Mount Sinai is on a mission to provide quality health care for all. October 12, 2020, 1:26 PM • 7 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article This report is part of “Turning Point,” a groundbreaking series by ABC News examining the racial reckoning sweeping the United States […]
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Ditch the Dirty campaign Genexa As a parent, I’m always thinking of my six year old son and how to keep him healthy and safe. I was surprised to hear of the idea of “clean medicine” – and learn more about how common medications oftentimes contain ingredients which could be […]
Ruth O’Regan, M.D., chief of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin, has been named the next Charles A. Dewey Professor and Chair of Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s School of Medicine and Dentistry, pending approval by the University Board of Trustees. Dr. […]
IMAGE: A collection of drug response classifiers based on DCO networks view more Credit: SBNB lab (IRB Barcelona) Cancer driver genes are those with mutations that are essential for tumour development and spread. Led by ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy, scientists from the Structural Bioinformatics and Network Biology (SBNB) Laboratory at IRB […]
Sidra Medicine saves life of teen with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome 28 Sep 2020 – 18:28 Dr Volkan Tuzcu with an international patient Doha: An expert team from Sidra Medicine’s Heart Center have saved the life of a boy born with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome. WPW is a condition that causes the heart […]
KARACHI: A research facility at Karachi University (KU) in collaboration with the Indus Hospital (IH) has recently begun clinical trial of a traditional Chinese medicine to treat mild cases of Covid-19, sources told Dawn on Monday. According to researchers at Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research at […]
Alfardan Group in partnership with Northwestern Medicine, has ventured into the medical sector in the country with the opening of Alfardan Medical with Northwestern Medicine (AMNM), a patient-centric, ambulatory care centre at Lusail City. The details of the new centre were announced at a webinar on Sunday, attended by officials […]
IMAGE: Illustration for Research Story Tips from Johns Hopkins Medicine view more Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine NO BONES ABOUT IT: WILD GORILLAS DON’T DEVELOP OSTEOPOROSIS LIKE THEIR HUMAN COUSINS Media Contact: Rachel Butch, [email protected] In a study of gorilla skeletons collected in the wild, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and their […]
An expert team from Sidra Medicine’s Heart Center have saved the life of a boy born with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome, that causes the heart to beat abnormally fast for periods of time due to an extra electrical connection in the heart. Abdulla, 16, was brought to Sidra Medicine after experiencing […]
The editorial says the U.S. has failed at every step, criticizing President Donald Trump for a lack of policies that led to excess deaths, for undermining government agencies and attacking science. The New York Times: In A First, New England Journal Of Medicine Joins Never-Trumpers Throughout its 208-year history, The […]
Residents of a private halfway house in Colorado Springs say they struggled for weeks to access personal funds for food, medication and other necessities while their halfway house-issued checks were rejected by banks and check-cashing services. The snag at Community Alternatives of El Paso persisted despite administrators’ promises to fix […]
Jen Johns has been named the new executive director of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio (AMCNO), the local physician advocacy group. Johns will begin on Monday, Oct. 19, replacing Elayne R. Biddlestone, who plans to retire at the end of this year after serving as a […]
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ANN ARBOR – Michigan Medicine and Janssen, a division of Johnson & Johnson, are now recruiting for a double-blind phase III COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial. Known as the ENSEMBLE study, the trial will test an investigational vaccine to prevent COVID-19. The University of Michigan is one of several test sites […]
Scientists from the University of Glasgow are developing new ways to predict who will respond to drugs targeting damaged DNA in pancreatic cancer. Publishing their findings in Gastroenterology, the team used cells grown in the lab (cell lines) and mini replicas of patients’ tumours (organoids) to identify molecular markers that can […]
An old residential house, which hosted the district offices of tuberculosis prevention, leprosy and blindness prevention, on the premises of the Government Wenlock Hospital here will be demolished to construct a five-storeyed super-speciality medicine block of the hospital under the Smart City Mission. Notices have been served on the district […]
DALLAS, Oct. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is working with the Stanford University School of Medicine to review the carrier’s multi-layered approach to supporting the well-being of Customers and Employees during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Southwest Promise encompasses the changes the airline has made to its around-the-clock operations, […]
A patient receiving supplemental oxygen is likely to benefit the most. Credit: 99Art/Shutterstock The results of the ACTT-1 trial, which looked at the effectiveness of remdesivir as a treatment for COVID-19, have finally been published. So far the only drug that has been shown to reduce deaths from the disease […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientists have developed a new “precision medicine” approach to treating the damaged DNA in the cancer cells of Pancreatic Cancer patients. The findings mark an important step forward for potential treatment options for pancreatic cancer, improving the options and outcomes for a disease where survival rates […]
Now more than ever, it is undeniable how integral science and research have become to public health. Nationwide, doctors, scientists and experts are working around the clock to find the most up-to-date and reliable information to prevent and stop the spread of Covid-19. Here are five must-know women who are […]
New Zealand has allocated an undisclosed sum, in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, to access COVID-19 vaccines when they become available. The funding is on top of a NZ$37 million vaccine strategy, but the government has not released specifics because of commercial sensitivities that “could prevent the […]
A terminally ill Frenchman who had planned to live stream his death on social media told AFP Saturday that he would refuse all food and medication “until the very end”. Alain Cocq, 57, had earlier announced he was refusing all food, drink and medicine from September 5 after French President […]
The best opportunity for preventive care, according to Wojtys, occurs in the teenage years, decades before diagnosis. “Peak bone mass is dependent on 5 main factors: sex, race, hormones, nutrition and physical activity,” he wrote. “Sex and race are nonmodifiable, while nutrition, physical activity and hormones are. “While all the […]
As the use of traditional medicine continues to gain momentum around the world, Zulal Wellness Resort is set to bring Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medicine (TAIM) to the forefront of the wellness industry in Qatar, the region and the world. Traditional Arabic and Islamic Medicine contains an abundant source of […]
Cancel culture has come to medicine. Dr. Scott Atlas, who was chairman of neuroradiology at Stanford’s medical school until 2012 and more recently a senior fellow at the university’s Hoover Institution, has been singled out for professional erasure by 98 of his former Stanford medical, epidemiological, and health-policy colleagues because […]
In the Danish Society of Sports Physical Therapy (DSSF), we were greatly inspired by the paper: ‘We need to talk about manels: the problem of implicit gender bias in sport and exercise medicine’ published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine in 2018.1 The paper elegantly addresses gender bias in […]