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American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)
The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)
The protective effect was so convincing that an independent panel monitoring a trial of the drug advised it be stopped early. (2021)
"The U.K. is now the first country in the world to approve an antiviral that can be taken at home for COVID-19," Health and Social Care Secretary S... (2021)
Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)
The company has produced about 10 million doses of the vaccine for the U.S. but the FDA has not yet authorized their use. (2021)
The technology used in COVID-19 vaccines may also be used to prevent other viral infections and to treat cancer and multiple sclerosis. (2021)
Convergent evolution may make travel restrictions redundant (2021)
In the last few days, the question of why more drug companies haven't been enlisted for vaccine production has come up. It's mostly due to this twe... (2021)
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication (2021)
The pandemic put a spotlight on health care workers and inspired many to pursue a career in medicine. The record number of applicants comes as the ... (2020)
What types of tests are available for the coronavirus, and how accurate are they? Here's a handy guide to the field. (2020)
Tests for SARS-CoV-2 based on reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) are being used to rule out infection among high-risk persons... (2020)
The Food and Drug Administration held no advisory meeting on antiviral, and the European Union signed contract without knowing of failed trial (2020)
11 Answers John Collins, PhD Chemistry, Princeton University Answered September 17, 2018 In theory, no. But, as Yogi Berra said, “in theor... (2020)
President Trump is on day two of a planned 5-day course of remdesivir. The medication, approved for treating COVID-19, works by making it harder fo... (2020)
Experts have big hopes for these specialized drugs created by living cells. But they are expensive and hard to scale up, so even success will have ... (2020)
There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates. (2020)
Developing an effective vaccine is the first step. Then comes the question of how to deliver hundreds of millions of doses that may need to be kept... (2020)
Government health leaders including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci urged caution last week, citing weak data from the country’s la... (2020)
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday any covid-19 vaccine, to be approved, will have to prevent disease or decrease its severity in at lea... (2020)
Scientists say such tests could be available in a few years, speeding research for treatments and providing a diagnosis for dementia patients who w... (2020)
If the company's vaccine candidate pans out, Americans can receive it for free under the deal. The arrangement is part of the U.S. government's pus... (2020)
A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the US company Moderna and the National Institutes of Health starts its final phase of testing today. It'... (2020)
The University of Oxford candidate, led by Sarah Gilbert, might be through human trials in September. AstraZeneca has lined up agreements to produc... (2020)
The Maryland-based company, which has never brought a product to market before, just made the biggest deal to date with the Trump administration’s ... (2020)
What we’ve learned from the dead that could help the living. (2020)
“I tell the same stories repeatedly; I forget words I know.” The more we learn about the coronavirus, the more we realize it’s not just a respir... (2020)
Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears. (2020)
There are direct routes and indirect ones “... there are other facets to the disease not so easily understood. It robs some of the infected of t... (2020)
Over the last 10 or 15 years, scientists have really started to understand the fundamental underlying biology of the aging process. And they broke ... (2025)
From oncology to cardiology, AI platform OpenEvidence is helping physicians keep pace with medical breakthroughs while focusing on their patients. ... (2025)
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)
TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins (2023)
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)
4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain di... (2021)
a16z Published on Dec 15, 2017 The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2010; this is expected to double by 2020. Why so expensive? And wh... (2018)
Listen to this episode from Fresh Air on Spotify. Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography 'The Code Breaker,' sh... (2021)
More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to... (2020)
We've only made vaccines for so many diseases. Let's look at the history. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. (2020)
Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss., has sickle cell disease. She is the first patient ever to be publicly identified as being involved in a study ... (2019)
After years of debate, a major government funded study failed to find any overall benefit of taking widely used supplements to protect against hear... (2018)
More than a third of patients with cancer of the esophagus responded to experimental treatment in China with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. Sev... (2018)
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, my guest is Dr. Victor Carrión, M.D., the Vice-Chair of Psychiatry and Behavi... (2024)
In this episode, I explain the biology of hair, hair growth, why hair growth slows and what causes hair to stop growing and/or “fall out.” I discus... (2023)
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. An estimated 10 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 experience long-haul symp... (2021)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. From the start of the pandemic, the US said it was committed to ordering and stockpil... (2020)
Listen to this episode from Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman on Spotify. To safely re-open a business, you need more than masks. Cov... (2020)
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Some people think it’s the only way out of the pandemic. Those people are very wrong. Tran... (2020)
WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? W... (2020)
The Takeaway hears from former guest David Lat on his experience recovering from COVID-19. (2020)
On the podcast we speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about changes in scientific communi... (2020)
Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)
There’s been a lot of talk about technology — and AI, deep learning, and machine learning specifically — finally reaching the healthcare sector. Bu... (2017)
Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international respo... (2020)
medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution (2020)