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FDA approves first CIRM‑funded gene‑editing therapy for rare immune disorder
The FDA has granted approval to KRESLADI, a gene‑editing therapy from Rocket Pharmaceuticals that treats severe leukocyte adhesion deficiency‑I in children without a matching bone‑marrow donor. It is the first product directly funded by California’s Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), highlighting the agency’s impact on translational research.
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By the numbers: Syneron Bio raises $150M Series B
Researchers compared metformin and dapagliflozin in diabetic rats subjected to myocardial infarction, finding dapagliflozin delivered stronger cardio‑protective effects. The SGLT2 inhibitor markedly reduced oxidative stress, inflammatory cytokines, and infarct size, while also improving calcium handling and contractile efficiency. Metformin showed benefits primarily through AMPK activation and endothelial support, but lagged behind dapagliflozin in mitigating oxidative and inflammatory damage. The study suggests dapagliflozin could become a frontline agent for heart protection in diabetic patients, complementing traditional glucose‑lowering strategies.
Family caregivers often face strained interactions with hospital staff who label them "difficult" when they ask frequent questions or demand updates. The article outlines concrete steps—appointing a single point person, scheduling regular briefings, paraphrasing clinicians' explanations, and assigning a note‑taker—to...
A new qualitative dyadic study published in BMC Geriatrics examines how older adults and their adult children navigate advance care planning (ACP) conversations. By interviewing both parties simultaneously, researchers identified fear of mortality, cultural taboos, and terminology uncertainty as primary...
Pediatric clinics across the United States report a sharp rise in parents refusing routine newborn procedures such as vitamin K shots, hearing screens and hepatitis B vaccinations. The trend expands the anti‑vaccine movement into broader preventive care, prompting health officials...
WHO dispatched its first overland convoy of medical supplies from the Dubai Global Logistics Hub to Beirut, delivering 22 metric tonnes of medicines and trauma equipment. The shipment can treat about 50,000 patients and support 40,000 surgical procedures, arriving within...
It takes the human brain two years to fully recover from burnout. Yet many physicians are in denial, assuming their absolute exhaustion is just normal. Dr. Tomi Mitchell hit her absolute limit. She was running a massive medical center, raising two...
The upcoming 60 Minutes episode spotlights growing alarm over "digital dementia," a term coined for cognitive decline linked to excessive screen time. Researchers cite brain scans showing teenage brain shrinkage comparable to early‑stage Alzheimer’s, suggesting that prolonged device use may...
Recent research in the Journal of Writing Research shows that handwritten summaries can reveal distinct linguistic patterns linked to schizophrenia symptom profiles. By having 41 Spanish‑speaking adults with either predominant positive or negative symptoms summarize a short story, the study...
Vaccines save lives. Ask in the comments if you have questions. As a subscriber to my Substack you get a vaccine resource guide available for download and as a paid subscriber a 64 page guide on vaccine preventable diseases.
Some of this healthcare fraud video stuff is of course performative and bad use of data. But a lot of it isn't. Yet, not a single Dem that I'm aware of at national/state/big city level is making the case for...
India’s pharmaceutical sector is projected to expand from a $60 billion domestic market to $130 billion by 2030, according to the Economic Survey 2025‑26. Export revenues surged to $30.5 billion in FY25, a 16‑fold increase since 2000, while the industry now supplies roughly...
Maria Hordinsky, MD highlighted the rapid evolution of alopecia areata therapy, noting three FDA‑approved Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors launched in the last five years. She discussed the efficacy of agents such as dupilumab and baricitinib, while emphasizing emerging research on...
Tristan Maurer’s Flash Talk framed dose as the definitive multiparametric optimization (MPO) endpoint for small‑molecule drug design. He argued that dose integrates exposure, pharmacology, and mechanism‑driven effects, making it the linchpin for balancing potency, ADME, and safety. The presentation highlighted...
British‑Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu‑Sittah has been operating nonstop at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, treating children severely injured by Israeli strikes in Lebanon. In the three weeks of fighting, the pediatric intensive care unit has received dozens of...
Loved sitting down with @DrSharma_NY earlier this month for a fireside chat at Health Tech Summit 2026! Grateful for the opportunity to share how Oracle is working with our customers and partners to advance AI-driven innovation in healthcare. Thanks to the The Health...
Delighted and honored to speak to the over 1,000 participants in the Brigham Women's Hospital CME course titled Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine yesterday, via Zoom at 4:55 pm, at their last session of a powerful week of presentations. The...
Kaylan Baban, an internal‑medicine physician, recounts his first solo enucleation as a senior resident, performed on a trauma patient who survived a bar‑stool injury. The patient, Mr. Krueger, expressed gratitude and asked the resident whether he had learned anything, turning the...
Wastewater Detects Colorectal Cancer Biomarkers What if your city's sewage could detect cancer before your doctor does? As a medical school professor, I find this remarkable. Researchers tested neighborhood wastewater in Kentucky for colorectal cancer biomarkers using droplet digital PCR. They detected CDH1...
There's a $101 million competition happening right now to extend human healthspan. Not in mice. Not in worms. In people. https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/2035318955821375489
IBA announced the launch of myQA MatriXX AiR, the first wireless 2‑D ionization chamber array designed for patient‑specific quality assurance in particle therapy. The system features 1,521 high‑resolution chambers that deliver a full dose distribution readout within seconds for both proton and...
The GOP‑backed "One Big Beautiful Bill" stripped away the latest Affordable Care Act subsidies, sending premiums soaring and leaving millions without health insurance. Simultaneously, the legislation delivered roughly $5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra‑wealthy, including President Trump and his...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has upgraded a voluntary recall to a Class II recall for 89,592 bottles of children’s ibuprofen oral suspension after consumers reported black particles and a gel‑like mass. The product, manufactured by Strides Pharma in India...
Two recent JAMA Network Open studies report near‑perfect diagnostic performance for autism using retinal photographs and video‑based deep‑learning models. The retinal study claims 100 % sensitivity and specificity across 958 participants, while the video study reports an AUC above 0.99. Critics...
The Purple Public Health Project released a reflective essay linking public‑health practice to small‑l liberalism, emphasizing pluralism, consequentialism, and procedural values. It argues that recent illiberal trends have eroded public trust and that re‑engaging with liberal norms can restore legitimacy....
The author, a 26‑year hospitalist, argues that world leaders should emulate the way diverse medical teams collaborated during the COVID‑19 pandemic. He recounts personal friendships with physicians of varied ethnicities, religions, and sexual orientations who united around patient care despite...
Researchers led by epidemiology professor Angela Liese published a longitudinal study in BMJ Open Diabetes & Research Care showing that youth and young adults with diabetes who experience food insecurity exhibit markedly higher rates of mental health symptoms and disordered...
Park Medi World Limited completed a ₹245 crore all‑cash acquisition of SVPD Healthcare, securing full ownership of the 360‑bed KP Institute of Medical Sciences (KPIMS) in Agra. The deal follows earlier purchases of KPS Wellness, bringing the group’s total hospital count...
Two new class‑action lawsuits have been filed that closely echo Epic Systems’ earlier litigation tactics, targeting Health Gorilla and its network partners after a massive data breach. The first case, Lott v. Health Gorilla, was lodged by an Illinois plaintiff...
U.S. healthcare costs and medical debt are spiraling, prompting nonprofits and companies to fill policy gaps. Undue Medical Debt has erased $27 billion for 17 million Americans, while firms like Lantern push members toward affordable, high‑quality specialty care. Simultaneously, the ACLU’s litigation...
A new European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology study of 138 women aged 17‑25 found that primary dysmenorrhea is linked to measurable declines in attention, processing speed, self‑esteem, and occupational performance. The researchers tracked participants across three menstrual phases and...
A 100 percent patient satisfaction score does not always mean you are a great doctor. Sometimes it just means you are a people pleaser. Physicians are conditioned to panic over negative feedback. One bad review can trigger a complete nervous system...
Parents across the United States are increasingly refusing routine newborn preventive interventions such as vitamin K injections, hepatitis B vaccination, and eye ointment. A JAMA study of over 5 million births shows vitamin K refusals rose from 2.9% in 2017 to 5.2% in 2024,...
A new study of 130,773 newborn admissions in Kenya shows that babies transferred between facilities are three times more likely to die than those treated at the birth hospital. Referral delays, long transport times—up to five hours in rural Tanzania—and...
When I was talking to Sergiy Velychko, a former postdoc from George Church's lab, about the future of human genome engineering, we discussed: “We're now at this point where we can engineer ourselves. We can do stem cell therapies. We can...
A physician who received a lifetime American Board of Internal Medicine certification in 1983 argues that the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program adds little value for experienced doctors. He points to decades of continuing medical education, teaching, publishing, and patient...
The article follows Ken Warner and Parveen Vohra, a self‑employed couple who saw their ACA marketplace premium jump from $630 to $2,531 per month after the enhanced federal subsidies expired. With no legislative fix, they have been forced to slash...
A new Japanese study of 26,000 older adults found widowed men experience sharper declines in physical and mental health than widowed women, who often report higher happiness and life satisfaction. Men showed increased risks of dementia, depression, and reduced social...
A recent JACC study found that using high‑efficiency particulate air (HEPA) purifiers can lower systolic blood pressure in adults, especially those with baseline SBP above 120 mm Hg. In a crossover trial of 154 participants living near highways, the real purifier reduced...
Tammy Alexander, a retired veteran services worker, discovered her federal health insurance had been terminated without any prior notice. The lapse occurred after a policy change that should have provided individual coverage for each spouse. No emails, texts, calls, or...
The 10th anniversary of the Healthcare Innovation Summit Africa (HISA) in 2026 will convene CEOs, CIOs, policymakers, and investors to accelerate digital health across the continent. The event’s theme, “Connected Care, Smarter Systems,” spotlights AI, IoT, robotics, and blockchain applications...
The Republican efforts to dismantle the ACA absolutely made things worse but even if they’d left it alone the legislation still wouldn’t have fixed our health care system
A new study of more than 340k British adults finds that moderate wine drinkers (1-3 glasses/day) have a 21% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease versus people who never drink or do so occasionally. I will be accepting no...
New Mexico curtailed a measles outbreak with a coordinated mass‑vaccination effort, ending with only 99 cases compared with Texas’s 762. The state saw a 55 % surge in MMR vaccinations from January to September, driven by data‑driven targeting, mobile clinics, and...
Researchers found that shorter telomeres and DNA changes in kidney cells may signal faster biological aging of the kidneys and help predict risk for Chronic Kidney Disease earlier than current methods. 🧬 https://t.co/JKRM7xhOnh
Effect of henagliflozin on aging biomarkers in patients with type 2 diabetes: A multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study 🔎"Our results suggest that henagliflozin may exert anti-aging effects by influencing multiple pathways, including the IGF-1 system, glucose metabolism, the immune system, and...
Des and Nurses are underpaid. Independent doctors are getting ripped off to the point of barely getting paid after fees The biggest insurance companies are awful for beneficiaries and for employers. One example ? What good is insurance if patients...
There is a similar study for thigh circumference - turns out that thin legs are one of the best predictors of mortality. https://t.co/v6H3jYNXrY https://t.co/PkaQPvyrpX https://t.co/0cOR1L7ZnM
Interesting collection of YCombinator biotech startups this batch. I had been skeptical that YC could work at all in biotech, but I've been proven wrong over the last couple of years.
Great review of the idea of potential enrollment right into Medicare Advantage (though doesn’t consider Chris’ added twist of competition between Traditional Medicare ACOs and MA) https://t.co/rcquVZ8zxn it would be fun to compete head-head (but would need level playing field)
Frailty and inflammation predict prolonged stay in post-emergency geriatric units: a retrospective cohort study https://t.co/92P3HSm6LS
