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
(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 13, 2019
(BBC) – A second Ebola vaccine is to be offered to around 50,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a major clinical trial. The Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine will be used alongside a vaccine made … Read More
November 13, 2019
(STAT News) – A new report examining the first decade of study results being reported on ClinicalTrials[dot]gov finds that there has been slow progress among drug companies and academic research centers in reporting the results of human studies, but the … Read More
November 12, 2019
(STAT News) – Unfortunately, there are many more examples like this one in which manufacturers used legal orders to keep hidden information that would have been important to public health and clinical decision-making. There is growing consensus today that we … Read More
November 11, 2019
(The Wall Street Journal) – Google is engaged in a secret project with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar … Read More
November 8, 2019
(NPR) – The self-driving Uber SUV involved in a crash that killed a Tempe, Ariz., woman last year did not recognize her as a jaywalking pedestrian and its braking system was not designed to avoid an imminent collision, according to … Read More
November 8, 2019
(NPR) – The powerful gene-editing technique known as CRISPR has raised a lot of hope in recent years for its potential to offer new ways to treat many diseases, including cancer. But until now, scientists have released very little information … Read More
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