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Brain Aging Biomarkers; Midlife Anxiety and Dementia Risk; Who Chose Assisted Dying?

(MedPage Today) -- Researchers identified 13 proteins that predicted how quickly or slowly a person's brain aged.

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STAT+: Eli Lilly to test obesity medications as treatments for alcohol and drug addiction, CEO says

Eli Lilly will start studying its obesity products as treatments for alcohol and drug abuse, making it the first major drugmaker to do so, its CEO said.

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STAT+: With promising early data in triple negative breast cancer, a new bispecific heats up

BioNTech explores a bispecific for the “next generation” of immune checkpoint therapy.

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Benefits of Transplant for Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Add Up a Decade Later

(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- Kids with sickle cell disease who underwent allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) had fewer serious disease complications along with better quality-of-life

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Half-Truths, Big Risks: The Dangers of an Incomplete Medical History

(MedPage Today) -- Honesty is the lifeblood of the doctor-patient relationship. Without it, even the most skilled physician is working with one hand tied behind their back.

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Transplantation Fails to Improve Survival in Mantle Cell Lymphoma

(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- Patients with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and undetectable minimal residual disease (uMRD) after induction therapy did not live longer if they underwent hematopoietic

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Arrhythmia Risk of Lamotrigine Questioned by Observational Data

(MedPage Today) -- LOS ANGELES -- The FDA's warning about arrhythmia risk with lamotrigine (Lamictal) based on in vitro data wasn't borne out in observational cohorts of people with epilepsy, altho

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Lentiviral Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Severe Hemophilia A

(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- Results from a small single-center study showed that treatment with a gene therapy involving the use of lentiviral vector-transduced autologous hematopoietic stem ce

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Next dietary guidelines should lead with plant-based foods, scientific advisers say

Advisers on the national dietary guidelines issue a report, minus ultraprocessed foods, promoting a new motto: "Eat Healthy Your Way.

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What Happened to the Canadian Teen Who Became Critically Ill With H5N1 Bird Flu?

(MedPage Today) -- Canadian public health officials closed their investigation into the teenager who became critically ill with the H5N1 bird flu virus, with no source of infection identified.

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