Danyelza Gains Accelerated Approval to Treat Neuroblastoma Neuroblastoma is a solid tumor of childhood that occurs in the nervous system outside of the brain. Some tumors are easily treatable, but the majority are aggressive in nature. In November, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Danyelza (naxitamab-gqgk) 40 mg/10 mL, used in combination with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), for […]
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Drug resistant superbugs are expected to overwhelm the healthcare system, reverse a century’s worth of medical progress and claim more lives than cancer by 2050 unless efforts are accelerated to stop antibiotic resistant bacteria in their tracks. While most studies to address the problem are focusing on the development of new drugs, a series of elegant studies in France has […]
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Related story Pottery Barn Kids' Black Friday Sale Is Way Too Good To Miss Out On We already discovered that Cubcoats hoodies are 40 percent off right now, but there are plenty of other kids deals in store that’ll help you tackle your kid’s holiday list for less. Adidas sneakers, name-brand outerwear, and yes, even face masks are majorly discounted. […]
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President-elect Joe Biden is on the mend after suffering hairline fractures in his foot while playing with his dog. Biden was spotted by reporters in the transition pool leaving the office of an orthopedist in Newark, Delaware, on Sunday. His doctor, Kevin O'Connor, later released a statement on the 78-year-old's condition. "Initial x-rays did not show any obvious fracture, but […]
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The World Health Organization insisted Monday it would do everything possible to find the animal origins of COVID-19, insisting that knowledge was vital to preventing future outbreaks. “We want to know the origin and we will do everything to know the origin,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters. He insisted the UN health agency was intent on getting to […]
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Researchers at the University of Basel have discovered a molecular mechanism that plays a central role in intact long-term memory. This mechanism is also involved in physiological memory loss in old age. Many life forms, from worms to humans, have differentiated memory functions, such as short-term and long-term memory. Interestingly, at the cell and molecule level, many of these functions […]
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Scientists have developed a new biomaterial that helps bones heal faster by enhancing adults’ stem cell regenerative ability. The study, led by researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and CHI at Temple Street, is published in the current edition of Biomaterials, the highest ranked journal in the field of biomaterials science. The researchers had previously discovered a […]
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While the world has been living under the grip of the novel coronavirus for close to a full year now, there are still many things we don’t know about it. However, we may be a bit closer to understanding how the virus behind COVID-19 interacts with our bodies. One recent discovery has to do with how the coronavirus wreaks havoc […]
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An urgent rethink of infection control policies to keep COVID-19 infection at bay in schools is needed if primary schools are to be kept open this winter, and the knock-on effects on their families avoided, argue children’s infectious disease specialists in a viewpoint, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. The blanket policy currently deployed for children of […]
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As the world awaits the imminent arrival of one — or several — COVID-19 vaccines, many people may wonder how important vaccines actually are to safeguarding public health. In this feature, we answer that question by looking at what vaccines have done for us throughout history. Researchers who have looked at trends of vaccine acceptance around the world have found […]
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