4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (730+ words) A 5-month-old girl, already malnourished, came to the doctors with a belly that kept getting bigger. Imaging showed a mass with multiple fluid-filled pockets deep in her abdomen. A biopsy turned up pancreatic tissue, so her doctors suspected a pancreatic…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (986+ words) The decision expands a previous accelerated approval granted in November 2025, which limited the drug to patients who had already received systemic therapy. Eligible patients no longer have to try another treatment first. The group affected is small but specific. Activating…...

4+ day, 44+ min ago   (569+ words) The unusual part came later. Over 15 years of follow-up, the side of his face that had been sweating too much turned pale and lost hair, in a pattern bounded by the midline of his face. Physicians affiliated with Universidad Anáhuac…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (842+ words) Most people assume the pancreas sits in front of the large veins that drain the gut and the spleen. In a small share of the population, it does not. A collar of pancreatic tissue loops behind the portal vein and…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (470+ words) The latissimus dorsi is the muscle reconstructive surgeons reach for when they want a sure thing. It is broad, it is fed by a dependable set of vessels, and its anatomy is consistent enough that surgical planning is usually straightforward....

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (984+ words) Patients living with hereditary angioedema now have a specific date to watch. The FDA has accepted the application for lonvoguran ziclumeran, known as lonvo-z, granted it priority review, and set a target decision date of March 10, 2027. Intellia Therapeutics announced the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (634+ words) The FDA has approved a breast cancer drug that its own expert advisers recommended against roughly four months earlier, and the record of that disagreement is now part of how patients and oncologists will weigh the treatment. Advisory committee votes…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (947+ words) Fewer pediatricians report burnout now than at the height of the pandemic, according to a longitudinal study published in Pediatrics, but the researchers who documented the improvement took care to say the remaining level is not reassuring. In 2021, 46.2 percent of…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (751+ words) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease kills at a rate that exceeds prostate and breast cancer and is statistically comparable to heart failure, according to a national health records analysis presented as a late-breaking abstract at the European Respiratory Society Congress in…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (938+ words) When doctors in Warsaw asked a 59-year-old woman questions on admission, she sang religious songs back at them. She also sang spontaneously, without prompting. It was the most striking feature of a clinical picture dominated not by headache or vision…...