Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria(newatlas.com)

35 points by burnt-resistor 1 year ago | 25 comments

FDA approves eye drops that fix near vision without glasses(newatlas.com)

89 points by geox 1 year ago | 42 comments

Surfactants safely take down mosquitoes without using insecticides(newatlas.com)

37 points by sahin 3 years ago | 58 comments

Early immunotherapy for Crohn’s disease significantly reduces complications(newatlas.com)

88 points by geox 2 years ago | 16 comments

'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor(newatlas.com)

80 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 24 comments

Alzheimer's biomarkers now visible up to a decade ahead of symptoms(newatlas.com)

205 points by 01-_- 1 year ago | 52 comments

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial(bloomberg.com)

775 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 345 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Gilead's twice-yearly HIV prevention shot prevented all infections in a large trial of African women.

Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)

335 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 524 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.

Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial(trial.medpath.com)

376 points by amichail 1 year ago | 665 comments

MedPath news article on a randomized trial of 108 people with HIV-associated lipohypertrophy where weekly Ozempic reversed epigenetic biological age by 3.1 years.

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research(insidemedicine.substack.com)

748 points by KittenInABox 1 year ago | 513 comments

Inside Medicine Substack post by Jeremy Faust reporting that the CDC ordered retraction or revision of submitted manuscripts containing banned terms like gender and LGBT.

FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review(theguardian.com)

118 points by NewJazz 16 days ago | 59 comments

Guardian analysis on an FDA proposal to expand a loophole letting some toxic, non-carcinogenic chemicals be added to food without safety review.