KRAS Blockers Shrank Nerve Tumors in Mice and Could Become an Alternative to Current NF1 Drugs
Cincinnati Children's researchers report KRAS inhibitors matched MEK inhibitors in shrinking NF1 nerve tumors in mice. Human trials have not started.
St. Louis Surgeons Report First Robotic Liver and Kidney Double Transplant Through a Three Inch Incision
WashU Medicine surgeons report the first robotic combined liver-kidney transplant, replacing a 16-inch incision with one of about three inches.
CDC Merges Three Overdose Tracking Systems Into One Public Dashboard as Predicted Deaths Fall Twelve Percent
The CDC launched an Overdose Prevention Data Channel combining fatal and nonfatal data as provisional deaths fell 12.3% to 67,798 nationally.
Iowa Confirms 45 Kratom-Linked Deaths Since 2024 as the Governor Presses Lawmakers for a Total Statewide Ban
Iowa reports 45 kratom-associated deaths since 2024, and a 467% jump in poison center calls as officials warn about concentrated 7-OH products.
Recalled Sprouts Reached Only Two States but Illnesses Turned Up in Fifteen and Investigators Cannot Explain Why
FDA confirmed recalled sprout distribution only in Minnesota and Wisconsin, yet 55 people fell ill across 15 states. A second source is still unnamed.
Decades of Money Trouble Tracked With Weaker Thinking Scores at Fifty Three in a Long-Running British Study
A UCL analysis of 2,759 people found persistent financial hardship in adulthood was tracked with weaker cognitive scores by age 53 and brain aging later.
His Bowel Was Wide Open but Running Backward and It Took 138 Days for Surgeons to See It
After a complex Whipple operation, a 72-year-old man's small bowel was reconnected in reverse, driving digestion the wrong direction for months.
Two Annual Eye Exams Got This Aircrew Member’s Diagnosis Wrong and Her Age Was the Reason Why
A 33-year-old military flier carried the wrong vitreous diagnosis for two years because doctors matched the sparkle to her age, not its motion.
Your Neighborhood In Your 20s May Shape Your Heart Decades Later, Research Suggests A Lasting Effect
Where you live in early adulthood may influence your heart health years later, with neighborhood conditions linked to artery calcification.
A Leaf Shaped Liver Fluke Was Living in This Woman’s Abdominal Wall and Her Stool Test Came Back Clean
Surgeons removed a mass from an Iranian woman's rectus abdominis and found an adult Fasciola hepatica, a fluke that belongs in the bile ducts.