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The Hong Kong-listed drug developer Akeso said on Sept. 2 that its lung-cancer antibody ivonescimab met the overall-survival endpoint of a Phase III trial that tested it against pembrolizumab, and…
Regions that reached more infants with nirsevimab, a long-acting antibody injection given to babies to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, recorded the largest declines in emergency-department…
A gene-edited pig kidney kept a man with end-stage kidney disease off dialysis for 271 days before it failed and was removed. Eighty-two days later, he received a human kidney that worked…
Health Canada researchers dosed male and female mice with polystyrene nano- and microplastic particles for 28 days and found inflammation in the gallbladders of nine of 23 exposed males and two of 24…
Novartis said Sept. 1 that two Phase III trials of its experimental pill remibrutinib met their primary goal in relapsing multiple sclerosis, reducing the annualized relapse rate compared with…
Engineers have sent data out of a mock brain implant as an electrical current through body tissue, with no wire and no antenna. They tested the link inside a human cadaveric head specimen. The system…
Researchers at Pesticide Action Network organizations estimate that 402 million to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning (sudden poisonings that were not deliberate) occur…
Extended courses of the antiviral Paxlovid did not improve long COVID symptoms compared with placebo, according to results from the NIH-funded RECOVER-VITAL trial released on August 31. The paper was…
Cardiologists at hospitals in Germany and Poland asked people with atrial fibrillation to agree to something unusual: an operation that might turn out to be a performance. Of the 262 who consented,…
Four cardiac societies have replaced the numbered types used to classify myocardial infarction, the clinical term that includes heart attack, with three categories named for the cause. The Fifth…
Tuberculosis bacteria take DNA damage as they dry out inside the airborne droplets that carry them from one person to the next, and that damage switches on a repair system that helps…
Patients with heart scarring and moderately reduced pumping function got no overall benefit from an implanted defibrillator, according to the CMR GUIDE trial published in JAMA on Aug. 28. The trial's…
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