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UK's Best Eclipse Since 1999 Hits Wednesday Evening
The UK is set for its best partial solar eclipse since 1999 on Wednesday evening, with up to 96% of the Sun blocked by the Moon, while northern Spain awaits a total eclipse that has drawn an estimated
French trial: stopping statins at 75 didn't raise deaths
A French randomized trial of over 1,160 patients averaging age 80 found no significant difference in death rates or cardiovascular events between healthy seniors who stopped statins and those who cont
Scotland Eclipse Glasses Sell Out Before Partial Eclipse
Scotland is scrambling for ISO-certified eclipse glasses ahead of Wednesday's partial solar eclipse — the most dramatic visible from the UK since August 1999 — with high street stores sold out and eve
Trump Orders Vaccine Changes Without Evidence
President Trump signed an executive order reshaping childhood vaccine recommendations, prompting pushback from health industry leaders despite lacking scientific backing.
Trump Vaccine Order Erodes Trust, Not Restores It
An epidemiologist argues that President Trump's executive order on childhood vaccines — billed as a trust-restoration measure — actually undermines the very confidence it claims to build, by making es
CRISPR phages clear superbug in transplant patient
A 65-year-old kidney transplant patient in California saw a large bladder mass halve in volume within a week of receiving SNIPR001, an experimental cocktail of CRISPR-armed bacteriophages designed to
Heart surgery cured man's cancer, gave him bee allergy
An Australian farmer in his 60s saw his advanced melanoma vanish from his body after heart surgery triggered a massive immune response, but two years later developed a severe bee sting allergy his doc
Two Teams Create First Full Sound Rainbows on Chips
Two independent Chinese research teams have created and imaged the most complete 'elastic rainbows' to date — full-frequency sound-wave rainbows trapped on silicon and aluminium chips — opening a path
Trump's MMR Split Would Undo Decades of Vaccine Success
President Trump's executive order to split the combined MMR vaccine into separate shots would reverse decades of public health gains and risk measles resurgence, a danger history has already demonstra
Trump's vaccine pivot draws Cassidy criticism
President Trump reversed his vaccine policy stance on Monday, thrusting the issue back into the spotlight and prompting Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy to publicly criticize the president's call to break
FDA Rejects ITM Therapy; Hims & Hers Eyes Peptides
STAT's Pharmalittle roundup covers the FDA's rejection of ITM's radiopharmaceutical over manufacturing flaws and Hims & Hers' planned entry into the peptides market before year-end.
Mummified Body Parts Sale Poses 'Real Mummy's Curse'
A peer-reviewed study warns that a growing online trade in mummified human remains — including heads, hands, and feet sold via social media and auction sites — exposes traders, buyers, and postal work
FDA Clears Samsung Galaxy Buds as OTC Hearing Aids
The FDA has cleared select Samsung Galaxy Buds, including the Pro 4, to function as over-the-counter hearing aids, a capability previously associated with AirPods Pro that is now extending to Samsung'
STAT+: Skylark Bio kicks off new gene therapy trial for deafness
Skylark Bio has emerged from stealth and dosed its first patient with a gene therapy targeting the GJB2 mutation — the 'holy grail' of hearing-loss targets — joining startups in the US, France, and Ch
Denisovans may have dwarfed other ancient humans
Two Denisovans who lived some 45,000 years ago off the coast of Taiwan stood up to 190 centimetres tall and weighed as much as 91 kilograms, making them among the largest ancient humans ever identifie
2026 Total Solar Eclipse: Path from Russia to Spain
A total solar eclipse on 12 August 2026 will trace a narrow path from Russia across the Arctic and Greenland to Iceland and northern Spain, with much of Europe and North America seeing a partial eclip
Quantum interference detected inside protons
Physicists have detected quantum interference inside protons by merging more than a dozen datasets from CERN and Germany's DESY, demonstrating that the parton model — long treated as nearly classical
Study: Abortion Hotline Demand Grew Before Dobbs Ruling
A new Lancet study analyzing 16,000+ contacts with the Miscarriage + Abortion Hotline finds that demand for anonymous, decentralized abortion care was rising sharply well before the Supreme Court over
Opinion: Burdensome Medicare GLP-1 program may keep patients from accessing $50 per month weight loss drugs
An op-ed argues that Medicare's Bridge program, which launched July 1 offering Wegovy, Zepbound, and Foundayo at $50 per month, is so administratively complex that it may undermine its own goal of exp
Mars May Have Held Liquid Water More Recently
New findings reported by Phys.org suggest Mars may have held liquid water more recently than previously believed, a conclusion reinforced by separate rover-based studies from Spirit and Zhurong.
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