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.
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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...
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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...
Treating Crohn's Aggressively From Day One Cost Less, Not More
Five-year PROFILE data: six operations against twenty-eight, no measured difference in serious harms, and £1,681 saved p...
A Side Effect Gets Its Own Prescription. A BMJ Study Ranks the 24 Commonest Cascades.
The pharmacology was already documented. What the Ontario data adds is which of 65 known prescribing cascades actually h...
DeepMind Precomputed Every Possible DNA Letter Change. Nine Billion Is Arithmetic.
AlphaGenome Atlas is about a petabyte of predicted molecular effects, free for non-commercial research. Three billion ba...
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...
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...
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