The Andreessen Horowitz Bio + Health fund this week announced a new strategic partnership that aims to give an upstate New York health system access to digital health technologies that can help it address access challenges for its patient population. WHY IT MATTERS The partnership aims to advance the patient experience, assure financial sustainability and […]

With the increase in the popularity of intermittent fasting for weight control, some people are concerned about its impact on overall health, particularly on hormone levels. Studies have suggested that intermittent fasting may reduce levels of reproductive hormones in females, leading to potential problems with fertility. Now, a small study in individuals with obesity at […]

In a recent Pediatrics journal study, researchers assessed the outcomes of children born to mothers infected during pregnancy with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In utero, mother-to-child SARS-CoV-2 transmission is possible; however, the mechanisms remain unknown. Previous studies have reported the transplacental passage of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, thereby providing some passive protection to newborns. […]

PARIS (Reuters) -France’s HAS health authority on Tuesday followed the European Union’s drug regulator and cleared two separate COVID-19 vaccine boosters updated to target the Omicron variant. Developed by Moderna and the team of Pfizer and BioNTech, the new so-called bivalent shots combat the BA.1 version of Omicron and the original virus first detected in […]

Although melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer, most patients have high chances of surviving the disease. There is evidence that more cases of melanoma are being overdiagnosed in patients who would never experience symptoms. Using cancer registry data, investigators have identified a subset of patients with early-stage melanoma with almost no melanoma-related […]

A new study co-led by Queen Mary University of London’s Professor Claudia Langenberg, newly appointed Director of the Precision Healthcare University Research Institute, undertaken in her prior roles at the Berlin Institute of Health at the Charité (BIH) and University of Cambridge, and Professor Adam Butterworth at the University of Cambridge, has discovered more than […]

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can reliably establish measurements for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) “footprints” that are critical to the placement of grafts for reconstruction surgery, UT Southwestern researchers report. Jay P. Shah, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at UTSW, and his colleagues used 2- and 3-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to […]

Research from Queen’s University Belfast suggests that deaf children are more at risk of developing mental health and emotional well-being issues compared to children who can hear. The research report, “The Emotional Well-being of Deaf Children and Young,” by Dr. Bronagh Byrne and Dr. Catherine McNamee, from the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social […]

(Reuters) -Sobi North America, a unit of Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB, said on Thursday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized its arthritis drug for treatment of high-risk hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drug, already approved in the European Union for treating COVID, has been authorized in the United States to treat patients with pneumonia who […]

There were 884 cocaine-related deaths in Australia between 2000 and 2021, says a new study published by researchers at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Center (NDARC), UNSW Sydney. The study, published in Addiction, examined data from the National Coronial Information System (NCIS) and found a large increase in cocaine-related deaths since 2012, with 398 […]