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| 05.07.2024 | Health | Rate of young women getting sterilized doubled after Roe was overturned | After Roe was overturned in June 2022, doctors said a wave of young people like Ferst started asking for permanent birth control like tubal ligations, in which the fallopian tubes are removed, or vasectomies.
New research published this spr... |
| 02.07.2024 | Some antidepressants cause more weight gain than others, study finds | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Certain first-line antidepressant medications are more likely than others to cause weight gain, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Why it matter... |
| 02.07.2024 | Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) elects new leaders to serve terms starting in August 2024 | WASHINGTON, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC) is pleased to announce that Paul Jannetto, PhD, DABCC, FADLM, MT(ASCP), has been elected to serve on the ADLM board of ... |
| 26.06.2024 | Shriners Children's Boston Researchers Develop New Technology to Help Lessen Pain for Burn Patients | BOSTON, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Two researchers at Shriners Children's Boston have created a revolutionary new gel that can help alleviate pain for second-degree burn survivors during dressing changes. Learning about the anxiety and p... |
| 26.06.2024 | Partnership to End Addiction expands esteemed Board of Directors | NEW YORK, June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Partnership to End Addiction has added three new members to its Board of Directors: Dr. Scott Hadland, Claire Lea-Howarth, and Greg Stuart.
"We are honored to welcome these talented individuals w... |
| 20.06.2024 | New medical LLM, PathChat 2, can talk to pathologists about tumors, offer diagnoses | Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More
Four state-of-the-a... |
| 18.06.2024 | American College of Lifestyle Medicine Announces Dan Buettner as Opening Keynote, Blue Zones as Presenting Community Health Sponsor of 2024 Lifestyle Medicine Conference | Lifestyle Medicine 2024
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) today announced longevity researcher, Blue Zones Founder, National Geographic Fellow and best-selling author Dan Buettner as opening keynote for its 2024 Lifestyle Me... |
| 12.06.2024 | Health | Tips for beach safety in the sun, sand and sea | ____
Lois Lee, MD, MPH, FAAP, Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention, is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and... |
| 11.06.2024 | QurAlis Expands Leadership Team With Doug Williamson, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer and Jason Brown, MBA, as Chief Financial Officer and Appoints Shafique Virani, M.D., to Board of Directors | Industry veteran Williamson brings nearly three decades' experience as a leader in neuroscience R&D at organizations including Eli Lilly and Company, Lundbeck, Parexel, and Acadia Pharmaceuticals
Former Karuna CFO Brown brings more than... |
| 10.06.2024 | American College of Lifestyle Medicine announces induction into the American Medical Association House of Delegates | ACLM
The 11,000-member medical professional society will now have a direct voice in shaping health care policies and priorities to advance lifestyle medicine and impact future health care delivery.
ST. LOUIS, June 10, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb... |
| 05.06.2024 | Cardiology Profile: Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute's Dr. Tae Song | Dr. Tae Song is a cardiac surgeon, mechanical circulatory support, and heart transplant specialist at Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute.
The fellowship-trained physician is a transplant specialist that has helped Memorial's cardiac te... |
| 04.06.2024 | Health | The more women followed this diet, the longer they lived | How, exactly, does the Mediterranean diet pull this off? That’s what Shafqat Ahmad, who studies cardiovascular disease development at Sweden’s Uppsala University and Harvard Medical School, and his colleagues wanted to find out.
They turned... |
| 04.06.2024 | Elemind’s neurotech headband puts you to sleep when you want | GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playi... |
| 30.05.2024 | AI Helps Medical Professionals Read Confusing EEGs to Save Lives | Researchers at Duke University have developed an assistive machine learning model that greatly improves the ability of medical professionals to read the electroencephalography (EEG) charts of intensive care patients.
Because EEG readings ar... |
| 29.05.2024 | Remedy Pharmaceuticals Gets Rights To Acute Stroke Drug Back From Biogen; Announces Clinically Meaningful and Statistically Significant Results From Pre-specified Subgroup and Post Hoc Analyses of Pha... | NEW YORK, May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Remedy Pharmaceuticals, a pioneer in stroke drug development, announced that prespecified subgroup analyses from the Phase 3 CHARM clinical trial of CIRARA (IV glibenclamide) showed meaningful improvem... |
| 28.05.2024 | The High Cost of Diabetes Drugs: A Barrier to Health | In the realm of healthcare, the issue of affordability and access to essential medications is a critical concern that affects the well-being of individuals, particularly those suffering from chronic conditions like diabetes. The soaring pri... |
| 26.05.2024 | The Shaw Prize 2024: A Celebration of Scientific Excellence | The Shaw Prize Foundation recently announced the 2024 Shaw Laureates, honoring individuals who have made groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine, and Mathematical Sciences. The prestigious award, wit... |
| 25.05.2024 | Health | High price of popular diabetes drugs deprives low-income people of effective treatment | Supply shortages and insurance hurdles for this powerful class of drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, have left many people who are suffering from diabetes and obesity without the medicines they need to stay healthy.
One root of the problem is th... |
| 22.05.2024 | Breakthrough Properties to Welcome Three Mission-Driven Biotech Companies to One Canal Development in the Heart of Cambridge | Leases with Deep Genomics, Larkspur Biosciences and Incendia Therapeutics Executed Upon Substantial Construction Completion, Anchoring Breakthrough's East Cambridge Waterfront Building
BOSTON, May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Breakthrough Prope... |
| 22.05.2024 | Carbon Biosciences Announces New Appointments to Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board | - Carol Ann Satler, MD, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FAAP joins the Board of Directors, adding key clinical experience to guide ongoing nonclinical development in cardiac and pulmonary diseases -
- Lloyd Klickstein, MD, PhD joins the Scientific Advisor... |
| 21.05.2024 | Announcement of The Shaw Laureates 2024 | HONG KONG, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
2024 Shaw Laureates (Left to Right): Shrinivas R Kulkarni (Astronomy), Swee Lay Thein (Life Science and Medicine), Stuart Orkin (Life Science and Medicine), Peter Sarnak (Mathematical Sciences)
The Sh... |
| 21.05.2024 | Announcement of The Shaw Laureates 2024 | HONG KONG, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy is awarded to
Shrinivas R Kulkarni
George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at the California Institu... |
| 20.05.2024 | SynBioBeta 2024: From novel hosts to ‘tricking’ cells to be more productive… addressing the ‘scale-cost paradox’ in biomanufacturing | Since insulin produced by genetically engineered bacteria—rather than the pancreases of slaughtered animals—was first approved in 1982, the market for ‘biomanufactured’ products produced by microbial, animal, or plant cells has grown rapidl... |
| 20.05.2024 | High price of Ozempic, other diabetes drugs deprive low-income people of effective treatment | For the past year and a half, Tandra Cooper Harris and her husband, Marcus, who both have diabetes, have struggled to fill their prescriptions for the medications they need to control their blood sugar.
Without Ozempic or a similar drug, Co... |
| 20.05.2024 | Commentary: If TCM really works, why are some still sceptical about it? | Listen to this article
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| 17.05.2024 | 🎥 Wild Microbes CEO: ‘Today the bioeconomy runs on a handful of microorganisms; in future it will run on hundreds’ | Right now, a handful of microbial workhorses do the bulk of the work in biomanufacturing, which is billed as a more sustainable means of producing products currently derived from petrochemicals and industrialized animal agriculture. But do ... |
| 16.05.2024 | Harvard Medical School Launches Executive Program for Senior Life Sciences Leaders | The Executive Program for Senior Life Sciences Leaders is rooted in a comprehensive grasp of the life sciences industry and its dynamic evolution.”
— Dr. Stanley Shaw, Associate Dean of Executive Education
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STAT... |
| 14.05.2024 | The Quell Foundation Appoints Dr. Reena Pande to its Board of Directors | NORTH FALMOUTH, Mass., May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Quell Foundation, a nationally recognized not-for-profit organization dedicated to reducing the number of suicides, overdoses, and the incarceration of people with mental health challe... |
| 14.05.2024 | Blue Zones and American College of Lifestyle Medicine Create Partnership to Accelerate a Lifestyle-First Approach to All Healthcare | Blue Zones x ACLM
Alliance will combine proven, powerful efforts inside and outside hospital and clinic walls to ignite health transformation and reduce the epidemic of chronic disease.
ST. LOUIS, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Blue Zon... |
| 13.05.2024 | Microneedle Patch Shows Promise in Regrowing Hair Lost to Alopecia Areata: Study | By QuincyJon
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| 08.05.2024 | Research Results on Jolly Good's Medical VR Will Be Presented for the First Time in the U.S. - Revealing Training VR for HALO Procedures at Large-Scale VR Seminar, SAEM2024 | BROOKLINE, Mass., May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Jolly Good US Inc. is proud to announce the groundbreaking debut of research findings on its Medical Virtual Reality (VR) platform in the United States. This unveiling will take place at the ann... |
| 07.05.2024 | Safar Partners Leads Pirouette’s Investment Round with $5M+ Raised, Extending Opportunity for Public to Invest Alongside Renowned Investors like Y Combinator | Pirouette aims to use their patented technology to revolutionize the $600B injectable medicine market, making life-saving injections as easy as pushing a button
PORTSMOUTH, N.H.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 7, 2024–
Pirouette, with their innovative ... |
| 07.05.2024 | Research Results on Jolly Good's Medical VR Will Be Presented for the First Time in the U.S. - Revealing Training VR for HALO Procedures at Large-Scale VR Seminar, SAEM2024 | BROOKLINE, Mass., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Jolly Good US Inc. is proud to announce the groundbreaking debut of research findings on its Medical Virtual Reality (VR) platform in the United States. This unveiling will take place at the ann... |
| 30.04.2024 | Lung Cancer Research Foundation Welcomes New Scientific Advisory Board Members | Foundation Expands its Research Reviewing Body to Meet Strategic Research Investment Objective
NEW YORK, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF) has expanded its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) by five new ... |
| 30.04.2024 | New brief from The Fenway Institute describes the science behind gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth | Fenway Health advocates for and delivers innovative, equitable, accessible health care, supportive services, and transformative research and education.
This new publication introduces the basics of Gender Affirming Care for TGD youth. It ou... |
| 23.04.2024 | American College of Lifestyle Medicine supports proposed law requiring protections for children from ultra-processed, sugar-sweetened foods and beverages | ACLM
The medical professional society representing 11,000 health professionals nationwide calls the bill an important step in helping children and their families make healthy food choices.
ST. LOUIS, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The... |
| 17.04.2024 | A Harvard Medical School professor with ADHD shares how he retrained his brain for deep work and reached peak productivity | Careers A Harvard Medical School professor with ADHD shares how he retrained his brain for deep work and reached peak productivity
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| 16.04.2024 | Innovent Announces the Appointment of Dr. Nageatte Ibrahim as the Oncology Chief Medical Officer (CMO) | SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent") (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high quality medicines for... |
| 14.04.2024 | Ex-Harvard morgue manager’s wife pleads guilty to stealing body parts | STEVEN PORTER/THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA AP / 2023
Denise Lodge, left, covers her face with a printout of the indictment against her as she walks from the federal courthouse in Concord, N.H., following her arrest on charges related to an alleged ... |
| 10.04.2024 | Cancer Drugs: Promises vs. Reality | The accelerated approval program by the FDA promises early access to promising cancer drugs, but do these drugs actually deliver on their potential? A recent study reveals that most cancer drugs granted accelerated approval fail to show sig... |
| 09.04.2024 | Health | Burden of getting medical care can exhaust older patients | Judith Graham | (TNS) KFF Health News
Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice.
Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on... |
| 08.04.2024 | Findings Presented at ACC.24 Showed XARELTO® (rivaroxaban) Reduced the Risk of Clinically Significant Bleeding and Net Adverse Clinical Events or Rehospitalization | New exploratory analysis demonstrates consistent results of XARELTO® in treating elderly and non-elderly patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
XARELTO® is one of the most studied oral an... |
| 08.04.2024 | Many cancer drugs remain unproven years after FDA's accelerated approval, study finds | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's accelerated approval program is meant to give patients early access to promising drugs. But how often do these drugs actually improve or extend patients' lives?
In a new study, researchers found that ... |
| 07.04.2024 | Study: Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after approval | ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2020
A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md. According to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, most cancer drugs granted accel... |
| 03.04.2024 | Влияние рецепта гравитации на будущее космических поселений | Джон Джосси, 29.03.2024, spacesettlementprogress.com
Художественное изображение семьи, живущей в свободном космосе во вращающемся поселении, основанном на дизайне Kalpana Two, длиной 110 м и диаметром 125 м. Credits: Bryan Versteeg / Spaceh... |
| 29.03.2024 | Health | Experts say Medicaid rebate change is behind inhaler price cuts | Lauren Clason | (TNS) CQ-Roll Call
A recent tweak to a Medicaid formula could be behind the shake-up to inhaler products, a series of changes that have both benefited and harmed patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease... |
| 21.03.2024 | Health | Concerns grow over quality of care as investor groups buy not-for-profit nursing homes | Harris Meyer | (TNS) KFF Health News
Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years. At first, Olson said, her mother received great care at the f... |
| 11.03.2024 | Aledade Appoints National Equity Expert to Board of Directors | Dr. Joyce Sackey is one of the nation’s foremost experts in diversity, equity and inclusion
Bethesda, MD, March 11, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aledade, the nation’s largest network of independent primary care, has named a highly regarded dive... |
| 11.03.2024 | Medicilon has appointed Dr. Qingcong Lin as President of Medicilon USA Corp., further deepening the global strategic layout | BOSTON, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicilon, a one-stop pharmaceutical preclinical research and development CRO can simultaneously meet Chinese and American drug discovery and development needs (including GLP standards) promptly and ef... |
| 23.01.2024 | Arizona tech company partners with Mayo Clinic to fight health disparities | One of the Valley's telemedicine pioneers is attempting to disrupt the health care system once again — this time with software that alerts physicians to clinical biases that are costing lives and money.
Driving the news: Mayo Clinic will be... |
| 05.12.2023 | Можно ли перенести сознание из мозга в компьютер? | Представьте, что в ближайшие десятилетия технология сканирования мозга значительно улучшится, и мы сможем наблюдать, как каждый отдельный нейрон общается с другими нейронами. Затем представьте, что мы можем записать всю эту информацию, чтоб... |
| 20.11.2023 | The best mattress for side sleepers of 2023 | Reviews Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| 14.09.2023 | Long Covid is a new name for an old syndrome | Long Covid goes by many names. Today, it is no longer a new public health enigma, but the outlook for sufferers is no better than when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. Although its prevalence has recently decreased to 6% of... |
| 11.08.2023 | Philanthropic endowments at universities can offer a way out of biotech’s Valley of Death | So many promising medical innovations never reach their full potential as therapies or cures, languishing instead in a metaphoric place many of us in biotech know as “the Valley of Death.”
This valley represents the gap between when a scien... |
| 01.08.2023 | Can Doctor AI predict cancer, save lives? | A patient waits anxiously in the doctor’s office. The specialist walks in to inform them that they have been diagnosed with cancer. But there is good news. It has been discovered at an early stage. They have excellent prospects for a full r... |
| 14.07.2023 | Harvard Medical faces another lawsuit over stolen body parts | Another family has filed a lawsuit asking for class-action status against Harvard Medical School over the university's role in a ring that allegedly sold human remains on the black market for years.
Why it matters: It's the latest in a stri... |
| 08.07.2023 | AI tools trace the body's link between the brain and behavior | AI-enabled micro-measurements of animals running, hunting, preening and playing are unlocking troves of new data that scientists now want to use to simulate animals and test theories about behavior and the brain.
Why it matters: A primary f... |
| 15.06.2023 | BJC Healthcare Eyes $10 Billion Union With Saint Luke’s Health System: Is Consolidation Healthy Or A Case Of ‘Too Big To Fail,’ Too Big To Care? | ST. LOUIS, MO: Barnes-Jewish Hospital on May 8, 2020 (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. |
| 31.03.2023 | On Transgender Day of Visibility, we must fight anti-trans disinformation | Editor’s note: This op-ed first appeared on Newsweek.com.
From the Conservative Political Action Conference to statehouse floors across the country, the far right and Republican party have manufactured a disinformation and hate speech campa... |
| 09.03.2023 | Sam Altman gave us ChatGPT. Now he wants us to defy death. | Sam Altman. Drew Angerer/Getty
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Sam Altman put $180 million into Retro Biosciences, a company that aims to delay death by 10 years.
Altman's interest in longevity research dates back at least eight years, per the MIT Technology Re... |
| 21.02.2023 | BREAKING: Wild Microbes raises $3.3m in pre-seed round to generate next generation microbial hosts | Cambridge, Mass-based startup Wild Microbes has raised $3.3 million in a pre-seed round to help unlock the potential of precision fermentation through the use of a gene-editing approach it claims can create superior production hosts.
The ro... |
| 15.02.2023 | I quit my job and biked around the world to find true happiness. Here are 5 truths I learned. | Christopher Boyce quit his decade-long career as an academic and rode a bicycle around the world to learn about happiness. Sven Hagolani/Getty Images
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| 12.01.2023 | $50 Million Gifts Received By Harvard Medical School, University Of Utah Engineering | The University of Utah announced a record gift of $50 million for its college of engineering this ... [+] week. getty |
| 26.12.2022 | 3D Printing Industry Review of the Year: February 2022 | Interested in reading more about the year’s biggest 3D printing news? You can access our full 3D Printing Industry Review of the Year series here.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shook the western world in February 2022, and the 3D printing in... |
| 24.11.2022 | CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy For Lung Cancer Patients Now Offered By Renowned Cancer Clinic in Mexico | Immunotherapy Institute CAR T-Cells SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, November 24, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Immunotherapy Institute has now launched a CAR T-Cell protocol for lung cancer treatment in Mexico, allowing American, Can... |
| 23.11.2022 | CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy For Colon Cancer Patients Now Offered By Renowned Cancer Clinic in Mexico | Immunotherapy Institute CAR T-Cells SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, November 23, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Immunotherapy Institute launches a CAR T-Cell protocol for colon cancer treatment in Mexico, allowing international patien... |
| 03.11.2022 | Harvard study on monkeys reignites ethical debate over animal testing | Mother monkeys permanently separated from their newborns sometimes find comfort in plush toys; this recent finding from Harvard experiments has set off intense controversy among scientists and reignited the ethical debate over animal testin... |
| 29.10.2022 | ‘The science behind acupuncture,’ a report from San Luis Obispo’s Intuitive Acupuncture | The effectiveness of acupuncture has been shown to be the result of allowing the body to release naturally produced opioid and non-opiod neuropeptides that play a role in cellular function in the limbic and central nervous systems.
SAN LUIS... |
| 18.08.2022 | Immunotherapy Institute in Mexico Now The First Cancer Center To Offer CAR T-Cell Protocol For International Patients | Immunotherapy Institute CAR T-Cells
CAR T-Cells, a breakthrough cancer treatment, is now offered at Immunotherapy Institute in Mexico, the first licensed cancer center in the country to do so.
A patient can be admitted into our facilities a... |
| 12.07.2022 | Scientists’ ‘3D cryoprinting’ technology enables creation of cell scaffolds with tissue-regenerating potential | University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) researchers have developed a freezing-modulated cross-linking approach that could allow for the 3D bioprinting of human tissues with improved clinical viability.
Unlike ordinarily-bioprinted ... |
| 30.03.2022 | This April, CCHR Reminds You to Not Only Eliminate Stress but to Also Avoid Dangerous Solutions | 1 in 5 college students reported thoughts of suicide due to the stress from the increasing pressure of maintaining perfect grades and keeping up with peers
Antipsychotics have numerous serious and debilitating side effects.
CCHR wants the p... |
| 28.02.2022 | Breaking The Rules Of Healthcare: Restoring The Value Of Primary Care | If saving a life is the most valuable thing a doctor can do, surely the physicians who save the most ... [+] lives would garner the most esteem, right? Right? getty |
| 07.02.2022 | Live human tendon 3D printed by scientists with new ‘cryo-bioprinting’ | 3D Printing Industry is currently seeking feedback on resin 3D printing. Send your insights now and take the Spotlight on Resin 3D Printing Survey.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Sichuan University have developed a novel means of... |
| 20.10.2021 | Renowned Dana-Farber scientist, mentor and biopharma advisor David Livingston has died | David Livingston, the Dana-Farber/Harvard Med scientist who helped shine a light on some of the key molecular drivers of breast and ovarian cancer, died unexpectedly last Sunday.
One of the senior leaders at Dana-Farber... |
| 24.05.2021 | Use single-cell biology to shed light on pediatric diseases currently in the dark | There are few things harder for a physician to say to a patient than “I don’t know what’s wrong.” Saying that is even harder when you’re sitting across from the parent of a child with an undiagnosed condition.
And as I learned from experien... |
| 28.03.2021 | How will people act after getting vaccinated? The complex psychology of safety | A friend invited me to her home for a birthday party. “Ten of us will be there,” she wrote. “I’m pretty sure we’ve all been vaccinated, so we should be OK.”
It was the first invitation to an indoor dinner I had received in almost a year.
Si... |
| 28.03.2021 | Nosing in on kids who had COVID-19 and lost their sense of smell | Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News
Orange. Eucalyptus. Lavender. Peppermint.
Doctors at Children’s Hospital Colorado and Seattle Children’s Hospital will use scents like these to treat children who lost their sense of smell to COV... |
| 12.02.2021 | The 7 Best Podcasts Of 2021 | Emma Vo |
| 16.12.2020 | Top 10 Healthcare Industry Predictions For 2021 | The events of 2020 were, in many regards, unpredictable. The year 2021 will be different.Getty Images |
| 10.11.2020 | The difference between dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin — and how each one helps you feel happy | Feeling happy is largely due to four main chemicals in your brain. Klaus Vedfelt/getty Images
Four main chemicals in your brain are responsible for feelings of happiness: dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin.
You can boost your lev... |
| 13.10.2020 | Need Complex Surgery? Chances Are, Your Surgeon Won’t Be A Woman | Female surgeongetty |
| 24.08.2020 | Hospital CEOs, med school leaders shouldn’t sit on for-profit health care company boards | In late July, Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, president of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital, came under intense scrutiny for activities she undertook outside her role at the hospital. The focus was on her sitting on the boards of direct... |
| 06.05.2020 | 'It's pure art': Versant, GV reveal $60M bet that a clearer look at inflammasomes can lead to better drugs | For years, scientists had known about the myriad ways NLRP3 pushes the innate immune system to go overboard and trigger autoimmune or inflammatory diseases. But until Hao Wu and her Harvard lab came along, nobody real... |
| 27.03.2020 | How Colleges Are Stepping Up To Fight COVID-19 | The Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases Tracker by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering ... [+] (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is seen displayed in internet on a mobile phone and a pc screen. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo G... |
| 28.02.2020 | Education Is the New Healthcare, and Other Trends Shaping Edtech Investing | Private equity and venture funds have invested record sums into the global education sector—$30 billion in the past five years across K-12 and workplace learning. Since 2017, investment has accelerated with $14 billion allocated, according ... |
| 25.11.2019 | Startup of the Week: A Subscription for Anti-Aging Pills... for Mice | Know a startup we should feature on Startup of the Week ? Email us at editors@motherboard.tv
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In 2154, the Earth is an uninhabitable shitworld, and ultra-rich people live on a utopian space colony. This is the movie Elysium.
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| 16.10.2019 | Here’s a brain teaser: Surprising study shows reduced neuronal activity extends life | Say this about the kinds of molecular mayhem that we know underlie aging: Mechanisms like whether the ends of chromosomes fray (bad) and whether genes’ on-off status breaks down (really bad) at least sound like plausible ways to impair vita... |
| 17.06.2019 | Medical schools are starting to diversify. But they’re learning hard lessons along the way | As medical students graduate this spring, American medical schools are celebrating the achievements of the nation’s newest doctors. They are also celebrating something else: an increase in the number of students from underrepresented popula... |
| 29.04.2019 | Harvard AI determines when tuberculosis becomes resistant to common drugs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Close to ... |
| 08.04.2019 | Centene pledges up to $100M to fund personalized medicine initiative at Washington University | The new funding will directed at research areas like CRISPR gene editing technologies, cancer genomics, immunomodulatory therapies and cellular reprogramming.
Other divisions of the medical school that will receive support from Centene incl... |
| 08.11.2018 | Harvard Medical School receives record $200 million gift for research — and an incubator | Harvard Medical School has received a $200 million donation — the largest in its history — to support research into fundamental questions about human illness and health.
The pledge, from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, will enable the scho... |
| 14.10.2018 | Harvard and the Brigham call for more than 30 retractions of cardiac stem cell research | Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have recommended that 31 papers from a former lab director be retracted from medical journals.
The papers from the lab of Dr. Piero Anversa, who studied cardiac stem cells, “included f... |
| 01.10.2018 | The snub club: Crucial contributors to cancer immunotherapy were excluded from the medicine Nobel | The Nobel committee’s account of discoveries critical to harnessing the immune system to treat cancer lists just under 100 papers authored by hundreds of scientists. But the message that “it takes a village” to move a discovery in basic sci... |
| 14.06.2018 | Researchers outline another big disease target for Novartis’ canakinumab as drug slashes rate of gout flares | We’ve already seen Novartis’ outline of positive data underscoring canakinumab’s ability to reduce risks for cardio patients by tamping down on the interleukin-1β pathway. Now researchers have also outlined how it may... |
| 31.05.2018 | Who gets credit for CRISPR? Prestigious award singles out three, and leaves out a notable scientist | One of the world’s richest science awards, given only in alternate years, will go to three discoverers of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing tool, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced on Thursday. Emmanuelle Charpentier of the... |
| 30.04.2018 | University of Edinburgh to Evaluate Flagship NHS Tech Scheme | Independent experts are to evaluate the impact of a flagship NHS scheme which aims to improve the use of technology in hospitals.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have been commissioned by NHS England to examine a new programme ... |
| 18.04.2018 | Bluebird’s gene therapy for beta-thalassemia falls short of a cure, but still wows in 22 patients | After going back to the drawing board to come up with a better gene therapy for beta-thalassemia, a disease that interferes with the body’s ability to produce hemoglobin, investigators working for bluebird bio $BLUE h... |
| 21.02.2018 | How can we remedy the shortage of health providers? | In a medical mecca like Boston, which is home to three medical schools and many world-class hospitals, you’d think that getting a timely appointment with a primary care physician or specialist would be a breeze. It isn’t. Finding a doctor i... |
| 06.04.2017 | Quark Venture Provides US$4.5M to Two Scientists at Harvard Medical School | Quark Venture, a Vancouver, Canada-based venture capital firm focused on innovative biotechnology and health sciences companies with breakthrough technology platforms and projects, has signed a US$4.5m research sponsorship agreement with Ha... |
| 28.03.2017 | Patients come first, but do doctors’ feelings still count? | Just before the holidays, I was treating a woman with severe pneumonia. As I examined her, day after day, she told me about her family, their plans for Thanksgiving, and how much she missed her children. I liked her. I cared about her. I ev... |
