A study published last week linking the consumption of fish to melanoma had sushi eaters looking up the number of the nearest dermatologist. But experts said the findings had several important limitations and that no one should change their diet based on the results. “It wouldn’t impact my fish consumption at all,” said Sancy Leachman, […]

A US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee gave a unanimous thumbs up to two new gene therapies: betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel) for the treatment of a blood disorder, transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia; and elivaldogene autotemcel (eli-cel) for the treatment of the rare but uniformly fatal neurologic condition, cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD). Both products are already approved in Europe. […]

A new study from Tel Aviv University offers a new and unique treatment for AIDS which may be developed into a vaccine or a one time treatment for patients with HIV. The study examined the engineering of type B white blood cells in the patient's body so as to secrete anti-HIV antibodies in response to […]

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When Esther Freeman, MD, PhD, thinks back on what she learned about monkeypox during her training as a dermatologist and an infectious disease epidemiologist, it was widely considered a viral disease with rare outbreaks limited primarily to Central and Western Africa. Dr Esther Freeman “Monkeypox is something we have traditionally only seen very rarely in […]

(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it was awarding $215 million in first-year funding as part of reviving the erstwhile Obama administration’s Cancer Moonshot initiative aimed at prevention and control of the disease. The funding will be given to 86 recipients, including various U.S. states and territories as well […]

Recent scientific and technological advances have led to the development of increasingly sophisticated tools to conduct neuroscience research. These new methods are helping neuroscientists to better understand the functions and organization of specific cell populations in the brain. Candelabrum cells are a specific type of interneurons in the cerebellar cortex with a unique shape and […]

Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19 will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international scientists using artificial intelligence to discover new oral antivirals. A research consortium led by the non-profit COVID Moonshot has been awarded more than US$68 million from the […]

Currently, patients in seven states can tell their physicians they don’t want to be treated with opioids in any health care setting, even during surgery. While unnecessary opioid exposure is a big reason behind the opioid epidemic in the U.S., we believe that non-opioid directives that allow patients to opt out of opioids in the […]

In a recent study published in The Lancet Rheumatology, researchers assessed the risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and those on immunomodulatory therapies. Study: Risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes associated with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases and immune-modifying therapies: a nationwide cohort study in the OpenSAFELY platform. Image Credit: Zay […]