Three years after the first approved CRISPR therapy reached the market, there are numbers instead of predictions. Only 64 patients received Casgevy in all of 2025 — even as 90% of eligible U.S. patients gained reimbursed access. The gap between approval and arrival is where the real work sits.
Radiologists judged AI virtual contrast enhancement interchangeable with real
full-dose scans 55% of the time at a 10% contrast dose — and 3% at zero dose. Why that gap won’t close by collecting more data.
Most parents hear the allergic march described as a fixed staircase from eczema to asthma. In two birth cohorts of 9,801 children, only 3.1% actually climbed all of it — and the moisturizer advice changed too.
Robotic surgery moved the surgeon’s hands, not the surgeon’s judgment. That distinction explains both the criticism and what artificial intelligence would actually change.
Six decades of prescribing rest on a name coined in a laboratory beaker. So do mucolytics actually work in actual patients? The answer splits sharply by condition — established in cystic fibrosis, contested in COPD, and largely untested in the ENT settings where they are prescribed most often.
When 114 clinicians were asked to separate AI-generated laryngoscopy images from authentic ones, they recognized the real frames far more reliably than they caught the fakes. A look at what that gap does — and does not — tell us about synthetic medical imaging.
Most insect bite anaphylaxis comes from one insect order, and the reason has less to do with venom potency than with how often we meet the insect. A look at the numbers, the fifteen-minute window, and why the immune system does this at all.
The Galaxy Buds Hearing Aid feature cleared the FDA in August 2026, but Samsung has not announced a Korean launch — while Apple’s equivalent has held Korean approval since July 2025. An ENT walks through what the clearance actually covers, and what a five-minute self-test cannot tell you.
Two patients leave the clinic with the same prescription. A month later, one says spring finally felt normal. The other
Why skipping antibiotic doses matters more for some drugs than others, and why the most recommended antibiotics are the hardest ones to take correctly.
