The FDA Approved a Heart Valve That Doctors Can Widen as a Child Grows
The Autus device starts at about 13 mm and is stretched with a balloon catheter to as much as 22 mm, sparing some repeat...
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Infections Caused 2.3 Million Cancers in 2024, and a Larger Share in Southeast Asia
An IARC analysis in The Lancet Oncology attributes one in eight new tumours worldwide to infectious agents. In the regio...
Transplant Patients Who Ate More Sweets on Antibiotics Lost More Gut Bacteria
A Nature study of 9,419 hospital meals linked sugar during antibiotic treatment to bigger blooms of Enterococcus. Mouse...
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The First Approved Drug for MCT8 Deficiency Treats the Body's Excess Hormone, Not the Brain
The FDA approved Egetis's Emcitate (tiratricol) on 28 September. It lowers the thyroid hormone that builds up in the blo...
A Drug Aimed at a Weak Point in Some Cancers Shrank Tumours in 7 of 66 Patients
The first WRN inhibitor tested in people was tolerable and controlled disease in 74% of patients whose MSI cancers had m...
A Chinese GLP-1 Pill Taken Without Fasting Cut Blood Sugar in a Phase 3 Trial
Hengrui's safiglipron lowered HbA1c by up to 1.45 points against placebo in 284 people with early type 2 diabetes. The r...
Tavapadon, a Parkinson's Drug Aimed at Different Dopamine Receptors, Wins FDA Approval
AbbVie's Juvmo, tavapadon, is the first to target D1 and D5 receptors. It beat placebo in three trials but was never tes...
The FDA Approved a Once-a-Week Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes
Lilly's Onswik lowered blood sugar about as well as daily insulin in four trials. It is not recommended for type 1 diabe...
The FDA Approved a Third Drug for a Disease That Turns Muscle Into Bone
Atebrioz joins two earlier treatments for fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, one approved five weeks ago. The approv...
Power-Plant Pollution Deaths in Indian Cities Rose Twentyfold Since 2000, Study Estimates
A Nature Cities study puts the toll near 300,000 in 2020, up from about 15,000. The same growth cut smoke deaths inside...
A Korean Group's US Subsidiary Wins FDA Approval for a Bile-Duct Cancer Drug
Lyrfigtu shrank tumours in 46 per cent of patients in a trial with no comparison group. HLB calls it a first for a Korea...
FDA Advisers Split Six to Four on Whether the Cancer Test Works
The panel voted unanimously that Galleri is safe and seven to two that its benefits outweigh its risks. On effectiveness...
Bangladesh Counted 132 Measles Cases Last Year. This Year, 179,814.
A record drive put 19.75 million doses into children under five. A former government epidemiologist says the target was...
Ten Years Cutting Engineered Stone, Then a Transplant Assessment
Engineered stone runs above 90 per cent crystalline silica. In California, 592 workers were found with the disease betwe...
Delete One Gene and the Parasite Cannot Reach a Mosquito
Nutrient stress, fever and an antimalarial drug all drive gametocyte conversion through AP2-HS. Deleting the gene stoppe...
Congo's Largest Ebola Outbreak Passed 7,000 Cases and Is Still Growing
Two official counts nine days apart, roughly seven hundred cases between them, and a fatality ratio close to one in two.
In a Rare Kidney Cancer, PET Redrew One in Five Treatment Plans
Forty-nine patients, a tumour that kills in around fourteen months, and a scan that found what conventional imaging had...
Roche's Lymphoma Trial Succeeded. It Did Not Say by How Much.
A confirmatory Phase III delivered what was promised when the drug was let through early. The number describing the size...
Of 175 p53 Fragments Cancer Should Display, Five Showed Up
Half of all cancers carry this mutation and immunotherapy has struggled to exploit it. The reason may be that the tumour...
AHA Statement: Men Get Kidney Transplants 30% More Often Than Women
An American Heart Association statement collects what is known about women's kidney health. The gap in who receives an o...
A Pancreatic Cancer Blood Test Misfires Most in the Group It Is For
PANXEON detected 86.8 per cent of stage I and II disease across 1,649 patients. Its false-positive rate is five times hi...
An AI Lung-Cancer Tool Beat PD-L1, Then Faltered on New Patients
I3LUNG beat five standard biomarkers on its own test set. In external validation the range was 0.55 to 0.72, and the aut...
Blood-Protein Patterns in Eight-Year-Olds Match Adult Heart Disease
A signature found in 273 children held up against 28,000 UK Biobank adults. It is a finding about biology, not a screeni...
Three Lux at Night, and a Thicker Heart Wall Three Years Later
Eleven thousand people wore light sensors for a week and had their hearts scanned three years on. The brighter sleepers...
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