‘Definitive test’ finds exercise a potent weapon against colon cancer
On Jun. 2, 2025, a first-of-its-kind international trial provides definitive evidence that people who follow a structured exercise program…
Pfizer’s BRAFTOVI® Combination Regimen Cuts the Risk of Death in Half for Patients with BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
On May 30, 2025, Pfizer announced statistically significant and clinically meaningful survival results from the Phase 3 BREAKWATER…
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U.S. excess deaths continued to rise even after the COVID-19 pandemic
On May 23, 2025 a Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) led study revealed that there were…
Texas State cancer agency awards more than $93 million in grants for research and prevention
On May 21, 2025, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) announced that it has approved…
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Global leaders reaffirm commitment to WHO with More Than US$ 170 million
On May 20, 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that world leaders pledged at least an additional…
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US FDA approves AbbVie’s drug for a type of lung cancer
On May 14, 2025, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved AbbVie’s drug to treat adults…
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FDA Approves Teal Health’s Teal Wand™—The First and Only At-Home Self-Collection Device for Cervical Cancer Screening
On May 9, 2025, Teal Health® announced the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the Teal Wand™,…
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Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records
On My 7, 2025, researchers at the University College London (UCL) and King’s College London announced that an…
spinal tumour removed through a person’s eye socket for the first time
On May 6, 2025, in a first-of-its-kind surgery, a multidisciplinary team led by a University of Maryland Medical…
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Europe pledges half a billion euros to lure scientists as Trump battles universities
On May 5, 2025, The European Union (EU) and France announced half a billion euros worth of incentives…
Origins of common lung cancer that affects smokers discovered
On My 2, 2025, researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, UCL, and the University of Cambridge announced they…
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NIH to end billions of dollars in foreign research grants
On May 1, 2025, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research,…
Childhood exposure to bacterial toxin may be triggering colorectal cancer epidemic among the young
On Apr. 23, 2025, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of California San Diego and their collaborators…
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Annual Report to the Nation Shows Cancer Deaths Continue to Decline
On Apr. 21, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reported that overall death rates from cancer declined steadily among…
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Cartoon Illustrating “The NIH and U.S. Healthcare in Crisis” Published
On Apr. 21, 2025, LifeScienceHistory.com published the cartoon: “The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and U.S. Healthcare in…
Thousands of people could benefit from new twice-a-day tablet for advanced breast cancer
On Apr. 11, 2025, the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommended capivasertib (also called…
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FDA Announces Plan to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement for Monoclonal Antibodies and Other Drugs
On Apr. 10, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is taking a groundbreaking step to…
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National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology Urges Swift Action to Protect U.S. National Security
On Apr. 8, 2025, the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology delivered its major report and action plan…
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Novel genomic screening tool enables precision reverse-engineering of genetic programming in cells
On Apr. 3, 2025, a collaborative research led by investigators at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center…
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HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
On Apr. 1, 2025, layoff notices began arriving for thousands of employees of the sprawling U.S. Department of…
Study uncovers key role of RNA modifications in prostate cancer progression
On Mar. 24, 2025, scientists at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Toronto…
More than half of adults and a third of children and adolescents predicted to have overweight or obesity by 2050
On Mar. 3, 2025, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reported that without urgent policy reform and…
Breast cancer is on the rise: data reveal drastic gap in survival rates
On Feb. 24, 2025, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, but survival chances vary…
CPRIT awards $68 million in research grants to Texas institutions
On Feb. 19, 2025, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) announced that it had approved…
Parental Alcohol Use Linked To Increased Cancer Risk In Children, Texas A&M Researchers Find
On Feb. 19, 2025, research from the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences has discovered…
Woman in cancer remission for record 19 years after CAR-T immune treatment
On Feb. 17, 2025, researchers from Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston announced that the four year old girl…
Researchers identify DNA changes, biological pathways associated with inherited cancer risk
On Feb. 17, 2025, Stanford researchers have conducted the first large-scale screen of these inherited changes, called single…
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Mutations in two gene pairs point to a promising drug target in 5 percent of adult cancers
On Feb. 5, 2025, scientists from the Cancer Dependency Map (DepMap) at the Broad Institute of MIT and…
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U.S. FDA drops Support improving clinical trial diversity
Jan. 24, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled draft guidance from its website requiring companies…
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U.S. FDA Revokes Authorization for the Use of Red No. 3 in Food and Ingested Drugs
On Jan. 15, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced revoking the authorization for the use…