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You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I’d like to welcome Margaret Manto, who will be reporting on the FDA, and welcome back Nick Florko, who launched this newsletter in 2019, invented STAT’s commercial determinants of health beat, and will be pioneering a new beat covering declining trust in

Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD Vanderbilt Health’s Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD, will be honored this fall for her groundbreaking research on immune mechanisms that drive high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.  Kirabo, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, will receive the Established Investigator Award for Clinical Hypertension, a new recognition from the American Heart As

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Top of the morning to you. Gray skies are hovering over the Pharmalot campus right now, but our spirits remain sunny, nonetheless. Why? We will trot out a bit of insight from the Morning Mayor, who would say “Every new day should be unwrapped like a precious gift.” To celebrate the notion, we are brewing still more cups of stimulation and inviting you to join us. Our choice today is blueberry cobbler, a summer treat. Meanwhile, here is the latest menu of tidbits. Hope you have a sm

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Imagine Google Earth, but for a human cell. Zoom in closely enough, and instead of streets and buildings, there are proteins and strands of RNA and DNA. Then knock out a gene, or drop in a drug, and you’d see the system predict how the cellular landscape changes. That’s the idea behind AIDO Cell, a new virtual cell system unveiled Tuesday by Palo Alto, Calif., startup GenBio AI. If Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold sought to predict the structure of individual proteins, AIDO Ce

Do people who eat nuts live longer simply because they replace protein from animals with protein from plants? The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition “is the highest-ranked peer-reviewed scientific journal in nutrition and dietetics.” That should tell you a lot about the field, since it’s published by the American Society of Nutrition, whose sustaining partners include The Sugar Association, soda companies, and the meat, dairy, and egg industries. This is the highest-ranked nutrition journal!

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Days spent sitting can create tension and tightness in your side body. This slow yoga practice helps your stretch and lengthen. The post 12-Minute Yoga to Stretch Your Side Body appeared first on Yoga Journal.

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said Tuesday that its experimental drug significantly helped patients who experience sudden drops in blood sugar after bariatric surgery, paving the way for its potential approval as the first treatment for the condition. In a Phase 3 trial of people with post-bariatric hypoglycemia, or PBH, those taking the drug experienced a 55% reduction in the rate of serious low blood sugar events compared with those on placebo. This was better than expected; the study was statisti

If you could design an oral treatment that limits appetite and mimics some effects of physical activity, you might call it exercise in a pill. Now a company is releasing early results for a compound to do just that. The pill, the company hopes, can maintain weight loss without the common gastrointestinal effects of GLP-1s. The component of exercise it is designed to re-create is preservation of lean muscle mass, a concern when people yo-yo on and off GLP-1 drugs, losing more muscle each time.

Residents of Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County — home of the state capital, Harrisburg, and the chocolaty oasis of Hersheypark — were shocked with unwelcome news in December 2024. For the first time in two decades, the county’s leaders had not only voted to raise their property taxes, but did so by a whopping 22%. What they may not have realized: That higher tax bill was needed to help offset the soaring health care costs of the county’s employees. Over the p

In the climate debate, low- and middle-income countries have often been blamed for rising emissions, while the vastly greater historical contribution of wealthy nations is treated as yesterday’s story. Something similar has happened with the global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis. Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have long been portrayed as the worst offenders of antibiotic overuse, with over-the-counter sales and weak regulation seen as one of the main reasons behind the

In March 1986, Mary Beth Whitehead and her husband went to a New Jersey hospital and kidnapped a baby girl. She had given birth to the girl three days earlier. They took the infant to Florida, launching the first case examining the legitimacy of surrogate motherhood in America. Four decades later, surrogacy is so out of control that it risks being banned in the U.S. and around the world. Whitehead had signed an agreement with William and Elizabeth Stern. She agreed to be artificially insemina

Ah, Doritos: a classic farm-to-table food right up there with heirloom tomatoes, organic roasted chicken, and artisanal cheese boards sourced from local cows greeted each morning by name. At least that’s what new marketing for the tangy chips seems to imply, with slogans like “PepsiCo partners with farmers to bring Doritos from the field to you” and images of corn seedlings and a farmer, clad in a PepsiCo hat, astride a rusted tractor. Yet Doritos are famously ultra-pr

Kratom use and serious health problems linked to it have risen dramatically across the United States over the past decade. Poison center reports jumped from just 19 cases in 2010 to more than 1,200 in 2023, while severe outcomes—including life-threatening complications, disability, and death—also climbed sharply. Researchers warn that kratom can trigger seizures, abnormal heart rhythms, liver damage, and breathing problems, with risks potentially increasing when it is combined with other drugs.

Scientists studying three artisan British cheeses found that the microbes responsible for their distinctive flavors may also offer surprising benefits for gut health. As the cheeses matured, helpful bacteria transformed their aromas and textures while potentially producing compounds linked to reduced inflammation, cholesterol regulation, and appetite control.

Andrea Califano, known for developing mathematical models that identify key drivers of cancer, thinks AI's impact on biology is probably decades away, not right around the corner.

(MedPage Today) -- U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Monday. The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements...