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A Chewing Gum That Cut Oral HPV by up to 93 Percent
An engineered gum reduced HPV and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. It is early work, and the delivery method is the genuinely clever part.
Aug 6, 2026
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The Diabetes Drug That Turned Out to Be a Kidney Drug
SGLT2 inhibitors were developed to lower blood sugar by making you urinate it out. The glucose effect turned out to be the least interesting thing about them, and the kidney trials changed how this complication is treated.
Jul 25, 2026
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A Personalized Gene Therapy Helped Two Boys With Severe Epilepsy
Two individualized antisense treatments reduced the effects of a rare SCN2A disorder. The results are hopeful, but they come from two carefully monitored patients, not a broad trial.
Aug 1, 2026
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The First Oral PCSK9 Drug Changes the Cholesterol Treatment Conversation
FDA approval of the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor adds a once-daily option for adults who need greater LDL reduction, but it does not replace individualized cardiovascular care.
Aug 1, 2026
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Ozempic in a Tablet: What the Rebrand of Oral Semaglutide Actually Changes
Novo Nordisk folded Rybelsus into the Ozempic name in May and put a self-pay price on it. Getting a peptide to survive the stomach is a real achievement, but the tablet is not simply the injection in another form.
Aug 11, 2026
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What a Peptide Actually Is, and Why the Word Now Sells Almost Anything
Insulin is a peptide. So is Ozempic. So is the unlabelled vial someone is selling on Telegram. The word describes a chemical class, not a level of evidence, and that gap is where the market lives.
Aug 11, 2026
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Never Quit Gluten Before You Get Tested. Here Is Why.
Coeliac blood tests look for antibodies your body only makes while you are eating gluten. Cut it out first and the result can come back clear while the disease carries on.
Jul 16, 2026
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Six People With Rheumatoid Arthritis Were Given a Cancer Therapy and Three Have Been Off All Medication Since
A phase 1 trial at the Charite in Berlin used CD19 CAR T cells, a treatment built for blood cancers, on patients who had already failed between five and eight biologic drugs. Disease activity fell in every one of them. Three reached medication free remission.
Aug 30, 2026
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Your HbA1c Is an Average of Your Red Blood Cells, Which Is Why It Sometimes Lies
The test everyone treats as the verdict measures sugar stuck to haemoglobin over the life of a red cell. Anything that changes how long those cells live changes the result, and several of those conditions are common across this region.
Jul 13, 2026
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Intermittent Fasting Works About as Well as Eating Less, Because in the Trials That Is What It Turned Out to Be
Three randomised trials put time-restricted eating against ordinary calorie control or against nothing. The eating window on its own did little. Combined with eating less, it did what eating less does. What that means for anyone considering it.
Sep 6, 2026
