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People later diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, the form that begins before old age, had been treated more often for vertigo, depression and several other conditions in the one to five…
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborators at four other institutions report that two DNA changes sitting outside the MECP2 gene, in the switches that set how much of it a cell…
Researchers in Japan report that mice given olive oil before a dose of glucose emptied their stomachs more slowly and showed a smaller early rise in blood sugar than mice given the same oil after the…
A team led from the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen reports that the bacteria in a person's gut are linked to whether that person runs a fever after an mRNA vaccination. The study,…
Patients at a Boston primary care practice talked with a Google medical chatbot before real urgent appointments, and not one of those conversations had to be stopped on safety grounds, according to a…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology reported Oct. 8, 2026, that the number of substances mixed into illicit fentanyl in the United States is rising, and that what gets added differs…
Nicotinamide riboside, a supplement sold over the counter to raise the body's levels of a cell chemical called NAD, did not slow early Parkinson disease in a year-long trial published on Oct. 8,…
Research antibodies that failed every laboratory test they were put through have been used in hundreds of published papers, and those papers documented a minimum of 8,064 animal samples and 4,424…
The Pennsylvania Department of Health said on Oct. 5, 2026, that 1,004 measles cases have been confirmed across 39 counties in the state so far this year, with 198 hospitalizations and five confirmed…
The Food and Drug Administration approved the pill pirtobrutinib on Oct. 2, 2026, as a first treatment for two blood cancers, chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma. The approval…
Vaxcyte said on Oct. 5, 2026, that its experimental pneumococcal vaccine met every main immune-response goal set for OPUS-1, a phase 3 trial that dosed 4,047 U.S. adults. The figures are the…
Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, Los Angeles report that a single receptor in the gut sets how much fat the intestine releases into the bloodstream…
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