June 27, 2026

GLP-1 Drugs Tied to Smell, Taste Changes

A matched electronic health record study of more than 876,000 patients with type 2 diabetes found a low absolute incidence but higher relative hazard of documented smell and taste disturbances among patients prescribed glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists.

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June 23, 2026

Side Effects: Sour Mouth, Lower BP

Acidic gum beat sugar-free at cranking out nitric oxide from beetroot juice — exactly backward from what test-tube studies predicted. Also this week: a sleep gene that ignores amyloid, and jackfruit sap moonlighting as a bone-building drug delivery system.

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June 17, 2026

Peptides Are Outrunning the Rulebook

A new JAMA Viewpoint argues US drug policy is built for a market that no longer behaves like one.

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June 10, 2026

Another Point of View: Reefer Madness!

The conclusions drawn from the study by Johnson et al1 appear overstated and should be interpreted with caution. In the study discussed in this issue of The ASCO Post, investigators compared breast an...

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June 10, 2026

COPD Severity Tied to Life Expectancy

A pooled US cohort study estimated years of life lost across airflow obstruction severity, including among adults who never smoked.

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June 09, 2026

Less Sitting in Pregnancy Tied to Lower Risk

Pregnant patients who sat less and moved more at light intensity had a lower risk of adverse outcomes in a prospective cohort study, but the findings do not prove causation.

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June 09, 2026

Study Reassures on Safety of Early NSAID Use

A large cohort found no adjusted link to major congenital malformations, but questions remain for miscarriage, later pregnancy, and other outcomes.

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June 05, 2026

Oral HRS-7535 Lowered A1c in Trial

Nonpeptide oral agent requires no fasting administration.

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June 04, 2026

NHS-Galleri Linked to Delays

Analysis of England’s multicancer early detection screening trial found modest, temporary diagnostic delays in participating regions, adding to concerns about health system effects and the evidence base for population-level blood-based cancer screening.

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May 08, 2026

Fabricated Citations Are Reaching Medical Journals

A large audit of biomedical publications suggests fabricated references are increasingly appearing in peer-reviewed papers — often in ways that are difficult for reviewers and readers to detect.

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