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Cholesterol care just changed twice in one year. First, the FDA approved Lipfendra (enlicitide), the first cholesterol-lowering pill in a drug class that used to mean injections. Then the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association released updated 2026 guidelines with lower LDL
A once-weekly HIV pill combining islatravir and lenacapavir has cleared two major Phase 3 trials, holding its own against daily treatment. For people managing HIV, that could mean 52 pills a year instead of 365. The trials, called ISLEND-1 and ISLEND-2, followed people who switched from daily regime
Why does one heavy smoker develop lung cancer while another never does? Researchers have long suspected inherited genetics plays a role in cases like this, but proving it directly in humans has been nearly impossible given how much lifestyles and environments differ. A new mouse study from the Unive
A major new study has found that certain chronic blood cancers carry detectable genetic warning signs years before a patient's condition visibly worsens. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute tracked patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms, a group of rare blood cancers, for up to 25 years
For the first time, private medical colleges have overtaken government colleges in MBBS seats. New data from the National Medical Commission shows private institutions now hold 73,643 of India's 1,36,939 MBBS seats — that's 54%. Most of this year's new seats also went to private colleges,
Prostate cancer has long been considered "immune cold," meaning it's unusually good at hiding from the immune system, which is part of why immunotherapy often doesn't work well against it. A new study from Duke University School of Medicine and the University of Rochester Medical Center used a CRISP
Karnataka is building something no other Indian state has bothered with — a health policy built entirely around menopause. Named Ruthutaare, it comes from Health Minister U.T. Khader, a committee led by infertility specialist Dr. Jyotsna Mirlay, and a plan to send ASHA workers door to door across th
A drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris is turning up in more hospitals and nursing homes across the country, and the numbers have been climbing since it was first detected in the US back in 2016. It's not really a threat to most healthy people walking around outside a hospital. But inside one,
A new study has found that cancer cells may damage their own DNA simply by pushing growth genes to work at extreme levels, and that repeated repair of that damage can introduce new mutations over time. The research, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and published in Science Advances, points to
Stanford researchers studying flatworms just found something nobody expected: immune cells that self-destruct like tiny grenades, wiping out bacteria and other threats within minutes, then vanishing without a trace. The cells, named "ruptoblasts," don't behave like any immune cell known in humans. T
A new study looking at fructose and ovarian cancer has found something researchers didn't expect: cancer cells that survive chemotherapy may release this common dietary sugar as a signal that helps nearby tumor cells break free and spread. The research, done at The Wistar Institute and published in
Researchers have developed a chewing gum made from lablab beans that reduced HPV — the virus most associated with oral and throat cancer — by up to 93% in patient saliva samples. A single dose also nearly eliminated two cancer-linked bacteria without harming the mouth's good bacteria. The study, pub
