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First operating system for quantum networks

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have announced the creation of the first operating system designed for quantum networks: QNodeOS. The research marks a major step forward in transforming quantum networking from a theoretical concept to a practical technology that could revolutionize the future of the internet.

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More Children Accidentally Poisoned By Fentanyl

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- The number of children poisoned through exposure to fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, has skyrocketed in recent years, researchers have reported.Fentanyl poisonings increased by 924% among children 12 and younger.

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Black holes: not endings, but beginnings? New research could revolutionize our understanding of the universe

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our current understanding of these cosmic giants.

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Poll Reveals Only 17 Percent Think Medicaid Funding Should Be Cut

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- Only 17 percent of adults say they want to see Medicaid funding decreased, while 42 percent think funding should increase and 40 percent think it should be kept about the same, according to results of the February 2025.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Robotics and spinal stimulation restore movement in paralysis

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists have developed an approach that combines rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord stimulation to restore movement in people with spinal cord injuries. The technology enhances rehabilitation and enables activities like cycling and walking outdoors.

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How climate change affects rain and floods

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Climate change may lead to more precipitation and more intense floods. A new study shows that to understand the details of this relationship, it is important to distinguish between different types of rainfall and flood events -- namely, between short-term events that occur on a time scale of hours, and longer-term events that last several days. In each case, climate change has a different impact.

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New technology puts a spatial lens on CRISPR screening

Broad Institute

New technology puts a spatial lens on CRISPR screening By Leah Eisenstadt March 12, 2025 Breadcrumb Home New technology puts a spatial lens on CRISPR screening Perturb-FISH reveals impacts of perturbations on gene expression and phenotype with single-cell, spatial resolution, allowing study of effects within and between cells. By Leah Eisenstadt March 12, 2025 Credit: Broad Communications Scientists in the Spatial Technology Platform at the Broad develop, use, and share spatial -omics approaches

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How the brain uses 'building blocks' to navigate social interactions

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study.

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Dozens of Laid-Off CDC Workers Push to Get Their Jobs Back

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- A group of former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) employees is fighting to get their jobs back after being abruptly laid off last month. In a letter sent Monday to Health and Human Services (HHS).

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Entwined dwarf stars reveal their location thanks to repeated radio bursts

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours. Their findings means we know it isn't just neutron stars that emit such pulses, but these are spaced unusually far apart.

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Splash Your Way To Weight Loss Through Water Aerobics

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- Purposeful splishing and splashing can help you trim your waist size and drop excess pounds, a new evidence review has concluded.Water aerobics led to about 6 pounds of weight loss and more than an inch off the waists.

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Signs of alien life may be hiding in these gases

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Scientists identify a new way to detect life in outer space with currently existing telescopes. The method hinges on worlds that look nothing like Earth, and gases rarely considered in the search for extraterrestrials.

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Flagship startup raises $200M in pursuit of ‘scientific superintelligence’

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Funded by investors such as Flagship and General Catalyst, the AI startup claims its platform will help scientists speed up the experimentation process.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Two-thirds of children classified BMI-overweight had normal fat estimated with waist-to-height ratio

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Body mass index (BMI) was almost three times more likely to classify children as overweight than waist circumference-to-height ratio, according to a new study.

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RFK Jr. Pushes for Stricter Oversight of Chemicals in Food

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- The nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is taking steps to tighten oversight of chemicals in the U.S. food supply, a key component of his Make America Healthy Again agenda.On March 10, Kennedy dir.

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'Doomsday Clock' and patterns of mortality and mental health in the United States

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A new study investigated the mortality and mental health correlates of the iconic Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock.

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A new obesity biotech launches; Gilead plans to quickly advance once-yearly PrEP for HIV

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Harbour BioMed created Élancé Therapeutics to develop bispecific antibody drugs for weight loss. Elsewhere, Geron’s CEO is departing after 14 years.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered

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The discovery of a human facial fragment aged over one million years represents the oldest known face in western Europe and confirms the region was inhabited by two species of human during the early Pleistocene, finds a new study.

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Roche broadens obesity drug plans with $1.65B Zealand deal

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The deal gives the Swiss pharma access to an experimental amylin-targeting treatment it will test in combination with drugs it acquired from Carmot.

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Delhi air pollution worse than expected as water vapor skews figures

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New Delhi's air pollution is more severe than previously estimated with particles absorbing atmospheric water vapor leading to particulate matter levels across the city being underestimated by up to 20%.

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America's Well-To-Do Have Less Heart Disease Risk

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- Well-to-do and better-educated Americans have far lower rates of heart disease than the rest of the population, a new study says.The top 20% of high-income, college-educated Americans have less heart disease risk than.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Ono pays $280M to license Ionis rare disease drug

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Ionis’ drug, sapablursen, is currently being tested in a Phase 2 trial in patients with polycythemia vera.

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Pickleballers Bounce Back After Joint Replacement

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- Love pickleball, but facing a knee or hip replacement?Odds are youll return to the court in no time, a new study suggests.More than 7 of 10 regular pickleball players pick up their paddle promptly following joint r.

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Disabling Cookies in Sitecore SDKs

Perficient: Drug Development

Intro In this post, we’ll take a look at a couple Sitecore SDKs commonly used to build XM Cloud head applications. Specifically, we’ll be looking at how to disable cookies used by these SDKs. This can be useful for data privacy and/or regulatory compliance reasons. These SDKs allow your application to integrate with other composable Sitecore services like analytics, personalization, and search.

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Spouses Also Benefit From Partner's Knee/Hip Replacement

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- Knee or hip replacement is a major surgery, and many people must lean hard on their spouses to care for them during weeks to months of recuperation.But all that hassle is absolutely worthwhile for the one providing care.

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mRNA Therapeutics: Revolutionizing Treatment Beyond Vaccines

DrugBank

Introduction Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology has emerged as one of the most significant medical breakthroughs. The COVID-19 pandemic brought mRNA to global prominence by developing highly effective vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. In recognition of this groundbreaking advancement, the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their pioneering work on mRNA modifications that enabled its clinical use.

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Responsive Parenting Can Help Counter Childhood Obesity

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, March 12, 2025 -- Kids are more likely to maintain a healthy weight if their parents adopt a responsive style while theyre babies and toddlers, a new study suggests.Children had a significantly lower average body mass index (BMI) t.

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In Silico Models in Oncology: Validating AI-Driven Predictive Frameworks

Crown Bioscience

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and bioinformatics into oncology research has revolutionized how we approach drug discovery, tumor modeling, and patient-specific therapy design. In silico models, which rely on computational simulations and predictive frameworks, are now central to preclinical research and precision medicine. By combining AI algorithms with large-scale biological datasets, these models offer unprecedented accuracy in predicting tumor behavior and therapeutic outco

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German Pharmaceutical Compliance: The Role of Medical Information

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When a pharmaceutical company completes clinical trials and prepares to launch a medical product, the focus often shifts to regulatory approvals, market access, and commercialization. However, one crucial aspect that must not be overlooked is Medical Information (MI) the vital bridge between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals (HCPs) or patients.