Today, a new personalized cancer treatment was approved for NHS use in England. But this was no ordinary drug approval. Larotrectinib (Vitrakvi) is a highly innovative new treatment that, unlike most cancer drugs, is designed to target specific changes in cancer cells’ DNA rather than where the cancer is growing in the body. This means patients with various types of […]
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A ventilator developed by researchers from the Medical Robotics Research Group of the University of Málaga (UMA) in just 20 days to strengthen health care response to COVID-19, is already being manufactured after receiving authorization from the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS) upon fulfilling all requirements for its approval. Andalucía Respira offers a real alternative to ventilators […]
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A risk prediction model that combined genetic and clinical factors with circulating biomarkers identified people at significantly higher than normal risk of pancreatic cancer, according to results of a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “Pancreatic cancer is a particularly deadly cancer, with about 80 percent of patients diagnosed […]
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Vinny Guadagnino is a changed man thanks to the keto diet. On Tuesday, the Jersey Shore Family Vacation star, 32, gave fans a look at his dramatic weight loss journey, sharing a before-and-after photo of himself on his “Keto Guide” Instagram account. Reflecting on his body transformation, Guadagnino wrote, “A lot of people didn’t know that I struggled with my […]
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says the prevalence of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in the African American community is “one of the failings of our society,” during a new interview with actor Will Smith. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears on a new episode of Smith’s Snapchat show Will at Home, airing Wednesday, to answer […]
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For some time, healthcare organizations have been defending against cyberattacks on their own while malicious actors have been organizing into increasingly sophisticated networks of attackers. A better way to combat cybersecurity threats is by sharing and correlating events across organizations, both within the healthcare sector and across industry sectors, contend experts at IronNet Cybersecurity. General (Retired) Keith Alexander, co-CEO of […]
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De Blasio added that people should dispose of them in order to not “endanger anyone else.” “You don’t know if, God forbid, you happen to contract this disease, but if you’re on that mask, getting your breath on it, or those gloves, you’ve sneezed on them, anything like that, you don’t know,” he said. “Get rid of them. Get them […]
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Secrecy surrounding executions could hinder efforts by a group of medical professionals who are asking the nation’s death penalty states for medications used in lethal injections so that they can go to coronavirus patients who are on ventilators, according to a death penalty expert and a doctor who’s behind the request. In a letter sent this month to corrections departments, […]
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To adapt to their environment and learn from past experiences, animals need to learn to associate stimuli in their environment (e.g., a particular sound or scent) and the rewards or threats that these stimuli are likely to carry with them (e.g., food or the presence of a predator). Past studies rooted in psychology and neuroscience have explored how animals start […]
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Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Roehampton, London, have discovered that patients suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) have increased levels of a protein called Immuno-moodulin (Imood) in their lymphocytes, a type of immune cell. Mice with high levels of this protein were also found to exhibit behaviours that are characteristic of anxiety and stress, […]
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