STAT+: Pharmalittle: Amgen agrees to pay $27.8 billion for Horizon Therapeutics; Roche pharma head steps down
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the weekend respite was…
Month: December 2022
STAT+: Affimed’s natural killer cell therapy has murky path forward despite encouraging results
NEW ORLEANS – An experimental immunotherapy from Affimed for patients with advanced Hodgkin lymphoma has…
Amgen’s $27.8 billion Horizon merger is latest industry bet on pricey rare disease drugs
Amgen said Monday it would purchase Horizon Pharmaceuticals for $27.8 billion, marking the latest bet…
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Covid-19: Gabriel Leung reflects on Hong Kong’s devastating fifth wave
BiographyGabriel Leung became the 40th dean of medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKU)…
Is immobilisation required for toddler’s fracture of the tibia?
What you need to knowThere are no data or guidelines to suggest whether immobilisation is…
Girl Becomes Leukemia Free After Receiving World’s First Radical Cell-Engineered Therapy
“This is our most sophisticated cell engineering so far, and it paves the way for…
Rising demand for medical imaging: what happened to evidence based medicine?
Too much medical imaging seems to occur in response to a low tolerance to uncertainty,…
Britain can afford the NHS—and it must to reduce fear during a period of crisis
In 1952, Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne. In that same year, Aneurin Bevan,…
Opinion: Responsibly expanding access to methadone for people with opioid use disorder will save lives
The overdose epidemic continues to ravage communities across the country. In Washington state, where I…
STAT+: Coming soon: Permanent Covid-19 safety rules for health care workers
The federal agency that oversees workplace safety is moving forward with making certain Covid-19 protections…
Revenge of the gaslit patients: Now, as scientists, they’re tackling Ehlers-Danlos syndromes
Type “Ehlers-Danlos syndromes” into a search engine, and multiple suggestions pop up. Is Ehlers-Danlos an…
STAT+: The Covid-19 test maker that pivoted to being a health insurance company
Curative rose to prominence during the throes of the pandemic, as people and governments across…
Stanford Medicine teams find biomarkers that predict common, severe pregnancy complication – Stanford Medical Center Report
Stanford Medicine teams find biomarkers that predict common, severe pregnancy complication Stanford Medical Center Report Read…
STAT+: Novartis develops CAR-T therapy that can be made in a fraction of the standard time
NEW ORLEANS — For some patients suffering with certain blood cancers, CAR-T therapy can offer…
STAT+: Argenx antibody drug benefits patients with platelet-destroying autoimmune disorder
NEW ORLEANS — An antibody treatment developed by the Belgian drugmaker Argenx raised platelet counts…
New treatment for moderate to severe atopic dermatitis shows promising long-term results
Patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis who participated in a clinical trial of rocatinlimab…
Noninvasive Prenatal Blood Test Accurately Gauges SMA RIsk – SMA… – SMA News Today
Noninvasive Prenatal Blood Test Accurately Gauges SMA RIsk – SMA… SMA News Today Read Original Article:…
Experiences of pregnant women with genome-wide non-invasive prenatal testing in a national screening program | European Journal of Human Genetics – Nature.com
Experiences of pregnant women with genome-wide non-invasive prenatal testing in a national screening program |…
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Prenatal Tests; Meth Heart Failure; and Cardio and PTSD – Medscape
Prenatal Tests; Meth Heart Failure; and Cardio and PTSD Medscape Read Original Article: Prenatal Tests; Meth…
Clinician Management of Prenatal Depression Improved With Online Intervention – Psychiatry Advisor
Clinician Management of Prenatal Depression Improved With Online Intervention Psychiatry Advisor Read Original Article: Clinician Management…
STAT+: ‘We’ve got a new target’: Bispecific antibody for multiple myeloma succeeds in mid-stage trial
NEW ORLEANS — Researchers had hoped in recent years that a protein called GPRC5D might…
STAT+: Bone marrow transplant patients could be spared from ‘bland’ diet, study finds
Whenever a hematopoietic cell transplant patient tries to get a family member to sneak food…
STAT+: Emerging class of genetically targeted drugs induce remissions in leukemia patients
NEW ORLEANS — An emerging class of genetically targeted drugs is inducing remissions in about…
STAT+: Progress report on Adicet’s ‘gamma-delta’ T cell therapy shows mixed results on durability of remissions
NEW ORLEANS — Adicet Bio generated a good deal of buzz last June with a…
Getting ahead of ‘tsunami’ of chronic disease will require data and creativity, experts say
Chronic disease is omnipresent in the United States. Trillions of dollars are devoted to and…
Guterres: Put human rights at the heart of efforts to reverse today’s damaging trends
Today’s “trying times” highlight the need for a recommitment to human rights, which are central…
PODCAST: The power of dialogue to bring peace
The world has never been more inter-connected, but this has made it easier than ever…
Hate speech costing lives of peacekeepers and civilians in DRC, warns mission chief
Hate speech has cost the lives of UN peacekeepers and civilians on the ground they are there to protect in the Democratic…
News in Brief 9 December 2022
Tigray crisis: Assistance ramps up to refugees and displaced in northern Ethiopia – UNHCR ‘20…
Alternative therapies for heart failure may offer benefits, but some have risks – American Heart Association News
Alternative therapies for heart failure may offer benefits, but some have risks American Heart Association News…
Hubble detects ghostly glow surrounding our solar system
Imagine walking into a room at night, turning out all the lights and closing the…
Today’s adolescent substances of choice may be harder for adults to detect
The past decade has seen a global surge in adolescent use of e-cigarettes/vaping, cannabis, and…
Without more data, a black hole’s origins can be ‘spun’ in any direction
A study finds that, for now, the catalog of known black hole binaries does not…
Curved spacetime in the lab
In a laboratory experiment, researchers have succeeded in realizing an effective spacetime that can be…
Scientist mimic nature to make nano particle metallic snowflakes
Scientists in New Zealand and Australia working at the level of atoms created something unexpected:…
Microbial miners could help humans colonize the moon and Mars
The biochemical process by which cyanobacteria acquire nutrients from rocks in Chile’s Atacama Desert has…
Dinosaur teeth reveal what they didn’t eat
Scratches on dinosaur teeth could reveal what they really ate. Dental microwear texture analysis (DMTA)…
Amid intractable challenges, solutions are ‘within sight’: UN rights chief
Just ahead of Human Rights Day on Saturday 9 December, the UN’s High Commissioner for…
When I use a word . . . . Coronership—a lexicographic puzzle
CrownsThe word “crown” comes from the Latin word corona, which means just that, via a…
Philippines: Rights expert urges greater action to combat child sexual exploitation
Although the Philippines has made gains in combatting the sale and sexual exploitation of children,…
Ballerina, firefighter, hygienist? Why dentistry needs to start its pipeline with young kids
Dentistry has a diversity problem, and medical and dental experts say the best way to…
STAT+: Why a tone-deaf Regeneron executive deserved to be booed over Alzheimer’s drug pricing
File this under “What was he thinking?” The otherwise staid Milken Institute summit on health…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Medicare willing to reevaluate coverage of Alzheimer’s drugs; judge tosses shingles-vaccine lawsuits against Merck
And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too…
US experience with transparent medical records should reassure doctors
In the US, the expansion of patient access to electronic medical records over the past…
When patients are victims: access to online records and medical misconduct
A review into the records of 44 patients who died while under the care of…
WHO member states agree to draft international pandemic accord
World Health Organization member states have agreed to have the first draft of an international…
John Michael Manners
John Michael Manners was born in Redruth in Cornwall to George and Hilary. He attended…
Michael Harold Draisey
bmj;379/dec09_5/o2950/FAF1faAfter junior jobs in Stratford, Leamington Spa, and Northampton Michael Harold Draisey (“Mike”) was appointed…
Alastair Campbell Agnew Glen
bmj;379/dec09_4/o2963/FAF1faMy uncle, Alastair Campbell Agnew Glen, was born in Glasgow and followed his father, Alec,…
Life-threatening infections on the rise due to drug-resistant bacteria, new WHO report reveals
Over 50 per cent of life-threatening bacterial infections are becoming resistant to treatment, a new…