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Precision medicine tools offer hope for patients with rare blood cancers
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Personalized approaches have dramatically improved outcomes for many patients with non-Hodgkin B-cell lymphomas – blood cancers that arise in immune cells called B cells – yet the same is not true for patients with more rare…
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Fierce Madness Drug Name Tournament 2026—Elite 8 voting open
UPDATED: Thursday, April 9, 5:00 a.m. ET In the closest ever tie in Fierce Madness history, two Ionis drugs went head-to-head in our Drug Name Tournament 2026—and it was Dawnzera that came out on top. With only eight votes separating them, Ionis’ hereditary angioedema treatment beat its rival, familial chylomicronemia syndrome drug Tryngolza, by a margin of 51.2% to 48.8%…
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What’s going on with medetomidine?
Rhino Tranq How did fentanyl mixed with medetomidine become known as “Rhino Tranq”? The answer is in the etymology of how street drugs are named. In the pharmacy industry, drug names are assigned according to syllables (stems) in the drug name that convey information about the drug’s chemical structure, action etc. It’s a process wherein multiple names are submitted; one…
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How a series of ‘left turns’ led to wearable health tech breakthroughs at UCLA
In an alternate world, Anne Andrews might be a CIA agent. But in this one, she’s an interdisciplinary UCLA scientist breaking new ground, measuring chemicals in the brain and body. Andrews’ first foray into graduate education was to Washington, D.C., to study Russian. She found a mismatch between her love of Russian literature and the program’s focus on translation and entree…
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Farm bureau plans are a less pricey alternative to ACA coverage — with trade-offs
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on the Missouri health insurance exchange that covers him and his two teenage kids. That monthly total is $200 higher than what he paid last year,…
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I live in hay fever hell – but a new treatment is giving me hope
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know…
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The prescription-only drug fuelling classical music
Andrew Gillett, a viola player in his 60s, first took beta‑blockers about 30 years ago. “It wasn’t just the experience of performance anxiety, which was terrifying and completely overwhelmingly uncontrollable,” he says. “What it did to me mentally was really crushing. It made me feel useless and that I couldn’t do it.” Gillett is not alone. As it turns out,…
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High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
The White House wants states to drop certificate of need laws in hopes of lowering health care costs. Researchers and state leaders are split. This week’s episode is all about big, thorny issues in health policy: hospital prices, unnecessary medical care and rural health care deserts. I live in Brooklyn, and I’ve got at least a half-dozen excellent bagel shops…
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Sponge and sea slug partnership yields a new anticancer molecule with drug design promise
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: A sea slug and its sponge prey have revealed a rare cancer-fighting molecule with an unusual six-ring structure, offering fresh clues for how marine chemistry could inspire more stable anticancer drug scaffolds. Dotted nudibranch (Jorunna funebris)…
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Global health update: Apr. 8, 2026
U.S. leadership in global health has long reflected two truths: First, what happens abroad matters here at home, and second, America has both a national security interest and a moral responsibility to act. Investing in the health, safety, and stability of communities around the world not only saves lives but also strengthens American security, prosperity, and global partnerships. Programs like…
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