Researchers interviewed 45 doctors in Europe and the U.S. about their end-of-life preferences

Older people who have genetically “young immune systems” and who are less likely to suffer from infection and disease, may actually have a higher risk of developing autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis…

Scientists have created a unique material for wound treatment based on a system of polymeric microchambers

First Complete Medical Evidence for the Use of Digitoxin (Digitalis Purpurea or Common Foxglove) Showing Positive Effects in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction

Reasoning language models have lower accuracy on medical multiple choice questions when "None of the other answers" replaces the original correct response

Tissium’s polymer solution set to transform nerve repair after FDA nod

New study links psychedelic use to mental health recovery in times of crisis

Lithium deficiency and the onset of Alzheimer's disease

Human embryo implantation recorded in real time for the first time

A meta-analysis has relativised the efficacy of psilocybin in the treatment of patients with depression

Treating chronic lower back pain with gabapentin, a popular opioid-alternative painkiller, increases risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Routine childhood and adolescent immunizations declining in Michigan. Declines were sharper in lower-income, higher-uninsurance counties

Commercial LLMs (GPT-4o, Gemini 1.5 Pro-002, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct), including after finetuning, showed poor average generalization accuracy (21-42%) when attempting to answer medical questions related to new drugs or updated recommendations

Early Gene Therapy Provides Lasting HIV Protection in Newborn Primates

Fecal microbiota transplant as treatment for recurrent urinary tract infections: a proof-of-concept study

IU researchers classify kidney cell types that may lead to better disease treatment

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute unveils groundbreaking blood test for multiple myeloma

Study shows Lyme Disease can disrupt gut bacteria and immune response

Study describes potential Alzheimer’s treatment using insulin delivered by simple nasal spray that reaches 11 key memory‑related brain regions in older adults

Korean scientists developed oral drug against COVID-19 - randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial with 300 patients found CP-COV03 was effective in improving COVID-19 symptoms for more than 48 hours…

A prespecified secondary analysis of the Denmark DANFLU-2 randomized clinical trial (n = 332,438 adults aged 65 years or older) found the high-dose influenza vaccine was associated with lower rates of myocarditis and pericarditis than the standard-dose influenza vaccine

New weight-loss peptide targets glial support cells in the brain to suppress appetite and improve glucose metabolism in mice—without causing nausea or vomiting…

Anti-aging medicine just gained 371 entirely new genetic targets

Scientists developed new mRNA vaccine – based on similar technology used for some COVID-19 vaccines – to block the malaria parasite fertilization process

The Trump Administration Will Automate Health Inequities: By gatekeeping health data, the AI Action Plan risks hardwiring bias into the future of American medicine.

An umbrella review of existing research finds no high-quality evidence for the efficacy of alternative medicine for core or associated symptoms of autism.

Trump, pharma industry discuss boosting medicine spending abroad to cut US prices, sources say

Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

Leeches and the Legitimizing of Folk-Medicine

FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection

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