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| Jul 8, 2026 | Reverse mortgages emerge as a tool in ‘gray divorce’ settlements | As more Americans end marriages later in life, some senior homeowners are turning to reverse mortgages as a way to manage the financial challenges of a “gray divorce.”
Divorces that arise when couples are in their 50s or older, commonly kno... |
| Feb 7, 2026 | Counting the Pour How a Drink Tracker Changed the Alcohol Conversation | Share
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The first entry takes seconds. A tap. A number. A short pause. Alcohol moderation begins there, before advice, before labels, before guilt. People open a phone after dinner or a work event and log a glass of wi... |
| Jan 12, 2026 | The Role of EMR & EHR Technology in Modern Blood Sugar Control | Image Credit: freepik
Lately, you have been experiencing a bad mood with low energy, cravings, and even mood swings.
But what’s really going on? Blood sugar might be a major factor. Most of us find it hard to keep our blood sugar levels ste... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | What is hydrogen sulfide? Toxic gas eyed in Colorado dairy deaths is infrequent but dangerous feature of agricultural work. | Weld County authorities have released few details surrounding the deaths of the six workers, which included four family members, one of whom was a local high school student. The coroner’s office said the deaths are being investigated as a p... |
| Feb 12, 2025 | Social Media Got You Stressed? This Private Community Puts Mental Health First | Lisane Basquiat, Shaping Freedom Founder and CEO (Photo Credit: Stefanie Blue)
Lisane Basquiat is launching the Shaping Freedom Wellness Community on February 17. This free digital sanctuary is designed to counter the anxiety, stress, and d... |
| Nov 5, 2024 | Top NYC Spine Surgeon, Dr. Sean McCance, Announces Rise in Computer-Assisted Surgeries | Sean McCance, MD - Spine Associates of NYC
Dr. Sean McCance, founder and director of Spine Associates of NYC (located on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, NY) announced that his orthopedic spine surgery practice has seen a steady and signif... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | The Future of Energy: A Global Dialogue at SIEW 2024 | The Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) 2024 is set to ignite discussions on the future of energy. Scheduled for October 21-25, this event promises to be a melting pot of ideas, innovations, and international collaborations. With the... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | Advancing Drug Discovery with Quantum Computing and Supercomputer Tech | Sam Anwar, Chief Technology Officer, eClinical Solutions
McKinsey & Company estimates it takes up to 12 years to introduce a new drug to the market – a lengthy timeline comprised of many factors including technology limitations, regulat... |
| Sep 30, 2024 | CPPI Briefs Congress on “Affordable and Safe Prescription Drug Importation Act” Potential Impacts | Americans import prescription drugs from Canada at a fraction of U.S. prices.
Rep. Schakowsky’s Bill to Ensure Millions of Americans Have Access to Affordable, Critical Daily Medications
Prescription importation is the only immediate soluti... |
| Aug 9, 2024 | The Double-Edged Sword of Technology: Opportunities and Threats in the Modern Age | In the world of technology, progress is a double-edged sword. On one side, it cuts through barriers, creating opportunities and innovation. On the other, it can slice through security, exposing vulnerabilities and risks. Two recent articles... |
| Aug 8, 2024 | Alarming Rise of AI Voice Deepfakes: Waging War on Healthcare | Aaron Painter, CEO of Nametag
Imagine you’re an IT professional for a large health system. A resident physician calls and says he must urgently send in a patient script, but he’s locked out of the system and needs a password or account rese... |
| Aug 6, 2024 | Back-to-school shopping? Here's one item to add to your cart | Sorry, but your browser does not support the video tag.
(BPT) - Do you have a teenager or young adult heading back to school this year? Are you looking for peace of mind that they will stay safe? While picking up school supplies, clothing, ... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | The U.S. Men's Soccer Team: A Long-Awaited Olympic Return**
** | ** The U.S. men’s soccer team is back in the Olympic spotlight after a 16-year absence. This is a moment of reckoning. The last time they graced the Olympic stage, they were a shadow of what they could be. Now, they face the host nation, Fr... |
| Jul 24, 2024 | National Politics | Should doctor-patient confidentiality still apply when the patient is the president? | Biden’s doctors have denied speculation that the president is being treated for Parkinson’s disease or another neurological disorder. Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign has released limited information about the former president’s condition after ... |
| Jul 3, 2024 | The Battle for Clean Air: US Policy Shifts and Public Sentiment | In the ongoing battle for clean air and a healthier environment, the United States finds itself at a critical juncture. Recent legal disputes and policy shifts have brought to light the challenges and complexities surrounding national air q... |
| Jun 27, 2024 | Supreme Court Halts EPA's Pollution Program Amid Legal Disputes | By Quincy Jon
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The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) pro... |
| May 29, 2024 | 3 tips for sticking to a healthy lifestyle plan | (BPT) - As the seasons change, a familiar moment of truth happens in many households. When you're turning over your closets — putting away your sweaters until next year, and bringing out the t-shirts, shorts and sundresses — you begin wonde... |
| May 29, 2024 | New Culturelle® Probiotics "Made for Human Nature" Platform Raises Critical Awareness of the Need to Protect the Gut Microbiome | The latest campaign aims to shift perceptions of gut health with Re:wild partnership & new hero film
CROMWELL, Conn., May 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Culturelle® Probiotics – the #1 most trusted supplement brand in probioticsΦ – today anno... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Potatoes are a vegetable, not a grain | Potatoes are a very versatile vegetable. You can eat them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. They can be cooked lots of ways on their own, mixed into soups, side dishes, and made into pasta and bread. You can even make vodka from pota... |
| Feb 21, 2024 | Как лаборатория ядерного оружия помогла поймать серийного убийцу | Лаборатории по исследованию ядерного оружия нечасто помогают в раскрытии дел о серийных убийствах. Но в деле Эфрена Сальдивара данные, полученные от такой лаборатории, предоставили неопровержимые доказательства, приведшие к его обвинению в ... |
| Oct 17, 2023 | Navigating Intimacy with Erectile Dysfunction: How One Man Reconnected with his Wife | (BPT) - Gene Miluk, 72, is a retired software engineer who has been happily married to his wife Mary for nearly 50 years. They live in North Ogden, Utah, and enjoy spending time outdoors and camping with their two sons and grandson.
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| May 4, 2023 | How to prevent the Great People Shortage | Redeem now
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The United States is already running low on critical positions such as nurses, home-health aides, farmworkers, and truckers. And there are fewer young people on the way to make up the difference: The N... |
| Jan 20, 2023 | Florida Mesothelioma Victims Center Appeals to the Family of a Navy Veteran with Just Diagnosed Mesothelioma to Call The Gori Law Firm For Specifics About Compensation For Your Loved One-It Might Be Millions | The Gori Law Firm
"Before a Navy Veteran or person with mesothelioma hires a law firm to assist with compensation, please call The Gori Law Firm at 866-532-2106. We think you will be glad you did." ”
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| Aug 16, 2022 | Mesothelioma Compensation Center Urges a Navy Nuclear Submarine Veteran with Mesothelioma Anywhere in the USA or Their Family to Call the Legal Team at Danziger & De Llano About Compensation-It Might Be Millions | "If your husband or dad is a Navy Submarine Veteran and he has just been diagnosed with mesothelioma anywhere in the USA, please call the legal team at Danziger & De Llano anytime at 800-864-4000." ”
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| Aug 9, 2022 | Mesothelioma Compensation Center Now Urges a Current or Former Oil Rig Worker Who Has Mesothelioma Anywhere in the USA to Call the Legal Team at Danziger & De Llano About Compensation-It Might Be Millions of Dollars | "If your husband or dad has mesothelioma anywhere in the USA and he is a former offshore oil rig worker please call the legal team at the law firm of Danziger & De Llano anytime at 800-864-4000." ”
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| Jun 19, 2022 | Never forget that early vaccines came from testing on enslaved people | In response to the growing spread of monkeypox, public health leaders are for the first time since the 1970s opening the locked stockpiles of smallpox vaccines to control the spread of the virus. But here’s something to consider: Those vacc... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | FactSet Research : Short-Term Investing in COVID-19 Treatments with Clinical Trial Data | Short-Term Investing in COVID-19 Treatments with Clinical Trial Data Companies and Markets
By T.J. Pia| January 13, 2022
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. equity markets have soared. After an initial 23% price drop in the first... |
| Nov 30, 2021 | Salesforce com : Xiuhtezcatl Martinez on Leveraging Your Passion To Inspire Change | [Xiuhtezcatl Martinez/Office of Equality]
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is an Indigenous artist and environmental activist who uses his platform for change. He previously served as the youth director for Earth Guardians - an i... |
| Nov 24, 2021 | Creating Scholarship Opportunities For Descendants Of American Indian Boarding Schools | Children from the Chiricahua Apache tribe during their time at the Carlisle school. Photo Credit: National Archives (public domain) |
| Aug 9, 2021 | Salesforce Health Cloud gets “care from anywhere” updates ahead of HIMSS21 conference | On Monday, Salesforce announced multiple updates for Health Cloud, the software-as-a-service company’s industry-specific cloud for healthcare and life sciences organizations. These updates are being announced the same week as the Healthcare... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | Preventing the next indigenous healthcare crisis | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it – at least, according to philosopher George Santayana. Most of us simply shorten that to say that history repeats itself. But is it true when it comes to healthcare? A look at Na... |
| Jul 14, 2021 | Vaxxed or axed: To protect patients, every health care worker must be vaccinated | Masks are off. Theaters and indoor dining are back. Life seems to be returning to normal. And yet the highly transmissible and maybe more deadly Delta variant is spreading quickly, accounting for half of new Covid-19 cases in the U.S. and c... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | As a physician and a patient, I’ve seen the damage caused by the stigma of addiction. It must end | Although the disease of addiction is now obscured by the dark cloud of the Covid-19 pandemic, it continues to tear America apart. It’s a relentless killer, fed by anxiety and uncertainty, and enabled by the attitudes of the health care prov... |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Grillo Center: Internet medical info you can trust | Q. I use the internet to research health-related issues and am concerned that the information I find might not be from a trustworthy source. Can you provide some reliable resources and tips for evaluating health and medical websites?
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| Jul 14, 2020 | SCOTUS expands Indigenous claims, but ancient law limits freedoms | The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to recognise much of eastern Oklahoma as a Native American reservation in regards to the Major Crimes Act (MCA) left many celebrating a sovereignty victory for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, but an archaic fou... |
| Jul 16, 2019 | Fixing health care’s replication crisis is important for researchers and patients | We are awash in articles reporting new study results. Whether it’s a potential cure for an illness, daunting statistics about health care outcomes, or the latest take on what makes a healthy diet, we’re receiving more information than we’ve... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | The U.S. should assess the economic value of drugs rather than leave it up to other countries | One reason why prescription drugs are often priced lower overseas is that many countries perform detailed assessments of the economic value of drugs and their benefits. These assessments result in hard bargaining with drug companies before ... |
| Jul 26, 2018 | London’s Causaly announces $1m seed investment | Causaly, a London- and Athens-based AI for cause and effect discovery announces the completion of a $1 million seed investment. Causaly's machine reading platform analyses millions of documents to create unique knowledge graphs highlighting... |
| Apr 26, 2018 | Getting graphic in medicine: using comics to tell health stories | As I was growing up, I thought I understood nursing by watching my mom excel in the profession. But I realized I had a lot more to learn when, as a new nurse, I worked in a dedicated AIDS unit in a Chicago hospital in the 1990s.
At that tim... |
| Mar 14, 2018 | Most vitamins are useless, but here are the ones you should take
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It seems like simple, obvious advice: Eat your vegetables, get some exercise, and — of course — take your vitamins.
Or not.
Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any signifi... |
| Jan 23, 2018 | While the U.S. waits, China has been CRISPRing human cancer patients since 2015 | While the U.S. is just gearing up to the idea of CRISPRing its first humans, China seems to be benefiting from the “move fast and break things” — or cut them with the CRISPR scissors — motto.
As The Wall Street Journal reports, China has al... |
| May 5, 2017 | Merck vet Robert Plenge moves to Celgene, Gritstone recruits a Genentech star and more | → ImCheck not only has a recent €20 million Series A under its belt, the biotech also named Pierre d’Epenoux as it Chief Executive Officer. D’Epenoux’s previous gigs include head of strategy and business development a... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | New NLM chief wants to focus on data, consumer friendliness | National Library of Medicine Director Patricia Flatley Brennan speaks at AMIA 2016 in Chicago.
Print media may be withering on the vine, but don’t write off libraries just yet. In fact, the director of the National Library of Medicine sees ... |
| Jul 27, 2016 | Government listing of clinical trials doesn’t disclose costs to patients | Last summer, Linda Smith learned she was losing significant cartilage in her knees, a consequence of her lifelong love of skiing, running, and ultimate frisbee. Diagnosed with osteoarthritis, she wanted to avoid surgery and was eager to con... |
| Jul 8, 2016 | Physicians are deeply divided on a new food-draining weight-loss device | A new weight-loss device that scores high on the “yuck” scale may also score well on the effectiveness scale — at least in the short term.
The AspireAssist device lets an individual pump food out of his or her stomach directly into the toil... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | Lung cancer surgery left her ‘leaking’ and near death. Belly fat saved her life | Jeneen Leogrande seemed to be recovering from surgery for lung cancer when, on Christmas Eve 2011, she began leaking.
Complications weren’t unexpected, given the scale of the operation — surgeons had removed Leogrande’s entire right lung, p... |
| Jun 15, 2016 | 4 things to know about the new colorectal cancer screening advice | The latest recommendations on screening for colorectal cancer, released on Wednesday, include some new bits: You can have a virtual colonoscopy (no huge tube snaking its way up your insides), even 85-year-olds might benefit from being scree... |
| May 19, 2016 | We’ve known for 50 years what causes sickle cell disease. Where’s the cure? | Dr. David Williams very much hopes the White House’s $755 million “cancer moonshot” finds cures, that Sean Parker’s $250 million “Dream Team” brings effective immune-system treatments to every kind of tumor, and that the $370 million raised... |
| May 2, 2016 | Communication, care continuity often break down at hospital discharge | “I gathered all her medicine, and as soon as I saw that bottle, I knew she couldn’t come back from this,” said the daughter, Kristin Sigg, an oncology nurse. “There were many layers and mistakes made after she left the hospital. It should h... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Incyte snags rights to blood disease drug | The Wilmington-based biopharmaceutical company Incyte Corporation announced this week that it has bought the rights to develop and commercialize a drug with the potential to treat people suffering from graft-versus-host disease, which happe... |
| Apr 8, 2016 | Incyte snags rights to blood disease drug | The Wilmington-based biopharmaceutical company Incyte Corporation announced this week that it has bought the rights to develop and commercialize a drug with the potential to treat people suffering from graft-versus-host disease, which happe... |
| Mar 29, 2016 | Is the time right for digital therapeutics? | As an example, PCORI (the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute) has just announced $22 million in new funding for patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness projects on low back pain. PCORI is specifically seeking studies t... |
| Mar 23, 2016 | Former Apple exec launches at-home blood test startup | Bob Messerschmidt knows a little about health and wellness tech, having spent three years helping architect the Apple Watch platform after Apple quietly acquired his spectroscopy company, Rare Light, in 2010. (The terms were undisclosed.)
M... |
| Feb 26, 2016 | Behind Trump’s jokes about Rubio’s sweating, a not-so-funny medical condition | Donald Trump is not easing up on Marco Rubio’s sweating. After the Republican presidential debate this week, he mocked Rubio’s perspiration and said the country doesn’t need a president who sweats so much. “We have to have somebody that doe... |
| Feb 22, 2016 | What is the best procedure to prevent stroke? | A common cause of stroke is the buildup of gooey, cholesterol-filled plaque inside arteries that nourish the brain. Clearing these blood vessels (the carotid arteries, which run up either side of the neck) can help prevent stroke. How best ... |
| Jan 6, 2016 | Malaria drug could be useful treatment against Ebola, study finds | A serendipitous finding suggests a malaria drug may be useful as a treatment against Ebola, scientists reported Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. That encouraging news was tempered, though, by a report that suggests a treatm... |
| Dec 22, 2015 | Pharmacy delivery vans targeted by thieves seeking painkillers | They’re the new Brink’s trucks.
Delivery vans that transport prescription painkillers from warehouses to pharmacies and hospitals are the targets of an escalating number of thefts across the country, STAT has learned. Amid a nationwide epid... |
| Dec 7, 2015 | 5 mobile phone myths, common among Nigerians, but totally untrue | Share this article:
It would seem like money isn’t the only commodity that spices up our daily lives. Amongst other commodities that rival money in that sense are our mobile phones. I’ve come across people that spend the whole day with thei... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | New Dry Pellets Become Glue When Smashed | Carrie Poppy, Tech Times 17 November 2015, 08:11 pm
You know when your apartment is full of cockroaches, so you try everything possible to murder them, including using that disgusting sticky gel that goes in the cracks of your cupboards, bu... |
| Nov 10, 2015 | Boost office morale during the winter months! | Boost office morale during the winter months!
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A study conducted by the US National Library of Medicine [1] has shown that a lack of sunlight is linked to feelings of sluggishness and mood changes – meaning winter’s shorter days m... |
| Sep 17, 2015 | Gene therapy player Regenxbio outperforms with $138.6M IPO | The company’s platform, called NAV Technology, is an adeno-associated viral gene therapy. It works by replacing faulty, disease-causing genes with healthy ones.
Regenxbio announced plans of an IPO in August; in January, it had raised $30 mi... |
| Sep 17, 2015 | 6 Things Parents Should Stop Doing, to Raise 'Business-Smart' Kids | September 17, 2015 7 min read
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My generation, Generation X, was widely believed to be the first in U.S. history to not do as well as our parents’ generation had. There were many ... |
| Aug 21, 2015 | Orbus gets $32.5M to repurpose hirsutism drug for brain cancer | Orbus has found that eflornithine can improve survival rates among patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent anaplastic astrocytoma – a rare and malignant form of brain cancer. It works, ostensibly, by slowing down the rapid division of ca... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | All signs suggest Tidal is sinking, and nobody will miss it | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Remember Tidal?
It’s a music streaming app, but i... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | All signs suggest Tidal is sinking, and nobody will miss it | Remember Tidal?
It’s a music streaming app, but it hasn’t been making very much noise lately.
One possible reason is the least shocking rumor you’ll read today: Tidal is a complete failure, and Jay Z is looking to jump ship.
It’s hard to be... |
| Jul 24, 2015 | Neuro Vigor repurposing blood pressure drug for multiple sclerosis | Shi posits that a substance called acrolein, when found in the body, acts as a neurotoxin that directly attacks nerve cells — their membranes, DNA and mitochondria — so they degenerate. This triggers a vicious cycle when you have a neurolog... |
| Jul 21, 2015 | Kris Vaddi is ditching big pharma for the startup life | If you ask Kris Vaddi, he’ll tell you the best time at Incyte Corp. was when the pharmaceutical company employed 20-30 people.
“The startup environment is really exciting. There’s a certain amount of energy and excitement that you have that... |
| May 26, 2015 | SI-Bone raises $21M for device that helps lower back pain; steals CFO from IVF testmaker Auxogyn | This new round of growth capital financing from new investor Redline Capital Management, to expand sales of its surgical device that can help with sacroiliac joint fusion. Its rationale:
Procedure growth in the U.S. alone, as predicted by i... |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Diagnostic-Maker Scanadu Lands $35M As FDA Submission Nears | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Scanadu, a Mountain View, CA-based startup that’s making a diagnostic device it likens to Star Trek’s famous Tricorders, has received $35 million of Series B funding led by a ... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | A new treatment for brain aneurysm: Edge Therapeutics rakes in $72.5M | The new dollars will go toward wrapping up its Phase 1/2 NEWTON study and ramp up for a Phase 3 trial for EG-1962 to target ruptured brain aneurysms. Preliminary data from two of the six patient cohorts of the NEWTON study was favorable, Ed... |
| Mar 5, 2015 | Health tech: Why epidemiology in the age of Dr Google is nothing to sneeze at | Being stuck in bed, waiting for the flu to run its course, is pretty unpleasant. And it’s also really boring. What else is there to do but search for symptoms online, and read entries about the flu on Wikipedia or WebMD or post messages on ... |
| Feb 19, 2015 | Vascular Therapies raises $16.2M for hemodialysis transplant work | It last raised funds – a $5 million Series E round – in 2011. But this most recent equity round is pretty impressive for such a low-profile startup. A call to CEO Sriram Iyer has yet to be returned – but stay tuned for more.
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| Feb 4, 2015 | Like a Lego: Third Rock’s $45M venture makes synthesizing nature’s drugs modular | The technology comes from chemist Martin Burke at the University of Illinois, who has formulated just-right reaction conditions to make this work. This process was published in Nature a year ago, showing how many drug structures can be buil... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | ”la Caixa” leads a 1.6 million Euro round in Minoryx | ”la Caixa” has led a 1.6 million Euro round of funding in the Minoryx company. The investment has been made through the Caixa Innvierte BioMed II fund, an investment vehicle managed by Caixa Capital Risc, the venture capital arm of ”la Caix... |
| Jan 22, 2015 | Regenxbio nets $30M to bring its gene therapy to clinical trial | Here’s how it works: In Hurler syndrome, for instance, children don’t carry a gene that develops an enzyme called IDUA that breaks down complex sugars. These build up, and ultimately impair mental development, organ function, physical abili... |
| Jan 20, 2015 | European Inventor Armed with Lab-on-a-Chip Fights Infectious Disease and Personalizes Skin Care | Tina Shah, Tech Times 20 January 2015, 06:01 pm
Some argue antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the ability of microbes to develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs, is a growing threat. Others say superbugs are already here, citing the increase... |
| Dec 12, 2014 | Cornerstone’s cancer metabolism drugs sap tumor cells’ energy to replicate | The 15-year-old New Jersey company is now aiming to raise its profile in the wake of competitor Agios going public – and hitting a $4-plus billion market cap. Agios, also in the cancer metabolism space, is in the midst of Phase 1’s, but Cor... |
| Dec 3, 2014 | Seres Health targets microbiome, gets $48M to push fecal transplant pill into Phase 3 | In addition to treating clostridium-related disease, Seres’ pipeline pursues other as-yet-unnamed indications in the metabolic, inflammatory and infectious disease spaces.
Seres Health was launched in 2012 by Flagship Ventures. This past Ju... |
| Nov 19, 2014 | Death at 75 doc says that 1,000 hospitals need to be worried about dying too | Telemedicine as a critical component He pointed out that telemedicine will be critical to achieving goals of ACA because it will expand the ability of physicians to treat more people beyond traditional office hours. It will also help addres... |
| Nov 8, 2014 | Funding roundup: Using lasers to change eye color from brown to blue, and more. | Biotech
Abeona Therapeutics – Cleveland, Ohio
$3.6 million in equity raised of a proposed $5 million round
Developing treatments for orphan childhood lysosomal storage disease. Its lead candidates, ABX-A and ABX-B, treat Sanfilippo Type A a... |
| Oct 7, 2014 | Irish startup Embo Medical gets $3.8m in seed funding | Irish investors have freed up $3.8 million for a Galway startup developing a new technique aimed at shutting down blood flow to arteries during minimally invasive procedures.
Galway’s Embo Medical said it is working on what it calls "t... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | The FDA Just Approved A New Diet Pill With Expected Sales Of $200 Million In 2016 — But There's A Catch | Marienbad Anti-Obesity Tablets were from an era before modern pharmaceuticals. The primary ingredients were herbal laxatives. Leeds Museums and Galleries / Flickr
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| Aug 22, 2014 | How to Break into the San Francisco Giants' Baseball Stadium | This is the fourth in a four-part series on housing the substantial homeless population in San Francisco, featuring stories from the people living on the margins of life in one of America's richest cities. Click to read Part 1, Part 2, and ... |
| Jul 30, 2014 | Why Your Apps Keep Asking To Use Your Microphone | High-pitched sound is making a comeback. Engineers have discovered that ultrasonics, which have been around almost as long as electronics of any sort, can give modern devices some cool, futuristic features. Ultreo ultrasound toothbrush
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| Jul 4, 2014 | What will public health look like in 2030? | One issue that gets surprisingly little mention is vaccines. It’s tough to think about a history of public health or what will be its future without thinking about the impact vaccines have had in eradicating small pox, measles and polio. An... |
| Jul 1, 2014 | Kudoso Is A Router That Rewards Your Kids With Facebook Time For Studying, Doing Chores | American children spend five to seven hours per day staring at screens, TV and otherwise, according to data published by the National Institutes of Health. This leads to increased risks of weight gain and obesity, anxiety, depression, and i... |
| May 29, 2014 | New rotator cuff repair technique uses dissolving scaffold + special staples | The Rotation Medical scaffold is designed to be placed over partial-thickness tears or over small to large full-thickness tears to allow for repair. It is not intended for use on rotator cuff tears greater than 5 cm. The scaffold is derived... |
| Apr 25, 2014 | Using nanoparticles, not needles, to deliver drugs into the eye nets Kala Pharmaceuticals $22.5M | An aging population is fueling healthy growth in the ophthalmology drug market, led by Pfizer, Allergan, Alcon, Novartis, Merck and Roche, and investors are betting big on new treatments. Kala, for one, just pulled in a $22.5 million Series... |
| Apr 5, 2014 | A ‘wearable’ for wheelchairs to prevent pressure ulcers | SensiMat is a 1/2-inch thick mat of sensors that’s placed underneath a wheelchair cushion to monitor pressure buildup. The sensors transmit data to a mobile app via Bluetooth, and a proprietary algorithm detects whether a user is in or out ... |
| Apr 1, 2014 | I Tried Smoking Coffee, and It Made Me Feel Like Shit | Photos by Elizabeth Vazquez
If you’re in the minority of teenagers without access to pot, you’re liable to do some pretty stupid shit to catch a buzz. Lately, the parent-fear machine, a.k.a. the internet, has been ablaze with warnings about... |
| Mar 19, 2014 | UW-Milwaukee Students to Design Healthcare Apps for MCW | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A searchable database of open clinical trials, a mobile calculator and calendar for helping patients on steroids decrease their dosage over time, and a mobile tracker for bloo... |
| Mar 3, 2014 | From Crowdfunding To Open Access, Startups Are Experimenting With Academic Research | These days may well be the next golden age for universities, and startups are leading the way. For institutions that can feel much like their counterparts from a thousand years ago, universities have witnessed breathtaking change in just a ... |
| Feb 18, 2014 | A digital device in pivotal trials listens for the sound of a potential heart attack in the making | Johnson lost her 41-year-old husband to an unexpected heart attack in 2009. Although he was seemingly healthy, the autopsy revealed that several of his coronary arteries were blocked and that a plaque had ruptured in the left anterior desce... |
| Jan 19, 2014 | Online research study tools, MD performance measures among new Blueprint Health accelerator members | Decisive Health: One way to potentially increase patient engagement is to give people who have just been diagnosed with a condition a clear way to better understand it and how they can either manage it or treat it. Decisive Health is focusi... |
| Dec 9, 2013 | New dissolving patch delivers clotting factor directly to injury to stop bleeding faster | The FASTCLOT technology was developed by a research team at Virginia Commonwealth University and is exclusively licensed by St Teresa Medical. The company is developing products for both surgery (SURGICLOT®) and trauma (WRAPCLOT®), for civi... |
| Dec 7, 2013 | When customers make you smarter | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We talk a lot about customer development, but the... |
| Dec 2, 2013 | When customers make you smarter | You can’t guess how your product is valued by customers
We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. Here’s what happened when an extraordinary Digital Health team gained se... |
| Nov 13, 2013 | Shocking Revelation: Websites For Cheating On Your Spouse Are BSing You | I’ll preface this post with a couple of admissions. First, I’ve never used a dating site, though not because I think there’s anything wrong with the concept. Second, I am getting married in the next couple of days. Now that that’s out of th... |
| Oct 8, 2013 | Coordinated care critical for reducing U.S. health spending | Nearly all wind up in emergency rooms because they have enormous difficulty navigating the increasingly fragmented, complicated and inflexible health-care system. Because of lack of alternatives or force of habit, they use hospitals, often ... |
