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Transforming drug discovery with AI

A new AI-powered program will allow researchers to level up their drug discovery efforts.

21 Jun 2024

California leaders tussle with health industry over billions of new dollars for Medi-Cal

Gov. Gavin Newsom, state lawmakers, and health industry leaders have a small window to reach an agreement on billions of new dollars for Medi-Cal before it's put to voters in November.

20 Jun 2024

Experts: US hospitals prone to cyberattacks like one that hurt patient care at Ascension

In the wake of a debilitating cyberattack against one of the nation's largest health care systems, Marvin Ruckle, a nurse at an Ascension hospital in Wichita, Kansas, said he had a frightening experience: He nearly gave a baby "the wrong dose of narcotic" because of confusing paperwork.

20 Jun 2024

Survey highlights inadequate sexual health education for LGBTQ+ adolescents

Children across the United States who identify as LGBTQ+ say the sexual health education curricula they receive is leaving them without essential information to make informed decisions about their sexual health – which could force them to seek potentially dangerous advice elsewhere.

17 Jun 2024

California lawmakers preserve aid to older, disabled immigrants

California lawmakers on Thursday passed a 2024-25 budget that rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to cut in-home supportive services for low-income older, blind, and disabled immigrants lacking legal residency.

14 Jun 2024

From Discovery Biology to ELRIG Chair: A Conversation with Melanie Leveridge

In this interview, we speak with Melanie Leveridge, Vice President of Discovery Biology at AstraZeneca and Chair of the Board for ELRIG UK, to discuss her extensive career in the pharmaceutical industry, her role in fostering scientific innovation, and her vision for ELRIG's future.

From ELRIG (UK) Ltd. 13 Jun 2024

Biden plan to save Medicare patients money on drugs risks empty shelves, pharmacists say

Months into a new Biden administration policy intended to lower drug costs for Medicare patients, independent pharmacists say they're struggling to afford to keep some prescription drugs in stock.

11 Jun 2024

Understanding Crohn's disease through 'mini-gut' models

Cambridge scientists have grown 'mini-guts' in the lab to help understand Crohn's disease, showing that 'switches' that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease and how it presents in patients.

10 Jun 2024

UQ researchers seek to improve the pathway for people returning to work after dust lung disease diagnosis

University of Queensland research is at the forefront of finding ways to improve the return to work for people diagnosed with dust lung disease.

7 Jun 2024

Salk researchers unveil SWI/SNF variants' role in macrophage immune responses

Bacteria, parasites, viruses - the immune system tackles them all. At the front line of the human immune response are cells called macrophages, which are responsible for correctly identifying intruders and then directing how the entire immune system responds.

5 Jun 2024

Health worker for a nonprofit? The new ban on noncompete contracts may not help you

Many physicians and nurses are happy about the Federal Trade Commission's new rule banning the use of noncompete agreements in employment contracts.

5 Jun 2024

Study reveals new insight into how human telomeres function at the molecular level

The length of telomeres that protect the ends of our chromosomes should be tightly regulated. Those that are too long predispose to cancer, and those that are too short lose their protective ability, resulting in telomere disorders with serious health consequences.

4 Jun 2024

An Arm and a Leg: Medicaid recipients struggle to stay enrolled

Medicaid — the state-federal health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans — has cut more than 22 million recipients since spring 2023.

4 Jun 2024

Digital pregnancy support app predicts future depression with high accuracy

A simple survey delivered during the first trimester through digital pregnancy support app MyHealthyPregnancy predicted which mothers went on to develop moderate to severe depression with a high level of accuracy, according to a new Archives of Women's Mental Health study led by University of Pittsburgh and UPMC researchers.

3 Jun 2024

After grilling an NIH scientist over covid emails, Congress turns to Anthony Fauci

Former National Institutes of Health official Anthony Fauci has faced many hostile questions from members of Congress, but when he appears before a House panel on Monday, he'll have something new to answer for: a trove of incendiary emails written by one of his closest advisers.

31 May 2024

Safety-net health clinics cut services and staff amid Medicaid ‘unwinding’

One of Montana's largest health clinics that serves people in poverty has cut back services and laid off workers.

30 May 2024

Timely transition from pediatric to adult care reduces hospitalizations for sickle cell patients

Individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD) who experience a delay of more than six months in transitioning from pediatric to adult care are twice as likely to be hospitalized compared to those who transition in less than two months, according to a study published in Blood Advances.

29 May 2024

New help for dealing with aggression in people with dementia

Caring for older adults with dementia is stressful, especially when they become physically or verbally aggressive, wander away from home, develop paranoia or hallucinations, engage in inappropriate or repetitive behaviors, or refuse to let caregivers help them.

28 May 2024

Soft X-ray microscope captures living mammalian cells

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells.

24 May 2024

Insilico Medicine's leadership to address key challenges in AI drug discovery at BIO Convention

Leadership from clinical stage artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drug discovery company Insilico Medicine ("Insilico") will attend the BIO International Convention in San Diego June 3-6 and present on key issues facing AI drug discovery.

23 May 2024