Jumping jacks for your eyes. “It’s like jumping jacks for your eyes and your brain,” says Dr. Joe LaPlaca, whose VR drills are now part of some NBA referees’ pregame routines. The same eye-tracking and cognition work is spreading to […]
Checkups are becoming luxury goods. “From 2018 to 2023, the number of fee-based practices grew by 83.1 percent” as more primary-care doctors leave insurance-based clinics for concierge and direct primary care. The draw is simple: patients pay a fee “for […]
Intelligence is not the bottleneck. “no matter how “intelligent” AI becomes, intelligence is often not the main bottleneck to things changing in the real world.” Ruxandra Bio argues that in medicine the grind of clinical trials, data access, and governance […]
A cancer vaccine in one day. “With AI, the company said the procedure could be completed in a day.” Beijing-based Likang Life Sciences is building what it says is China’s first production line for AI-assisted personalized tumor vaccines, designed to […]
Mine Reddit for drug side effects. “there are zero long term studies on BPC-157 use.” So he processed 37k comments from peptide subreddits and pulled “over 2400 AE reports” to map what people say happens, including dechallenge and rechallenge cases. […]
Wellness Disney World. “It’s like a wellness Disney World.” Therme is bringing its giant European-style bathing complexes to the U.S., including a planned $500 million Therme DC on federal land by the Anacostia River (but not soon). ~ learn more
Painful periods are not normal. “Contrary to popular belief, painful periods are not normal. Common, yes, normal, no.” Julia Lipton’s primer on endometriosis explains what it can feel like, why diagnosis can take years, and why the usual options often […]
Gray-market peptides, familiar sellers. “Crypto payments to gray-market peptide vendors, many of which are part of the fentanyl business, totaled $27 million in the first quarter of this year, up nearly 150% from Q4 2025, per Chainalysis.” The Axios piece […]
Mysterious compassionate use approval. “STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA have allowed one person to gain access to the drug through the FDA’s ‘compassionate use’ program.” The patient was “a 79-year-old man” and sources say the request […]
FDA drops enforcement against Whoop. After the FDA issued a warning letter in 2025, Whoop decided to put up a fight to protect their blood pressure estimation feature. The agency backed off after Whoop tweaked the feature in a change […]