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Mashup Score: 4Gene therapy trial targeting rare form of deafness shows ‘jaw-droppingly good’ results - 2 hour(s) ago
Two congenitally deaf children can hear after being treated with a gene therapy, according to new data from an ongoing clinical trial.
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Mashup Score: 11
While the bird flu virus risk to the general public is still very low, the threat is more significant for farm workers in contact with cows.
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The FDA nod means trial sponsors can use Apple Watch’s A-fib history as a secondary endpoint in trials without having to do additional work.
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Mashup Score: 0Life science leaders on how to make drug development less expensive, slow, and risky - 5 hour(s) ago
New ways of identifying and testing therapies, a more precise understanding of disease, and a renewed sense of urgency could help speed up drug development.
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Mashup Score: 3
The federal government will provide livestock farms with money to bolster protective measures and testing for the avian flu virus spreading among dairy cows, officials said.
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Endo “was one of the worst actors in the opioid crisis” said Andrew Kolodny of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University.
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Mashup Score: 5CRISPR edits fail to cure HIV patients in early test - 7 hour(s) ago
Excision BioTherapeutics reported Friday that an early trial failed to cure HIV patients, but the company plans to try again with a more efficient editing treatment.
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“We’ve sort of anthropomorphized AI and said it has to be a thing that’s going to replace a human. Why are we not reenvisioning that it’s something that can assist a human?”
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Mashup Score: 4Alzheimer’s risk gene APOE4 may cause a distinct form of the disease, study suggests - 9 hour(s) ago
The authors argue that the APOE4 gene variant plays an even more important role than scientists had realized and causes a distinct form of Alzheimer’s.
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Mashup Score: 2The public wants Medicare to cover obesity drugs - 10 hour(s) ago
Medicare is currently barred from covering drugs for weight losses purposes. But roughly 61% of adults say they think Medicare should cover these medications, including 66% of Democrats and 55% of Republicans.
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