BREAKING: World’s First Vaccine Targeting the Entire SARS Coronavirus Family Begins Human Testing GBP511, developed by UW Medicine and tested by SK Bioscience, aims to protect against COVID-19 and future coronaviruses before they spark the next pandemic.

Scientists Identify Key Protein That Could Reverse #Brain #Aging scitechdaily.com/scientists-ide…

#nipahvirus Outbreak Has Asia on High Alert Amid Deaths in India : ScienceAlert share.google/6tOVmF1osDkVCE…

A review of the new trial results (below) along with all the other evidence and conclude it's time to move to AI-support for all mammography (with no cost to patients) erictopol.substack.com/p/why-all-mamm…

✓ More accurate cancer detection ✓ Prevent cancer ✓ No increase in false positives ✓ Reduced workload ✓ Identify high-risk for heart disease The largest randomized trial of medical AI and related studies proved all of this. But is the practice of medicine ready to change?

We used to think that the benefit of GLP-1 drugs (like Ozempic) was dependent on weight loss. Now we know so many health benefits have little to do with that!

I agree with the authors. I was always surprised that in the US, physicians are called "providers." It minimizes their role.

Dr. Marie Curie is the only woman in this 1927 photo of geniuses, out-credentialing everyone as the only person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in two separate sciences.

Our immune system is the driver of the biologic process of aging. A new and comprehensive review Nature Rev Immunol nature.com/articles/s4157…

When the LLM rewrites the radiology report, patient understanding is increased and clinical accuracy is maintained. The Lancet Digital Health Curt Langlotz Samer Alabed thelancet.com/journals/landi…

p-tau217 is a breakthrough blood test for risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Important to know there are sex differences for this biomarker, with women having higher values at baseline and more tau deposition. JAMA Neurology jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

A short thread on GLP-1s based on new publications. 1. The safety story Table of potential side effects and very good description of mechanisms, especially w/r to retina jci.org/articles/view/…

Another good use case for agentic AI in medicine: diagnosis of rare diseases. Exemplified by DeepRare nature.com/articles/s4158…

We could prevent diseases so much better but we haven't learned to listen to when biology whispers long (10 + years) in advance. A key theme in Super Agers, too. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Nathan Price @ Noa Rappaport Buck Institute example below for Type 2 diabetes

Why do people living at high altitude have better glucose control? The under-appreciated role of red blood cells cell.com/cell-metabolis…

In breakthrough, Israeli scientists use deep-brain stimulation to counter #Schizophrenia | The Times of Israel share.google/ACz8XLt4irZHKj…

A single nasal spray vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, as well as bacterial lung infections, and may even ease allergies, says U.S. researchers. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Screening works for colon cancer. Largest trial ever done. Today Nature Medicine A randomized trial of colon cancer screening by colonoscopy or occult blood (FIT) vs control in nearly 280,000 participants showed signficantly more early diagnosis (stage I-II) and less stage

Report underscores death toll of health care-related infections Infections acquired in health care settings kill three times more people than car accidents each year. cidrap.umn.edu/healthcare-ass… Photo: Bart Heird / Flickr cc

CAR-T cell therapy seems to have reset the immune system and eased severe symptoms in eight children and adolescents with autoimmune disorders go.nature.com/4qNUYGq