Helen Salisbury: What do GPs do all day?
One of the joys of general practice is the variety it offers. The clinical breadth…
Month: November 2021
Opinion: Preventing market failure in brain health: Moving toward fixes in investment, operations, and governance
The world is in the midst an escalating global crisis of brain health, by which…
The U.K. is on its way to eliminating cervical cancer. Here’s why the U.S. isn’t close
A decade ago, a London cancer prevention researcher predicted that the United Kingdom’s national HPV…
How Nancy Pelosi almost killed drug pricing reform
WASHINGTON — The White House stunned health care experts last month when it declared it was…
STAT+: Can David Feinberg fix Cerner? The new CEO of an electronic health record giant faces fresh threats
In many ways, David Feinberg was an unconventional choice to lead Cerner, one of the…
Pfizer Vs. Moderna: Comparison Of Booster Shots’ Common Side Effects
The common side effects of the Pfizer and Moderna boosters are almost the same, based…
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STAT+: A controversial drug for premature births, which FDA wants withdrawn, is tied to elevated cancer risk
The key ingredient in a controversial medicine used to prevent premature births is associated with a…
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Booster Shot Effective For At Least 9-10 Months: Study
Preliminary data from Israeli research showed that the booster shots yield more antibodies that are…
PODCAST: The waters are literally lapping at our ankles – adaptation day at COP26
Even if we were to cut all the world’s greenhouse gas emissions tomorrow, we would…
News in Brief 8 November 2021
WFP warns 3 million more, now ‘teetering on the edge of famine’ Global innovation surged despite COVID-19 economic impact: WIPO…
Bedtime linked with heart health
Going to sleep between 10:00 and 11:00 pm is associated with a lower risk of…
Mental Health, Alternative Medicine, and COVID-19 With Dr. Thomas Oden – The Ringer
Mental Health, Alternative Medicine, and COVID-19 With Dr. Thomas Oden The Ringer Read Original Article: Mental…
Love Pharma Ushering in a New Era of Alternative Health Products – Finance Magnates
Love Pharma Ushering in a New Era of Alternative Health Products Finance Magnates Read Original Article:…
LifeSpan offers alternative options to improve balance and other health goals – Del Mar Times
LifeSpan offers alternative options to improve balance and other health goals Del Mar Times Read Original…
Blood plasma protein fibrinogen interacts directly with nerve cells to cause brain inflammation
Before soluble fibrinogen, a blood plasma protein, is converted into insoluble fibrin molecules that can…
Diet restricted size of hunter-gatherer societies
Short growing seasons limited the possible size of hunter-gatherer societies by forcing people to rely…
Livestock antibiotics and rising temperatures disrupt soil microbial communities
Community ecologists investigated the interactive effects of rising temperatures and a common livestock antibiotic on…
Scientists issue new climate adaptation ‘scorecard’
A new study offers a ‘scorecard’ for climate adaptation projects — a set of 16…
STAT+: Hospitals charge insurers and cash-paying patients much more than what Medicare pays for some infused drugs
Nearly a dozen of the highest-rated hospitals in the U.S. charged commercial health insurers and…
A new tool for studying COVID’s impact on gut health
New research using an Intestine Chip has recreated viral infection of the human gut in…
STAT+: More lung cancer patients see tumor responses with Mirati’s KRAS combination treatment
Mirati Therapeutics said Monday that more than 60% of patients with lung cancer showed confirmed…
Immunotherapy-chemotherapy treatment coupled with in-depth genomic analyses leads to improved survival for patients with mesothelioma
Combining the immunotherapy agent durvalumab with the chemotherapy agents pemetrexed and cisplatin or carboplatin may…
Warming temperatures increasingly alter structure of atmosphere
Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth’s atmosphere, a new…
Stem cells do not (only) play dice
In just a few weeks a completely new organism develops from a fertilized egg cell….
Air pollution disproportionally affects people of color, lower-income residents in DC
The rates of death and health burdens associated with air pollution are borne unequally and…
‘Cold bone’: Researchers discover first dinosaur species that lived on Greenland 214 million years ago
The two-legged dinosaur Issi saaneq lived about 214 million years ago in what is now…
Storing energy in plants with electronic roots
By watering bean plants (Phaseolus vulgaris) with a solution that contains conjugated oligomers, researchers at…
Sitting more linked to increased feelings of depression, anxiety
During the initial COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, a lot of people suddenly became more…
Converting methane to methanol — with and without water
Chemists have been searching for efficient catalysts to convert methane into methanol. Adding water to…
Thinnest X-ray detector ever created
Researchers have created the world’s thinnest X-ray detector using tin mono-sulfide (SnS) nanosheets. Highly sensitive…
Galectin-1 linked to increased risk of type 2 diabetes
Researchers now associate elevated levels of the protein galectin-1 with increased risk of developing type…
Healing skin ischemia-reperfusion injuries with interleukin-36 receptor antagonists
Skin wounds from ischemia-reperfusion injuries — tissue damage caused by blood returning to tissues after…
Rights experts urge Singapore to halt execution of man with mental disability
A group of UN human rights experts appealed on Monday for Singapore to halt the execution of…
COP26 diary: making health central to tackling climate change
Thoughts on travelling to COP26On the train from Euston for COP26 in Glasgow I imagine…
High cell membrane tension constrains the spread of cancer
The membranes of cancer cells are more pliant than the membranes of normal cells. A…
Many countries ‘unsupported and unprepared’ to address climate health risks: WHO
Although governments are prioritizing public health measures to protect their people from climate impacts, many lack the funds to take effective action, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a…
Helping smooth New Zealand sea lions’ road home
A team creates a new way of redefining New Zealand sea lions’ habitat. The work…
Despite understanding the concept of mindfulness, people are applying it incorrectly, research finds
Mindful awareness is about both accepting and engaging with life’s challenges, and that’s what popularized…
New symptoms identified that could help doctors diagnose pancreatic cancer
Researchers have identified a series of symptoms associated with pancreatic cancer, including two previously unrecognised…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Court rulings on 340B drug discounts conflict; Swiss socialists want government to buy Sandoz
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
Covid-19: Release of JCVI minutes prompts more questions over committee’s decisions
The release of long delayed minutes from meetings of the UK government’s vaccine advisory committee…
Sixty seconds on . . . hanging around
Is this about young people loitering on street corners?No, I’m afraid this isn’t about crowds…
NHS lacks the fundamental tools required to tackle discrimination, report warns
Inequality between NHS staff groups is persisting or getting worse, with a rise in reported…
Covid-19: Pfizer’s paxlovid is 89% effective in patients at risk of serious illness, company reports
Pfizer’s oral antiviral drug paxlovid significantly reduces hospital admissions and deaths among people with covid-19…
Global recovery requires degrowth, not ever increasing GDP
I was surprised by this paragraph in Stern and Ward’s essay1: “Greater understanding of the…
What did the spending review do for population health?
The Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 was perhaps the most important public policy moment…
Why I . . . keep a diary
Catriona Lawson has kept a diary on and off since she was a child. “It…
Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome and obesity hyperventilation syndrome in over 16s: summary of NICE guidance
What you need to knowNot all people with obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (OSAHS) are sleepy…
Q&A: Bioethicist Leigh Turner on the worrisome boom in unregulated stem cell clinics
In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration put the emerging stem cell cottage industry on…
Not all Covid waves look the same. Here’s a snapshot of the Delta surge
At first, Joyce Dombrouski thought it might just be some kind of blip. Maybe it…