Health - Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Prosecutors accused Dr. David Morens, a former adviser to Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, of hiding records related to the onset of the pandemic.

Committee members largely blamed the other party’s health care policies for driving U.S. health care prices to levels inaccessible to many Americans.

A headset recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration uses a weak electric current to shock the brain. Some researchers hope it could challenge the current pill-centric paradigm.

The AIDS advocacy group PrEP4All has sued the Trump administration over an undisclosed agreement with Gilead.

Monitoring trials in real time may help shorten the time interval between trial phases.

Scientists at MIT discovered that chaotic laser light can spontaneously form a highly focused beam instead of scattering—if the conditions are just right. This “pencil beam” enabled them to image the blood-brain barrier in 3D at speeds 25 times faster than existing techniques. The method also lets researchers watch how drugs move into brain cells in real time. It could dramatically accelerate the development of treatments for neurological diseases.

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In a letter to states and other grant recipients, the Trump administration says the strips encourage drug use.

“For the first time, FDA regulators will be able to see what’s happening in a clinical trial, looking at endpoints in the cloud as they occur,” writes FDA commissioner.

A new therapy has the potential to cure hundreds of diseases — and even reverse aging.