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Explore eleven pivotal 2026 clinical trials reshaping vaccines, oncology, and gene editing with innovative adaptive designs and AI integration.
LifeBridge Health’s Sinai Hospital in Baltimore uses artificial intelligence-powered sepsis diagnosis in clinical practice, bringing research-backed tools to patients’ bedsides. Prenosis, a Chicago-based biology-based technology company, has developed Sepsis ImmunoScore, an AI-powered tool that can spot early signs of sepsis. The tool analyzes 22 parameters to identify patterns of a patient’s biological immune response, allowing clinicians to detect sepsis or progression to sepsis within 24 hours. Sepsis ImmunoScore received initial approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for software to diagnose sepsis in 2024. Prenosis’ solution was approved through the FDA’s De Novo pathway. A study published in the…
Get the health information and medications you need every weekday with STAT’s free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here. good morning. Today we have a very interesting story from STAT’s Jason Mast. Pour your coffee and scroll down. Racial disparities remain in PMOS Endometriosis, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and uterine fibroids are common but painful gynecological conditions that often go undiagnosed, especially in women of color. New data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics underscores this. Among women between the ages of 20 and 49, 6.2% were diagnosed with endometriosis, 8.7% with PMOS, and 7.8% with uterine fibroids.…
Many molecules exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, such as left and right hands. Although these molecular twins may appear nearly identical, they can behave dramatically differently, especially in biological systems and medicines. Distinguishing these enantiomers (also called chiral molecules) remains a major scientific and technological challenge. One way to understand molecular handedness is to think about screws and nuts. Right-handed threads will fit right-handed threads, but left-handed threads will not. The researchers now show that a specially shaped light can act as a similar type of threaded probe, interacting differently with molecules depending on…
The introduction of mobile phone dating apps led to a significant increase in sexual activity among college students, but there was no corresponding increase in committed relationships. Although these platforms coincided with increases in reports of sexual assault and sexually transmitted diseases, they surprisingly did not worsen average mental health and even produced small psychological improvements for some women. The findings are published in a large study published in the American Economic Journal Applied Economics. Currently, online matchmaking is the most common way for heterosexual adult couples in the United States to form relationships. Before 2013, the idea of digital…
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has observed a rare supermassive black hole tearing apart and consuming stars far from the center of a distant galaxy. Astronomers describe the star as an apparent “orphan” because it is unusually far away from the center of galaxies, where supermassive black holes are normally found. This type of phenomenon has never before been detected this far from the center of a galaxy. “We were looking for these star-shattering events as a way to find invisible supermassive black holes that wander far from the centers of galaxies where they normally reside,” said Robert Stein, a…
Recent research published in journals neuropsychopharmacology Evidence shows that a single dose of the psychedelic drug LSD improves next-day motor learning and reduces perceived stress up to a week later. The study also revealed subtle, long-term changes in the way the brain processes auditory information and controls muscle movements. These findings suggest that LSD may temporarily enhance certain types of learning and psychological flexibility, opening the door to potential therapeutic applications in physical rehabilitation. Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD, is a powerful psychedelic compound known for altering perception and mood. In recent years, this substance has gained attention…
Almost every day, from the driveway of his home and business in Louisa, Austin Newsome sees dozens of dump trucks driving along Route 33, hauling dirt and other debris. The roads are rust-red and stained with dirt pushed out by the construction of Amazon’s newest data center campus in the county. One day, Newsom said, the neighbor across the street left. “I thought, oh, they’ve already picked me up and gone somewhere,” Newsome said from the garage of Central Virginia Marine, a company he co-owns and operates near his home. “And then I looked up who owned the property and…
Bontle Mocha Moriki starts and ends with pain every day. The 32-year-old Atlanta resident was diagnosed with endometriosis in 2019 and developed uterine fibroids a year later. Then, in 2024, she was diagnosed with what is now called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. “If someone’s pain is zero, my pain is three every day and then it only goes up from there,” she said. Until about two months ago, PMOS was known as polycystic ovarian syndrome, but the name was changed to better capture the symptoms and the possibility that it is a male-type syndrome. Hormonal health problems usually begin around…
Dr. Brittany Trang covers AI in health and medicine: Does AI actually work? Who benefits, or who could be harmed? She writes the weekly AI Prognosis newsletter. Follow her on Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky. You can access Brittany on Signal at btrang.01.It was a skit worthy of an Agatha Christie mystery novel reveal. To the joyful backdrop of a jazz-inspired “Procession of the Saints,” a group of health IT professionals and Medicare employees were accompanied by Spirit’s Halloween-style coffin props on stage at the Health and Human Services headquarters on Monday. Some wore black veils, others held white roses. The…