Archive - Breakthrough

This week in medicine: more pancreatic cancer progress, a best-in-class ulcerative colitis drug, and more

Welcome! Every week I analyze the 5 most important things that happened in the world of medicine... let’s get into it!

Jun 14 • Samuel Hume

5 highlights from the biggest cancer conference in the world

I spent the last week in beautiful Chicago at the biggest cancer conference in the world (ASCO: the American Society of Clinical Oncology).

Jun 5 • Samuel Hume

May 2026

This week in medicine: new drug classes, and progress for disease prevention

May 24 • Samuel Hume

NK-cell immunotherapy was developed for oncology, but may take off elsewhere

A story on the limits of current immunotherapy in cancer, new developments and pivoting cancer treatments to other diseases, highlighting a great…

May 19 • Andreas Huysman

This week in medicine: guided cancer therapy, a new Alzheimer's trial, and more

May 17 • Samuel Hume

Progress in medicine this week: a breakthrough cardiac drug, a new cancer drug, and more...

May 10 • Samuel Hume

Progress in medicine this week: GLP1s for addiction; fixing hair loss; and more

It was a busy week in biomedicine, it is difficult to keep up!

May 2 • Samuel Hume

April 2026

This week's medical progress (including the first gene therapy for genetic hearing loss)

5 breakthroughs in medicine this week

Apr 26 • Samuel Hume

A breakthrough week for KRAS inhibitors

... and factor XI inhibitors, and HER2 inhibitors

Apr 19 • Samuel Hume

Medical breakthroughs this week (including a better, potentially curative, sickle cell therapy)

Progress in medicine is fast!

Apr 5 • Samuel Hume

Charts of the week: multiple myeloma progress, predicting clinical trials with AI, and GLP1s eating the world

I love a16z’s Charts of the Week series, so I have shamelessly stolen the idea.

Apr 4 • Samuel Hume

March 2026

5 breakthroughs in medicine this week (including the first FDA-approved weekly insulin!)

Progress in medicine is fast.

Mar 30 • Samuel Hume