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| Sep 23, 2026 | The drugs and devices have been on the market for years. But FDA-ordered studies still aren’t done | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By David Hilzenrath, KFF Health News
When the FDA was deciding whether to approve the drug Tavneos several years ago to treat a set of rare autoimmune diseases, agency experts argued that would be ... |
| Sep 13, 2025 | Are popular lip oils safe to use? They can be if you focus on ingredients ‘rather than brand names,’ doctor says | In recent years, lip oils have become more popular among beauty consumers. Similar to lip gloss, the oils give the lips a glossy appearance, but they also double as skincare products that are designed to keep lips hydrated.
“When they’re do... |
| Jun 4, 2025 | RFK Jr. says healthy pregnant women don’t need COVID boosters. What the science says | Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist before joining the Trump administration, announced May 27 that COVID vaccines would be removed from the CDC’s immunization schedule for healthy pregnant women and healthy children. His announcement,... |
| May 15, 2024 | EuMentis Therapeutics’ Chief Medical Office Randall Marshall, MD to Give Keynote Presentation at Autism Parenting Summit | Presentation on May 19, 2024 at 10:30am edt
It is very important to us to work with the autism community as we advance EM-113 into this Phase 2 clinical trial, and I hope this educational presentation will benefit both parents and patients”... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | Health | FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries | Daniel Chang, Holly K. Hacker | (TNS) KFF Health News
A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA’s most serious recall, the agency announced Monday.
The recall comes years after surgeo... |
| Apr 16, 2024 | FDA announces recall of heart pumps linked to deaths and injuries | A pair of heart devices linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 14 deaths has received the FDA's most serious recall, the agency announced Monday.
The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the Heart... |
| Mar 12, 2024 | Health | Hidden COVID virus found nearly two years after infection | Pieces of the COVID virus can lurk in our blood and tissue for almost two years after the initial illness has vanished, a discovery that might offer clues to the mystery of lingering post-infection disability, according to new research from... |
| Feb 20, 2024 | Health | Inside the plan to diagnose Alzheimer’s in people with no memory problems — and who stands to benefit | Melody Petersen | Los Angeles Times (TNS)
In a darkened Amsterdam conference hall this summer, a panel of industry and academic scientists took the stage to announce a plan to radically expand the definition of Alzheimer’s disease to includ... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Health | Is housing health care? State Medicaid programs increasingly say ‘yes’ | Angela Hart | (TNS) KFF Health News
States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sick... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Health | Long COVID creates changes in the blood, aiding detection, reports new study | An international team of scientists has found distinct changes in the blood of people with long COVID, suggesting a potential strategy to diagnose and perhaps treat a mysterious condition that takes many forms.
The study, published on Thurs... |
| Dec 26, 2023 | Health | Science doesn’t yet support broad restrictions on teens’ access to social media, experts say | Corinne Purtill | (TNS) Los Angeles Times
To understand the path forward in regulating social media, it’s helpful to look to a transformative technology from the previous century: the car.
A car is an essential tool for getting places we wa... |
| Jun 7, 2023 | Wildfire smoke health experts from UC Center for Climate Health and Equity available to speak on health impacts and protection steps | OAKLAND, Calif. (PRWEB) June 07, 2023
Health experts from University of California Center for Climate Health and Equity are available to talk with the media about the impact of wildfire smoke on health, especially for those in vulnerable co... |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more | Mark Adams. (Adaptive Photo)
— Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, the company said today in a regulatory filing.
Adams joined the Seattle-based biotech giant more than three years ago. The fi... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Is Oxytocin Really the 'Love Hormone'? Rodent Research Raises Doubt | TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The "love hormone" oxytocin might not play the critical role in forming social bonds that scientists have long believed, a new animal study suggests.
Prairie voles bred without receptors ... |
| Jan 29, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Andrew Stokes: COVID deaths in the U.S. continue to be undercounted, despite claims of ‘overcounts’ | By Andrew Stokes, Dielle Lundberg, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, and Yea-Hung Chen
Since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020, a recurring topic of debate has been whether official COVID-19 death statistics in the U.S. accurately cap... |
| Jan 5, 2023 | Be Aggressive With Initial Brain Tumor Surgery to Boost Survival: Study | THURSDAY, Jan. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Researchers studying patients with low-grade, slow-growing brain tumors have found that more aggressive surgery may extend survival.
The trick to treating low-grade gliomas is to remove as much of t... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger | Forget Covid-19, monkeypox, and other viruses for the moment and consider another threat troubling infectious disease specialists: common urinary tract infections, or UTIs, that lead to emergency room visits and even h... |
| May 19, 2022 | Building And Sustaining A Winning Culture In Healthcare: Lessons Learned From Harvard’s Joel Katz | Harvard’s Joel Katz has much to teach anyone who is building or sustaining high-performing teams. Brigham and Women’s Department of Medicine |
| Nov 29, 2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from diversity and inclusion tech to sustainable plastics — recently making headlines in H... |
| Nov 29, 2021 | 3 Houston suburbs lead sleigh full of cities with biggest holiday budgets | If you live in The Woodlands, Sugar Land, or League City, you may be making a holiday shopping list as long as a stocking and checking it more than twice.
These three Houston suburbs rank among the 10 U.S. cities with the fattest holiday bu... |
| Nov 19, 2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, fastest growing Houston tech c... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | 3 Houston companies make Deloitte's fastest-growing tech list | Three Houston companies have earned spots on this year's edition of the North American Technology Fast 500.
The three Houston honorees are:
Enercross, a provider of logistics software for the energy sector. It appears at No. 31 on the ... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Houston research: Understanding social hierarchy is key to professional success | Social climbers get on people's nerves by constantly vying to be close to whoever is in charge. No wonder disparaging names for them abound: opportunists, social climbers, clout chasers. To those around them, the climbers' motives... |
| Nov 16, 2021 | Houston schools continue their reigns as top entrepreneurship programs in the country | Houston remains the home of the best business and entrepreneurship programs in the country, according to an annual report.
Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine ranked Rice University as the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in t... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | University of Houston launches innovation lab focused on the shopping experience | A new AI-powered lab at the University of Houston will supply real-time intelligence about the behavior of retail shoppers to help spur development of new technology for the retail industry.
The University of Houston College of Technology a... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | With millions in grant funds, this nonprofit is making Houston an irresistible market for cancer researchers | In their bid to attract top-notch cancer researchers, institutions in Houston compete against the likes of Harvard and Stanford universities, and the Cleveland and Mayo clinics. Super-talented cancer researchers typically can choose from am... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from sportstech to startup-focused nonprofit work — recently making headlines in Houston i... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | International energy conference names 12 Houston companies to pitch at inaugural innovation track | A dozen Houston companies will take the stage next month for a pitch competition during the World Petroleum Congress at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
In all, 32 innovators have been selected to make presentations at the World Petro... |
| Nov 12, 2021 | 5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week | Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a new Galveston coworking and ... |
| Nov 11, 2021 | How Houston companies can use pandemic challenges to foster innovative corporate inclusion efforts | They say necessity is the mother of invention, and over the last 18 months, that proverb has proven true across the world, from classrooms to boardrooms. Shuttered classrooms and businesses, overflowing hospitals, and social unrest spurred ... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Houston coworking company opens new Galveston hub amid profound growth and expansion | The Cannon Houston has expanded its footprint throughout 2021, and one of the coworking company's newest hubs has opened its doors seaside.
The Cannon Galveston @ the MarMo is a new coworking space with membership options starting at $... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | University of Houston System snags spots on list of schools with affordability and potential salary | Three University of Houston campuses earn spots on a new list of the 111 U.S. colleges that excel when it comes to affordability and potential salary.
Showing up on the new Optimal Choice list produced by Optimal, a provider of higher educa... |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Houston sportstech startup scales, plans expansion into health care | When sEATz launched, the startup was looking to provide a way for sports fans to order their beer and hotdog to their seat without having to miss a moment of a game. Over the years, the Houston company has expanded its technology to be a re... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Roundup: Houston startups announce new partnerships, crowdfunding campaigns, and more | The Houston innovation ecosystem has been bursting at the seams with news from innovative tech companies and disruptive Houston startups as we fly through the final quarter of 2021.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Representation in research matters, says this Houston expert | Diversifying your human subjects for studies is essential for good research.
"Up to 75 percent of Pacific Islanders are unable to convert an antiplatelet drug into its active form and therefore are at higher risk for adverse outcomes f... |
| Nov 8, 2021 | 3 Houston innovators to know this week | Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from dating tech to investment — recently making headlines in Houston innovation.
Erica Si... |
| Oct 5, 2021 | Implanted device stimulates patient’s brain, treats severe depression, researchers find | Originally Published by:
Doctors grow frustrated over COVID-19 denial, misinformation 'Long COVID' symptoms' cause may have been uncovered in new research FDA authorizes another COVID-19 at-home test
A woman with severe depre... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | In research first, jolts from a customized brain implant provided immediate relief to a severely depressed patient, scientists say | When Sarah, 36 years old and severely depressed, sat down in a lab with a head full of surgically implanted sensors last year, the last thing she expected was to spontaneously cackle. She hadn’t laughed like that — a real, unforced laugh — ... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Проект Altos Labs. Как миллиардеры Кремниевой долины хотят жить вечно | Джефф Безос и Юрий Мильнер — одни из инвесторов проекта
В октябре прошлого года большая группа ученых приехала в гигантский особняк Юрия Мильнера в холмах неподалеку от Пало-Альто. Они были протестированы на Covid-19 и в масках собрались в ... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Elon Musk’s Big Neuralink Paper: Should We Prepare For The Digital Afterlife? | 01 September 2020, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Tübingen: Technology entrepreneur Elon Musk goes from one ... [+] building to the next during his visit to the biotech company Curevac. Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture ... |
| Apr 1, 2021 | The rise of Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe who’s about to be worth more than $1 billion when the genetic-testing giant makes its public debut | Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MAKERS
Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe, could be worth $1.05 billion when the company goes public.
Wojcicki cofounded the genetic testing company in 2006 after a career on Wall... |
| Mar 21, 2021 | P.1 Variant, Dominant Strain In Brazil, Reported In New York | |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Death Toll Associated With Trump Administration Goes Beyond Covid-19, Says Lancet Report | The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era has just come out with an ... [+] assessment of how former U.S. President Donald Trump (seen here with Vice President Mike Pence and Ivanka Trump) may have affected the heal... |
| Feb 6, 2021 | FDA Clears Path For First Rapid Handheld TBI Biomarker Test That Could Change Sports | TAMPA, FL - OCTOBER 30: Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Russell Shepard (89) is checked for a ... [+] concussion on the sideline by team doctors in the 4th quarter of the NFL game between the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers on O... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | Epileptic Seizures Aren’t Entirely Random. Discovery May Lead To Seizure Forecasting System | |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Aging Mice Have Memory And Cognitive Declines Reversed With An Experimental Drug | A small-molecule drug named ISRIB quickly and safely restores to old mice youthful levels of cognitive function. Alphabet Inc,’s Biotech Firm Calico holds the license to ISRIB. |
| Nov 28, 2020 | States’ face-covering mandates leave gaps in protection
By Markian Hawryluk | By Markian Hawryluk
Kaiser Health News
Brady Bowman, a 19-year-old student at the University of Colorado Boulder, and two friends strolled down 11th Street, all sporting matching neck gaiters branded with the Thomas’ English Muffins logo. H... |
| Nov 22, 2020 | States’ face-covering mandates leave gaps in protection | More stylish? Perhaps. More comfortable? Maybe. But as effective? Not necessarily.
With states such as Colorado requiring face coverings indoors to prevent the spread of Covid-19, gaiters and bandannas have become popular accessories, parti... |
| Nov 9, 2020 | Health experts want to prioritize people of color for a Covid-19 vaccine. But how should it be done? | As the U.S. edges closer to approving a vaccine for Covid-19, a difficult decision is emerging as a central issue: Should people in hard-hit communities of color receive priority access to it, and if so, how should that be done?
Frontline h... |
| Jul 14, 2020 | Why 32% Of Young Adults Are Vulnerable To Severe Covid-19 Coronavirus Infections | A study found that nearly a third of young adults in the 18-25 year old range would be considered ... [+] "medically vulnerable" to severe Covid-19 coronavirus illness. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Los An... |
| May 13, 2020 | Is Flying Safe With COVID-19 Coronavirus? When Should You Fly Again? | A passenger boards a United Airlines flight to Houston, Texas at San Francisco International Airport ... [+] on May 11, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Air travel is down as estimated 94 percent due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic... |
| May 8, 2020 | Scientists from MIT and Broad Institute have developed rapid CRISPR-based test for coronavirus; the at-home test could cost as little as $6 | A team of scientists from MIT, the McGovern Institute, and the Broad Institute has developed a gene-editing technology CRISPR-based test for the coronavirus that could work as simply as a pregnancy test. Dubbed STOPCovid, the goal of the ef... |
| Feb 13, 2020 | An Inside Look at One of the Shadiest Scandals to Hit the Cannabis Industry | Andrey Kukushkin’s high-level involvement with prominent researchers for the federal government raises questions about just where foreign money pouring into US cannabis, including cash from Eastern Europe, is going, experts said. Ethan Mill... |
| Dec 21, 2019 | A woman may never talk or feed herself again after getting mercury poisoning from her skin-lightening cream | According to the FDA, mercury-containing skin products often falsely promise to remove a person's freckles or blemishes.
Sarah Schmalbruch/INSIDER
A woman's skin-lightening face cream put her in a coma because it was contaminated ... |
| Apr 11, 2019 | ‘Over Ten Thousand Times Sweeter Than Sugar’: Meet The Man Making Some of The World’s Sweetest Proteins | Mary Poppins used to sing about how a spoonful of sugar “helps the medicine go down.” She’d perhaps change her tune if she ever met Dr. Ilan Samish, the CEO and founder of Amai Proteins — an Israeli startup lab-designing hyper-sweet, thermo... |
| Sep 20, 2018 | A conversation with Helix Chief Product Officer Chris Glode | Helix is in search for partners to build on its next-gen DNA platform
Dr. Archana Dubey, Global Medical Director at HP, and Fran Ayalasomayajula, who heads up Population Health at HP, and I are hosting our next Invent Health salon series on... |
| Jul 24, 2018 | A new treatment for a condition that can feel like tiny people skating on razor blades in your stomach and affects an estimated 200 million women just got approved | Reuters
Instead of turning to surgery, drugmakers are hoping to treat diseases like uterine fibroids and endometriosis with new medications.
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The FDA just approved elagolix, a new treatment for women living with endometriosis.
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| Jul 10, 2017 | Sci-fi author Rob Reid targets book at the tech-savvy crowd via Medium | 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!
Marketing a new science fiction book isn’t what i... |
| Jun 30, 2017 | Watch: Ben Folds and a surgeon show what happens when music enters the brain | You probably do it every day: pop in your earbuds during your commute or flip on tunes in the car. But what is actually happening in your head to let you hear — and belt out — the likes of Bruno Mars or the Beatles?
Dr. Charles Limb knows. ... |
| Jun 15, 2017 | How population health will benefit from the journey to precision medicine | “All of these projects are helping to advance precision medicine in different ways. They will enable us to more quickly make discoveries, provide better care, but also make better decisions in public health.”
She called attention to some of... |
| May 12, 2016 | It’s time to bust the myth that Africa doesn’t produce scientific innovators | |
| Mar 13, 2016 | The real challenge in diabetes management: Giving a voice to underprivileged patients | For diabetics, automating data transmission and interoperability are both things that would improve the quality of physician-patient interactions and make it easier to pinpoint ways to improve how they manage their condition. That was some ... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Neurona gets $23.5M for stem cell approach to neurological disease | The idea, says interim CEO Tim Kutzkey, is to create novel therapeutics that permanently repair dysfunctional neural circuits. After all, UCSF researchers have found in animal models that certain neuron transplants can rebalance nervous sys... |
| Aug 4, 2015 | UCSF’s one-size-fits-all precision medicine test for infection | The project uses the work led by UCSF researcher Dr. Charles Chiu, who has developed a DNA sequencing scheme that can detect any pathogen with a single test. It’s already been tested a fair amount, and notably helped save the life of a 14-y... |
| Jan 16, 2015 | Overturning dogma to open the black box of DIPG | By Tom Ulrich
You can’t advance the care of a disease that you can’t study. And for 40 years, that was the case with a rare, uniformly fatal pediatric brain tumor called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG.
DIPG isn’t like most brain ... |
| Dec 24, 2014 | Stem cells to transplant in the brain: Stealth UCSF spinout Neurona Therapeutics raises $7.6M | Also listed is Leo Guthart, a managing partner at New York private equity firm TopSpin Partner, and Arnold Kriegstein, director of the UCSF developmental and stem cell biology program.
Kriegstein and his UCSF colleagues filed a patent for t... |
| Neurona gets $23.5M for stem cell approach to neurological disease | UCSF spinout Neurona Therapeutics has closed out a $23.5 million Series A round for its technology that allows neuron transplantation to treat neurological diseases.
This stem cell company closed out the first tranche of the round one year ... |
| What to do if you keep testing positive for Covid—even after your symptoms are gone | Even after the fever has broken, the runny nose has dried up, the official five-day quarantine period has ended and the 10-day precautionary phase is over, some people are still testing positive for Covid — despite feeling totally fine.
If ... |
| Omicron-specific Covid booster shots are just weeks away. Here's who will—and won't—be eligible | Newly updated Covid booster shots designed to target omicron's BA.5 subvariant should be available within in the next three weeks. That begs an important question: Who's going to be eligible to get them?
The short answer: Anyone a... |
| Stem cells to transplant in the brain: Stealth UCSF spinout Neurona Therapeutics raises $7.6M | A UCSF spinout is growing neuronal stem cells to transplant into the brain, for potential use in treating epilepsy, spinal cord injury, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease – and investors are listening. Because one thing that differentiates... |
| Scientists discovered a surprising new brain circuit in mice that's making them rethink how humans may manage extreme stress | Scientists discovered a surprising new brain circuit in mice that's making them rethink how humans may manage extreme stress
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| UCSF’s one-size-fits-all precision medicine test for infection | Is it a superbug? A parasite? How about a fungus? Diagnosing an acute infection is a time-pressured guessing game – with doctors often flummoxed over what pathogen is causing a patient’s rapidly declining health.
The University of Californi... |
| A psychologist says this is the No. 1 ‘sleep killer’—and it takes just 15 minutes to fix | Like eating, drinking and breathing, we need sleep to survive. So how can something that should be so natural, instinctual and automatic be so hard?
As a psychologist who studies sleep for a living, I've worked with hundreds of patient... |
| Here’s how U.S. health officials are responding to bird flu in humans after second case | U.S. health officials have been monitoring and responding to bird flu in humans, even as they emphasize that the risk to the general public remains low.
A strain of bird flu called H5N1 has been confirmed in dairy cows across nine U.S. stat... |
| The real challenge in diabetes management: Giving a voice to underprivileged patients | For diabetics, automating data transmission and interoperability are both things that would improve the quality of physician-patient interactions and make it easier to pinpoint ways to improve how they manage their condition. That was some ... |
| States’ face-covering mandates leave gaps in protection | Brady Bowman, a 19-year-old student at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and two friends strolled down 11th Street, all sporting matching neck gaiters branded with the Thomas’ English Muffins logo. He had received an entire box of the pro... |
| Can Too Much Screen Time Raise a Child's Odds for OCD? | THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Preteens who spend much of their free time watching online videos or playing video games may have a heightened risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), a new study suggests.
Researc... |
| The rise of Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe who is now a self-made billionaire after bringing her genetic-testing giant public in SPAC deal with Richard Branson | Anne Wojcicki, CEO of 23andMe. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for MAKERS
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Anne Wojcicki, the CEO of 23andMe, became the newest self-made billionarie when her company went public in June.
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| How population health will benefit from the journey to precision medicine | Population health and precision medicine seem like such polar opposites standing 180 degrees apart. But the path to fully realizing the benefits of precision medicine stands to reap rewards for population health along the way. That was the ... |
| Omicron-specific Covid boosters appear to work well, new data says—regardless of the side effects you experience | If you already got your omicron-specific Covid booster, you might have experienced some side effects. Maybe even ones that were more intense than your previous shot.
But there's no need to worry: Experts and new data say the new shots ... |
| ‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities | Fueled by the massive health disparities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic and the racial reckoning that followed the murder of George Floyd, health equity research is now in vogue. Journals are clamoring for it, the media is covering it,... |
