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Chronic hepatitis B is usually treated with a daily pill that controls the virus but almost never clears it. The prescription has no finish line. Two phase 3 trials have now put one in view. After a six-month course of… Read More →
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Young People Quit Vaping Far More Often on a Pill Long Used for Smoking
Plenty of young people want to stop vaping and find they can't. In a Boston trial of 261 teens and young adults, a pill long prescribed to help smokers quit got 51% of them off nicotine vapes by the end… Read More →
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A New Kind of Pill Lowered Blood Pressure That Standard Drugs Couldn’t Control
You can take two or three blood pressure medicines every day and still watch the monitor read high. For people stuck in that spot, a new pill called baxdrostat lowered systolic pressure, the top number, by nearly 10 points more… Read More →
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For Early Alzheimer’s, a Common Herpes Drug Fell Short
The antiviral didn't work. Eighteen months of valacyclovir, a herpes drug taken safely by millions for cold sores and shingles, failed to slow early Alzheimer's disease in a trial of 120 people. People taking it actually declined about 4 points… Read More →
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Adding Radium to a Standard Prostate Cancer Pill Extended Men’s Survival
Six injections of a bone-seeking radioactive drug, added to a standard daily pill, helped men with advanced prostate cancer live longer. In the final count from a 446-man international trial, half the men on the combination were still alive beyond… Read More →
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Older Adults in Latin America Gained More on Thinking Tests From a Coached Program Than From Advice
In twelve clinics spread across eleven countries, from Mexico to Uruguay, 1,065 adults ages 60 to 77 spent two years working on the same four things: exercise, brain-healthy eating, computer memory training, and keeping watch on blood pressure. The half… Read More →
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Against the Standard Flu Shot, an mRNA Vaccine Came Out Ahead in Younger Adults
When mRNA flu vaccines were shown to protect adults 50 and older better than conventional shots, one question hung in the air: what about everyone younger? A trial of 18,476 adults aged 18 to 64 supplies the answer. Pfizer's mRNA… Read More →
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Most Routine Blood Tests Barely Moved With or Without Fasting
If you've ever sat in a lab's waiting room at 8 a.m., queasy and coffee-less, this one's for you. Researchers who combed through 9.7 million blood test results found that only 10 of 121 common tests meaningfully shifted with how… Read More →
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New Guidelines Put Hormone Therapy First for Menopausal Hot Flashes
Hot flashes and night sweats affect up to 80% of women in menopause, and the American College of Physicians now says hormone therapy, meaning estrogen, usually paired with a second hormone, should be the first treatment offered for them. Ten… Read More →