November 14, 2019
(Reuters) – Although cancer doctors know it’s important to talk about fertility concerns with young women patients, they may feel uncomfortable and unprepared to discuss the issue, a study in Canada suggests. The American Society of Clinical Oncology guidelines recommend … Read More
November 14, 2019
(Nature) – They are the longest lived primate embryos to thrive outside the body. Two groups working in China have succeeded in growing monkey embryos in a dish for 20 days. The work sheds light on a crucial but little-understood … Read More
November 14, 2019
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved BeiGene Ltd’s lymphoma treatment, validating the China-based drugmaker’s strategy of largely using data from trials held outside the United States to file for approval. The company tested the treatment, … Read More
November 14, 2019
(The Atlantic) – In the six years since, Google has gone from a basic digital reference book to a multibillion-dollar player in the health-care industry, with the potential to combine medical and search data in myriad alarming new ways. Earlier … Read More
November 14, 2019
(Tech Crunch) – Opioid addiction is easily one of the top widespread healthcare issues facing the U.S., and research indicates we’re nowhere near achieving any kind of significant mitigating solution. But a team of medical researchers working at the West … Read More
November 14, 2019
(New York Times) – Harvard’s new study is just one of three new large research efforts that Apple is working on with leading academic research centers and health organizations. Together, the studies, which Apple is paying for, show how the … Read More
November 14, 2019
(CNET) – Self-driving cars are basically in the Wild West right now. Sure, there are some federal guidelines, but mostly, it’s patchwork stuff that varies from state to state. The Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium was founded by US automakers to try … Read More
November 14, 2019
(Wired) – The Pentagon says artificial intelligence will help the US military become still more powerful. On Thursday, an advisory group including executives from Google, Microsoft, and Facebook proposed ethical guidelines to prevent military AI from going off the rails. … Read More
November 14, 2019
(The Guardian) – Germany’s parliament has voted to make measles vaccinations compulsory for children, in response to a global rise in cases of the disease. Parents who refuse to get their children inoculated face fines of up to €2,500 (£2,140) … Read More
November 13, 2019
(STAT News) – An estimated 35,000 Americans die of antibiotic-resistant infections each year — one every 15 minutes — according to a stark new report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention that reveals that the problem is substantially … Read More
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