Semafor • Nov 12, 2025
Lab-grown human brain tissue could replicate a supercomputer
Researchers are growing brain tissue that can respond to electrical signals, much like a computer, and could help create a reliable supercomputer, Nature reports.
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Semafor • Nov 12, 2025
Africa gets first continent-wide medical regulator
The launch is part of wide-ranging efforts to build up local pharmaceutical capacity and reduce dependence on foreign agencies and companies.
Lever News • Nov 12, 2025
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
Semafor • Nov 12, 2025
House and Senate Republicans splinter further on health care
They got out of the government shutdown with few substantive concessions to Democrats, but they’re diverging on their opponents’ top issue.
Semafor • Nov 11, 2025
US removes warning on hormone replacement therapy for menopause
The decision comes two decades after saying the drugs could cause cancer in women, with researchers now saying the risks were overstated.
Semafor • Nov 11, 2025
The Americas lose measles-free status
Canada lost its national certification after nearly three decades over a 5,000-case outbreak, while the US is also at risk.
Semafor • Nov 9, 2025
Pfizer wins bidding war for obesity drug startup
US pharma giant Pfizer won a bidding war to acquire obesity drug developer Metsera, beating back an offer from Danish rival Novo Nordisk.
Lever News • Nov 9, 2025
LEVER WEEKLY: Big Pharma Bought The Drug Police
How drugmakers captured the FDA, what Zohran Mamdani’s win means for democracy, and more from The Lever this week.
Lever News • Nov 7, 2025
UnitedHealth Is Cashing In On The Open Enrollment Crisis
Whether or not Congress extends the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits, health care giants are poised to extract new profits from patient pain.
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239 headlinesHealth Department Will Mine Unverified Vaccine Injury Claims With New AI Tool
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‘Less lethal’ crowd-control weapons still cause harm – 2 physicians explain what they are and their health effects
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Confused by the new dietary guidelines? Focus on these simple, evidence-based shifts to lower your chronic disease risk
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Certain brain injuries may be linked to violent crime – identifying them could help reveal how people make moral choices
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Stroke survivors can counterintuitively improve recovery by strengthening their stronger arm – new research
The Conversation •
US exit from the World Health Organization marks a new era in global health policy – here’s what the US, and world, will lose
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RFK’s Overhauled Autism Committee Is Even Worse Than It Looks
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RFK Jr. Was Raw Milk’s Biggest Fan. Now He Won’t Return Industry Calls.
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A growing nursing shortage is made worse by nurses’ daily challenges of patients and their families rolling their eyes, yelling and striking
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