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Most U.S. adults have hearts older than their actual age
On Jul. 30, 2025, a study led by Northwestern Medicine shows that most U.S. adults have a “heart…
Biology | Disease | Neurology | Therapeutics
How B Vitamins Can Affect Brain and Heart Health
On Jul. 23, 2025, research at Tufts and elsewhere has revealed the eight essential nutrients that make up…
New Technique Could Increase Infant Heart Transplant by 20%
On Jul. 16, 2025, Duke Health has pioneered a world’s-first technique that could expand by up to 20%…
Scientists create first mini-lungs with built-in blood vessels, unlocking new insights for pulmonary vascular disease
On Jul. 2, 2025, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) announced they have successfully grown…
Lilly to acquire Verve Therapeutics for $1 billion to advance one-time treatments for people with high cardiovascular risk
On Jun. 17, 2025, Eli Lilly and Verve Therapeutics, a Boston-based clinical-stage company developing genetic medicines for cardiovascular…
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Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records
On May 7, 2025, researchers at the University College London (UCL) and King’s College London announced that an…
Researchers identify gene linked to development of a critical coronary artery
On Apr. 3, 2025, a Stanford-led study has found that the gene CXCL12 is connected to the posterior…
Northwestern University announces World’s smallest pacemaker activated by light
On Apr. 2, 2025, Northwestern University engineers announced they have developed a pacemaker so tiny that it can…
Merck buys rights to heart disease drug in latest China deal worth up to $2 billion
On Mar. 25, 2025, Merck announced it has signed a licensing agreement for a heart disease drug with…
New Evidence Links Microplastics with Chronic Disease
On Mar. 25, 2025, research from the American College of Cardiology reported that tiny fragments of plastic have…
Disease | FDA | Rare Disease
Alnylam Announces FDA Approval of AMVUTTRA® (vutrisiran), the First RNAi Therapeutic to Reduce Cardiovascular Death, Hospitalizations and Urgent Heart Failure Visits in Adults with ATTR Amyloidosis
On Mar. 20, 2025, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the supplemental…
Rice engineer develops new security protocol to protect miniaturized wireless medical implants from cyberthreats
On Mar. 20, 2025, Rice University, electrical and computer engineer Kaiyuan Yang unveiled a first-of-its-kind authentication protocol for…
Australia’s first durable total artificial heart implant Reported successful
On Mar. 11, 2025, researchers at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney announced the first implant of a BiVACOR Total…
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…
World first procedure fixes lamb’s leaky heart
On Mar. 3, 2025, researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) announced the world’s first procedure successfully fixes lamb’s…
Biotechnology | Disease | FDA | Medicine | Neurology | Therapeutics
FDA Approves Genentech’s TNKase® in Acute Ischemic Stroke in Adults
On Mar. 3, 2025, Genentech announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved TNKase® (tenecteplase),…
‘Breakthrough’ stem-cell patches strengthened a woman’s failing heart
On Jan. 29, 2025, researchers from the University Medical Center Göttingen announced they have shown that patches of…
Biotechnology | Disease | FDA | Therapeutics
FDA approves Ozempic® (semaglutide) as only GLP-1 RA to reduce the risk of worsening kidney disease and cardiovascular death in adults with type 2 diabetes and CKD
On Jan. 28, 2025, Novo Nordisk announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Ozempic® to…
BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart Successfully Implanted in Five Patients as Part of FDA Early Feasibility Study; FDA Greenlights Expansion of the EFS
On Dec. 18, 2024, BiVACOR, a clinical-stage medical device company, announced the successful completion of the first phase…
COVID-19 linked to more heart complications than flu, RSV
On Dec. 16, 2024, a study published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders shows that pediatric and young adult COVID-19…
Risk of depression and heart disease linked in women
On Dec. 5, 2024, researchers Dr Sonia Shah and Dr Clara Jiang from the University of Queensland’s Institute…
State cancer agency awarded $89 million in grants to Texas institutions and companies
On Nov. 20, 2024, the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) announced that it had approved…
Common arm positions can substantially overestimate blood pressure readings, Johns Hopkins study finds
On Oct. 9, 2024, a study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers concluded that commonly used ways of…
Successful first-in-human implantation of the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart by Baylor and THI doctors
On Jul. 25, 2024, doctors from the Texas Heart Institute (THI), BiVACOR®, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and…
CIRM awarded $26 million to advance clinical research across cancer, heart conditions, and rare diseases
On Jun. 28, 2024, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutions dedicated…
Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Oncology | Therapeutics | WHO
Nearly 1.8 billion adults at risk of disease from not doing enough physical activity
On Jun. 26. 2024, the World Health Organization reported that new data show that nearly one third (31%)…
How a few days in space can disrupt a person’s biology
On Jun. 12, 2024, scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City reported that just a few…
Scientists discovered over 100 new genomic regions linked to blood pressure
On Apr. 30, 2024, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers and collaborators announced they had discovered over 100…
Biotechnology | FDA | Therapeutics | Vaccine
Wegovy received FDA approval for cardiovascular risk reduction in adults with known heart disease or obesity
On Mar. 8, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new indication for use of Novo…
Aspirin can help prevent a second heart attack, but most don’t take it
On Aug. 22, 2023, a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis…