Washington DC – On Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, President Donald Trump said his administration was linking acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to autism and urging pregnant women to largely avoid the medication. At the same time, the Food and Drug Administration is approving use of…
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Why The TrumpRx Deal Is A Big Win For Pfizer
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla speaks shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump in a White House event on Tuesday.
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President Trump and Pfizer announced a deal to cut drug pricing yesterday. And it looks like the pharmaceutical giant got the better end of it. Signed at a showy news…
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Predicting Human Disease With Generative Models
AI for diagnosis, care, and increasing accuracy patient treatment.
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The latest breakthrough in Nature demonstrates something unprecedented: the large-scale use of transformer-based large language models (LLMs) to model how human disease unfolds across lifetimes. While AI chatbots like…
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The Big Beautiful Bill’s Health Fallout: Premiums, Shutdowns and Strain
TOPSHOT – Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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The headlines from Congress’s passage of the Big Beautiful Bill have faded, but its consequences are only beginning. Designed to postpone its harshest health impacts…
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What TrumpRx May Mean For Drug Prices
In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the Haitian immigrant who built a $6 billion company treating brain diseases, the drugs RFK Jr. may target after Tylenol, Northwell’s new CEO, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.
What impact will TrumpRx have on the price you…
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DOLPHIN AI uncovers hundreds of invisible cancer markers
McGill University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can detect previously invisible disease markers inside single cells.
In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers demonstrate how the tool, called DOLPHIN, could one day be used by doctors to…
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How Matthew Lillard Is ‘Scream’-ing About Colon Cancer Screening
Scream actor Matt Lillard is working with Exact Sciences, the makers of Cologuard, for the “Screen” campaign to increase colon cancer screening awareness. Here Lillard answers the door in a filmed segment that’s part of the campaign. (Photo: Courtesy of Exact Sciences)
Courtesy of Exact…
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New Immunotherapy Treatments For Myeloma Show Positive Results
Histopathological image of multiple myoloma. Smear preparation of bone marrow aspirate stained with May-Grünwald-Giemsa procedure. It doest not represent a histopathologic image but essentially helps understand hematopathology. Date 16 January 2006 (original upload date)
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Blocking one protein supercharges the immune system against cancer
Researchers have discovered a way to make the immune system’s T cells significantly more effective at fighting cancer. By blocking a protein called Ant2, they were able to reprogram how these cells consume and generate energy — essentially rewiring their internal power supply. This shift makes…
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United Health’s Optum Insights Announces Sandeep Dadlani As New CEO; These Are His Top 3 Priorities
United Healthcare Group is one of the biggest players in the American healthcare industry, and is taking a tech-forward approach to the future.
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UnitedHealth Group (UHG) is a massive force in American healthcare. The broader company entails two main groups: United Healthcare,…
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