The Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), Afrigen Biologics (PTY) Limited, the Biologicals and Vaccines Institute of Southern Africa (Biovac), the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have signed a letter of intent to address the global imbalance of manufacturing capacity […]
Deborah Veis, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Bone and Mineral Diseases at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been appointed the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research Plus (JBMR Plus). Her five-year term begins Sept. 1. Launched in 2017, JBMR Plus is a […]
FILE PHOTO: Nurse Angela Norment injects a second dose of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a mobile pop-up vaccination clinic hosted by the Detroit Health Department with the Detroit Public Schools Community District at Renaissance High School in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Emily Elconin/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House principal deputy press […]
(Reuters Health) – Children with autism spectrum disorder may have a distinctive and underdeveloped gut microbiome that isn’t related to their eating habits, a small Chinese study suggests. Researchers performed deep metagenomic sequencing of fecal samples collected from 64 preschoolers aged 3-6 with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 64 age-matched typically developing children. They also […]
UT Southwestern faculty have discovered what appears to be an Achilles’ heel in ovarian cancers, as well as new biomarkers that could point to which patients are the best candidates for possible new treatments. The finding, published in the journal Cell, was made in part using a research tool invented in a UT Southwestern lab in the Cecil H. and […]
The detailed account of protocol, methodology and the successful outcomes have been published in Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews, an Elsevier journal recently. A group from Kerala has shown how Virtual Covid In-Patient (VCIP) , a novel concept of providing `in patient’ level care at home during Covid 19 can prevent overwhelming […]
Parents can have a tough time figuring out how to talk to their kids about health and fitness, especially when it comes to things like strength training and lifting weights. The subject is a bit of a Catch-22. You don’t want to be overbearing, pushing a workout routine on a kid who isn’t interested, but […]
Many were shocked by U.S. gymnast Simone Biles’ decision this week to withdraw from a premier event at the Tokyo Olympics to focus on mental health, a reaction that could be rooted in sometimes-unrealistic expectations society places on athletes to be “superhuman,” UO experts said. Courtney Cox, an assistant professor of Indigenous, race and ethnic […]
Plasma biomarkers such as amyloid-beta 40 and 42, phosphorylated tau 181 and 217, and neurofilament light hold great promise for diagnosing and determining a prognosis for Alzheimer’s disease. Such tests are likely to be widely available in the near future. But work remains to be done to translate findings from academic studies to the more general […]
Australia has led the world with several RNA research discoveries that have changed humans lives. Think: the discovery of the Shine-Dalgarno sequence, enabling high yields of cloned medicines such as insulin and growth hormone, or CSIRO/Peter Waterhouse’s RNAi technology to shut down or turn off genes to protect plants and animals from diseases. But how […]
