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ULP Launches Founders’ Bench Award for Ophthalmology Innovation
University Lab Partners Launches Inaugural Founders’ Bench Award to Accelerate Ophthalmology Innovation Bausch + Lomb joins as founding corporate partner; UCI’s Gavin Herbert Eye Institute serves as academic partner University Lab Partners (ULP) today announced the...
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ALK7 Obesity Drugs: Who Is Developing Them After Roche’s Rona Deal?
Several companies are now developing ALK7 obesity drugs, but human data remain early. On 13 October 2026, Rona Therapeutics licensed an ALK7-targeting RNAi candidate to Roche. Arrowhead, and SiranBio with GSK, have also disclosed ALK7 programmes. Fierce Biotech...
What Pharma Can Learn From Retail as GLP-1 Demand Reshapes Healthcare
Demand for weight-loss medicines in the UK has run well ahead of what the NHS can provide. Researchers at UCL estimate that 1.6 million adults in Great Britain used a medicine to lose weight between early 2024 and early 2025, and that a further 3.3 million were...
Admilparant Approval: What the ALOFT-IPF Result Shows So Far
Admilparant approval for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is not yet decided, and LSDN found no announced regulatory filing. On 12 October 2026, Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) reported that its phase 3 ALOFT-IPF trial met its primary endpoint. That was at the 60 mg...
AI Can Accelerate Optimisation, But It Cannot Replace Biological Discovery
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being integrated into the drug discovery process. From the identification of therapeutic targets to the prediction of molecular interactions and ranking of compounds to be developed further, the power of computational tools...
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The Role of Ambient AI in the Future of Specialty Care
For over a decade, the administrative burden in specialty medicine has quietly worsened. Orthopedic surgeons doing 40 patients a day are spending more time in the EHR than in the room. Ambient AI scribes have changed that equation in ways that are only beginning to...
Intismeran Autogene Phase 3 Win Moves Cancer Vaccines to Logistics
Merck and Moderna have reported what they describe as the first positive Phase 3 result for an individualised cancer therapy. Intismeran autogene, given with pembrolizumab, met its primary endpoint in resected melanoma. The companies announced the outcome on 19 August...
APAC Biopharma in 2026: Asia’s Shift From Supplier to Source
APAC biopharma has stopped being a cost line in somebody else’s budget. For two decades the region supplied ingredients, capacity and inexpensive trial sites. The companies that used them were headquartered elsewhere. That relationship has now inverted. The clearest...
Beyond the Benchmark: A Four-Layer Framework for Evaluating Healthcare AI
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The Next Era of Cardiorenal Care Is Precision Fluid Management
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Clinical Trials Roundup | 21 Aug 2026
Merck and Moderna’s intismeran autogene meets its primary endpoint in the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial in completely resected melanoma, Ultragenyx’s Genglycos receives FDA accelerated approval as the first treatment for glycogen storage disease type Ia, argenx’s...
The Ketogenic Diet: Why Long-Term Safety Deserves Greater Scrutiny
The ketogenic diet has transitioned from a highly specialized therapeutic intervention to a widely promoted dietary strategy for weight loss, metabolic health, inflammation, and, in some circles, cancer prevention or treatment. Its popularity has outpaced the strength...
Human-in-the-Loop or Human-on-the-Loop? Pharma’s AI Authority Test
“But what can this AI model actually do?” It’s a common question being asked across the life sciences industry. Can it classify a symptom, summarize a trial record, predict a molecule’s behavior, or monitor a manufacturing process? Those capabilities matter, but they...
Physical Activity and Dementia: The Evidence Base Is Uneven
The link between physical activity and dementia depends on where that activity happens, according to a meta analysis of 74 studies covering more than four million adults. Leisure time exercise was associated with a lower risk of dementia, while activity undertaken at...
The Next Recruitment Challenge Isn’t Awareness, It’s Qualification
For years, the clinical research industry has focused heavily on one question: How do we reach more patients? Digital advertising, social media campaigns, patient advocacy partnerships, and online recruitment platforms have dramatically expanded researchers' ability...
From Digital Transformation to Operational Intelligence in Healthcare
Healthcare has never really had a technology problem. The greater challenge has been turning technology into better ways of working. Over the past decade, healthcare organizations have invested heavily in electronic health records, digital services, automation,...
Fatty Pancreas Disorder and the New Era of Integrated Obesity Management
Obesity is increasingly recognized as a chronic systemic disease characterized not only by excess adiposity but also by progressive dysfunction of multiple organs. Recent advances have shifted attention from body weight alone toward ectopic fat deposition as a major...
The Role of Ambient AI in the Future of Specialty Care
For over a decade, the administrative burden in specialty medicine has quietly worsened. Orthopedic surgeons doing 40 patients a day are spending more time in the EHR than in the room. Ambient AI scribes have changed that equation in ways that are only beginning to...
Intismeran Autogene Phase 3 Win Moves Cancer Vaccines to Logistics
Merck and Moderna have reported what they describe as the first positive Phase 3 result for an individualised cancer therapy. Intismeran autogene, given with pembrolizumab, met its primary endpoint in resected melanoma. The companies announced the outcome on 19 August...
APAC Biopharma in 2026: Asia’s Shift From Supplier to Source
APAC biopharma has stopped being a cost line in somebody else’s budget. For two decades the region supplied ingredients, capacity and inexpensive trial sites. The companies that used them were headquartered elsewhere. That relationship has now inverted. The clearest...
Beyond the Benchmark: A Four-Layer Framework for Evaluating Healthcare AI
Healthcare AI is often evaluated where it is easiest to measure: on a dataset. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, calibration, retrieval quality, hallucination rates and task-completion scores all matter. But they answer only the first question: can the model perform...
The Next Era of Cardiorenal Care Is Precision Fluid Management
Medicine has become increasingly specialized over the past several decades, driving tremendous advances in our ability to diagnose and treat complex diseases. Specialists now possess deeper expertise than ever before, allowing clinicians to deliver highly targeted...
Clinical Trials Roundup | 21 Aug 2026
Merck and Moderna’s intismeran autogene meets its primary endpoint in the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial in completely resected melanoma, Ultragenyx’s Genglycos receives FDA accelerated approval as the first treatment for glycogen storage disease type Ia, argenx’s...
The Ketogenic Diet: Why Long-Term Safety Deserves Greater Scrutiny
The ketogenic diet has transitioned from a highly specialized therapeutic intervention to a widely promoted dietary strategy for weight loss, metabolic health, inflammation, and, in some circles, cancer prevention or treatment. Its popularity has outpaced the strength...
Human-in-the-Loop or Human-on-the-Loop? Pharma’s AI Authority Test
“But what can this AI model actually do?” It’s a common question being asked across the life sciences industry. Can it classify a symptom, summarize a trial record, predict a molecule’s behavior, or monitor a manufacturing process? Those capabilities matter, but they...
Physical Activity and Dementia: The Evidence Base Is Uneven
The link between physical activity and dementia depends on where that activity happens, according to a meta analysis of 74 studies covering more than four million adults. Leisure time exercise was associated with a lower risk of dementia, while activity undertaken at...
The Next Recruitment Challenge Isn’t Awareness, It’s Qualification
For years, the clinical research industry has focused heavily on one question: How do we reach more patients? Digital advertising, social media campaigns, patient advocacy partnerships, and online recruitment platforms have dramatically expanded researchers' ability...
From Digital Transformation to Operational Intelligence in Healthcare
Healthcare has never really had a technology problem. The greater challenge has been turning technology into better ways of working. Over the past decade, healthcare organizations have invested heavily in electronic health records, digital services, automation,...
Fatty Pancreas Disorder and the New Era of Integrated Obesity Management
Obesity is increasingly recognized as a chronic systemic disease characterized not only by excess adiposity but also by progressive dysfunction of multiple organs. Recent advances have shifted attention from body weight alone toward ectopic fat deposition as a major...
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Rethinking Biomedical Research in the Age of AI
The paradox of modern biomedical research Biomedical research has never generated so much knowledge, and researchers have never struggled so much to keep pace with it. PubMed now indexes more than 40 million references drawn from roughly 26,000 journals[1]....
Australia Marks 40 years of Daffodil Day on Thursday 20 August
Cancer Council calls on Australians to help fund the next 40 years of breakthroughs One of Australia's most iconic and enduring fundraising campaigns, Daffodil Day, will return on Thursday 20 August 2026, marking 40 years of Australians coming together to support...
Retatrutide Black Market: Lilly Sues Six US Sellers
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The Next Generation of ADPKD Therapies
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What Trauma Taught Me That Medical School Never Did
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CAR-T Therapy Explained: A Plain-English Guide
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Beyond Detection: What Our Microplastics Study Means for Clinical Practice
For years, the conversation around microplastics centered on a simple question: Are they present in the human body? The answer is now increasingly clear. Microplastics have been detected in human blood, placentas, lungs, liver tissue, arterial plaque, reproductive...
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Life science news 17 August 2026: Donald Trump signs an executive order seeking to narrow the US childhood vaccine schedule, the MHRA makes the UK the first country in Europe to authorise Eli Lilly’s orforglipron tablet, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals pays $820 million...
Crohn’s, Colitis and Conception: Building a Family with IBD
When treating individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), either Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, I’m often asked: "Will this stop me having children?". Given that IBD affects around 180,000 Australians and is typically first diagnosed between the ages of...
LSD Anxiety Data: Definium Hits All Phase 3 Endpoints
Definium Therapeutics has reported positive results from its first Phase 3 LSD anxiety trial. The data push a psychedelic medicine closer to a regulatory filing in a condition that has not seen a new drug approval since 2007. The company said on 12 August that Voyage...
Panthera Opens New Clinical Research Clinic at Keele University
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