Medical economics
Two years into the pandemic, unequal access to COVID-19 treatments threatens the global recovery
It's now two years since the World Health Organization began calling the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic.
Mar 14, 2022
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Diabetes
Reprogramming a patient's immune cells to heal the pancreas and restore the ability to make insulin
Promising research from The University of Toledo suggests it might be possible to cure Type I diabetes by reprogramming a patient's own immune cells to heal the pancreas and restore the body's ability to make insulin.
Feb 7, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Global vaccine equity key to ending COVID-19 pandemic
As the COVID-19 crisis continues around the world, public health and infectious disease experts at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry are pushing for global vaccine equity to end the pandemic.
Feb 2, 2022
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Cardiology
Scientists find predictors of heart disease among Black Americans that are shared across ethnicities
Coronary heart disease, which is a major cause of heart attack, develops when damaged or clogged arteries cannot deliver enough oxygen-rich blood to the heart. Black Americans are at greater risk of coronary heart disease ...
Jan 21, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Blood test may one day predict severe pregnancy complication
A blood test may one day be able to predict whether someone who is pregnant will develop a serious blood pressure disorder months before symptoms show up.
Jan 8, 2022
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Medications
Smarter prescriptions from doctors could save NHS billions
GP's could save billions of pounds for the NHS by switching patients' prescriptions from patented medicine to alternative drugs whose patent has expired, a new study shows. Researchers found that whilst some practitioners ...
Nov 19, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Immune system early responder can combat COVID-19
A simple RNA molecule jumpstarts the immune system's "first responders" to viral infection and can even eradicate the SARS-CoV-2 virus in mice with chronic cases of COVID-19, a new Yale School of Medicine study finds.
Nov 10, 2021
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Medications
New strategy against treatment-resistant prostate cancer identified
Many patients with prostate cancer are treated with drugs that lower or block hormones that fuel tumor growth. While the drugs are effective for a time, most patients eventually develop resistance to these therapies.
Nov 5, 2021
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Vaccination
Moderna has no plans to share its COVID-19 vaccine recipe
Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company's own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company's chairman said Monday.
Oct 11, 2021
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Cardiology
Low-cost, portable device could diagnose heart attacks in minutes
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Florida have developed a sensor that could diagnose a heart attack in less than 30 minutes, according to a study published in Lab on a Chip.
Oct 1, 2021
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