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Medication safety
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A two-armed antibody cleared more HER2-positive breast tumors before surgery than standard treatment
The standard pre-surgery combination for HER2-positive breast cancer has held for a decade. A phase 3 trial of 521 patients replaced it and raised the rate of tumors with no cancer left.
Sep 16, 2026
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
Silent brain injuries after a heart implant fell from 32% to 12% on a low-dose blood thinner
Closing off part of the heart is meant to prevent strokes, and the procedure itself scatters tiny clots to the brain. Randomizing 164 patients compared two ways of dosing afterwards.
Sep 16, 2026
Ultrasound-guided stenting cut cardiac deaths in East Asian trials and not in anyone else's
Guidelines increasingly recommend imaging inside the artery while placing a stent. Pooling 17 trials and 14,033 patients found the benefit sat almost entirely in one part of the world.
Sep 16, 2026