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Immunity
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A daily pill beat placebo for hidradenitis suppurativa across two trials of 619 patients
Hidradenitis suppurativa is painful, common and badly served by existing drugs. Two phase 3 trials tested an oral treatment where almost everything available is injected.
Sep 16, 2026
Benefits of a type 1 diabetes pill faded within a year of patients stopping it
Baricitinib preserved insulin production in newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, raising hopes of a course of treatment rather than a lifetime of it. Following 88 patients after the drug stopped answered that.
Sep 8, 2026
An antibody blocking B12 from reaching the brain was found in over half of unexplained spinal cord cases
Idiopathic myelopathy means the spinal cord is failing and nobody knows why. Testing 32 such patients turned up an autoantibody against the receptor that carries vitamin B12 into cells, in 18 of them.
Sep 7, 2026
Antihistamines helped eczema too little for patients to notice, across 47 trials
Antihistamines are routinely added to eczema treatment for the itch. Pooling every randomized trial found an effect that is real, measurable, and smaller than the smallest change a patient would call worthwhile.
Sep 4, 2026