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Merck-AstraZeneca breast cancer drug reduces risk of death by 28% in patients diagnosed early, clinical trial shows
Lynparza (olaparib), a product of Fortune 500 pharmaceutical firm Merck and Fortune 500 Europe company AstraZeneca, showed meaningful improvements in…
Patients are so sick and tired of waiting years for a transplant that they’re signing up in droves to receive vital organs from pigs
On a farm in the southern US state of Virginia, David Ayares and his research teams are breeding genetically modified…
Most Americans who want to lose weight don’t want to take GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, new survey says
GLP-1s, or glucagon-like peptide-1 agonist drugs, are seemingly everywhere. In recent years, this class of weight-loss and Type 2 diabetes…
Zepbound vs. Wegovy: New clinical trial says this weight-loss medication sheds more pounds
Amid the war on obesity, a clear winner has emerged in a battle between two weight-loss injectables. Zepbound (tirzepatide), manufactured…
Your resting heart rate can tell you a lot about your health. Here’s what your pulse should be at every age
You’re familiar with the feeling of your heart pounding in your chest, your blood pulsing through your veins with increasing…
TikTok ‘dermfluencers’ have medical students flocking to dermatology, where they can make half a million dollars a year and work four days a week
Physicians are hardly the shining beacons of maintaining work-life balance, but a growing number of medical students would beg to…
OpenAI’s transcription tool hallucinates more than any other, experts say—but hospitals keep using it
Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But…
Five years ago, a young woman with stabbing abdominal pain arrived at my emergency department. Her blood pressure steadily dropped…
The U.S. health care system is in a class all its own, according to a new analysis of health system…
Less than a third of people in England are satisfied with their public health system, a survey has found. Just…