FDA commissioner: No major reorganization, just smart reforms
Dr. Marty Makary had just finished his last surgery at Johns Hopkins when he stepped into one of the most powerful roles in American public health.
May 1, 2025
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Investigative Techniques: News and Research on Drug Development
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Ongoing research shows new class of antibiotic is effective in tackling MRSA
The development of new antibiotics to treat superbugs and other bacterial infections is a global priority, with the rate of infections that cannot be treated with current antibiotics rising and presenting one of the biggest ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Q&A: How can drug repurposing lower drug costs and improve care?
Americans pay a lot of money for prescription medications. In 2023, spending on prescription drugs in the United States topped $722 billion, a trend that's expected to continue. Yet, nearly 30% struggle to pay for their prescriptions ...
Apr 3, 2025
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23andMe is potentially selling more than just genetic data. Survey info is just as much a privacy problem
As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, concerns about what would happen to the personal information contained in its massive genetic and health information database were swift ...
Apr 2, 2025
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New diagnostic criteria for LATE dementia offer hope for improved care
Researchers at the University of Kentucky's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging are at the forefront of advancing dementia research with groundbreaking work on a condition known as LATE, or "limbic predominant age-related TDP-43 ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Stretchable microelectrode array enables non-invasive signal monitoring in organoids
A KAIST research team has developed a highly stretchable microelectrode array (sMEA) designed for non-invasive electrophysiological signal measurement of organoids. The team was led by Professor Hyunjoo J. Lee from the School ...
Jan 14, 2025
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Open-source AI model can assess biomedical images and text to provide real-time, patient-focused insight
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but they both have a lot of work to do to catch up to BiomedGPT. A Lehigh University research team has now collaborated with Massachusetts General Hospital in an effort to transform ...
Nov 4, 2024
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Biotech companies can sustain the pipeline of new drugs under the Inflation Reduction Act, research finds
New research from the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University shows that differences between the financial structures of large pharmaceutical producers and smaller, emerging biotechnology companies ...
Jul 26, 2024
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Researchers develop innovative platform for modeling human muscle diseases in worms
Researchers from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with Sheba Medical Center, have developed a novel platform to model human muscle diseases in the C. elegans worm. This innovation facilitates the study of diseases in ...
May 15, 2024
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Searching ICTRP: Dispensable for drug assessments, but essential for assessments of non-drug interventions
Searching for evidence for health technology assessments (HTAs) is time-consuming because the evidence identified must be a reliable basis for robust assessment results: The scientific knowledge about the benefits and harms ...
Apr 17, 2024
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