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STATHealth officials toss Trump-era proposal to exempt AI tools from review - 2 days
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STATInternational team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos – STAT - 2 days
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Scientists have created the first embryos that were part human and part monkey and kept them alive for up to 20 days in laboratory...
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A team of scientists from the U.S., China, and Spain reported Thursday they have created the first embryos that were part human and part monkey and kept them alive for up to 20 days in laboratory dishes. https://t.co/cCnlIKGcyM - view on twitter
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STATWHO warns the world is still failing to develop much-needed antibiotics - 2 days
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A new World Health Organization report shows a “persistent failure to develop, manufacture, and distribute” effective new antibiotics....
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"The rate of antibiotic resistance is only going to continue to increase," said Hatim Sati of the WHO. "It's only a matter of time.” https://t.co/3teTvJAgeq - view on twitter
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STATWill following a ketogenic diet make me a pariah in medical school? – STAT - 1 day
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My personal experience with the benefits of a ketogenic diet will conflict with what I’ll be taught in medical school. Which to...
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Opinion: A ketogenic diet, maligned by the medical establishment, has made a huge difference in my fight against ulcerative colitis. Am I being fooled by this, or is conventional medicine turning a blind eye toward an effective therapy? https://t.co/hpdI7PhpHn - view on twitter
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STATSome experts fear next-generation Covid vaccines may be worse - 1 day
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The concerns stem from a phenomenon that is known as imprinting, which is believed to affect how we respond to some...
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Some scientists are increasingly concerned that, because of a quirk of our own biology, future iterations of Covid-19 vaccines might not always be quite as effective as they are today. https://t.co/XD8jEHU2HB - view on twitter
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STATDigital health startups want to bring glucose monitors to the masses - 1 hour
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Glucose monitors are now so cheap, they’ve spawned a crop of health tech startups selling the devices to consumers who don’t have...
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Glucose monitors revolutionized diabetes care. Now digital health startups want to bring them to the masses The story by @KatieMPalmer here: https://t.co/KcPYuemVQW https://t.co/KcPYuemVQW - view on twitter
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STATMerck to continue tests of Covid pill, but stop trial in hospitalized patients - 2 days
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The Summit, N.J.-based drug giant licensed the anti-Covid pill, molnupiravir, from Ridgeback Biotherapeutics last...
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Merck said that it has seen “encouraging” results in a clinical trial of an antiviral pill to treat Covid-19 early in the disease’s course, but the pill failed to help hospitalized patients and must be used very early in the disease. https://t.co/6KlWPUjCQY - view on twitter
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STATBiotech analyst Josh Schimmer on pandemic drug development – STAT - 1 day
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“We did need to throw a lot of spaghetti against the Covid window and just kind of see what was going to stick,” Schimmer...
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Josh Schimmer, who has been analyzing the pharmaceutical industry for decades, weighs in on drug development during the pandemic. https://t.co/jiA2Lt9IQo - view on twitter
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STATWTO head urges movement on controversial Covid-19 vaccine proposal - 2 days
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“This is a problem of the global commons, and we have to solve it together,” said WTO Director-General Ngozi...
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“This is a problem of the global commons, and we have to solve it together,” said WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. https://t.co/T24Gf31d4N - view on twitter
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STATListen: Two addiction specialists debunk ‘excited delirium’ – STAT - 22 hours
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The “diagnosis” of excited delirium has been used to explain the deaths of people in police custody. But it’s a spurious...
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Two addiction specialists debunk the myth of ‘excited delirium’ used in police encounters Listen to the latest episode of the "First Opinion Podcast" here: https://t.co/pvHEUHwtvF - view on twitter
The last-minute proposal would have exempted a wide swath of medical devices and artificial intelligence tools from regulatory...
In a searing rebuke, the Biden administration is formally withdrawing a last-minute proposal by the Trump administration to exempt a wide swath of medical devices and artificial intelligence tools from regulatory review. https://t.co/HO4JnroVvt - view on twitter