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Wegovy weight loss pill now available in UK - here's what you need to know
Novo Nordisk's once-daily Wegovy oral pill (semaglutide) is now on sale at UK High Street and online pharmacies for £99–199 a month, but NHS patients will wait for a NICE cost-effectiveness review las
ApoB Test Prevents More Heart Attacks Than LDL: Study
A Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA found that guiding cholesterol-lowering treatment with apoB blood tests prevents more heart attacks and strokes than standard LDL testing, while remaini
Opinion: Stopping doctors from ordering unnecessary diagnostic tests requires a structural fix
An opinion piece argues structural changes to how tests are ordered — not physician education — are the proven fix for unnecessary medical testing, citing a 46-hospital Michigan study that cut inappro
Adams: FDA Should Allow Supervised Peptide Compounding
Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams is urging the FDA to create a clinician-supervised pathway for selected peptides rather than rely on either unrestricted gray markets or a blanket crackdown
Amodei Walks Back 'Century in Decade' AI-Biotech Claim
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly tempered his once-bold prediction that AI could compress a century of biotech progress into a decade, telling STAT+ the payoff may take much longer than he envision
GOP Pushes FDA to Shield Clinical Trial Diversity
Republican lawmakers are pressing the FDA to preserve clinical trial diversity requirements, arguing they are a scientific necessity distinct from the DEI policies the Trump administration is scrubbin
Vidcon Spotlights Mental Health of Content Creators
At this year's Vidcon in Anaheim, California, content creator mental health dominated the programming, prompting STAT to feature Instagram creator Andy Neal and Creators 4 Mental Health founder Shira
Waning Crescent Moon Meets Pleiades on 11 July
A thin waning crescent moon will glide past the Pleiades star cluster (M45) in the early hours of 11 July, offering a brief pre-dawn viewing window before twilight washes out the sky.
Four languages linked to brains 13 years younger: study
Speaking two or more languages is linked to brains that appear up to 13 years younger, according to a 728-person study presented at a European neuroscience conference in Barcelona.
King's College Finds Karyoptosis Mechanism in Alzheimer's
Researchers at King's College London identified a previously overlooked cell-death mechanism called karyoptosis — where the nucleus shrivels and breaks apart — in the brains of Alzheimer's and frontot
70 Countries Ban Human Gene Editing as Public Support Grows
The Guardian's editorial board argues that human germline gene editing must remain banned on safety grounds — but with public support rising and bioethics bodies softening, society must now confront n
NHS app to use AI to determine which service best for patients
NHS England will deploy an AI triage tool on its app to direct patients to the right service, with a £10bn government-backed rollout reaching 200,000 patients in its first year and all app users by Ap
British swallowtail split from European cousins much earlier than thought, study finds
Whole-genome sequencing reveals Britain's swallowtail butterfly split from continental relatives 200,000 to 1.7 million years ago — far earlier than the 8,000 years previously assumed — reframing cons
UC Berkeley Maps Deep Sleep-Growth Hormone Brain Circuit
UC Berkeley neuroscientists have mapped the brain circuit that ties deep sleep to growth hormone release, revealing a previously unknown feedback loop that balances hormone levels against wakefulness
Centenarians Show Unique Blood Metabolite Pattern
Boston University researchers identified a distinct blood metabolite signature in centenarians — marked by elevated bile acids and preserved steroid levels — that differs from normal aging and is link
A hidden weakness in deadly cancers could lead to powerful new treatments
UCLA researchers discovered that aggressive small cell cancers lacking the RB gene become critically dependent on the E2F3 protein, and existing FDA-approved drugs that lower E2F3 could be repurposed
NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth
NASA enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies on a nine-month, $30 million rush job to intercept and re-boost the $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before solar storms drag it low enough to burn
Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project
The Cornell Lab's Merlin bird ID app will soon funnel its millions of users' real-time bird sound identifications directly into eBird, a global citizen-science database holding 2 billion-plus observat
Sanger Institute begins tardigrade genome sequencing
The Wellcome Sanger Institute's Tree of Life programme has begun sequencing tardigrade genomes, hunting the famously indestructible micro-animals on its Cambridgeshire campus as part of an ambitious p
Year-Old Garden Pond Produces First Dragonfly Emergence
A nature writer's garden pond, filled just one year ago in June, has already produced its first generation of emerging dragonflies — with the full food chain on display from bur-reed-clinging exuviae
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