Michael Scaturro When dermatologist Adewole “Ade” Adamson sees people spritzing sunscreen as if it’s cologne at the pool where he lives in Austin, Texas, he wants to intervene. “My wife says I shouldn’t,” he said, “even though most people rarely use enough sunscreen.” At issue is not just whether people are using enough sunscreen, but…
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Editor’s note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. It took decades for scientists to come up with treatments that could slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. Now patients and physicians face a new challenge: actually getting the medicines to people who might benefit from them. Join us for…
Cryo-soft X-ray tomography 3D reconstructions of segmented mitochondria (brown) in the cytoplasm around the nucleus (blue) in herpes simplex virus type 1 infected cell. Credit: Maija Vihinen-Ranta Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have found that herpesvirus infection modifies the structure and normal function of the mitochondria in the host cell. The new information could…
Broken String Biosciences (“Broken String”), a genomics company driving development of the next generation of more precise, safe, and effective cell and gene therapies, today announced it has entered a research collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, a world-leading biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the biology underlying health and disease. In partnership with leading researchers at the Crick, the…
TOPLINE: Overall, patients with solid tumors who receive an investigational cancer drug experience small progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival benefits but much higher toxicity than those who receive a control intervention. METHODOLOGY: The view that patients with cancer benefit from access to investigational drugs in the clinical trial setting is widely held but does…
To combat impactful challenges such as financial strain, staff burnout, resource scarcity, and other operational inefficiencies, hospitals and health systems need to adopt new methods of optimization. One of the most crucial weapons organizations have in the fight against inefficiency is their own awareness. By elevating their awareness level, hospitals and health systems can not…
Healthcare-focused cybersecurity company Blackwell Security has secured $13 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst and Rally Ventures. The company also hired Geyer Jones as its first chief executive officer. Jones previously served as chief operating officer at healthcare IoT security company Cylera and chief strategy officer at RSA. The Michigan-based company works…
President Joe Biden counts among his accomplishments the record-high number of people, more than 21 million, who enrolled in Obamacare plans this year. Behind the scenes, however, federal regulators are contending with a problem that affects people’s coverage: rogue brokers who have signed people up for Affordable Care Act plans, or switched them into new…
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