid-prod
Lung transplants extended survival in stage 4 cancer: study
Northwestern Medicine reported in JAMA that double lung transplants enabled all 17 stage 4 lung cancer patients whose tumors hadn't spread to survive a full year, outperforming standard chemotherapy,
STAT+: Prime Medicine claims victory in dispute over gene-editing technology with Beam Therapeutics
Prime Medicine won an arbitration ruling against Beam Therapeutics, clearing it to proceed with a clinical trial for a gene-editing drug targeting the rare liver disease alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Vera kidney drug approval, a U.K. Enhertu pricing deal, and more
Two pharma developments are making headlines: the FDA approved Vera Therapeutics' $425,000-per-year kidney drug Trutakna for IgA nephropathy, while U.K. officials near a pricing deal with AstraZeneca
Schrödinger's 1944 'What Is Life?' still shapes biophysics
More than 80 years after its 1944 publication, Erwin Schrödinger's 'What Is Life?' continues to shape biophysics research with its physicist's framing of life, including the concept of 'negative entro
Cancer cases expected to soar worldwide, WHO report finds
A WHO report projects global cancer cases will rise from 20.6 million annually to nearly 35 million by 2050, while warning that survival depends overwhelmingly on where a patient lives — with five-yea
Therapist Warns Patients Off ChatGPT, Uses It Herself
Boston clinical psychologist Sarah Darghouth admits to using ChatGPT herself for parenting help while warning her therapy patients about AI's mental health risks, arguing the messy, uncertain nature o
The allergy culprit histamine also boosts our memory
Oxford researchers found that the narcolepsy drug pitolisant, which raises brain histamine levels, improved memory accuracy by 11% in a 60-person MRI trial — revealing histamine's surprisingly differe
Creatine Energizes Cancer-Fighting Immune Cells: UCLA
A UCLA study finds that creatine, the popular muscle-building supplement, may help fight cancer by energizing dendritic cells that activate killer T cells, though the work is still limited to mice and
Trial: Intermittent Fasting Matches Calorie Restriction
An 18-month Adelaide University trial found intermittent fasting matched calorie restriction for weight loss in adults with obesity, while feeling far less mentally burdensome — pointing to a more sus
Trump science policy hits court roadblocks in year one
The Trump administration's first-year science policy blitz — from mass firings of federal research staff to a Friday-night push to overhaul university reimbursement — was repeatedly blocked in federal
Opinion: The AI licensure debate is missing the point of licensure
Two physicians argue the debate over licensing AI for clinical use misses licensure's core purpose: bearing personal responsibility for patient outcomes, which no algorithm, vendor, or health system c
Orforglipron beats oral semaglutide in diabetes trial
Eli Lilly's once-daily oral weight-loss pill orforglipron outperformed oral semaglutide on both blood sugar control and weight loss in a 52-week Phase 3 trial of 1,698 adults with type 2 diabetes, but
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