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STAT+: Sandoz to pay $478.5 million to settle price-fixing allegations in long-running battle with states
Sandoz has agreed to pay $478.5 million to settle allegations from U.S. states and indirect resellers that it conspired to inflate generic drug prices, without admitting wrongdoing.
BioNTech Names Ex-Sobi CEO Oelkers to Replace Sahin
BioNTech on Monday named Guido Oelkers, the former head of Swedish biopharma Sobi, as its new CEO, tapping a 30-year industry veteran to steer the Covid-19 vaccine maker's pivot to oncology as founder
Woodlouse stores heavy metals, boasts 300+ nicknames
The Guardian profiles the woodlouse as a candidate for its Invertebrate of the Year contest, highlighting the creature's 300-plus British nicknames, 500-million-year tenure on land, and surprising abi
Neurologist with ALS advocates for patient autonomy
A neurologist who once delivered ALS diagnoses now lives with the disease himself, using his experience to advocate for patient autonomy, dignity, and accelerated research after his 2025 diagnosis.
Medical Schools Grapple Over AI Scribes in Training
Medical schools are wrestling with whether to let students use AI scribe tools during clinical training, fearing the technology could short-circuit the cognitive struggle of crafting notes and reasoni
FSMB: Don't License AI as a Doctor, Use Physician Oversight
The leaders of the Federation of State Medical Boards argue that AI should be governed through existing physician accountability structures rather than licensed as an independent practitioner, citing
Inpatient Prehab Helps Frail Heart Transplant Candidates Qualify
A heart transplant cardiologist at Banner–University Medical Center Phoenix launched an inpatient prehab program in 2023 to keep frail hospitalized candidates from losing eligibility — and 62% of seco
Thermo Fisher Patches DNA File Forgery Flaw
Thermo Fisher has patched a high-severity flaw in Applied Biosystems DNA analysis software that let a researcher—using Anthropic's Claude—forge DNA data files in 45 minutes in ways that fooled standar
Beef-liver iron supplements lack direct trial evidence
Despite the trendy appeal of beef-liver supplements for boosting iron, no clinical trials have directly tested them against standard iron tablets, and the best available proxy — a Gambia trial of a be
Surgeons Repair Baby's Gastroschisis Inside the Womb
A London woman underwent pioneering in-womb keyhole surgery in Texas at 26 weeks pregnant to push her unborn son's protruding intestines back inside his abdomen — making baby Theo only the third in th
Mercury Reaches Greatest Western Elongation Sunday
Mercury reached its greatest western elongation on Sunday, offering one of the year's best pre-dawn viewing windows as the planet steadily brightens against the gathering dawn this week.
100+ Figures Urge UK to Reverse Jodrell Bank Funding Cuts
Over 100 artists, writers and scientists — including New Order, Chris Hadfield and poet laureate Simon Armitage — have urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reverse UK funding cuts at Jodrell Bank Obse
Michigan Court: 4-3 Ruling Revives Lilly Insulin Probe
Michigan's Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Friday that Attorney General Dana Nessel may proceed with a four-year-old consumer protection investigation into Eli Lilly's insulin pricing, reversing a lower co
U.S. Restores Some Vaccine and Health Aid to Unicef, Gavi and World Food Programme
The State Department has notified Congress of a $600 million commitment to Gavi for childhood immunizations, marking the latest in nearly $2 billion in restored US global health aid after the Trump ad
A mystery virus started killing horses. Then humans. Was this the moment our coronavirus era began?
The 1994 Hendra virus outbreak at a Brisbane horse stable killed trainer Vic Rail and led scientists, including ecologist Hume Field, to trace the pathogen to flying foxes — the first recognized bat-t
TRF2 Loss Turns Injured Muscle Into Fat, Scar Tissue
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania discovered that TRF2, a protein long known for shielding chromosome ends, is essential for keeping muscle stem cells functional — without it, injured musc
This once-a-week workout may help cut belly fat, study shows
A University of Hong Kong trial of 315 adults with central obesity found that 75 minutes of brisk interval walking in a single weekly session reduced body fat and improved cardiorespiratory fitness as
SpaceX's Biggest Test This Week Isn't a Rocket Launch
SpaceX's biggest test of the week isn't a rocket launch, Teslarati argues, as cross-coverage pivots to an investor-facing milestone drawing attention from Reuters and Yahoo Finance.
Eating less protein could slow aging, major review finds
A sweeping review of more than 350 studies published in the journal Cell Press Blue by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers concludes that reducing protein intake may improve metabolism, limit
CERN LHC Detects Primordial Quark-Gluon Plasma
CERN's Large Hadron Collider experiments have detected signs of quark-gluon plasma — the primordial state of matter from the early universe — using collisions of oxygen and neon ions, with researchers
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