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You might not have heard of leucovorin, but it is being championed by the US government to address rising rates ...

UK Junk Food Ads Banned Before 9 PM Watershed

A UK-wide ban on junk food advertising before the 9 OM watershed is now in force, with ministers saying it ...

Mean Girls in Medicine: What Happens When Women Bully Women

When women target other women, the damage runs deep. Female doctors open up about rivalry and exclusion that harm careers ...

Pregnancy-Friendly MS Drug Wins NICE Backing

NICE has recommended natalizumab for adults with highly active RRMS, citing pregnancy suitability, biosimilar value, and NHS affordability. Medscape News ...

New Payment Models Needed for Access to Cell, Gene Therapies

Expected rapid advances in CAR T and other cellular therapies may expand treatment options not only in cancer but also ...

PET and MRI for Re-Irradiation Therapy Show Similar Outcomes

O-(2-Fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine-PET-based delineation yields similar clinical outcomes to contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI for re-irradiation in patients with glioblastoma. Medscape News UK Source ...

Baricitinib Alone Matches Combination Therapy in RA Care

Baricitinib offers a rapid and sustained control of disease activity in RA when using alone or with methotrexate, supporting effective ...

Nirsevimab May Top Maternal Shot for Infants’ RSV Prevention

Infants who receive nirsevimab may have a lower risk for hospitalisation for RSV-related lower respiratory tract infection than those protected ...

A strange kind of quantumness may be key to quantum computers’ success

Google’s Willow quantum computerGoogle Quantum AI What is it about quantum computers that makes them more powerful than conventional machines? ...

Saving The Sedentary Patient’s Lung Function, Capacity

Hampered lung performance due to inactivity is not the same as the aging process. But symptoms are reversible with committed ...

New Menstrual Products Are Making Periods Easier to Manage

Scientists are addressing long-running issues over product safety, usability, and sustainability, leading to innovative materials and designs. Medscape Medical News ...

Pediatric Inpatient Care Cut by Hospital Mergers

Hospital mergers and short falls in federal spending have reduced pediatric inpatient units and increased regionalism. Medscape Medical News Source ...

More Systemic Therapies Coming for Pediatric Skin Diseases

The number of systemic anti-inflammatory therapies for dermatologic diseases in children is expected to grow in 2026. Medscape Medical News ...

AI Software Boosts Fetal Heart Defect Detection Accuracy

AI assistance reduced interpretation time by 48 seconds per examination while increasing clinician confidence scores. Medscape Medical News Source link ...

Crowdfunding the Cost of Cancer: It Mostly Fails

Americans with cancer are using GoFundMe to help cover their bills, but it rarely pans out. Medscape Medical News Source ...

The best new science fiction books of January 2026 include new titles from Peter F. Hamilton and George Saunders

Is it an asteroid or an alien in Van Jensen’s Godfall?Shutterstock / Vadim Sadovski Welcome to January, a month when ...

What I Wish I’d Known About GLP-1 Side Effects

Semaglutide erased the constant mental chatter about food that had ruled her life, but along with it went her awareness ...

Ghostly particles might just break our understanding of the universe

Neutrinos rarely interact with normal matterShutterstock / betibup33 Notoriously ghostly particles called neutrinos may have revealed a crack in our ...

Early Hypertension Linked to a Poorer Prognosis in T2D