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A Daily Pill for Children with Achondroplasia Draws Cautious Praise in a New England Journal Editorial

A UCLA pediatric specialist called an oral achondroplasia drug a potentially giant step forward in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial.

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8 Ways High AQI Pollution Is Slowly Damaging Your Lungs and Respiratory Health in India

Your Cilia Are Being ParalysedThe lungs' first line of defence is a carpet of microscopic hair-like structures called cilia, which beat rhythmically to sweep dust, bacteria, and debris up and out of the airways. PM2.5, particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrometres, the dominant pollutant on high-AQI days across Delhi, Mumbai,…

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The DASH Diet Built Around Indian Spices, Legumes, and Staples That Actually Lower Sodium

What the DASH Diet Actually RequiresThe DASH diet, Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, was developed in the 1990s through a landmark study funded by the US National Institutes of Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1997. Its core targets: sodium below 2,300 mg per day…

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How to Adapt the Mediterranean Diet for an Indian Vegetarian Kitchen: 8 Practical Swaps

1. Use dal and paneer to carry the protein load fish usually doesThe Mediterranean diet's most cited health credential is the 2013 PREDIMED trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found a 30% reduction in major cardiovascular events among participants who followed it, and the diet's plant-based…

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How the Gila Monster's Saliva Became a Diabetes Drug Now Used by Millions Worldwide

The lizard that never eats, yet never crashesThe Gila Monster can go up to a year without a meal. That is not hyperbole, it is a documented biological fact about one of only two venomous lizard species native to North America. During those long stretches of fasting, its blood glucose…

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Ted Cruz condemned for pushing ‘dangerous’ debunked Covid vaccine and miscarriages claim

Republican lawmakers rebuked for promoting long-debunked falsehood surrounding coronavirus incolulation

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GOP Congresswoman claims 82% of women vaccinated in the first two trimesters miscarried. But the math doesn’t add up

She didn’t share what the study actually found.

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An 83 Percent Risk Reduction in Lung Cancer Sounds Enormous, and the Number Needs Three Pieces of Context

Retevmo cut recurrence or death risk by 83% in early RET-positive lung cancer. What relative risk reduction means and who the finding applies to.

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Chronic Lower Back Pain Is a Core Strength Problem Your Posture Has Already Confirmed

Why Your Back Is Doing a Job It Was Never Meant to DoThe lumbar spine is a load-bearing structure, not a load-moving one. When the deep core muscles, specifically the transversus abdominis and multifidus, fail to activate correctly, the spine stops being a supported column and starts being a crane…

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Religious Fasting and Metabolic Health: What Navratri and Ekadashi Do to Your Insulin and Glucose

The Biology Starts Within Hours, Not DaysTwelve hours after your last meal, your liver glycogen is nearly depleted. At that point, the body shifts fuel sources: free fatty acids rise, and the liver begins producing ketone bodies. This is not a dramatic event, it happens quietly, every time a fast…

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5 Fasting Mistakes That Slow Your Metabolism and Make You Gain Weight Instead of Losing It

Eating Too Little for Too LongA 2022 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that extreme caloric restriction during fasting windows causes the body to down-regulate its resting metabolic rate within days, not weeks. The body reads a severe deficit as a famine signal. Muscle tissue breaks…

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The Clinical Trial That Supported Tavneos for ANCA Vasculitis Was Just Retracted

NEJM retracted the Tavneos ADVOCATE trial on June 29, 2026, after FDA found altered patient data. Patients should not stop Tavneos without a doctor — here's what's known.

Medical Daily

Why Losing Weight Does Not Always Fix PCOS: What Hormones, Insulin, and Inflammation Actually Do

The Weight Loss Prescription Has a GapThe standard advice given to women with PCOS goes like this: lose 5 to 10 percent of your body weight and your symptoms will improve. That figure comes from real research. A 2007 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Legro…

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Paxlovid Speeds COVID Recovery but May Not Prevent Hospitalizations in Vaccinated Adults

Two 2026 trials found Paxlovid doesn't significantly cut hospitalization in vaccinated high-risk adults. Here's who still benefits and what the evidence actually says.

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CRISPR Gene Editing Achieves a Functional Cure for Sickle Cell Disease in 96 Percent of Patients — RUBY Trial Results in the New England Journal of Medicine Are Historic

The RUBY Trial (NEJM, April 2026): CRISPR-Cas12a gene editing therapy reni-cel (renizgamglogene autogedtemcel) achieved a functional cure in 27 of 28 (96%) severe sickle cell disease patients, with no painful crises for up to two years after treatment. Led by Dr. Rabi Hanna at Cleveland Clinic.

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Finerenone Kidney Drug Shown to Protect Heart and Kidneys in Millions More Patients After Three Major 2026 Studies

Three major studies published in NEJM, JAMA, and The Lancet in June 2026 show finerenone protects kidneys and hearts in non-diabetic CKD patients, expanding its potential reach to millions.

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Breakthrough Drug Finerenone Now Proven to Protect the Kidneys and Heart in Millions More Patients Than Doctors Thought — Houston's CKD Patients Stand to Benefit Most

Major June 2026 studies show finerenone slows kidney disease and cuts heart failure risk even in patients without diabetes — expanding its benefit to millions. Houston has one of the highest CKD rates in Texas.

The Conversation

HRT patches to treat prostate cancer – here’s how it works

Women’s HRT patches can treat prostate cancer just as effectively as standard hormone injections – but with fewer of the worst side-effects – according to a large UK trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The finding could change how men with prostate cancer that has spread beyond…

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HRT patches for menopause ‘can help treat prostate cancer’ – but there is one main side effect

Patches that lower testosterone by delivering oestradiol, a form of oestrogen, through the skin were just as effective as injections at preventing the cancer from spreading

LiveScience

Tooth-in-eye surgery, 'blood chimerism,' and a pregnancy from oral sex: 12 wild medical cases we covered in 2025

Here are a dozen strange and interesting tales from the medical literature.

The Conversation

New cancer therapy brings remission for patients with deadly T-cell leukaemia

A small group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukaemia have seen their cancer driven into remission by an innovative form of immune therapy.

The Conversation

How RFK Jr is systematically undermining vaccines around the world

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health success stories of all time. Over the past 50 years, they’ve saved an estimated 154 million lives. But in the US, both access to vaccines and public trust in them are being systematically undermined – not by conspiracy theorists online, but from…

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Weird swelling of man's fingers and toes revealed cancer had 'completely replaced' the bones with lesions

Marked swelling in a man's finger and big toe was a symptom of late-stage cancer.

LiveScience

8 babies spared from potentially deadly inherited diseases through new IVF 'mitochondrial donation' trial

A groundbreaking trial in the U.K. has released data on eight babies born through a special IVF procedure to lower their risk of mitochondrial DNA disease.

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Man's body crawling with parasitic worms after infected kidney transplant at US hospital

A second transplant patient also became infected, leading their doctors to surmise that their new kidneys were likely to blame.

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