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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Top of the morning to you, and a fine one it is. There is nothing like being greeted with clear blue skies and cool breezes upon waking up today on the Pharmalot campus. Birds are chirping, butterflies are flurrying, and official mascots are barking. And we are similarly engaged in early-in-the-day rituals of our own…
Credit: Journal of Clinical Investigation (2024). DOI: 10.1172/JCI170118 B-cells infiltrating the lungs may be responsible for one of the most common complications in lung transplantation, which can lead to rejection, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Roughly 2,500 people receive lung transplants each year, according to the U.S. Department of…
Sapio ELN release 24.5 features multiple improvements, including enhanced CRISPR design with multiple sequence alignment and integration with small molecule research. Image Credit: Nuttapong Punna/Shutterstock.com BALTIMORE, MD, May 7, 2024 — Sapio Sciences, the science-awareTM lab informatics platform, today announced Sapio ELNSM release 24.5. The latest release of its electronic laboratory notebook software includes an advanced…
Darker skin tones were underrepresented in images on patient-facing online educational material about skin cancer, an analysis of photos from six different federal and organization websites showed. Given the known disparities patients with darker skin tones face in terms of increased skin cancer morbidity and mortality, this lack of representation further disadvantages those patients by…
In his 2015 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced a precision medicine initiative that would later be known as the All of Us program. The research, now well underway at the National Institutes of Health, aims to analyze the DNA of at least 1 million people across the United States to build a diverse health database. The key word there is “diverse.” So…
