February 21, 2020
(Kaiser Health News) – Nashville General Hospital is a safety-net facility funded by the Tennessee capital city. For a patient without insurance, this is supposed to be the best place to go in a city with many hospitals. But for … Read More
February 21, 2020
(Reuters) – Some of the industry’s largest pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Eli Lilly and Co (LLY.N), have developed a blockchain-based system to track prescription drugs across the supply chain to better halt the flow of counterfeit medicines, … Read More
February 21, 2020
(BBC) – Indian authorities are investigating claims that dozens of women were forced to have gynaecological tests to prove their fitness for work. The women, trainee government clerks in the city of Surat, in Gujarat, say they were also checked … Read More
February 21, 2020
(STAT News) – There are worrying signs the coronavirus outbreak is entering a new phase, with spread outside of China — until recently at low levels — beginning to rapidly pick up steam. Experts point to the sharp rise of … Read More
February 21, 2020
(Science) – Heart disease is the primary cause of death worldwide, principally because the heart has minimal ability to regenerate muscle tissue. Myocardial infarction (heart attack) caused by coronary artery disease leads to heart muscle loss and replacement with scar … Read More
February 20, 2020
(STAT News) – Infectious diseases experts are losing confidence in the accuracy of China’s count of cases of the novel coronavirus, pointing toward health officials’ shifting definition of cases over time. Confusion over how China is counting cases of infections … Read More
February 20, 2020
(Scientific American) – Researchers are concerned that China’s official reports on the number of coronavirus infections have not been including people who have tested positive for the virus but who have no symptoms. They fear the practice is masking the … Read More
February 20, 2020
(The Guardian) – A legal action over access to a fertility clinic’s private records concerning the storage of a dead person’s “sperm and/or embryos” is being heard by the family court partly in secret. The highly unusual claim, of which … Read More
February 20, 2020
(The Guardian) – A powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world has been discovered using artificial intelligence. The drug works in a different way to existing antibacterials and is the first of its … Read More
February 20, 2020
(Politico) – Europe wants to keep writing the rules of the digital future, but a reality check may be in the offing instead. The EU’s latest bid for power in the online realm is a five-year digital policy blueprint unveiled … Read More
