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Meet the World's Healthcare Billionaires

(MedPage Today) -- Six of the world's 500 richest people are Americans who have reaped fortunes from healthcare -- and two of them are physicians.

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NIH funding cuts, a U.S. brain drain, and bold claims from AI drug developers

What are "indirect costs" for universities? Why are some young scientists looking at opportunities abroad? And why are AI drug developers so secretive? We bring on biotech reporter Jonathan Wosen̷

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GLP-1 Drugs and Colonoscopy; GI Symptoms Post-COVID; Identifying High-Risk Barrett's

(MedPage Today) -- A systematic review and meta-analysis of five studies suggested that patients on GLP-1 receptor agonists were more likely to have inadequate bowel preparation for colonoscopy.

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Macmillan Cancer Support cuts quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme

Exclusive: Charity says it has made drastic changes to safeguard future as Guardian finds it spent £100m more than it raised over last six yearsMacmillan Cancer Support has axed a quarter of its staf

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Student died from sepsis after antibiotics error in London hospital, inquest hears

Life-saving drug was prescribed for William Hewes but not given quickly enough due to communication mix-upA consultant paediatrician warned medical colleagues treating her son that they had failed to

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Courts Try To Curb Health Cuts

Some of the Trump administration’s dramatic funding and policy shifts are facing major pushback for the first time — not from Congress, but from the courts.

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Most Clozapine Prescribers Satisfied With REMS Program

(MedPage Today) -- Most physician prescribers were satisfied with the FDA's controversial risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) program for clozapine, survey data showed.

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STAT+: Growing number of federal health agencies are combing grants for taboo words, unnerving researchers

The National Institutes of Health and some VA regions are scouring existing grants using lists of flagged words, which include not just known trigger words for the Trump administration —…

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Teddi Mellencamp of ‘Real Housewives’ Says She Has Brain Tumors

Mellencamp, also the daughter of the rock musician John Mellencamp, said on Instagram that she was receiving treatment after experiencing “severe and debilitating” headaches.

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Talazoparib-Enzalutamide Improves Survival in Metastatic CRPC

(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- Adding talazoparib (Talzenna) to enzalutamide (Xtandi) as initial treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) prolonged survival, new an

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