Health
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Health New Drug Improves Wakefulness in Narcolepsy Trials, Study Finds
A drug called oveporexton reduced daytime sleepiness and cut the rate of sudden muscle weakness in people with narcolepsy type 1, according…
28 September 2026 -
Health Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Rare Immune Disorder in Major Clinical Trial
Two linked studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine report encouraging results for a gene therapy targeting Wiskott–Aldrich…
27 September 2026 -
Health Foot Pain That Pointed Elsewhere: A Case Study in Unexpected Diagnosis
The New England Journal of Medicine has published a case report describing how a 46-year-old woman’s forefoot pain led clinicians to an…
27 September 2026 -
Health Children Trafficked to the US: A Doctor Asks What Medicine Can Do
A perspective essay in the New England Journal of Medicine raises the question of what the US medical community owes to child victims of…
26 September 2026 -
Health Blood-Thinning Drugs and Stroke Risk: What a New AF Trial Found
A major randomised trial has examined whether blood-thinning medication should be routinely offered to atrial fibrillation patients…
26 September 2026 -
Health American Science Under Strain, Says New England Journal of Medicine
A new Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that 20 months of political turmoil have caused lasting damage to…
25 September 2026 -
Health Rare Blood Disorder Carries High Cancer Risk, Major Study Finds
A large international study has found that people with Shwachman–Diamond syndrome face a high risk of developing myeloid blood cancer, and…
25 September 2026 -
Health Children’s Health Needs a System Fix, Not Just a Symptom Fix, Say Researchers
A new perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine argues that improving child health requires redesigning the environments…
24 September 2026 -
Health Lung Cancer Screening Evidence Reviewed in Major International Update
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has published its 21st handbook, summarising what the latest evidence shows about the…
24 September 2026 -
Health Oral HRT Linked to Higher Blood Clot Risk — Skin Patches Show No Such Effect, Study Finds
A study published in the BMJ has found that taking menopausal hormone therapy by mouth is associated with a greater risk of blood clots…
24 September 2026 -
Health Seeing the Person, Not Just the Patient Record
A piece in the BMJ argues that medical notes can describe a patient’s condition but can never capture what it actually feels like to be…
23 September 2026 -
Health Three Long Covid Trials Offer Hope as New Research Findings Emerge
Two out of three recent randomised trials for long Covid have shown promising results, according to a new blog post published by the New…
23 September 2026