NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Two randomized trials show a clear benefit of blinatumomab in combination with conventional chemotherapy in children with high-risk relapsed B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), with improved outcomes and a favorable toxicity profile. In one study, 108 children (mean age, 5 years) with high-risk relapsed B-ALL received one cycle of reinduction chemotherapy and two cycles of […]
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A detailed analysis of mental health treatment trends during the COVID-19 pandemic found a 7% increase in visits during the initial shelter-in-place period in 2020, compared with the same three-month period in 2019. The study, published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry on March 3, examined patient visits for psychiatric diagnoses among members of Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. The […]
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PARIS (Reuters) – Marie-France Boudret, who works in a French home for the elderly, watched a patient suffocate to death in front of her because COVID-19 had infected his lungs. But when her employer offered her a vaccine against the virus, the nurse hesitated. “I have some doubts,” said Boudret, 48. “I prefer to wait.” Around half of health workers […]
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Grieving a husband and a daughter, raising her three surviving children, managing a multimedia company, and running a nonprofit foundation is a lot for a mom to handle. That’s why Vanessa Bryant is on the cover of People’s “Women Changing the World” issue, out this week. More than a year after the tragic helicopter crash that claimed the lives of […]
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(Reuters) – Researchers are learning more about the SARS-CoV-2 variant that’s on the rise in New York City. The variant is known to contain the same E484K mutation seen in variants in Brazil and South Africa that is believed to make COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies less effective, as well as a mutation called S477N that helps the virus bind […]
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Slideshow ( 2 images )OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada is “very optimistic” it can speed up its COVID-19 inoculation program, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, a day after Washington moved up its own deadline by two months. Trudeau’s Liberal government, under fire for the slow pace of injections so far, has repeatedly insisted that everyone who wants doses can […]
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Using the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers at the University of Cologne have developed an ‘aging clock’ that reads the biological age of an organism directly from its gene expression, the transcriptome. Bioinformatician David Meyer and geneticist Professor Dr. Björn Schumacher, director of the Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease at the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Aging […]
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Compugen selects Dotmatics’ cloud-based LIMS and ELN solution to drive efficient drug discovery Agreement marks the first implementation of Dotmatics SaaS technology in Israel, further extending global access Dotmatics Ltd, a scientific informatics software and services company that is driving the automation of laboratory data workflows for scientific discovery and innovation research, today announced it has entered a licensing agreement […]
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FILE PHOTO: Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Deputy Premier of Ontario and Minister of Health Christine Elliott watch as a healthcare worker administers the second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to personal support worker Anita Quidangen, who is the first person in Ontario to receive both doses, at The Michener Institute, in Toronto, Canada January 4, 2021. […]
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A major moment for Married at First Sight fans! Season 9 alums Deonna McNeill and Greg Okotie have welcomed their first child. Adorable! ‘Married at First Sight’ Babies: Pics Us Weekly confirmed on Wednesday, March 3, that baby boy Declan arrived on Saturday, February 27. The North Carolina native announced in September 2020 that she and her husband had a […]
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