In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at a patent fight over the world’s top-selling drug, breakthroughs from the American Association for Cancer Research, Verily’s Parkinson’s dataset, the relationship between microplastics and…
Category: 5. Health
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Breakthrough Gene Therapy For Butterfly Children’s Disease
Butterfly children have rare, genetic disorder epidermolysis bullosa
A revolutionary treatment brings new hope to those suffering from a devastating rare skin disorder, while showcasing an innovative funding model that could…
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AI is giving a boost to efforts to monitor health via radar
If you wanted to check someone’s pulse from across the room, for example to remotely monitor an elderly relative, how could you do it? You might think it’s impossible, because common health-monitoring devices such as fingertip pulse…
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Humana Reports $1.2 Billion Profit As Medicare Cost Concerns Lessen
Humana Wednesday reported $1.2 billion in first quarter profits as the company gets better control … More
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Single Dose Baloxavir Reduces Flu Transmission in Households
Just one dose of antiviral baloxavir marboxil significantly reduced transmission of influenza within households, reported a recent study in The New England Journal of Medicine. The findings constitute the…
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Key Implications for DSH Patients
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 07: United States Supreme Court (front row L-R) Associate Justice Sonia … More
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Why True Mental Health Support For Moms Starts With Community
Two women sitting in armchairs and talking. Woman psychologist talking to patient woman. Coach … More
Parental burnout is at an all-time high….
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Is Swiping Fatigue Real? How Dating Apps Are Reshaping Mental Health
A mobile phone with the Hinge dating app logo on its screen, in Athens, Greece, on 31 January 2024. … More
Recent studies show what many daters already feel: swiping…
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Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics
Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to make plastic household items could be linked to more than 356,000 global deaths from heart disease in 2018 alone, a new analysis of population surveys shows.
While the chemicals, called phthalates, are…
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