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The Statin Trial Had Two Primary Endpoints. Only One Is in the Headlines.
STAREE cut major cardiovascular events by 30 per cent relative, 2.3 points absolute, in adults over 70. On disability-fr...
Obesity Marks Immune Cells for Years. No Study Shows Disease Follows.
A study finds DNA methylation in CD4 T cells persisting for years after weight loss. Nobody has yet followed people carr...
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Four AI Devices Reach Medicare Patients Without Clearance, or a Review Board
The FDA's TEMPO pilot sets aside more than marketing authorisation. Enforcement discretion also covers the IDE, informed...
The Best Model Called a Death Cap Edible 16 Per Cent of the Time
Sixteen models were tested on 1,040 photographs of 55 species. Top-five accuracy is the wrong metric, because nobody eat...
99.1 Per Cent Safe Across 4,300 Responses Means 39 That Were Not
Clinicians can now import Epic records into ChatGPT Health. OpenAI reports 99.1 per cent of responses safe across 4,300...
Aesto Health Took Eight Months to Tell 9.5 Million People
A vendor that archives patient records during system migrations is notifying 9.5 million people about a December 2025 in...
McKesson Will Not Be Notifying Most of These Patients. Their Doctors Will.
The rule splits the duty: the business associate tells the practices, and each practice tells its own patients. One intr...
No Pacemaker Stopped Working. New Patients Cannot Be Enrolled.
The reporting says the incident has hit pacemakers. Therapy was never involved and existing monitoring still works; the...
The Cancer Blood Test Going to the FDA Missed Its Primary Endpoint
GRAIL's test goes to an FDA advisory committee on 23 September, the first of its kind to get there. The trial behind it...
A Startup Launched With Tissue, Blood And Outcomes From 500,000 Patients
Network Bio raised US$50 million and disclosed a US$30 million-plus agreement with an unnamed Fortune 100 healthcare com...
Twenty-One US States Now Regulate Clinical AI, And They Do Not Agree
Thirty-three healthcare AI laws were enacted by the end of 2025, from more than 250 bills introduced across 47 states. T...
Anthropic Will Now Answer More of Your Biology Questions
Anthropic retrained the safety classifier that quietly routes biology questions away from Fable 5, cutting those fallbac...
J&J Says the FDA Authorised Its OTTAVA Surgical Robot — Almost Nothing in the Announcement Can Be Checked Yet
The release never says "nine procedures". Both performance claims cite unpublished internal documentation. And the FDA d...
Medtronic Is Notifying 3.8 Million People of a Data Breach — Here's What It Means for Patients
Medtronic, the world's largest medical device maker, is notifying 3,834,294 people that a data breach of its corporate I...
The FDA Is Reviewing 7 Peptides on 23–24 July — Here's What That Does and Doesn't Mean
The FDA's Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee will review seven peptides — BPC-157, KPV, TB-500, MOTS-c, Emideltide...
Researchers Push Back on the FDA's 2026 Wellness-Device Guidance — What It Means for Wearable Owners
A Nature Biomedical Engineering Comment published on 23 June 2026 argues that the FDA's 2026 General Wellness guidance l...
Harvard Just Waded Into the Longevity Hype — and Its Main Message Is 'Do the Boring Stuff First
Harvard Health Publishing released its first-ever report dedicated to longevity science. For consumers facing a crowded...
Your Fitness Tracker Wants to Be a 'Health Platform' Now — What That Means for Your Wallet and Your Data
Oura, Whoop, Garmin and others are turning rings and watches into subscription 'health platforms' built around sleep, st...
Singapore's Healthy 365 App Gets a 'Wayfinding' Feature From June 2026 — Nudging You to the Park Down the Street
From June 2026, Singapore's Health Promotion Board is adding a 'wayfinding' feature to its free Healthy 365 app to point...
The FDA wants clinical trials to report in real time, with AI doing the watching
The US Food and Drug Administration has started two pilot trials that send their results to the agency as the data comes...
Bayesian Health Wins First FDA Clearance for Continuous AI Sepsis Monitor, Study Shows 18% Mortality Drop
Bayesian Health's TREWS system became the first AI device cleared by the FDA to continuously monitor all hospitalised pa...
Commure Raises US$70M at US$7B Valuation to Deploy AI Agents Across Hospital Administration
On 19 May 2026, Commure closed a US$70 million round at a US$7 billion post-money valuation, led by General Catalyst. It...
FDA Approves First Inhaled Insulin for Children: Afrezza Clears Paediatric Label After a Century of Injections
On 29 May 2026, the FDA cleared Afrezza inhaled insulin for children and adolescents aged 6 and older — the first inhale...
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