This is big. The first vaccine tested to PREVENT pancreatic cancer in high-risk individuals
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The pro-peptide stacked FDA advisory committee voted to lift the ban for BPC-157, as expected. This ban lifting is baseless and will give the public a sense of legitimacy for a peptide with no clinical trial data to support safety or efficacy.
Pathetic.
A comprehensive assessment of the safety of mRNA vaccines
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Around the world, life expectancy is increasing but the gap vs healthspan is widening. That is, more sickspan.
The US has the largest morbidity gap.
Let that sink in: The US has the largest morbidity gap.
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Long Covid persistent eye symptoms can be debilitating and appear to be related to chronic T-cell mediated neuroinflammation. open-access
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Perhaps the worst blow to food safety science was the administration’s elimination of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a group of experts whose recommendations have informed many major food safety programs."
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For treatment and outcomes for cancer, the tumor microenvironment is pivotal, but we've never had a non-invasive way to assess it. Until now, a blood test breakthrough!
With sequencing >10 million cells + AI, discovery & validation of a blood test that informs response to therapy and prognosis.
To get better protection against respiratory infections and transmission we need to achieve nasal immunity. A new @cp-immunity.bsky.social review www.cell.com/immunity/abs...
Trust in science in the United States
@nature.com by @helenpearson.bsky.social
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It's medicine's clock moment.
We don't age linearly or synchronously (our organs and cells).
That leads to an inflection point for promoting health and preventing diseases.
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The serious looming further threat to US science
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
RFK Jr refusing to meet with US Preventive Task Force for the 4th time
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
GLP-1 drugs helped people with diabetes to prevent pulmonary fibrosis, #LongCovid
Work in patients and the mouse model. Open-access
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"“Our findings suggest that future gains in population health will come not only from helping people live longer, but from helping them live healthier."
On the future of health, towards primary prevention
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Prevention and early detection of breast cancer. A very informative conversation with Dr. Elisa Port
For example, Mt Sinai provides AI mammography for all patents getting screened, without charge
We covered a lot of ground
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Coverage at NY Times front page, gift link
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/h...
and my input to that piece
The aortic dissection that led to Senator Graham's sudden death. Could it have been prevented? What is being done to reduce the toll of aortic dissection with so many people having a dilated proximal aorta and so few progressing to a catastrophic event?
www.statnews.com/2026/07/15/l...
Right. The centers who participated will likely have this test imminently, but commercial availability may take at least a year