Gina Kolata

The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.

Patients with one of the deadliest cancers have been pleading for an unapproved treatment that may prolong their lives.

Before the rise of GLP-1s, obesity experts didn’t study the internal buzz that compels people to eat. Now that food noise is being switched off, they want to understand it.

The treatment, the first of its kind, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. “Our baby was born deaf, and now he can hear,” said one parent.

In separate small clinical trials, two treatments showed promise that they could help patients with one of the most dire diagnoses in oncology.

With funding from ARPA-H, three teams of researchers have regrown bone and cartilage, even entire knees, in animal studies. Human trials are not far off.

His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.

Eleven medical organizations advised changes to preventive cardiac care that it says could markedly reduce heart attacks and strokes.