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NHS Pilots Rapid Brain Tumour Genomic Test
NHS England is piloting a rapid genomic test that can diagnose brain tumours in as little as two hours — down from up to eight weeks — with results reaching surgeons while patients are still on the op
Trump's FDA Pick Overton Dodges Senate Questions on Vaccines
Heidi Overton, President Trump's pick to lead the FDA, faced a two-hour Senate confirmation hearing where she repeatedly dodged senators' questions on vaccines, abortion drug access, and China, deferr
Young Orangutans Build Broader Diets by Copying Others
A 12-year study of 21 wild Sumatran orangutans shows that juveniles who do little solo foraging can still develop reasonably broad diets by closely watching other orangutans eat and then practicing on
Indonesian Court Strikes Down Patent Evergreening Provision
Indonesia's Constitutional Court struck down a provision allowing 'patent evergreening,' ruling that prohibiting the practice is needed to balance patent holders' rights with public health. Patient ad
Taking HRT in perimenopause may ward off cardiovascular disease
A 20-year study of 2,737 US women found those who began hormone replacement therapy within 10 years of menopause-related hot flushes were 27% less likely to suffer heart attacks or strokes, though its
Brain Resolves Visual Conflicts Via Inter-Region Consensus
A Nature Neuroscience study shows the brain resolves conflicts between visual cortex regions by rapidly suppressing disagreement while letting matching signals persist—a "consensus building" mechanism
STAT+: The rise of the AI-native radiology practice
Medicare's proposal to require remote patient monitoring services be performed directly by billing providers' own employees — rather than by outside vendors — has drawn formal opposition letters from
Skin patch that collects sweat could predict ovulation
Caltech researchers have built a wearable skin patch that measures both oestradiol and progesterone in sweat and transmits readings to a smartphone, with blood-test correlations of 0.83 and 0.93 in an
Scientists thought they knew how this 70-year-old leukemia drug worked
Researchers discovered that the 70-year-old leukemia drug 6-thioguanine works through an unexpected non-enzymatic function of a protein called NUDT5 — a finding only revealed by completely removing th
Mizzou Pins Aging Muscle Loss on Nerve Signal Breakdown
University of Missouri researchers identified a previously overlooked failure at the neuromuscular junction as a key driver of age-related muscle weakness, and showed in an animal model that partially
Gilead Calls Immunology Its 'Third Leg' of Growth
Gilead Sciences executives are publicly elevating the company's inflammation and immunology (I&I) pipeline to equal billing with its dominant virology franchise and growing oncology business, framing
Trump Drug Pricing Win Overstated: States Still Wary
Trump administration officials overstated state buy-in for the GENEROUS drug pricing model, with several states telling STAT they remain undecided despite technically applying to participate.
Congress Eyes First Medicare Doctor Pay Overhaul in Over a Decade
Congress is weighing the first major overhaul of Medicare's physician payment system in more than a decade, with bipartisan agreement emerging on tying doctor pay to a medical inflation measure.
Opinion: STAT+: A moment of reckoning for preventive cardiology and the precision medicine revolution
Two high-profile Phase 3 heart drugs — Novartis's pelacarsen and Novo Nordisk's ziltivekimab — hit their biological targets but failed to reduce cardiovascular events, a back-to-back setback for preci
More REM Sleep Linked to Lower Risk of 83 Diseases
A study of over 95,000 UK Biobank participants found that more REM sleep was associated with lower risk of 83 diseases—including dementia, Parkinson's, and heart failure—while a 6-to-8-hour sleep wind
GLP-1 weight loss and diabetes drugs linked to nutritional deficiencies in nearly 1 in 6 children
A study of over 2,000 children ages 10–17 found that nearly one in six developed a nutritional deficiency within a year of starting GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, with vitamin D deficiency the most c
New Scientist readers ask about stair speed and perceived reality
New Scientist's 'Last Word' reader Q&A column published two new questions this week — on stair-climbing efficiency from Sydney's Mick Liubinskas and the nature of perceived reality from London's Rober
VCs rush into osteoporosis drugs after FDA guidance shift
VCs are rushing into osteoporosis drug development as new FDA guidance eases regulatory barriers, drawing both investors and pharma companies back to a therapeutic area previously avoided due to safet
Study: Fetal TORCH infections triple autism risk
A Karolinska Institutet study of 3.7 million people born in Sweden between 1987 and 2021 found that rare congenital TORCH infections — passed from mother to fetus — roughly triple the risk of autism a
Topical senolytic speeds wound healing in aged mice
Researchers found that applying ABT-263 — a senolytic that clears aging, damaged cells — to the skin of older mice significantly sped wound healing and reactivated repair pathways involved in collagen
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