Europe just authorized the world's first combo flu-COVID vaccine. The same shot, developed in Massachusetts, has been stalled at the FDA for over a year.
A 12-amino-acid peptide discovered by an AI algorithm targets the brain's appetite center directly, bypassing the pathways that make GLP-1 drugs cause nausea. Human trials are coming.
Children born deaf are hearing whispers after a single injection. The FDA just approved the first gene therapy to restore a sense — and its maker is providing it free of charge in the US.
Kennedy refused to promise he'd let his own CDC director set vaccine policy without interference. The next day, his agency killed a study showing vaccines cut hospitalizations in half.
For 55 years, the federal government classified marijuana alongside heroin. The Justice Department is now poised to change that — under a Republican president whose own party mostly opposes the move.
A once-daily pill nearly doubled survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer, targeting a mutation considered impossible to drug for 40 years. The data has oncologists using language they normally avoid.
Congenital anomalies have doubled in Gaza since 2022. Stillbirths are up 140 percent. The babies in Nasser Hospital's neonatal ward are the evidence — and doctors say most cannot be treated.
Two proven malaria vaccines. Bed nets. Antimalarial drugs. In 2024, the disease still killed 610,000 people. The missing ingredient is not science.
A phase III trial of an mRNA vaccine against H5N1 bird flu is underway in the UK and US — preparing for a pandemic that may never come, but that virologists consider all but inevitable.
Amazon's One Medical launched a national GLP-1 program with same-day pharmacy delivery. Shares of Hims & Hers, Eli Lilly, and Novo Nordisk all dropped on the news.
Britain has passed a law creating two classes of adults: those who can legally buy cigarettes, and those who never will. New Zealand tried the same approach — and reversed it before it took effect.
A customer in Austria opened a jar of HiPP baby food and found rat poison inside. The company says the jars left its factory in "perfect condition." Police believe at least one more contaminated jar may still be in circulation.
A private nursing home room costs $129,000 a year. Median retiree household income: $57,000. New research shows the gap is systematically destroying middle-class wealth — and the people hurt most are too exhausted to fight back.
Ibogaine is classified alongside heroin. On Saturday, Trump ordered the FDA to fast-track it — pushed by combat veterans, Rick Perry, and Joe Rogan.
A study of nearly 300,000 babies found the vast majority of RSV hospitalizations — 87% — were in infants whose mothers skipped the vaccine. Even a two-week gap before birth was enough to cut admissions dramatically.
Massachusetts passed shield laws to protect transgender youth care. Its largest western hospital stopped providing it anyway — before any federal rule took effect. No court ordered it to.
The FDA banned 19 peptide drugs in 2023 over documented safety risks, including cancer and death. RFK Jr. is now forcing a reversal — and by all available signs, no new clinical evidence prompted the change.
William Bryan went in for a splenectomy. Surgeon Thomas Shaknovsky removed his liver instead. Reporting suggests it wasn't the first time the doctor had excised the wrong organ.
Drug overdose deaths have fallen faster than at any point in four decades — driven not by treatment or Narcan, but by a disruption in the global fentanyl supply chain. The replacements already arriving on American streets may be worse.
A nurse pulls a used syringe from under a counter and hands it to a colleague — ready for the next child. The hospital's director insists the footage is staged. Three hundred and thirty-one children have tested positive for HIV.
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