Tag: health care
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Fitness 2024: to lose weight or feel good, this is how we will train this year
Awareness of the importance of exercise for psychological well-being is growing.
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Challenge Seeks Precise Addiction Strategies, Biomarkers, Treatments
A challenge competition with a $50 million purse seeks new strategies to attack the global substance abuse epidemic, including personalized diagnostics and treatments.
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Coalition to Boost African Ancestry Genomic Data
An historically Black medical college and pharmaceutical industry group began a program to increase the numbers of people of African descent in genomic databases.
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Genetic Tests of Breast Cancer Patients Shown Useful
Experiences from a rural hospital in North Carolina show hereditary genetic testing of all breast cancer patients is feasible and can result in changes in care for many patients.
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FDA Funds Study of Real World Data for Biosimilars
A group of managed care organizations is examining the value of real world data from Europe and the U.S. to help FDA review alternative biologic drugs.
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Vaccine Shown to Protect Against Multiple Hospital Pathogens
Research with lab mice shows an experimental vaccine stimulates the body’s basic immune system to protect against a range of pathogens associated with hospital infections.
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Trial Shows Broad Coronavirus Immune Response
Initial results from a clinical trial show an experimental vaccine produces immune responses in healthy adults against Covid-19 variants and a range of other coronaviruses.
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Small Biz Award Funds Wearable Drug Delivery Patch
A developer of medical devices designed as skin patches received a contract to develop a device to deliver any drug approved by FDA for delivery through the skin.
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Infographic – Deaths From Nipah Virus
Nipah virus is a rare but deadly infectious disease affecting south and southeast Asia, and since August the Kerala state in India recorded six Nipah cases leading to two deaths.
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Challenge Seeks Point-of-Care, Home Maternal Health Technologies
A crowdsourced competition offered by NIH is seeking new technologies to monitor the health and detect early problems with new babies and their mothers, at the point of care or in the home.