Podcast – UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Tackling ‘kissing disease’, Mosul’s Al-Nouri mosque rebirth
In this week’s UN Catch-Up, a chilling warning from the UN rights chief who’s likened…
Year: 2021
News in Brief 15 April 2021
Alert over shortage of new drugs for ‘world’s most dangerous bacteria’ COVID-19 cases rise for…
Iraq: UNESCO architectural design winners to rebuild iconic Al-Nouri Mosque complex
Eight Egyptian architects have been awarded the job of restoring the historic Al-Nouri Mosque complex…
Reliable COVID-19 short-term forecasting
Researchers have developed a new model for making short-term projections of daily COVID-19 cases that…
A comprehensive approach to complementary and alternative medicine usage among patients from a vascular department – DocWire News
A comprehensive approach to complementary and alternative medicine usage among patients from a vascular department DocWire…
Essential oils for COPD: Uses and side effects – Medical News Today
Essential oils for COPD: Uses and side effects Medical News Today Read Original Article: Essential oils…
New Texas bills target deceptive health care marketing – State of Reform – State of Reform
New Texas bills target deceptive health care marketing – State of Reform State of Reform Read…
Don’t worry about sweat with our top deodorant pick
Sweating. We have to do it, but that doesn’t mean we need to like the…
New NASA visualization probes the light-bending dance of binary black holes
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun’s mass perform a hypnotic…
How the humble woodchip is cleaning up water worldwide
Australian pineapple, Danish trout, and Midwestern U.S. corn farmers are not often lumped together under…
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STAT+: A drug maker sues a medical journal, its editor, and several authors for libel
In an unusual move, Pacira Biosciences (PCRX) has filed a libel lawsuit against a medical…
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Listen: J&J’s vaccine pause, how to talk about remote risks, & why we don’t have new drugs for Covid-19
How do you describe a one-in-a-million risk? What’s heparin-induced thrombocytopenia? And why’s it so hard…
Scientists generate human-monkey chimeric embryos
Investigators have injected human stem cells into primate embryos and were able to grow chimeric…
How many T. rexes were there? Billions
With fossils few and far between, paleontologists have shied away from estimating the size of…
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STAT+: Thermo Fisher buys contract-research company PPD for $17.4 billion
Thermo Fisher Scientific announced Thursday that it will buy PPD, a contract-research company for the…
STAT+: Hints emerge about a key Senate committee’s plans for health care
WASHINGTON — A Senate hearing Thursday provided one of the clearest roadmaps to date for…
Got acne? Here’s our top pick for a fix.
It’s the rare person indeed who is indifferent to the presence of a large pimple…
Forest elephants are now critically endangered — here’s how to count them
Scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by…
A Year in, the PPE Shortage Story Still Has No Ending
It’s been a year since Covid-19 reached American shores, but frontline workers are still struggling…
Good dental health may help prevent heart infection from mouth bacteria
Good oral hygiene and regular dental care are the most important ways to reduce risk…
Self-assembling nanofibers prevent damage from inflammation
Biomedical engineers have developed a self-assembling nanomaterial that can help limit damage caused by inflammatory…
Stretching the boundaries of medical tech with wearable antennae
Current research on flexible electronics is paving the way for wireless sensors that can be…
Picosecond electron transfer in peptides can help energy technologies
An international team of researchers has observed picosecond charge transfer mediated by hydrogen bonds in…
Satellite map of human pressure on land provides insight on sustainable development
The map shows a near-present snapshot of effects from deforestation, mining, expanding road networks, urbanization…
Japan: UN experts ‘deeply disappointed’ by decision to discharge Fukushima water
Three independent UN human rights experts expressed deep regret on Thursday over Japan’s decision to…
STAT+: WTO head urges movement on controversial Covid-19 vaccine proposal, but objections remain
Amid mounting pressure to widen global access to Covid-19 vaccines, the head of the World…
Unilateral nipple rash in a man
A man in his 50s was referred to the breast surgery clinic with a one…
Weightlessness, health, . . . and other stories
Space travelThe cleverness of rocket scientists is legendary, but Minerva sometimes wonders if they’ve fully…
Covid-19: Vaccine woes highlight vital role of traditional public health
Covid-19 still dominates the global consciousness and therefore The BMJ’s coverage. This is unlikely soon…
Moist lesion in the third webspace of the fingers
This is interdigital candidiasis in a patient in her 70s (fig 1). Interdigital candidiasis, a…
NHS waiting list hits 14 year record high of 4.7 million people
Pressure is growing on the government to take urgent steps to tackle waiting time figures…
Consequences of covid-19 on the childhood obesity epidemic
Senthilingam describes the growing obesity epidemic and rightly identifies that the covid-19 pandemic presents opportunities…
Rehabilitation after critical illness
Covid-19 has raised public awareness about critical illness, but there has been less focus on…
International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos
A team of scientists from the U.S., China, and Spain reported Thursday they have created…
STAT+: In a sharp rebuke, health officials toss Trump-era proposal to exempt medical AI tools from review
In a searing rebuke, the Biden administration is formally withdrawing a last-minute proposal by the…
Alert over shortage of new drugs for ‘world’s most dangerous bacteria’
A lack of new treatments for common infections has left people dangerously exposed to the “world’s most dangerous bacteria”, the UN health agency said on Thursday. Read…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pause for J&J Covid-19 shot to continue at least a week; Biden expands candidate list for FDA commish
Top of the morning to you. Gray skies are hovering over the Pharmalot campus right…
STAT+: WHO warns the world is still failing to develop desperately needed antibiotics
Despite mounting concern over antibiotic resistance, a new report finds that none of 43 antibiotics…
Seven days in medicine: 7-13 April
Covid-19Rapid testing rolled out to everyone in EnglandEveryone in England is now able to order…
US regulator says abortion pills can be dispensed by post—temporarily
The US Food and Drug Administration will allow American women to get the two pill…
FDA wants more data on promising ALS drug, frustrating patients seeking faster access
People living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, in the U.S. will have to wait…
Merck to continue tests of Covid pill, but stop trial in hospitalized patients
Merck said Thursday that it has seen “encouraging” results in a clinical trial of an…
Opinion: It’s time to get health care value assessment right
Trying to gauge the value of new drugs and devices is becoming increasingly important in…
Opinion: STAT+: Rethinking triage in an era of vaccine nationalism
Just about every schoolchild learns that Napoleon Bonaparte was a small man. But few know…
Watch: You got vaccinated. Now what?
Covid-19 vaccines are great tools for combating the pandemic, and are becoming widely available in…
Watch: You got vaccinated. Now what?
Covid-19 vaccines are great tools for combating the pandemic, and are becoming widely available in…
Glucose monitors revolutionized diabetes care. Now digital health startups want to bring them to the masses
For the 1.6 million people in America living with type 1 diabetes, a continuous glucose…
Covid-19: Single dose of Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccine produces strong antibody response in over 80s
A single dose of the Pfizer or Oxford-AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine produces equivalent antibody responses five…
The link between vitamins, supplements and autism, explained – Spectrum
The link between vitamins, supplements and autism, explained Spectrum Read Original Article: The link between vitamins,…