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Buy and bust: Collapse of private equity-backed rural hospitals mired employees in medical bills

The first unexpected bill arrived in December, just weeks before Tara Lovell's husband of 40 years died from bladder cancer.

16 Aug 2022

What drugs can be repurposed for monkeypox therapy?

In new research, researchers repurposed medications for the monkeypox virus in silico.

16 Aug 2022

ACR appreciates the passage of key drug pricing reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act

The American College of Rheumatology today applauded the passage of key drug pricing reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act that will improve rheumatology patients' access to needed drug therapies and treatments.

15 Aug 2022

Study paves new way to develop a predictive biomarker for TRAIL therapy

A cytokine named TRAIL binds to TRAIL receptors and kills cancer cells, but not normal cells. Therefore, various anticancer drugs targeting TRAIL receptors have been developed and gained great attention as a promising cancer therapeutics, but a certain population of cancer patients does not respond to the therapy.

15 Aug 2022

Methamphetamine use is pervasive and drives overdoses in rural communities across the U.S.

Methamphetamine remains a stubbornly prevalent illicit substance in large swaths of rural America, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and other institutions.

15 Aug 2022

Researchers engineer artificial replicas of G protein-coupled receptors

How do signals from outside the cell cause a response inside it? Such outside signals could be hormones or neurotransmitters. To notice them, the cell's surface possesses receptors. One of the key classes of such receptors are so-called G protein-coupled receptors, or in short GPCRs.

15 Aug 2022

‘Still a lot of pain’: Four years after mass shooting, Texas community grapples with fallout

In May 2018, after a high school shooting killed 10 people, the Santa Fe Resiliency Center opened in a church. Any resident could see a counselor, attend a support group, and take part in a healing mandala coloring class, music therapy, or a workshop on emotional first aid — all free of charge.

15 Aug 2022

For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable

Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier generations ago.

15 Aug 2022

Community health centers’ big profits raise questions about federal oversight

Just off the deserted town square, with its many boarded-up businesses, people lined up at the walk-up pharmacy window at Genesis Health Care, a federally funded clinic.

15 Aug 2022

Is the level of circulating SARS-CoV-2 RNA or spike protein associated with acute disease severity?

Researchers investigated the levels of circulating SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and viral RNA among patients hospitalized with acute COVID-19 and in patients with and without post-acute sequelae of COVID-19.

15 Aug 2022

Scientists create a mathematical model to predict genetic resistance to antimalarial drugs

Researchers have created a mathematical model to predict genetic resistance to antimalarial drugs in Africa to manage one of the biggest threats to global malarial control.

12 Aug 2022

Experts aim to relieve children from the side-effects of cancer treatments

Stopping children undergoing chemotherapy from feeling pain and other debilitating side-effects is the focus of research underway at The University of Queensland.

12 Aug 2022

AI algorithm by UCL researchers detect subtle brain abnormalities

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can detect subtle brain abnormalities which cause epileptic seizures has been developed by a UCL-led team of international researchers.

12 Aug 2022

What is the impact of COVID-19 on male reproductive health?

In a recent study, researchers assessed male reproductive health three months after COVID-19 infection.

12 Aug 2022

Remdesivir activates urotensin II receptor and induces cardiomyocyte dysfunction

In newly released research, scientists assessed the cardiac effects of remdesivir.

12 Aug 2022

How should we react to the global monkeypox outbreak?

In a new study, researchers assessed the various aspects of the global monkeypox outbreak.

12 Aug 2022

Democrats didn’t achieve all their goals, but inflation reduction act makes historic Medicare changes

The giant health care, climate, and tax bill expected to pass the House on Friday and be sent to the president for his signature won’t be as sweeping as the Democrats who wrote it had hoped, but it would help millions of Americans better afford their prescription drugs and health insurance.

12 Aug 2022

Drugs News and Research

Buy and bust: Collapse of private equity-backed rural hospitals mired employees in medical bills

What drugs can be repurposed for monkeypox therapy?

ACR appreciates the passage of key drug pricing reforms in the Inflation Reduction Act

Study paves new way to develop a predictive biomarker for TRAIL therapy

Methamphetamine use is pervasive and drives overdoses in rural communities across the U.S.

Researchers engineer artificial replicas of G protein-coupled receptors

‘Still a lot of pain’: Four years after mass shooting, Texas community grapples with fallout

For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable

Community health centers’ big profits raise questions about federal oversight

Is the level of circulating SARS-CoV-2 RNA or spike protein associated with acute disease severity?

Scientists create a mathematical model to predict genetic resistance to antimalarial drugs

Experts aim to relieve children from the side-effects of cancer treatments

AI algorithm by UCL researchers detect subtle brain abnormalities

What is the impact of COVID-19 on male reproductive health?

Remdesivir activates urotensin II receptor and induces cardiomyocyte dysfunction

How should we react to the global monkeypox outbreak?

Democrats didn’t achieve all their goals, but inflation reduction act makes historic Medicare changes

Big pharma went all in to kill drug pricing negotiations

How is artificial intelligence used in COVID-19 research?

Novel zoonotic Langya virus identified in China

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

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