Are you depressed? Scents might help
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Smelling a familiar scent can help depressed individuals recall specific autobiographical memories and potentially assist in their recovery.
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Scientists Develop Sensor That Tests Saliva for Breast Cancer
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Mammograms are a lifesaving misery for middle-aged women, but a new tool could make getting a breast cancer screening as easy as spitting.Literally.A new hand-held biosensor can detect breast cancer biomarkers from a tiny.
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Great apes playfully tease each other
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Babies playfully tease others as young as eight months of age. Since language is not required for this behavior, similar kinds of playful teasing might be present in non-human animals. Now cognitive biologists and primatologists have documented playful teasing in four species of great apes. Like joking behavior in humans, ape teasing is provocative, persistent, and includes elements of surprise and play.
Syphilis Rates Among Pregnant Women Have Tripled, CDC Data Shows
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Maternal syphilis rates have tripled in recent years, putting thousands of newborns at risk for infection, a new U.S. government report shows.
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!
Polar bears unlikely to adapt to longer summers
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
More time stranded on land means greater risk of starvation for polar bears, a new study indicates. During three summer weeks, 20 polar bears closely observed by scientists tried different strategies to maintain energy reserves, including resting, scavenging and foraging. Yet nearly all of them lost weight rapidly: on average around 1 kilogram, or 2.2 pounds, per day.
Helping a Loved One With Dementia Enjoy Valentine's Day
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- When a loved one has dementia, Valentine's Day can be bittersweet."When dementia enters someone's life, it can change many things, including the dynamic of their relationships," said Jennifer Reeder, director of.
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A Quarter of Americans Breathe 'Unhealthy Air,' Report Shows
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Few can forget the haunting images of New York City bathed in a thick orange smog after smoke from Canadian wildfires swept southward last summer.Now, a new report from the First Street Foundation suggests these alarming.
Two GV partners on biotech’s reset and building their next drug startups
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Newly named partner Anthony Philippakis and managing partner Krishna Yeshwant spoke with BioPharma Dive about biotech’s newfound optimism and their investing “North Star.
Blood Test to Predict Schizophrenia Shows Promise
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 — Researchers say they have developed a blood test for schizophrenia.More than 3 million people in the United States have schizophrenia, a disorder marked by hallucinations and delusions, or a related psychotic.
Hand-held biosensor makes breast cancer screening fast, affordable, and accurate
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Researchers report successful results from a hand-held breast cancer screening device that can detect breast cancer biomarkers from a tiny sample of saliva. Their design uses common components, such as widely available glucose testing strips and the open-source hardware-software platform Arduino. A saliva sample is placed on the paper strip, which has been treated with specific antibodies that interact with the targeted cancer biomarkers.
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
Salt Substitutes Help Prevent High Blood Pressure
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Replacing regular salt with a salt substitute can reduce high blood pressure in older adults, a new study has found.Older adults who use a salt substitute are 40% less likely to develop high blood pressure compared to.
Road features that predict crash sites identified in new machine-learning model
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Issues such as abrupt changes in speed limits and incomplete lane markings are among the most influential factors that can predict road crashes, finds new research. The study then used machine learning to predict which roads may be the most dangerous based on these features.
Research With a Bang: Science Reveals How Loud Noise Damages Hearing
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Preventing noise-related hearing loss from a loud concert, a banging jackhammer or a rifle blast could be as simple as managing levels of zinc within the inner ear, a new study reports.Such hearing loss stems from cellular.
BioAge raises $170M to back Phase 2-ready obesity drug
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
BioAge’s Series D will fund a study combining its medicine with Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, a strategy the company hopes could help people lose weight while maintaining muscle mass.
How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency
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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.
Pregnancy Complications May Harm Child's Heart Health Long-Term
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13 -- Two of the most common pregnancy complications for women, high blood pressure and gestational diabetes, could jeopardize the future heart health of their children, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the children.
ADC startup ProfoundBio, led by Seagen veterans, raises $112M
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The Series B round will fund development of antibody-drug conjugates now in clinical testing, among them a rival to AbbVie’s ovarian cancer drug Elahere.
One in 10 Pregnant Women With COVID Will Develop Long COVID
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- Nearly 1 in every 10 women infected with COVID during pregnancy will go on to develop long COVID, a new study says.A little more than 9% of pregnant women developed long COVID six or more months after their initial.
Kalvista pill succeeds in late-stage study for rare swelling disorder
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
The biotech's drug quickly alleviated symptoms of the swelling attacks associated with hereditary angioedema, supporting the idea it could be an oral alternative to existing medicines.
Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire
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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.
Quality of EMS Care Across the Country Varies Widely
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- The care you receive in a medical emergency may hinge strongly on where you are when you need it.That's a key takeaway from a comprehensive review of the nation's emergency medical service (EMS) systems by researchers at.
Biogen has a fuzzy line of sight on prized Alzheimer’s drug
BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
CEO Chris Viehbacher said there are about 3,800 U.S. patients on a registry for Leqembi. But Biogen doesn’t have all the details, as development partner Eisai is leading commercial efforts.
Avoiding Meat Can Help Men Cope With Prostate Cancer Treatments
Drugs.com
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 -- The red meat diet associated with masculinity could be the worst thing for men dealing with prostate cancer, a new study says.Prostate cancer patients who limit meat and dairy but eat lots of plant-based foods tend to.
Replacing Postman with the REST Client Visual Studio Code Extension
Perficient: Drug Development
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
I (somehow) only recently discovered and began using the REST Client Visual Studio code extension created by Huachao Mao (GitHub: [link] ). It’s essentially an in-editor, Markdown-like HTTP request authoring and execution tool that allows developers to build a request (or multiple requests) in.http and/or.rest files. Think of it as a more Spartan, utilitarian version of Postman that lives right in the Visual Studio Code editor.
Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics
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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
Predicting Adverse Reactions to Monoclonal Antibody Drugs
addgene Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Monoclonal antibody drugs are popular therapeutics for a plethora of disease conditions, from cancer to autoimmune disorders. Antibodies administered as drugs are still immunogenic, meaning that they elicit an immune response from the body. Several factors contribute to the immunogenicity of a drug including the product origin; purity, mechanism, and stability; and sequence of biologic product, mode of administration, and dose (Lu et.al., 2020).
Microservices Architectural Design by using Spring Boot
Perficient: Drug Development
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
What is Microservices Architecture? Microservices Architecture Software development follows an architectural and organizational approach where small independent services communicate with each other through well-defined APIs. Overview of Microservices Architecture Microservices architecture provides a set of rules and guidelines to develop a project as a set of loosely coupled/de-coupled services, and this can be implemented using Spring Boot + Spring Cloud + Netflix and many other tools.
A recent update on huprine and its hybrids as a potential multifunctional agent for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease
Chemical Biology and Drug Design
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common age-related neurodegenerative brain disorder characterized by the impairment in memory and other cognitive functions. Although there is currently no successful pharmacotherapy for AD, and researchers are continuously exploring the various pathogenesis of AD to develop potential therapeutic drugs. Abstract Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common age-related neurodegenerative brain disorder characterized by the impairment in memory and other cognitive functions.
Pediatric sickle cell disease team uses pain screening to improve care
SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
CLEVELAND — A recent study from researchers at University Hospitals (UH) Connor Whole Health and UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital describes a quality improvement project where pain screening procedures were embedded within an outpatient pediatric sickle cell disease (SCD) clinic.
Treatment options for corneal epithelial defects
Antidote
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
In the human eye, the cornea's function is to refract light onto the lens and retina to maintain vision function — but this role is dependent on the corneal epithelium’s ability to renew itself continually. The corneal epithelium provides a barrier to protect the interior of the cornea from damage, but when it becomes injured, this function becomes impaired.
Virginia Tech researchers discover that blocking an essential nutrient inhibits malaria parasite growth
SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Living organisms often create what is needed for life from scratch. Credit: Photo by Max Esterhuizen for Virginia Tech. Living organisms often create what is needed for life from scratch. For humans, this process means the creation of most essential compounds needed to survive.
Strategies to Overcome Limited Patient Population Challenges in Rare Disease Studies
Cytel
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Written by Boaz N. Adler, MPA, Director, Global Product Engagement, and Valeria Mazzanti, MPH, Associate Director, Customer Success Rare disease studies come with their own unique challenges, particularly limited patient populations. However, there are a number of adaptive clinical trial design strategies that can be used to mitigate the challenge of hard-to-recruit patient populations and associated trial risks.
Dr. Jeanne Lackamp to lead university hospitals’ behavioral health efforts
SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
CLEVELAND – Jeanne Lackamp, MD, DFAPA, FACLP, has been selected to serve as Chair of Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatrist in Chief for University Hospitals (UH), and Director of the UH Behavioral Health Institute.
Automating the Survey Invitations with Flows
Perficient: Drug Development
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Hello Trailblazers! With Salesforce Survey, gaining valuable insights and feedback from your audience becomes a seamless and insightful experience. In this blog post, we’ll learn how we can Automate Survey Invitations with the help of Flows. This innovative capability empowers you to integrate surveys into your Salesforce Flows effortlessly, ensuring timely and targeted feedback collection.
Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Lithuania?
Drug Patent Watch
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
This chart shows the pharmaceutical companies with the most patents in Lithuania. Patents must be filed in each country (or, in some cases regional patent office) where patent protection is… The post Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Lithuania? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.
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