Addiction
Senator holds fentanyl round table as WA becomes overdose epicenter
Why is Washington the epicenter of the fentanyl crisis?
Jul 25, 2023
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News tagged with grant
Medical research
Doctors warn of looming threat to America's surgical research
Surgeons who also conduct important biomedical research are struggling to obtain research funding, and that "broken pipeline" could spell extinction for surgeon-scientists and slow innovations for patients if something isn't ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Medications
Australia is the first country to let patients with depression or PTSD be prescribed psychedelics
Australia is now the first country to allow psychiatrists to prescribe certain psychedelic substances to patients with depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jul 1, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
A Catch-22 for clinics: State bans limit abortion counseling. Federal Title X rules require it
State abortion bans in Tennessee and beyond, which constrain women's health care, have put family planning clinics at risk of losing their federal funding.
Jun 5, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Billions is spent on cancer research globally—but is it money well spent?
In 2020, 19 million people around the world received a cancer diagnosis. By 2040, that number is expected to reach 28 million. Poorer countries will be especially hard hit, with an increasing number of cases and more deaths, ...
Jun 2, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
New Mexico program to reduce maternity care deserts in rural areas fights for survival
Thirteen weeks into her pregnancy, 29-year-old Cloie Davila was so "pukey" and nauseated that she began lovingly calling her baby "spicy."
May 18, 2023
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
A new model for identifying the causes of osteoarthritis in each patient: The basis for personalizing future treatments
A recent study by UPF's BCN MedTech Research Unit has outlined a new computational model that simulates the interactions between the proteins present in joint cells and helps pinpoint the factors that cause osteoarthritis ...
Apr 4, 2023
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Surgery
Women surgeons remain underrepresented in surgeon-scientists
Despite earlier success in receiving National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding, women surgeons are underrepresented among surgeon-scientists, according to a study published online March 20 in JAMA Network Open.
Mar 25, 2023
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Medical research
Black and women scientists are less likely to have multiple research grants, finds study
A growing number of researchers have more than two grants simultaneously from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but women and Black researchers are less likely than white men to be among them, a new Yale study finds. ...
Feb 28, 2023
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Medical economics
Commentary: Two decades of stagnant funding have rendered Canada uncompetitive in biomedical research
You may imagine that the hard part of being a Canadian scientist is having a bright idea. However, while curiosity, persistence and inventiveness are prerequisites for scientific success, the major obstacle to being a biomedical ...
Feb 17, 2023
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