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Eli Lilly said its investigational drug retatrutide lowered blood sugar and cut weight more than Novo Nordisk's Ozempic in a large diabetes study. The so-called triple-G drug is one of the most watched obesity candidates. STAT reported the result in its biotech newsletter.
Read more at STAT →Wave Neuroscience says its Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy, built with Texas A&M researchers, left 68% of trial patients no longer meeting PTSD criteria and cut symptoms by 52%. It tailors magnetic stimulation to each brain's activity. The FDA cleared it in June, which does not guarantee every patient benefits.
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A target trial emulation using health records of 497,499 people in the RECOVER repository found high-risk adults given Paxlovid within five days of infection had a lower risk of Long COVID, with a hazard ratio of 0.88. The study appears in PLOS Global Public Health.
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The US regulator has granted priority review to Merck's sacituzumab tirumotecan after a 776-patient trial. Against chemotherapy, it cut the risk of death by 32%, with median survival of 19 months versus 12.1. The drug carries a payload to cells bearing the TROP2 protein.
Read more at The Hindu →A phase 1/2 trial led by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center found that combining bevacizumab and pazopanib significantly extended both progression-free and overall survival in patients with the most common type of kidney cancer.
Read more at Medical Xpress →Commonly used injections for Achilles tendinopathy, the pain, stiffness and swelling in the Achilles tendon, offered no meaningful clinical advantage over a placebo treatment, according to a clinical trial published by The BMJ.
Read more at Medical Xpress →UC San Francisco scientists engineered CAR-T cells that stay dormant until they reach the brain, then switch on and destroy tumour cells. In mice they cleared diffuse midline glioma, a lethal childhood cancer that weaves into healthy tissue. Human results are still to come.
Read more at Medical Xpress →An international study led by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and published in Nature, with the University of Exeter's PROTECT study taking part, identified new DNA risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and sheds clearer light on the role of the immune system. Researchers hope it guides future treatments.
Read more at Medical Xpress →Mayo Clinic researchers detected measurable brain changes within 18 minutes of deep brain stimulation in people with drug-resistant epilepsy. The finding could eventually let clinicians personalise stimulation settings without waiting months to see whether they work.
Read more at Medical Xpress →A study at São Paulo State University in Brazil found short, controlled exposure to low-oxygen air, like that at mountain summits, was safe and did not disturb sleep. Researchers say it may ease some Parkinson's symptoms. It is early work, so nobody should head for Everest.
Read more at Medical Xpress →A Boston team writing in JAMA Network Open estimated that about 75% of former NFL players who died from 2008 to 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It drew on records of 2,362 players. Of nearly 400 donated brains, 93.5% showed evidence of the disease.
Read more at The Guardian →Researchers in China report in the Journal of Experimental Medicine that pantethine, a vitamin B5 derivative, curbed immune cells behind psoriasis in mice and showed potential benefit in patients alongside other treatments. Psoriasis has no known cure, and this is early, small-scale evidence.
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NPPA filings show 397 of 543 listed cancer drug entries have cut prices ahead of the November 9 deadline, by about 50% on average. Expensive patented treatments including Keytruda, nivolumab and osimertinib remain unchanged, limiting relief for patients on newer therapies.
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The Indian Patent Office rejected TB Alliance's patent application for the bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid combination, a six-month all-oral treatment for drug-resistant TB. Patient groups including the Delhi Network of Positive People welcomed the decision, saying shorter oral treatment helps people return to work.
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The Advertising Standards Council of India reviewed nutraceutical ads from July to September 2026 and flagged recurring problems substantiating health and wellness claims. Its report, titled A Pill for Thought, warns that time-bound promises of results can mislead consumers about what these products do.
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The 2026 Lancet Countdown finds half of India's heatwave days between 2016 and 2025 were directly attributable to climate change, with an estimated 193 billion potential labour hours lost each year. It also flags rising suitability for dengue, malaria and waterborne infections.
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By August 31, AB-PMJAY had funded 13.25 crore admissions worth about ₹2.03 lakh crore. States are cracking down on suspected inflated claims while private hospitals say legitimate bills sit unpaid for months. Tighter checks protect public money but slow payments to hospitals.
Read more at medicalbuyer.co.in →Researchers built the Computerized Hindi Aphasia Screening Platform to diagnose speech disorders that affect nearly a third of stroke survivors. It uses audio-visual tasks, a sensor-embedded base station and heart-rate monitoring to measure accuracy, speed and cognitive load, without costly neuroimaging.
Read more at The Times of India →Writing ahead of World Stroke Day, public health researcher Om Prakash Bera notes the 2024 cause-of-death certification report logged 86,300 cerebrovascular deaths, just 4.2% of certified deaths. He argues that figure is a fraction of the real toll, so India cannot track whether deaths fall.
Read more at Hindustan Times →The 60-day campaign runs from October 28 to December 26 with colleges and universities in focus. It aims to stop young people starting tobacco, push users to seek help quitting and tighten compliance with tobacco-control laws. Minister of State Prataprao Jadhav launched it in New Delhi.
Read more at Nation Path India →In a paper in Oncology Reviews, AIIMS Delhi surgical oncologists M. D. Ray and Hema Siri Kottu say pressure from influential patients and hospital management can push doctors into unnecessary tests, rushed surgery and longer intensive care stays that standard protocols would not support.
Read more at theindianpractitioner.com →The National Centre for Disease Control has sanctioned ₹30 crore for a BSL-3 lab at AIIMS Nagpur, letting the institute isolate and study high-risk pathogens. The lab should reduce the region's dependence on outside national testing centres for dangerous infections.
Read more at medicalbuyer.co.in →The health ministry has approved Dr Nikhil Tandon continuing in additional charge as AIIMS Delhi director from October 27 to April 26, 2027, or until a regular appointee arrives. The extension still needs approval from the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet.
Read more at education.economictimes.indiatimes.com →As pollution season returns to northern India, doctors warn that long exposure to fine particulate matter is associated with heart disease, stroke and kidney damage. A Lancet study linked 3.8 million deaths in India over 11 years to PM2.5, The Federal reports.
Read more at The Federal →Dakshina Kannada District Health Officer H.R. Thimmaiah said empanelled private hospitals must give covered treatments free to eligible beneficiaries after complaints of extra charges. He said money collected illegally would be refunded, and hospitals had been told to follow scheme rules.
Read more at mangaloretoday.com →The endocrinology department at IPGMER, Kolkata, is the first under West Bengal Medical Education to win ICMR's Collaborating Centre of Excellence recognition, for five years. Only CMC Vellore and Dr Mohan's Diabetes Centre had earlier won it in endocrinology and diabetes.
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The 10th Lancet Countdown, from 146 researchers in 30 countries, says heat caused three million deaths between 2016 and 2023, including a record 710,000 in 2023. More than 70% of that year's toll was linked to human-caused climate change. It lands ahead of COP31.
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Nigeria confirmed an imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease, a rare form of Ebola, on October 20 after a woman travelled from Uganda. She and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland on October 26. The embassy urged travellers to take precautions and watch for symptoms.
Read more at Outlook India →At the height of the 2025 Los Angeles fires, millions of residents were exposed over a 24-hour period to lead levels in smoke that were 80 times higher than the typical background level, according to a new study of heavy metals in the smoke.
Read more at Medical Xpress →A study finds the outbreak that helped cost Canada its measles elimination status in November 2025 was concentrated in historically undervaccinated communities with close social ties across Canada, the US, Mexico and beyond, which created openings for cross-border spread.
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KFF Health News reports hospitals closed pediatric intensive care units in Montana, Oregon and Missouri in the past year as they convert beds to services for newborns or adults. Critically ill children now often have to travel farther to medical hubs for care.
Read more at KFF Health News →The Government Medical Officers' Association says rising Breteau indices show more mosquitoes and larvae, especially in the Eastern, Northern, North Central and Uva provinces. It accused the Health Ministry of a weak response as intermittent heavy rain raises the risk of more cases.
Read more at dailymirror.lk →A study in PLOS Global Public Health finds higher human development is associated with better universal health coverage worldwide. It also finds gaps in coverage between income groups are generally larger than gaps between world regions.
Read more at Medical Xpress →UC Santa Barbara researchers built a model that predicts the likelihood of low birth weight in West Africa from climate and socioeconomic data. Added to an early warning system for child health, it could give aid groups and decision makers more time to act.
Read more at Medical Xpress →A senior doctor writing in The BMJ warns that the phrase corridor care is hiding the true scale of the crisis in NHS hospitals, where patients are treated in hallways and other spaces never designed for care. A gentler label has not shortened the corridors.
Read more at Medical Xpress →A study in Neurology finds people living near industrial facilities that pollute the water supply may be more likely to develop progressive supranuclear palsy, a rare movement disorder. The study shows an association and does not prove that the pollution causes the disease.
Read more at Medical Xpress →The CDC has ranked the four most dangerous antibiotic-resistant germs in the United States. Superbugs cause an estimated 9.7 million infections and 50,800 deaths in the country each year, according to the agency's figures cited in the report.
Read more at Medical Xpress →Qatar's Ministry of Public Health announced a precautionary recall of three batches of Denmark-produced Arla Protein Pudding over possible small glass fragments. The chocolate, salted caramel and hazelnut latte batches were flagged. Arla Foods started the recall.
Read more at thepeninsulaqatar.com →Kyrgyzstan's Ministry of Health plans to buy an additional 100,000 doses of influenza vaccine for 30 million soms. Deputy Minister Gulbara Ishenapysova announced the purchase at a parliamentary committee meeting on labour and health on October 26.
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RadNet will pay $350 million in cash and $5 million in shares for teleradiology provider ONRAD, plus an earnout of up to $210 million tied to 2027 EBITDA targets. It plans to combine ONRAD with its imaging network and DeepHealth's AI tools.
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Bengaluru's Surgy Health has launched SurgyOne, an agentic AI hospital information system and health record platform for mid-market hospital groups in India and the Gulf. Founder Mohammed Jamil Nasir says the agent prepares follow-up work and a person approves every action.
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Researchers in China scored 100 answers from five mainstream large language models to standard shingles questions. Model choice strongly shaped text quality, while readability depended on both model and content type, according to the study accepted in Frontiers in Public Health.
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A retrospective study at Qilu Hospital of Shandong University tested four DeepSeek configurations on 292 records of hip and knee replacement patients. A reasoning version paired with curated guidelines outperformed simpler versions and unassisted junior doctors on preoperative decisions, the journal Arthroplasty reports.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →The UK government accepted all 44 recommendations of the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare on October 6. Writing in Health Tech World, Rafael Patron says the shift puts more weight on how AI tools perform over their working life inside NHS trusts.
Read more at htworld.co.uk →The American Psychiatric Association is helping lead DIGITS, a NIMH-funded effort to create open standards for smartphone and wearable sensor data. Over four years it will develop shared data definitions and tools, aiming for more reliable AI and fuller patient pictures.
Read more at psychiatry.org →AdvaMed's Digital Health Tech Board has approved voluntary Data Access Principles and Best Practices to help medtech companies and health systems share and protect data responsibly. Chair Robert Cohen said improving a surgical technology can need data from before and after the procedure.
Read more at advamed.org →Venture investors are moving into pain management, physiotherapy and orthotics, The Economic Times reports. Bengaluru orthotics maker Lumov is in talks to raise ₹32 crore in a round led by Peak XV Partners, according to people familiar with the matter.
Read more at The Economic Times →India's National Health Authority chief Sunil Kumar Barnwal met UAE health officials, including the Integrative Medicine Council and Abu Dhabi's Department of Health, to discuss cooperation on health data research, AI benchmarking and the Malaffi health information exchange.
Read more at ehealth.eletsonline.com →Kenya's Digital Health Agency is moving facilities to a centralised electronic claims platform for the Social Health Authority. It aims to fix reimbursement delays that have strained hospitals, shifting claims from manual processing as the country pursues universal health coverage.
Read more at streamlinefeed.co.ke →Kenya's 68th International Annual Nurses Scientific Conference focuses on digital health and AI for universal coverage. By June 2026, 5,078 facilities were using the Social Health Authority's Health Management Information System, according to government figures.
Read more at the-star.co.ke →At the Naha Birthing and Urban Health Center in Honiara, which sees over a hundred patients a day, head nurse Ataban Teimana has championed DHIS2 software so patient records live electronically. He says moving off manual records was always his dream.
Read more at who.int →A qualitative study of nine chronically ill patients in Riyadh found most described AI health tools as user-friendly and part of daily self-monitoring. Digital health literacy shaped how well they used them. The study does not show improved clinical outcomes.
Read more at Bioengineer.org →Sanofi India rare disease lead Milan Choksey writes that rare diseases often begin with common complaints like fatigue, weakness or repeated infections, so doctors read them as everyday illness. He argues AI could help flag the unusual cases sooner.
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A Stanford Medicine study of 22,281 UK Biobank participants found mental health disorders diagnosed two to five years after cancer were associated with a 119% higher rate of cancer death. The researchers stress it does not show mental illness causes the deaths.
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The grant will help UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland add 20 private inpatient behavioural health rooms in a new wing, serving about 700 young people a year. Plans include an outdoor therapy space and a therapeutic roof garden.
Read more at about.kaiserpermanente.org →Influencers say pallor, dark circles and hair loss signal low iron. Experts tell The Guardian such symptoms can be a warning sign but have other causes too. A blood test for ferritin, the iron storage protein, gives a snapshot, though it is not always reliable.
Read more at The Guardian →Despite recent social media claims, the shape of a person's buttocks cannot tell you anything about their hormones. Experts say determining hormone levels requires proper laboratory testing. The internet will need to find another way to read people.
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Endocrinologist Pranav Ghody of Wockhardt Hospitals says glucose can be managed through mindful eating, regular meal timings, adequate sleep and prescribed medication. He cautions diet alone may not be enough for everyone, especially people with diabetes or prediabetes.
Read more at The Indian Express →Dr Saurabh Juneja tells The Indian Express that low blood pressure does not typically cause numbness by itself. Usual symptoms are dizziness, light-headedness, weakness and blurred vision, so numbness or tingling may need a separate investigation.
Read more at The Indian Express →An Ayurvedic expert listed signs like a clean tongue and waking refreshed as markers of good health. Internal medicine consultant Honey Savla says they should not be treated as a complete measure, since a clean tongue tells you relatively little about overall health.
Read more at The Indian Express →The Guardian reports on RibXcar, a cosmetic procedure that fractures three lower ribs on each side and binds them in a corset for three months to reset their shape. One patient was offered it after her surgeon found too little fat for liposuction.
Read more at The Guardian →On the Guardian Science Weekly podcast, consultant Paula Briggs explains why experts are alarmed by rising misinformation about treatments such as HRT, and science correspondent Nicola Davis runs through the facts on symptoms, tests and treatments for perimenopause.
Read more at The Guardian →Experts share safety advice for trick-or-treating. According to Safe Kids Worldwide, children are more than twice as likely to be struck and killed by a vehicle on Halloween than on any other day of the year, so visibility and supervision matter.
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Scientists have uncovered a hidden defense mechanism in aging muscles that sacrifices strength to protect cells from damage. In mice, partially restoring a crucial molecule reversed signs of muscle wasting and prevented premature death, raising hopes for new treatments for age-related muscle decline.
A powerful new AI system could help doctors detect pancreatic cancer years before it becomes visible on conventional scans. The technology, called REDMOD, identified hidden warning signs an average of 475 days before diagnosis and was nearly twice as sensitive as experienced radiologists. By spotting cancer-related changes at.
Regular exercise does more than strengthen the heart. New research reveals that it actually reshapes the nerves controlling how the heart functions, and the changes are surprisingly different on the left and right sides of the body.
Nature Medicine, Published online: 26 October 2026, doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04742-7 As presented at the ESMO Congress 2026: In the global phase 2 MDT-BRIDGE trial, neoadjuvant durvalumab plus chemotherapy in patients with resectable and borderline resectable non-small-cell lung cancer, followed by multidisciplinary reassessment, enabled surgery in most patients, leading to encouraging.
Nature Medicine, Published online: 26 October 2026, doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04774-z Publisher Correction: Phenomic profiles and disease patterns of 1.9 million participants from Our Future Health. Publisher Correction: Phenomic profiles and disease patterns of 1.9 million participants from Our Future Health
Scientists have identified a hidden cause of inflammatory bowel disease: antibodies that disable the immune system’s natural ability to control inflammation, potentially explaining severe illness in thousands of patients. The breakthrough also solves a 30-year genetic mystery and could pave the way for more precise diagnoses and targeted.
Scientists have uncovered a surprising new clue to why the Mediterranean diet is so good for the heart, brain, and healthy aging. Researchers at USC found that older adults who closely followed the diet had higher levels of two tiny proteins, humanin and SHMOOSE, produced by the mitochondria.
Scientists have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells continually reshape their genetic makeup to become more aggressive, spread, and evade treatment. In laboratory experiments, blocking a key gene reversed some of these dangerous changes, revealing a potential new way to fight the deadly disease.