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A drug once designed for dengue virus, then quietly abandoned by industry, is suddenly back in the spotlight

High-Dose Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness against Hospitalization in Older Adults

Phase 3 trial in 18,746 adults finds Pfizer’s modRNA flu shot 34.5% more effective than standard vaccines for influenza A, while results for influenza B remain inconclusive, and mild to moderate side effects occur more often in the mRNA group.

Early Discontinuation of Aspirin after PCI in Low-Risk Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Cognitive Biases and A.I. – shows worse biases than human practitioners

Phase 1 Trial of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Targeting ANGPTL3

Patients with advanced triple-negative breast cancer who are ineligible for immune checkpoint inhibitors lived longer without disease progression when treated with the antibody–drug conjugate sacituzumab govitecan, with a median progression-free survival of 9.7 vs 6.9 months.

A new study found that people who received medications for opioid use disorder while jailed were less likely to overdose, die, or return to jail after release.

ECGFounder: An Electrocardiogram Foundation Model Built on over 10M Recordings

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

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

Once-monthly maridebart cafraglutide resulted in substantial weight reduction in participants with obesity with or without type 2 diabetes, study shows

10 out of 12 people cured in Type 1 Diabetes Study

U.S. Research Leadership at a Crossroads — The Impact of Reducing NIH Indirect-Cost Coverage

People overtrust AI-Generated medical advice. 300 participants evaluated AI and doctor-written medical advice

A new triple therapy for aggressive, advanced breast cancer delays the progression of the disease by 17.2 months on average, delays the need for further chemotherapy by 2 years and helps patients live longer.

Tirzepatide as Compared with Semaglutide results in around 50% more weight loss | NEJM

AI Detects Hidden Heart Disease: New VA Study Uses Chest CTs to Predict Risk

Loss of Medicaid coverage linked to higher mortality among low-income older adults – The risks were particularly high among individuals with greater clinical needs and on more expensive medications.

Countries regulate healthcare AI differently. Predictive AI follows existing medical device rules while generative AI lacks clear standards

Associations Between Class I, II, or III Obesity and Health Outcomes

A clinical trial found that Therabot, an AI therapy app, significantly reduced symptoms in patients with mental disorders over 8 weeks

Intensive Blood-Pressure Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine

New leukaemia treatment gets FDA approval, remission in 77% of patients who have failed two or more therapies. Low rate of side effects also observed.

Critical Illness in an Adolescent with Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection

AI Models Show Stronger Cognitive Biases Than Human Doctors When Making Treatment Decisions

Global clinical trial shows improved survival rates for common childhood leukemia

Autonomous LLM-Driven Research — from Data to Human-Verifiable Research Papers

7/67 Children Receiving Skysona Gene Therapy Develop Blood Cancer

Lentiviral Gene Therapy for Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy found useful

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