2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (986+ words) The decision expands a previous accelerated approval granted in November 2025, which limited the drug to patients who had already received systemic therapy. Eligible patients no longer have to try another treatment first. The group affected is small but specific. Activating…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (843+ words) He was a healthy 10-month-old until the day he ate swordfish. Afterward, his mother noticed an intense smell like rotting fish, coming mostly from his head and hands. It came back when he ate other kinds of fish, and a…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (635+ words) For six months, a 45-year-old man dealt with foul-smelling discharge from his right nostril and nosebleeds that came and went. When doctors looked inside with an endoscope, they saw a hard white mass sitting on the floor of his right…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (803+ words) The drug, INBRX-106, activates OX40, a protein on T cells that helps sustain immune attacks on tumors. Keytruda works by releasing a brake on the immune system, while an OX40 drug is meant to press the accelerator at the same time. Inhibrx…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (572+ words) The federal offices that decide which prescription drugs, vaccines, gene therapies and nicotine products reach American patients and consumers now have permanent leaders after more than a year of turnover. Personnel news at a federal agency is easy to skip....

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (898+ words) Bacteria found in 11 patients at a Maryland hospital were genetically matched to samples from the hospital's own water system, according to an investigation published in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The organism is Mycobacterium abscessus, a rapidly growing nontuberculous…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (696+ words) Nothing about a person's insurance, prescription, or vaccine schedule changes this week because of these appointments. What changes is who sets the pace and the standard for the decisions that will land over the next several years, including how quickly…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (666+ words) The autonomous blood draw robot that cleared US regulatory review last month will not appear at American labs or clinics for some time. Vitestro, the Dutch company behind it, plans a multicenter US clinical trial before commercial availability and says…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (778+ words) An Indian chemical plant that supplied the active ingredients in generic Viagra and Cialis to American compounding pharmacies has recalled everything it had in US distribution after federal inspectors documented residue-covered equipment, an employee in open-toed sandals beside open production…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (470+ words) The latissimus dorsi is the muscle reconstructive surgeons reach for when they want a sure thing. It is broad, it is fed by a dependable set of vessels, and its anatomy is consistent enough that surgical planning is usually straightforward....