This is the web edition of STAT’s AAIC in 30 newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox here. Hi there from Day 2 of AAIC. There may be 10,200 people here at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference — up 1,700 from last year — from 115 countries, as the association’s Maria Carrillo announced at…
TOPLINE Adults with increased cardiometabolic risk who slept about 80 minutes less each night for 6 weeks gained about 0.45 kg, had a 0.52-cm larger waist circumference, and spent more than 17 additional minutes per day awake but inactive. METHODOLOGY Researchers combined data from two randomized crossover trials including 95 adults aged 20 years or…
Intermittent fasting produced comparable weight loss to traditional daily calorie restriction over 18 months — but people following intermittent fasting did so without the same constant feeling of needing to monitor and limit their food intake, according to a new study from Adelaide University published in the journal Clinical Nutrition. That distinction may matter more…
You never limit eye care to updating your glasses or getting contact lens prescriptions. Never misunderstand long term visual health as seeing clearly at a distance or reading comfortably up close. You get the understanding all wrong, similar to many others. People not only age. It takes the risks of glaucoma, diabetic eye disease, retinal…
Want to stay on top of the science and politics driving biotech today? Sign up to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. ARPA-H has unveiled a $160 million effort to speed bespoke gene-editing therapies for rare diseases into the clinic. Meanwhile, Roche has abandoned two Huntington’s gene-silencing drugs after disappointing data, and drugmakers have stepped in to…
Black living kidney donors who carried high-risk apolipoprotein LI1 (APOL1) genotypes had a substantially increased risk for long-term kidney dysfunction than donors without these variants, according to a new study. Nearly two decades after nephrectomy, donors with these genotypes were more than twice as likely to have an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 45…
The U.S. Military Health System — one of the largest and most standardized health systems in the world, serving approximately 9.6 million beneficiaries — has deployed AI technology that listens to clinical conversations between patients and providers and automatically generates the medical documentation of each visit. The Defense Health Agency (DHA) announced during the week…
If you spend five minutes on a biohacking forum BPC-157 will probably come up. It is much guaranteed that people will be talking about BPC-157. They talk about BPC-157 like it is some kind of secret but the truth is BPC-157 is not really a secret at all. People are very open about BPC-157, on…
Daniel covers the intersection of the health industry and the federal government. He reports on corporate influence in government, the health consequences of federal policies, and the politics of health care. Confidential tips can be sent on Signal at danielp.100. WASHINGTON — Last week, pharmaceutical leaders filed into a meeting room in the Eisenhower Executive…
The cost of delayed discharges in the NHS has risen to £2.7 billion, up 7.5% in a year, figures show. Analysis by the King’s Fund charity showed one in 10 hospital beds at any one time are taken up with people who are medically fit to leave. Delays in discharge occur for a number of…
