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FDA approves KRESLADI, first CIRM‑backed gene‑editing therapy
The FDA cleared KRESLADI, a gene‑editing treatment from Rocket Pharmaceuticals for severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency‑I in children, eliminating the need for a bone‑marrow donor. It is the first product directly funded by California’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine to receive approval.
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By the numbers: Syneron Bio raises $150M Series B
XO Health, a startup that provides an alternative health plan, announced a nationwide rollout targeting self‑insured employers and plan administrators. The company will extend its episode‑based pricing model, which bundles all services for a specific medical episode into a single, predictable fee. By integrating telehealth, on‑site care, and data‑driven wellness tools, XO Health aims to simplify benefits administration and lower overall spend. The expansion follows recent funding that equips the firm to scale its technology platform across multiple states.
Celosia Therapeutics has dosed the first participant in its Phase 1b KOANEWA trial of CTx1000, a gene‑editing medicine that clears pathological TDP‑43 protein in ALS patients. The open‑label study, run at Macquarie University Hospital, marks the first human test of...
Experian Health’s 2026 State of Patient Access Survey shows modest gains in perceived access, with 46% of providers saying access improved versus only 18% of patients. Operational efficiencies and digital tools are helping, but staffing shortages now affect 64% of...
Viz.ai and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals have teamed up to launch an AI‑driven care pathway targeting cardiac amyloidosis, a frequently underdiagnosed heart disease. The solution embeds the FDA‑cleared Us2.ai echocardiography algorithm and generative AI into hospital IT systems to automatically detect subtle...
Leica Biosystems, a Danaher company, launched the Aperio GT Elite digital pathology scanner in the U.S., paired with Aperio iQC software featuring AI‑driven rescan capabilities. The scanner can process up to 103 slides per hour, scanning a slide in as...
FluoGuide A/S announced that the U.S. FDA has granted Fast Track designation to its intraoperative imaging agent FG001, targeting high‑grade glioma surgery. The designation recognizes the serious nature of glioblastoma and the agent's promise to improve tumor visualization during resection....
Atopic dermatitis landscape from Wedbush. Looks like there are two parallel vectors: lower injection frequency ( $APGE ) and combining new mechanisms with IL13/IL4R. So far $JNJ's IL13+IL31 failed (the only one to be directly compared to dupi) while $PFE's...
Ebstein's anomaly is a congenital malformation where the tricuspid valve remains tethered to the ventricular wall, causing apical displacement. The condition may be identified at birth or remain silent until adulthood, often presenting as right‑heart remodeling on imaging. Echocardiography is...
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the pharmaceutical and life‑sciences value chain, from molecule discovery with generative and structure‑prediction models to clinical trial design, manufacturing, regulatory submissions, intellectual property and supply‑chain orchestration. Tools such as AlphaFold and de‑novo design engines accelerate lead...
QualDerm Partners disclosed that a December 2025 cyber‑attack compromised the personal, medical, and health‑insurance records of more than 3.1 million individuals. Attackers accessed the network for two days, exfiltrating data from a limited set of systems before the breach was detected...
Researchers at UNIST and partner institutions identified microRNA‑93 as a central driver of metabolic‑associated fatty liver disease (MASLD) and demonstrated that vitamin B3 (niacin) can suppress this molecule, restoring SIRT1 activity and reducing liver fat in mice. The study, published in...
A pilot study of thirty adult women with ADHD who take amphetamine‑based stimulants found that symptom severity and negative mood spike during the menstrual phase, while mid‑follicular days show milder symptoms. Daily medication dosages remained unchanged across the cycle, indicating...
A bipartisan congressional commission focused on maintaining U.S. leadership in biotechnology will host a meeting with leading biotech investors next week. The investors, representing venture capital firms and industry funds, aim to discuss policy gaps, funding mechanisms, and regulatory hurdles....
Radiology is extending its diagnostic role by delivering patient‑specific 3D surface models that surgeons can manipulate for pre‑operative planning. Studies show these digital models reduce operating‑room time, lower complication rates, and improve surgical predictability across orthopedics, oncology, and reconstructive procedures....
The RAPID + TCT 2026 Healthcare Conference track highlighted how additive manufacturing (AM) is moving from theoretical potential to concrete production in medicine. Speakers covered scaling custom orthotics through standardized workflows, navigating FDA‑driven documentation via OEM collaborations, and using bioprinting to create...
Healthcare’s rapid digitization has expanded electronic health records, cloud services, and connected devices, but it also widens the attack surface for potentially unwanted programs (PUPs). These low‑profile applications often arrive through bundled installers or browser extensions, silently collecting and transmitting...
Prestige Biopharma announced topline results from its phase‑III SAMSON‑II trial comparing HD204, a biosimilar to Avastin (bevacizumab), with the reference product in 625 patients with advanced non‑squamous non‑small cell lung cancer. The study demonstrated an objective response rate (ORR) of...
Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi is buying out Apnimed’s 50% stake in their sleep‑disorder joint venture for an upfront payment of $100 million. The acquisition gives Shionogi full control over the partnership’s pipeline, which focuses on treatments for conditions such as obstructive...
British Army veteran Jon Noble has spent 100 days with Neuralink’s N1 brain‑computer interface implanted in his motor cortex, allowing him to play World of Warcraft using only thought. The implant translates neural activity into digital commands, letting him navigate...
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is reviewing three payment pathways—outlier payments, guaranteed add‑on payments, and a case‑mix adjustment—to broaden Medicare hospice coverage of high‑acuity palliative services such as radiation, chemotherapy, dialysis and blood transfusions. These treatments are often withheld...
Researchers at the University of Brighton and the University of Strathclyde have created a fully 3D‑printed electrochemical sensor that detects the heart‑attack biomarker cardiac troponin I at 7.4 pg/mL in undiluted human serum. The electrodes, printed on a desktop FlashForge Creator Pro 2 using...
Labour health secretary Wes Streeting announced reforms to give the General Medical Council (GMC) stronger powers to discipline doctors who use racist or discriminatory language. The changes would allow the GMC to challenge and overturn decisions of the Medical Practitioners...
We are prescribing powerful weight loss drugs without measuring the most important metric: muscle mass. Physical therapist Maureen McBeth has tested the body composition of countless patients who lost 50 pounds on GLP-1s. The results? Dangerously low skeletal muscle and exceptionally...
The World Health Organization unveiled three recommendations for responsible AI deployment in mental health and wellbeing, calling for public‑health framing, integrated impact assessments, and co‑design with experts. The guidance, produced after a workshop of 30+ international specialists, also announces a...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a 7.2‑milligram version of Novo Nordisk’s semaglutide weight‑loss drug Wegovy, dubbed Wegovy HD. Clinical data showed participants lost roughly 19% of body weight, about 47 pounds on average, compared with 16% on the...
Gubra and AbbVie announced that participants in a Phase 1 multiple‑ascending‑dose study of ABBV-295 lost between 7.8% and 9.8% of their body weight after roughly three months. The amylin analog was well tolerated, positioning it as a potential new class of...
India's high court cleared Dr Reddys to produce the weight‑loss drug semaglutide, unlocking a billion‑dollar market, as health regulators in Ireland recalled 18,000 Philips Respironics machines over foam degradation. The twin moves underscore mounting compliance pressure across the pharma and...
reSTART, a residential treatment center outside Seattle, is prescribing 16‑week, screen‑free detox programs for technology addiction, equating it with drug dependence. The model arrives as high‑profile lawsuits against Meta, YouTube and other platforms push the legal definition of "tech addiction"...
Effect of Prebiotic Supplementation With and Without Physiotherapy on Pain and Pain Sensitivity in People with Knee Osteoarthritis "Inulin and PSE each produced meaningful pain reductions. Only inulin improved pain sensitivity and grip strength, the latter paralleled by increased GLP-1, and...
Japan’s cabinet approved an expansion of public health insurance that will eliminate patient cost‑sharing for childbirth, standardizing delivery fees and covering them entirely. The move targets a birth rate that slipped below 710,000 in 2025 despite more than $20 billion in...
President Trump has turned fraud into a political rallying cry, using unverified claims that Minnesota’s Medicaid program lost $19 billion to justify withholding $259 million in federal funds. The administration’s new executive order creates a fraud task force that focuses on blue‑state...
A new analysis of the 2022‑2023 National Survey of Children’s Health, covering 65,652 U.S. youths, finds that chronic medical conditions are the strongest predictor of childhood depression, outpacing poverty or parental divorce. Each additional medical health risk nearly doubles the...
Gilead Sciences signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Ouro Medicines for $1.675 billion in cash up front and up to $500 million in milestone payments, targeting the experimental T‑cell‑engaging antibody OM336. The deal, valued at up to $2.18 billion, gives Gilead...
The U.S.-Iran war, which erupted on February 28, has crippled healthcare for women across the Middle East. More than 1.6 million pregnant women in Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, the occupied Palestinian territories and Syria now face unsafe deliveries as hospitals collapse and aid...
The FDA has broadened approval for Imcivree (setmelanotide), creating the first targeted therapy for acquired hypothalamic obesity and reporting an 18.4% placebo‑adjusted BMI reduction in Phase III trials. Parallel research shows that deploying pharmacy technicians as vaccine injectors dramatically improves uptake...
CMS will require pharmaceutical manufacturers to submit the "reasonable assumptions" used to calculate their quarterly Average Sales Price (ASP) beginning in 2026. The move formalizes the estimation process that underlies ASP, covering rebates, bundled discounts, free‑goods programs, 340B sales and...
Please. This is nonsense. You figured out a way to swap castor oil for albumin making it easier to administer paclitaxel, a standard chemotherapy. Same side effects. Look at the label. The best thing you did, for you, was secure...
How former Acorda CEO Ron Cohen landed at a Parkinson’s cell therapy startup https://t.co/93JYvJGM9I by @realJacobBell #biotech #startups
Katsina State announced a massive polio immunisation drive targeting three million children aged 0‑59 months across all 34 local government areas. The campaign will run from March 28 to April 2, 2026, with a two‑day mop‑up phase before completion. Over...
Health savings accounts (HSAs) are being positioned as a strategic benefit for employers, allowing employees to pay for qualified international medical tourism expenses tax‑free. The article outlines how HSAs retain their triple‑tax advantage—deductible contributions, tax‑free growth, and tax‑free withdrawals—while supporting...
The Office of the National Coordinator released the 2026 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA), a stable catalog that maps health‑data standards to use cases. It arrives alongside a draft USCDI v7 adding 30 new data elements, the HTI‑5 rule pushing a FHIR‑first...
The article warns that clinicians’ subtle dismissive cues can unintentionally intensify chronic pain, emphasizing the biopsychosocial nature of suffering. It cites research showing social stress amplifies pain pathways and argues that overlooking patients’ psychosocial context leads to misdiagnosis and wasted...
Recent studies reveal that patient‑centered maternity care suffers from poor communication and low autonomy scores, averaging just 8.3 out of 30. These gaps can lead to critical errors in the delivery room, such as excessive traction that causes brachial plexus...
UCSF Health has integrated an AI‑driven patient‑assignment feature into its LeanTaaS iQueue platform to balance nursing workloads in infusion centers. The tool analyzes staffing schedules, patient demand, and capacity data, offering real‑time assignment suggestions that charge nurses can accept or...
Kenya's flagship Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has announced that 480 unclaimed bodies, including more than 378 infants, are currently stored at its Farewell Home. The hospital has issued a public notice giving families seven days to identify and claim the...
A new study of more than 53,000 UK adults shows that modest lifestyle tweaks—adding just 11 minutes of sleep, 4.5 minutes of brisk walking and 50 g of extra vegetables each day—can lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes by...
Centene, the nation’s largest Medicaid insurer, posted a 20% revenue increase to $194.8 billion last year but recorded a $6.7 billion net loss after a massive write‑down tied to the Trump‑backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which trims federal Medicaid spending by...
A retrospective cohort of 349 intracerebral hemorrhage patients examined three admission‑based nutritional indices—Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), Triglycerides × Total Cholesterol × Body Weight Index (TCBI), and Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score—to assess their relationship with hematoma expansion (HE). Twelve percent of patients experienced HE,...
A cross‑sectional survey of 94 hospitals in Jiangsu Province found that 78.7% of institutions offer Foods for Special Medical Purposes (FSMP), yet only 43.6% have formal FSMP management committees. Insurance reimbursement is rare, covering just 2.1% of cases, and many...
