August 23, 2019
(Bloomberg) – In the past few weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has dropped the hammer on pharmaceutical giants and biotech upstarts alike. The agency slammed Novartis for manipulating data and rejected what would’ve been Sarepta Therapeutics’s second drug for … Read More
August 23, 2019
(PBS News Hour) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new tuberculosis antibiotic this month could be a significant win not only for TB patients, but for a burgeoning nonprofit model for developing prescription drugs. Tuberculosis kills … Read More
August 23, 2019
(ProPublica) – Once it was called “hysterical” movement disorder, or simply “hysteria.” Later it was labeled “psychogenic.” Now it’s a “functional disorder.” By any name, it’s one of the most puzzling afflictions — and problematic diagnoses — in medicine. It … Read More
August 23, 2019
(The Atlantic) – So Prakash and his colleague Hongquan Li built a fancier microscope—a high-speed, malaria-detecting device that they’ve called Octopi. It can automatically scan entire blood-smeared slides for malaria parasites, using a neural network trained on more than 20,000 … Read More
August 23, 2019
(The New Yorker) – For most of the twentieth century, the definition of a drug was simple, because drugs were simple: they were typically small molecules synthesized in factories or extracted from plants, purified, and packaged into pills. Later, the … Read More
August 22, 2019
(New York Times) – Sixteen states have now reported 153 cases of serious, vaping-related respiratory illnesses in the past two months, and many of the patients are teenagers or young adults. In a statement on Wednesday, the Centers for Disease … Read More
August 22, 2019
(NPR) – When Lalita Manrai went to see her doctor for treatment of kidney disease, she noticed that some of the blood test results had different “normal” ranges for African Americans compared with everybody else. When she asked her doctor … Read More
August 22, 2019
(Medscape) – Next month, when Maine passes a law allowing physician-assisted dying (PAD), it will be joining nine other jurisdictions in the United States. By October, one in five Americans (22%) will have a law that allows terminally ill patients, … Read More
August 22, 2019
(STAT News) – Since the Food and Drug Administration blasted Novartis (NVS) earlier this month over data manipulation, one of the major questions looming over the matter has been why the agency came down so publicly on the drug maker. … Read More
August 22, 2019
(BBC) – That’s where crowdfunding comes into its own. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association identified 408 US campaigns for stem cell treatment on YouCaring and GoFundMe, with more than $7m sought and 13,050 donor … Read More
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