STAT+: Google debuts an AI-powered app to analyze skin conditions
Google on Tuesday debuted an artificial intelligence-powered dermatology tool that analyzes a user’s photos, asks…
Month: May 2021
STAT+: Atlas Venture launches another biotech to tackle vision loss
Call it “Quest for Sight: The Sequel.” In September, the Swiss drug giant Novartis paid…
Spintronics: Improving electronics with finer spin control
Scientists have found a new way to control the alignment state of magnetic atoms in…
Colonization of the Antilles by South American fauna: Giant sunken islands as a passageway
Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles, but how…
BMA demands urgent meeting with health secretary over GP appointments row
The BMA has urged the government to provide clarity to general practices and patients about…
Covid-19: Most UK adults had antibodies after one dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine, data suggest
More than nine in 10 UK adults have antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 following one dose of…
Doctors shine light on legal fight against PPE contracts
bmj;373/may18_8/n1259/FAF1faRobert ColeActivist doctors took their fight for ministers to be accountable for decisions made during…
STAT+: Democrats call on FTC to investigate AbbVie’s Humira pricing strategy
WASHINGTON — Three powerful Democrats wrote to the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday urging them to…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversations: What statistics mean for the Covid-19 vaccines
Editors note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET….
Rammya Mathew: Digital access has opened the floodgates to patient demand
For years the cost of healthcare has increased at a rate that has outpaced general…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: G20 nations water down Covid-19 IP waiver; Biden hopes to grow U.S. share of global vaccine market
Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. We enjoy this…
African rainforests still slowed climate change despite record heat and drought
Intact rainforests across tropical Africa continued to remove carbon from the atmosphere before and during…
Diamonds engage both optical microscopy and MRI for better imaging
Microdiamonds with nitrogen vacancy centers are increasingly used as biological tracers thanks to the optical…
How novel therapeutics provide insight into bacteria membranes
Whether bacteria are resistant to antibiotics is often decided at the cell membrane. This is…
Newly published data provides clearer picture of volcano collapse
A recent article reveals new data on the Anak Krakatau volcano flank collapse, which was…
Bird data from Ethiopia fills in baseline data gaps
The study establishes baseline observations for tropical birds in East Africa, filling in an important…
Covid-19 vaccines: In the rush for regulatory approval, do we need more data?
In April 2021, Pfizer and Moderna announced efficacy results at the six month mark from…
Use patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) in treatment of long covid
The challenges outlined in Sivan and colleagues’ commentary on Ayoubkhani and colleagues’ evidence of the…
GMC sets targets to end disproportionate complaints against ethnic minority doctors
The General Medical Council has set itself new targets to eliminate disproportionate complaints from employers…
Helen Salisbury: GPs deserve better than this micromanagement
Last week I was working on a new timetable for our surgery, thinking about how…
Do Naturally High Testosterone Levels Equal Stronger Female Athletic Performance? Not Necessarily
This rule is based on the hypothesis that total testosterone levels directly determine athletic performance…
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Here’s Why South Africa Must Ban Sugary Drinks Sales In Schools
Childhood obesity is a serious and growing problem in South Africa. More than 13% of…
Opinion: Luck is not a strategy: The world needs to start preparing now for the next pandemic
As countries grapple with the worst global pandemic in a century, it’s hard to think…
Opinion: All states should harness nurses’ full potential
The U.S. health care system should learn many lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic. A key…
STAT+: How one startup is turning unwieldy health records into a patient-friendly platform
Once seen as the place technological innovation went to die, health records are seeing a…
STAT+: Congress is ready to grill AbbVie’s CEO over drug pricing
WASHINGTON — AbbVie CEO Richard Gonzalez is in for a congressional tongue-lashing of outsized proportion….
How Ashish Jha became network TV’s everyman expert on Covid
Chances are you’ve seen Ashish Jha during the pandemic, though you had never heard of…
South Africa has ‘obligation’ to better address domestic violence: UN women’s rights experts
Failure to address domestic violence in South Africa is a violation of women’s rights, independent…
Prenatal detection of heart defects lower in rural, poor areas and among Hispanic women – EurekAlert
Prenatal detection of heart defects lower in rural, poor areas and among Hispanic women EurekAlert Read…
Prenatal detection of heart defects lower in Hispanic women, poor areas – AuntMinnie
Prenatal detection of heart defects lower in Hispanic women, poor areas AuntMinnie Read Original Article: Prenatal…
Study to focus on effect of COVID-19 vaccine on pregnant women, new moms – 13WHAM-TV
Study to focus on effect of COVID-19 vaccine on pregnant women, new moms 13WHAM-TV Read Original…
News in Brief 17 May 2021
UN chief urges end to ‘senseless’ violence in Palestine, Israel Gaza humanitarian relief stepped up…
Slow research to understand fast change
A new open-access research collection reveals unexpected lessons drawn from decades of rich data from…
Proteins that predict future dementia, Alzheimer’s risk, identified
The development of dementia, often from Alzheimer’s disease, late in life is associated with abnormal…
STAT+: FDA issues major rebuke to CytoDyn over claims on Covid-19 drug
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday took the extraordinary step of issuing a lengthy…
Clinical trial suggests convalescent plasma may improve survival with severe COVID-19
A randomized double-blind controlled trial of convalescent plasma for adults hospitalized with severe COVID-19 found…
CDC veteran Anne Schuchat to resign in second high-level departure from agency
The principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Anne Schuchat, is…
‘Pandemic Far From Over’ Despite CDC Unmasking Of Vaccinated Americans, Says WHO
The World Health Organization is concerned that people may begin to think the pandemic has…
Over half of LGBTQI students in Europe bullied in school: UNESCO
More than one in two LGBTQI students in Europe have suffered bullying based on their…
STAT+: Feds tell drug makers to offer discounts to safety-net hospitals or face penalties
After a year of controversy, the Health Resources and Services Administration notified six large drug…
Vaccine inequity triggers ‘huge disconnect’ between countries
Although COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline globally for a second consecutive week, the…
Scientists find new way of predicting COVID-19 vaccine efficacy
Australian researchers have identified the immune response associated with protection from COVID-19 — a discovery…
Covid-19: Second vaccine doses expedited in areas of England where new variant is high
The government has said it was implementing a “belt and braces” approach to tackle rising…
Two biodiversity refugia identified in the Eastern Bering Sea
Scientists have used species survey and climate data to identify two marine biodiversity refugia in…
New epigenetic regulatory mechanisms involved in multiple myeloma growth
An international team of researchers has analyzed the function of the histone demethylase KDM5A in…
Covid-19: Reducing background aerosols could reduce infectivity
To be effective, public health measures should be both simple and easily applied. The focus…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Sanofi and Glaxo tout positive Covid-19 vaccine results; Pfizer exec warns IP waiver will cause materials shortage
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
Zapping nerves with ultrasound lowers drug-resistant blood pressure
Brief pulses of ultrasound delivered to nerves near the kidney lowered blood pressure in people…
Shortcut for dendritic cells
During an inflammatory response, things need to happen quickly: researchers have recently discovered that certain…
Save our oceans to protect our health: Scientists call for global action plan
An interdisciplinary European collaboration called the Seas Oceans and Public Health In Europe (SOPHIE) Project…