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STAT+: RFK Jr.’s second year: Vacancies, not vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s health secretary, has spent the first half of his tenure traveling across the country. He visited a regenerative farm in Ohio, met Wisconsin dairy farmers, and observe
A study of 8,300 older adults revealed a surprising salt habit
A study of 8,300 Brazilians aged 60 and older, published in Frontiers in Public Health, found that 12.7% of men and 9.4% of women regularly add extra salt at the table. Women’s salt‑adding habit was l
Jakob Uszkoreit Launches Inceptive Nucleics for RNA AI
Jakob Uszkoreit, co‑creator of the transformer architecture behind ChatGPT, is now focusing on RNA therapeutics through his startup Inceptive Nucleics. The company is building biological foundation mo
Scientists finally crack an “undruggable” pancreatic cancer target and nearly double survival
A new drug, daraxonrasib, which targets the KRAS mutation driving over 90% of pancreatic tumors, has shown in a landmark trial to nearly double survival for patients with advanced disease and cut the
Three Vaccine Papers RFK Jr. Cited Retracted or Under Scrutiny
Three scientific papers used to justify sweeping changes to US vaccine policy under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have been retracted, removed, or placed under investigation by their publishers over the past
Daraxonrasib Gets FDA Approval for Pancreas Cancer
Revolution Medicines’ drug daraxonrasib has received a certain FDA approval for metastatic pancreatic cancer patients whose tumors progressed after chemotherapy, positioning it as the new second‑line
CMS narrows Medicaid cancer exemption, forces proof
Lawmakers assured cancer patients they would be exempt from new Medicaid work‑reporting rules, but a CMS interim final rule adopted under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act narrows the medical frailty exe
STAT+: After hospitals, patients get a turn to bring AI into the doctor’s office
AI‑powered ambient scribes now draft clinical notes in over a quarter of U.S. medical practices. At the same time, patients are turning to consumer apps such as VisitRecall, Advoca Health, and AlignCa
Ebola Bundibugyo strain spreads in DRC, Uganda; no cure
The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola is currently spreading across the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. No vaccine or treatment exists for this strain, prompting scientists and researchers to ra
Cancer's MHC I Escape Trick Backfires, Study Finds
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine discovered that cancer cells which shed MHC I to dodge killer T cells become more vulnerable to helper T cells, overturning a decades-old immunology principle
Mirvetuximab Soravtansine Approved by NICE for NHS
Mirvetuximab soravtansine has received NICE approval and is now available on the NHS, offering a targeted chemotherapy for ovarian cancer that delivers drugs directly to tumor cells. Clinical data sho
STAT+: HaloMD faces lawsuit alleging No Surprises Act middleman used ‘sham letter,’ misleading data
Highmark Health, a Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee, has sued HaloMD and its client Bromedicon, claiming they used the No Surprises Act arbitration process to file over 450 ineligible disputes and won
CERN’s new chief on the gamble that could fix our picture of reality
CERN’s new director general, Mark Thomson, is overseeing the shutdown of the Large Hadron Collider for a major upgrade and steering the lab toward a £13 billion next‑generation collider. In an intervi
Atom-based quantum computers are catching up in the race to usefulness
Atom Computing’s neutral‑atom quantum computer has demonstrated error‑correction scaling from 16 to 32 qubits with lower error rates, and it can run the correction routine for up to 90 cycles. The bre
Legend Biotech shares surge 40% on promising CAR‑T data
Legend Biotech’s stock rose more than 40% after the company released early data showing its in‑vivo CAR‑T therapy has promise against Non‑Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The gain came amid a broad sell‑off in bio
Cigna Cuts GLP‑1 Coverage as Study Shows Knee Benefits
Cigna announced it will stop covering GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound for its employee health plan starting July 1, forcing current users to pay cash, which won’t count toward dedu
Researchers fix amygdala circuit, reverse anxiety
Researchers identified a specific amygdala neuron circuit whose overactivity drives anxiety and social deficits, and showed that normalizing its activity in mice reverses these behaviors.
Opinion: How the military may be fueling eating disorders in men
“Much of the rhetoric, imagery, and policy messaging from the Trump administration centers on extreme masculine ideals,”...
STAT+: NIH cuts weakened network primed to respond to outbreaks like Ebola
While NIH-funded centers weren’t on the front lines of virus responses like the CDC or USAID, some researchers involved ...
French Fries Linked to 20% Higher Type‑2 Diabetes Risk
A new BMJ study finds that eating three servings of French fries per week raises type‑2 diabetes risk by 20%, while other potato preparations show no significant effect, and swapping potatoes for whol
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