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Iran's medicine crisis prices patients out of treatment
A single chemotherapy session in Iran can cost six times the monthly minimum wage. As drug prices soar and medicine shortages persist, doctors say more patients are delaying or abandoning treatment they cannot afford.
Opinion: Medicine stopped shaking hands. We should start again
A handshake takes only a few seconds but can make a major difference to a patient, an emergency physician writes.
Scientists Used A.I. to Design New Viruses. The Technology Could Be a Boon for Medicine, but Experts Worry About Harmful Pathogens
The findings represent the first genomes, or complete genetic instruction books, designed entirely with generative A.I. The resulting viruses attack only bacteria, which could one day help overcome the problem of antibiotic-resistant microbes
This Is the Best Thing You Can Do to Both Prevent and Treat Runner’s Knee, According to a Sports Medicine Doctor
The simple strength work that can help sidestep runner’s knee before it derails your runs.
From back pain to cancer, how the interstitium could transform medicine
For centuries, we’ve ignored the interstitium, but research is now revealing that this body-wide network of fluid is instrumental to our health and points the way to new treatments
Underground Medicine #6
A trip through the annals of Chunklet Industries with DIY lifer Henry Owings. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily .
Kerala HC allows breast cancer patient to be impleaded in case on 'exorbitant’ prices of medicines
The initial petition, filed by another patient diagnosed with HR Positive HER2-Negative Metastatic Breast Cancer, sought directives to the Centre to take over the medication’s patent and make it available at the lowest price possible. She died when the case was pending in court.
Spiraling health costs force Iranians to delay care
A single chemotherapy session in Iran can cost six times the monthly minimum wage. As drug prices soar and medicine is in short supply, doctors say more patients are delaying or abandoning treatment.
To shield the fetus, link a protein to these drugs
Nature, Published online: 20 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02553-x Adding albumin to popular antibody-based medicines helps to block their passage through the placenta.
Taking Weight-Loss Drugs Could Help Reduce Violent Impulses
About a year ago, Rutgers University researcher Daniel Semenza was listening to a podcast about an expansive study of GLP-1 medications when a question occurred to him. The 2025 study, published in Nature Medicine, had examined millions of Department of Veterans Affairs records t
Opinion: I’m a retired doctor. Volunteering at a community clinic gave me an entirely new medical education
“It was only after retiring from mainstream medicine when I fully comprehended the callous limitations of our health care system,” writes Benjamin I. Lee.
When AI designs a drug, who gets the credit?
When the biotech company Insilico Medicine used its computer models to propose a promising drug for pulmonary fibrosis, it enthusiastically claimed in a press release that the molecule had been “discovered by” its generative AI platform. Insilico leads a pack of companies using A
Snoring, subways and stealth ads: How big pharma targets China’s waistline
Local restrictions prevent drug companies from directly advertising prescription medicines in the world's second-largest drug market.
FDA Approves Alzheimer’s Blood Test Developed by Roche and Eli Lilly - WSJ
FDA Approves Alzheimer’s Blood Test Developed by Roche and Eli Lilly WSJ FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer’s disease WashU Medicine FDA clears Roche and Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's blood test for primary and specialty care qz.com Roche, Eli Lilly's Alzheimer's blo
Hydrogel platform uses vitamin B2 and blue light to simplify living tissue models
Researchers at Tampere University have developed a versatile hydrogel platform that makes it easier to create customized biomaterials for tissue engineering, disease modeling, drug discovery and regenerative medicine. Their plug-and-play crosslinking technology enables the design
Scientists map hair follicle formation in spacetime, advancing understanding of how organs develop
In a new research report, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have developed a technology that allows them to capture a 3D molecular "snapshot" of hundreds of hair follicles as they develop and then reconstruct the fourth dimension—time—to create a stop-motion animation
Solar kiosks bring healthcare closer to patients in Chad
Solar-powered telemedicine is helping rural Chadians overcome distance and limited access to doctors.
PM Modi warns of weaponisation of resources, sea routes; urges energy self-reliance
Without naming any country, Mr. Modi said resources ranging from fuel and medicines to technology were increasingly being used as instruments of geopolitical pressure, while strategic geographical routes were also being weaponised.