WASHINGTON — To hear Food and Drug Administration leaders tell it, everything is going swimmingly — a far cry from the dark days of April 2025, when Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service took a chainsaw to the agency, slashing 3,500 workers and triggering…
LONDON — English health authorities on Thursday agreed to provide a breast cancer drug from AstraZeneca through the National Health Service, ending a years-long dispute that stoked questions about how committed the pharma company was to the U.K…
Scientists are testing a counterintuitive way to fight mesothelioma, an aggressive asbestos-linked cancer with few effective treatments. A new experimental mesothelioma drug kills cancer cells by disabling PRX3, an antioxidant defense that tumors…
Scientists found that black and green Japanese rice contain unusual, potentially beneficial fats and may be digested more slowly than ordinary white rice. The combination could make these colorful varieties promising ingredients for foods designed…
Scientists discovered a hidden “immune organ” inside the skull that acts as a rapid first responder against brain cancer in mice. Strengthening this local immune defense improved tumor rejection and survival, raising the possibility of new…
A group of researchers are suing the National Institutes of Health for allegedly infringing on their freedom of speech by screening grants for certain words and phrases when making funding decisions. The suit, brought by 13 named and four anonymous…
Nature Medicine, Published online: 17 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04646-6 Results of this study show in experimental models and data from patient cohorts that the antiseizure medication levetiracetam is associated with longer survival…
WASHINGTON — Normally, discussions about how congressional advisers study Medicare spending are quite dry. Not so at the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday. In a party line vote, committee Republicans pushed forward a bill that seeks to…
WASHINGTON — Over two days, senators on two key committees focused on the authority Chris Klomp already wields, and how he would use this power should he be confirmed as second-in-command to health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Klomp, nominated…
There is reason to be cautiously optimistic about the trajectory of the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the director-general of the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In a news conference in Geneva, Tedros…
For the last decade, scientists have been steadily getting better at growing “cerebral organoids,” miniature, three-dimensional brain-like structures, from human stem cells in the lab. Now, a group from Stanford University has found a way to…
Scientists have discovered that some severe genetic disorders linked to rapid aging may be driven not just by damaged DNA, but by the body’s overreaction to that damage. When broken DNA fragments leak into the wrong part of a cell, an immune sensor…
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Eating four to six servings of whole grains a day may deliver meaningful benefits for heart health, according to a large review of 87 clinical trials. Researchers found improvements in body weight, waist size, blood pressure, cholesterol, blood…
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