Enigmatic lizards somehow survived near Chicxulub asteroid impact
A yellow-spotted tropical night lizard (Lepidophyma flavimaculatum)Dante Fenolio/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today ...
Millions of children at risk as vaccination uptake stalls
Progress in vaccinating children against a variety of life-threatening diseases has stalled in the past two decades - and even gone ...
Physician Lawmaker Confronts RFK Jr. About ACIP Firings: ‘You Lied’
(MedPage Today) -- Rep. Kim Schrier, MD (D-Wash.), tore into HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday, accusing him ...
Health Groups Cautiously Optimistic on Prior Authorization Announcement
(MedPage Today) -- Healthcare groups are sounding cautiously optimistic about Monday's announcement from HHS that it had gotten voluntary agreement ...
Women’s pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?
Medical advances have changed childbirth – potentially enough to impact human evolutionFatCamera/Getty Images Women’s pelvises have become narrower over the ...
Blood-Based KRAS Testing Fails in Ovarian Cancer
Blood-based circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing has proven to be insufficient for detecting KRAS mutations in patients with low-grade serous ...
COVID’s Long Shadow
John Bolecek, 41, of Richmond, Virginia, was diagnosed with long COVID in 2022 after a mild case of acute COVID. ...
Could Brain Scans Improve RA Treatment?
(MedPage Today) -- Functional MRI brain imaging could one day help identify rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients most likely to respond ...
Semaglutide Shows Benefits for PAD Across T2D Subgroups
CHICAGO — Use of the GLP-1 receptor agonist semaglutide improved walking capability in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and ...
Combination Treatment Reduces Weight While Keeping Muscle
CHICAGO — Combined use of semaglutide with an investigational monoclonal antibody called bimagrumab produced significant fat mass loss while preserving ...
ADA Roundup: Weight-Loss Studies Take Center Stage
(MedPage Today) -- CHICAGO -- Research presented at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) annual meeting included a small phase I/II ...
Ozempic Tied to Lower Dementia Risk; Ear Wax and Parkinson’s; APOE4 and ICH
(MedPage Today) -- People with type 2 diabetes who used semaglutide (Ozempic) versus other drugs had a lower risk of ...
From TikTok to Triage: Confronting Misinfo in the ED
(MedPage Today) -- It's 2 a.m. on a Saturday night shift in a busy emergency department (ED) in Houston. I ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘helicopter’ design could make drones quieter
Leonardo da Vinci’s sketch of the aerial screwGianni Dagli Orti/Shutterstock A flying machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci may have ...
PD-L1 Did Not Predict Immunotherapy Benefit in CC
Findings of the BEATcc trial suggest PD-L1 status is not a reliable biomarker for guiding immunotherapy selection in patients with ...
Watchdog ‘acted irrationally’ over gender clinic
The case, brought by a former nurse and the mother of a 16-year-old, claims the watchdog should have imposed conditions ...
Microplastic-Water Risks; Predictive Sit-Rise Test; Bioresorbable Scaffold Setback
(MedPage Today) -- People living near microplastic-polluted ocean waters tended to have more cardiometabolic diseases in an observational study. (Journal ...
Program Aims to Double CAR-T Access for Blood Cancers
(MedPage Today) -- Despite the curative potential of CAR T-cell therapy in multiple myeloma and other hematologic cancers, only a ...
How Fast Is Too Fast for FDA Drug Review?
(MedPage Today) -- In announcing his new Commissioner's National Priority Voucher (CNPV) program, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH, described ...
Upfront T-DXd Combo Nearly Doubles PFS in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer
(MedPage Today) -- At the recent American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting, interim results from the DESTINY-Breast09 trial ...
