Life and Health Today
Health and longevity news for everyday readers, published daily from the United States: regenerative medicine, longevity research, exercise and nutrition science, and biohacking. Reported from the research and from the agencies that regulate it, in plain language, alongside a curated feed of the day's coverage elsewhere, each item linking to the publication that reported it.
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- Longer ureteral stents in children tied to higher infection risk despite antibiotics Regenerative
More than a quarter of children with internal kidney-drainage tubes developed urinary tract infections even while taking daily preventive antibiotics, a study in the Journal of Pediatric Urology...
- More daily steps linked to better teen mental health and brain structure, study finds Performance
A study of 5,515 American adolescents found that higher daily step counts were associated with fewer symptoms of depression and anxiety one year later. Researchers at King's College London and the...
- ChatGPT answered IVF questions accurately but left gaps doctors flagged Biohacking
A small comparative analysis presented at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's annual meeting found that ChatGPT's responses to common IVF questions scored lower than professional...
- Sesame compound eased alcohol-related gut aging in middle-aged mice Longevity
A sesame-derived compound called sesaminol reduced signs of intestinal aging and inflammation in middle-aged mice given alcohol daily for ten weeks, according to a study published in GeroScience....
- Male tree shrews outlived females by median lifespan in first detailed captive colony study Longevity
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham tracked their Northern tree shrew colony and found males had a longer median lifespan than females, though maximum lifespan and mortality...
- FDA proposes updating nutrient rules for infant formula in phased review Longevity
The Food and Drug Administration published a proposed rule on October 29, 2026, that would adjust required levels for four of the roughly 30 nutrients infant formula must contain, update labeling...
- Palladium membranes destroy PFAS in water, not just filter them out Longevity
A team at Arizona State University and four partner institutions has built membranes that capture six regulated 'forever chemicals' and chemically break them apart, rather than concentrating them...
- Scientists find the protein that slows egg aging in mice Longevity
A protein called OMC1 helps hold chromosomes together inside eggs across a female's reproductive life, researchers report in Nature Aging. When the gene for OMC1 was removed from mice, chromosome...
- Gene therapy for a fatal infant muscle disease showed no liver toxicity in animal studies Regenerative
A gene therapy being tested in boys with X-linked myotubular myopathy, a severe muscle disease that often kills in infancy, produced no signs of liver damage in monkeys or dogs in preclinical...
- Strength declines faster than most people expect. Resistance training is the clearest answer. Longevity
Muscle strength peaks in your 30s and early 40s, then falls roughly 1 to 2 percent a year, with the drop accelerating after 70. A detailed guide from physician and longevity researcher Peter Attia...
- Pennsylvania measles outbreak tops 1,300 cases, straining clinics and dividing parents Longevity
A pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia describes treating families on opposite sides of the vaccine debate during an active measles outbreak. The piece lays out what the disease...
- Three family doctors on what actually moves the needle in obesity care Longevity
A Medscape report asked three primary care physicians how they set goals with patients managing obesity, and their answers center on self-monitoring, accountability partners, and knowing a...
- A scan-based organ-age model found nine proteins tied to mortality across four organs Longevity
Researchers used MRI scans and body measurements from nearly 47,000 people to estimate how fast the brain, heart, liver and pancreas are each aging, independently of one another. The study,...
- Muscle mass, not sex, drives heart size and aerobic capacity in 294 adults Performance
When researchers matched women and men by lean body mass, the well-known cardiovascular differences between the sexes disappeared entirely. The finding, published in Sports Medicine by Springer...
- Exercise linked to slower biological aging clock readings in older adults with poor sleep Longevity
A study published in GeroScience tracked 890 adults aged 20 to 102 and found that higher physical activity was associated with slower readings on several biological aging clocks, particularly in...
- Your brain builds emotions from predictions, not hardwired circuits Biohacking
Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Distinguished Professor of psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University, argues that feelings like fear and sadness are not fixed biological programs but...
- Four medical societies map women's heart health across a lifetime Longevity
A new framework published in the journal Circulation divides women's cardiovascular health into four life stages, from adolescence through postmenopause, and argues that hormonal transitions long...
- Biotech IPOs jumped 573% in 2026, but early-stage startups are still struggling Longevity
Biotech's public markets had their strongest year since the post-COVID slump, with IPO proceeds jumping more than fivefold compared to 2025, according to investment bank Locust Walk. The recovery...
- Tovecimig plus paclitaxel lifted response rates in biliary tract cancer, but survival gain did not follow Longevity
A phase II/III trial found that adding the experimental bispecific antibody tovecimig to standard chemotherapy more than tripled the response rate in patients with previously treated advanced...
- Personalized mRNA cancer vaccine cuts melanoma recurrence risk by 42% in 1,137-person trial Regenerative
A bespoke vaccine built from each patient's own tumor mutations, combined with an immunotherapy drug, reduced the chance of skin cancer returning or the patient dying by 42% compared with the...
- EPFL chip reads multi-region brain activity to trigger depression stimulation in real time Biohacking
Engineers at EPFL's Integrated Neurotechnologies Laboratory have built a neural implant chip called LogSync that monitors coordinated electrical activity across 32 brain channels and fires a...
- Last Year's $1,000 of Medical Care Costs $1,015 Now Longevity
Life and Health Today's monthly cost reading for September: medical care prices moved +1.5% over the year, slower than overall inflation at +3.7%.
- Senators push for stricter rules on Medicaid computer systems as new work requirements loom Longevity
Three Democratic senators are calling on federal regulators to impose mandatory performance standards on the private contractors that run Medicaid eligibility systems for most states. The push...
- A treadmill desk reviewed: what it does and what it cannot claim Performance
New Atlas reviewed the Urevo FoldiMix 5L, a folding treadmill that doubles as a standing desk. The review is a product test by one writer in one apartment, not a clinical study, and no health...
- A mushroom peptide made salt taste 70% saltier in lab tests, no extra sodium needed Performance
Researchers at Gannan Medical University in China identified a peptide from an edible mushroom that amplified the perception of saltiness by more than 70 percent in controlled testing on human...
- CAR T-cell therapy is curing some blood cancers. Here is where oncology stands now. Longevity
Fifteen years after The Emperor of All Maladies, oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee sat down with physician Peter Attia to map what has genuinely changed in cancer science. Some of it is remarkable....
- Healthy habits explain only a slice of the longevity gap between rich and poor Longevity
A 20-year study of 33,541 older adults aged 65 and over across 23 provinces in China found that people with lower socioeconomic status faced a 25% higher risk of early death and a 46% higher risk...
- Brain immune cells, not neurons, drive alcohol damage in mice and human tissue Biohacking
A Cleveland Clinic team found that microglia, the brain's resident immune cells, actively tear apart the protein scaffolding holding neurons together when exposed to heavy alcohol, rather than...
- One child, 80 months on: gene therapy holds off a fatal brain disease Regenerative
A single patient treated at 30 months of age with an experimental stem cell gene therapy for Mucopolysaccharidosis IIIA, a rare inherited disease that kills children in their late teens, showed...
- Wegovy's weight-loss pill reached 100,000 new prescriptions a month in two months Longevity
The daily semaglutide tablet was taken up faster in its first months than the injections were, and injection prescriptions did not decline, according to a study in Annals of Internal Medicine....
- Hip osteoarthritis reshapes bone marrow immune cells, lab study finds Regenerative
Researchers publishing in GeroScience found that elderly patients with hip osteoarthritis have a higher proportion of immature immune cells in their bone marrow than patients who had suffered a...
- Fat in aging muscle may signal decline, but the science is still early Longevity
A review of population studies finds that fat seeping into muscle tissue accumulates steadily with age, independent of body weight or activity level, and tracks with losses in strength and...
- Sickle cell trait shapes which malaria parasites can infect you, study finds Regenerative
A study of more than 2,000 schoolchildren in Cameroon found that people carrying one copy of the sickle cell gene are infected by a genetically distinct variety of malaria parasites compared with...
- Antibody blocks bone growth in soft tissue in FOP mouse study Regenerative
Researchers have identified a signalling protein called CCN2 as a key driver of the runaway bone formation seen in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, a rare and disabling genetic disorder. In...
- New US guidelines say movement, not bed rest, should be the first response to back pain Performance
The American Academy of Pain Medicine has published new guidance on acute low back pain, putting self-care and gentle movement ahead of prescription drugs and imaging. The guidance, funded by the...
- Lack of community toilets linked to higher depression risk in older Indians Longevity
A large national study in India found that older adults living in communities with the fewest toilets were 38% more likely to show signs of depression than those in communities with the most. The...
- FDA approves pritelivir for drug-resistant herpes lesions in immunocompromised patients Regenerative
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new oral drug, pritelivir, for herpes simplex virus lesions that have stopped responding to existing treatments. The approval covers a specific...
- FDA approves once-monthly olanzapine injection that skips sedation monitoring Longevity
The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared a new subcutaneous, once-monthly injectable form of olanzapine, a long-established antipsychotic, for adults with schizophrenia. Unlike the only...
- Genetic risk scores for hearing loss sharpen when built on real test data, not billing codes Longevity
A team at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that using actual audiometric measurements, rather than the diagnostic billing codes that most genetic studies rely on, produced far more...
- Vitamin D2 supplements found to lower the body's own D3 levels Longevity
A meta-analysis of randomised trials found that taking vitamin D2, the plant-derived form common in supplements, reduces circulating vitamin D3, the form the body makes from sunlight. Researchers...
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