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New insights into participation of underrepresented communities in Alzheimer’s clinical trials

A significant hurdle in developing therapeutics and care models for Alzheimer's disease that work for people of all ethnic and racial backgrounds is the recruitment and retention of traditionally underrepresented groups in clinical trials.

29 Jul 2021

Drug combination could make curative surgery possible for some liver cancer patients

A combination of the kinase-inhibitor drug cabozantinib and the immunotherapy drug nivolumab can make curative surgery possible in some liver cancer patients who would normally not be considered surgery candidates.

29 Jul 2021

Vitamin D supplements are not effective for easing painful IBS symptoms, study reveals

Vitamin D supplements are not an effective treatment for easing painful symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), a new study from the University of Sheffield reveals.

29 Jul 2021

ICTER scientists improve the precision of cornea imaging using a non-invasive method

Until recently, researchers could mainly observe the eye cornea through a close microscope contact with living, or dead cells.

29 Jul 2021

Two new proteins identified as therapeutic targets for preventing NAFLD and associated liver cancer

An international study led by the Lipids&Liver research team at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, the results of which have recently been published in the prestigious journal Cancer Research, has demonstrated that inhibiting either of the proteins E2F1 or E2F2 in the liver protects against the development of obesity-driven nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and its progression to cancer.

29 Jul 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Hot covid summer

Predictions of a "hot vax summer" that would let Americans who had their covid immunizations celebrate the waning of the pandemic are turning out to have been premature.

29 Jul 2021

An overview on fitness to drive for patients with cardiovascular diseases

People suffering from various types of cardiovascular disease are subject to a certain accident risk when driving a vehicle on the road. High blood pressure, coronary heart disease and cardiac insufficiency might be grounds for a (temporary) driving ban.

29 Jul 2021

Pfizer court fight could legalize Medicare copays and unleash ‘gold rush’ in sales

Three years ago, pharma giant Pfizer paid $24 million to settle federal allegations that it was paying kickbacks and inflating sales by reimbursing Medicare patients for out-of-pocket medication costs.

29 Jul 2021

Olympic dream dashed after bike crash and nightmare medical bill over $200k

It was a race in Pennsylvania that could have sent cyclist Phil Gaimon to the Tokyo Olympics; instead, a serious crash landed the Californian in two hospitals on the East Coast.

29 Jul 2021

Covid renews interest in radiation, but docs caution against pilgrimages to radon-filled mines

Twice a year, Brian Tichenor makes the 1,200-mile drive each way from his home in Kansas to a defunct uranium mine in Montana, where he takes an elevator 85 feet below the surface to sit amid radioactive radon gas to ease the pain from his chronic eye condition.

29 Jul 2021

Imagined music triggers similar brain activity as moments of silence

Imagining a song triggers similar brain activity as moments of silence in music, according to a pair of studies recently published in JNeurosci. The results reveal how the brain continues responding to music, even when none is playing.

29 Jul 2021

Multibillion dollar crusade to eradicate polio appears to have come to an end

The polio juggernaut, which has skidded past eradication deadline after deadline, seems to have finally run out of fuel, suggests an investigation published by The BMJ today.

29 Jul 2021

People with chronic pain may find it harder to regulate emotions

More than three million Australians experience chronic pain: an ongoing and often debilitating condition that can last from months to years.

29 Jul 2021

Healthy eating during pregnancy is fundamental for mother and child

Healthy and balanced nutrition during pregnancy and early infancy is important for mother and child. However, despite some recent progress in Europe, there is still a long way to achieve the nutrition targets set by the WHO to improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition.

29 Jul 2021

World's first patent for AI-generated invention could have repercussions on intellectual property law

Intellectual property officials in South Africa have made history in a landmark decision to award a patent that names an artificial intelligence as the inventor.

29 Jul 2021

Is it possible to identify pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 clinically?

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted morbidity and mortality in nursing home residents across the world. Earlier detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may help better mitigate the risk of viral transmission. As both pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission is common in these outbreaks, screening for threshold temperatures of 38°C or higher could miss timely detection in most infected people.

29 Jul 2021

World's most sophisticated COVID-19 sequencing system

In response to the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United Kingdom, the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium was formed to rapidly sequence SARS-CoV-2 genomes as part of a national-scale genomic surveillance strategy.

29 Jul 2021

99% of COVID-19 deaths in Italy occur among those not fully vaccinated

In a new report out of Italy, health officials reported that almost 99 percent of people who have died from COVID-19 since February 2021 were not fully vaccinated. The report released by the National Health Institute (ISS) showed that the few fully vaccinated people who died of COVID-19 were also older than those who died without complete COVID-19 vaccine doses.

29 Jul 2021

Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection enhances effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

A study conducted by researchers in Qatar has found that Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine was more protective against infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) among individuals who had previously been infected with the virus than among those who had not.

29 Jul 2021

NIH scientists demonstrate efficient aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in hamsters

Researchers in the United States have demonstrated the efficient aerosol transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – in a hamster model.

29 Jul 2021

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New insights into participation of underrepresented communities in Alzheimer’s clinical trials

Drug combination could make curative surgery possible for some liver cancer patients

Vitamin D supplements are not effective for easing painful IBS symptoms, study reveals

ICTER scientists improve the precision of cornea imaging using a non-invasive method

Two new proteins identified as therapeutic targets for preventing NAFLD and associated liver cancer

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Hot covid summer

An overview on fitness to drive for patients with cardiovascular diseases

Pfizer court fight could legalize Medicare copays and unleash ‘gold rush’ in sales

Olympic dream dashed after bike crash and nightmare medical bill over $200k

Covid renews interest in radiation, but docs caution against pilgrimages to radon-filled mines

Imagined music triggers similar brain activity as moments of silence

Multibillion dollar crusade to eradicate polio appears to have come to an end

People with chronic pain may find it harder to regulate emotions

Healthy eating during pregnancy is fundamental for mother and child

World's first patent for AI-generated invention could have repercussions on intellectual property law

Is it possible to identify pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-19 clinically?

World's most sophisticated COVID-19 sequencing system

99% of COVID-19 deaths in Italy occur among those not fully vaccinated

Prior SARS-CoV-2 infection enhances effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine

NIH scientists demonstrate efficient aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in hamsters

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How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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