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Virtual Reality Shown to Reduce Blood Draw Pain in Kids
Findings from a clinical trial show the use of virtual reality can prevent much of the pain and anxiety in children when drawing blood for tests.
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Are You Ready To Do Business In The Digital World?
Here are a few things that you need to think about in order to make sure that you’re ready to do business in the digital world.
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New Finance, Development Model for Pancreatic Disease
An organization is being formed to adopt performance-based financing and precision medicine to accelerate research and development on pancreatitis.
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New Drug Shown to Reduce Depressive Behaviors
A new type of treatment for depression that works differently from most other anti-depressive drugs was shown in lab mice to reduce depression-like behaviors.
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FDA Sets Genetic Health Test Review Process
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing new review requirements for genetic tests of health risks that providers market directly to consumers.
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Plasma Infusions to Treat Alzheimer’s Shown Safe
Results from a small-scale clinical trial indicate treatments with plasma infusions from young donors are safe for patients and may improve functional abilities.
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Infographic – Costs of Climate Change Soar
Our friends at Statista provide a look at the financial impact of climate change since 1990, just from extreme weather events.
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Autonomous, Human-Friendly Forklifts Being Developed
An academic-industry team in Europe is developing new forklift vehicles that can work safely alongside humans in warehouses.
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Start-Up Formed to Develop Non-Opioid Pain Drugs
A new enterprise is being formed to develop non-addictive drugs for chronic pain that use different biochemical processes than opioid pain relievers.
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Lab-On-Chip Device Simulates Tumor Microenvironment
Biomedical engineers designed a device that simulates the supportive environment in which tumors grow, and in tests was shown to work as well as lab mice for assessing cancer drugs.