2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (292+ words) The FDA on Wednesday expanded the approvalopens in a new tab or window for exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel, Casgevy) in severe sickle cell disease with recurrent vaso-occlusive crises and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia to include children 2 years and up. Exa-cel, the first…...

19+ hour, 50+ min ago  (557+ words) For middle-age and older people, obesity was no longer associated with the same cardiovascular burden as before -- though it was a different story for young adults, according to a large longitudinal multi-country study. Across industrialized countries, mean non-HDL cholesterol and…...

21+ hour, 8+ min ago  (460+ words) A lower threshold for seeking medical help and/or changes in diagnostic practice may be contributing to the increase in primary care consultations for mental health issues among young people, instead of a true increase in worsening mental health, according…...

1+ day, 19+ min ago  (197+ words) The FDA approvedopens in a new tab or window an allogeneic regulatory T cell-based immunotherapy product with hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) and T cells (Tregzi) to prevent serious complications of stem cell transplants for hematologic malignancies. Orca-T is…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (476+ words) Rachael Robertson joined the enterprise and investigative team at Med Page Today in March of 2023. Her print, data, and audio stories have appeared in Everyday Health, Gizmodo, the Bronx Times, and multiple podcasts. Rachael is a member of NLGJA, which…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (673+ words) Some experts say the FDA's recent change of heart on a handful of drugs for rare diseases suggests a return to regular order after a tumultuous year, while others argue the flip-flopping signals more chaos. During the tenure of former…...

2+ day, 31+ min ago  (272+ words) A case report in Emerging Infectious Diseases described multiple brain lesions that initially mimicked metastases in a 60-year-old man in Spain who eventually was diagnosed with neurocysticercosisopens in a new tab or window. An Alzheimer's blood test missed more than…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (690+ words) Greg Laub launched the video department at Med Page Today in 2007, and now heads the video and podcast production teams. His passion for storytelling began as a writer, which once led to one of his screenplays being produced as a…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (555+ words) In healthcare today, it looks like there is a tension between too much technology, and not enough technology. And simultaneously, too much humanity, and not enough humanity. It seems like these things, the movement towards technology and away from humanity,…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (518+ words) HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn't restored trust in public health, Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), said in a nearly hour-long interviewopens in a new tab or window on "Face the Nation" this weekend. "If you build public health upon…...