CRUK gives £58m funding for clinician scientist training
pharmaphorum
APRIL 5, 2024
initiative to train more doctors as clinician scientists that can contribute to research into new cancer treatments Cancer Research UK has announced a £58.7m
As ALS research booms, one treatment center finds itself in the spotlight
Bio Pharma Dive
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The Healey center is at the front of ALS research and care, earning acclaim from patients, doctors and scientists. Still, the complexities of the disease and of drug development have brought hard-felt losses.
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Celebrating Black History Month: Black Scientists that Have Revolutionized the Life Sciences
XTalks
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
In the life sciences, countless Black scientists, researchers and medical professionals have made groundbreaking discoveries that have significantly advanced our understanding of biology and medicine. They serve as inspiration for future generations of scientists from all backgrounds.
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could EKGs help doctors use AI to detect pulmonary embolisms?
Scienmag
DECEMBER 21, 2021
In a pilot study, scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai showed for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can detect signs of these clots in electrocardiograms (EKGs), a finding which may one day help doctors with screening. Pulmonary embolisms are dangerous, lung-clogging blot clots.
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Clinical Scientist Jobs: The Steps to Succeed in This Role
XTalks
MAY 20, 2022
If you enjoy working with biological samples and are enthusiastic about healthcare, a career as a clinical scientist might be just right for you. To start applying to clinical scientist jobs today, head over to the Xtalks Job Search platform. Who is a Clinical Scientist? What is it Like to Work as a Clinical Scientist?
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AI tool may help doctors select best drugs for COVID patients
pharmaphorum
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
The MOATAI-VIR algorithm, developed by scientists at Emory University and Georgia Tech, was put through its paces in a study that showed it was able to predict 24 out of 26 clinical manifestations of COVID-19, including acute respiratory distress, blood clotting issues, cytokine storms, brain fog, and loss of smell or taste. .
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Sleep too much or too little and you might get sick more, scientists find
Medical Xpress
MARCH 2, 2023
A good night's sleep can solve all sorts of problems—but scientists have now discovered new evidence that sleeping well may make you less vulnerable to infection.
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Where this doctor finds hope amid her country's record cholera outbreak
NPR Health - Shots
MARCH 2, 2023
Treating cholera has been a passion for Bangladeshi scientist Firdausi Qadri. She reflects on her career and inspirations, cholera's scourge, as well as successes in combating the disease. Image credit: Fatima Tuj Johora for NPR)
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Assay Development Scientist Jobs: What to Know About the Field
XTalks
OCTOBER 19, 2023
An assay development scientist combines deep biological and biochemical expertise with practical laboratory skills to develop tests that can answer specific biological questions or drive the drug discovery process. Related: Pharmaceutical Scientist Jobs: What to Know Before Applying What Does an Assay Development Scientist Do?
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Student scientists engineer socks for on-the-go neuropathy treatment
Medical Xpress
APRIL 13, 2023
A wearable electrical-stimulation and vibration-therapy system designed by Rice University engineering students might be just what the doctor ordered for people experiencing foot pain and balance loss due to diabetic neuropathy. Need a little spring—or buzz—in your step?
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A doctor in Nigeria tried to warn the world that monkeypox had become a global threat
NPR Health - Shots
JULY 28, 2022
Scientists say they know where the outbreak began, and who discovered the first known cases. The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak an international public health emergency.
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Doctors find mental health chatbots are effective in helping treat symptoms in people with depression
Medical Xpress
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Clinician scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have found that mental health chatbots are able to effectively engage people with depression in empathetic conversations and assist in the treatment of their symptoms.
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Scientists And Engineers Have Among the Highest Employment Rates, Study Shows
BioSpace
JUNE 12, 2022
A new study that looks into employment has found that doctoral recipients enjoy extremely high employment rates, especially in the fields of science and engineering.
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Stanford scientist who broke genome sequencing record on what faster diagnoses mean for patients
STAT News
MARCH 22, 2023
Faster sequencing for patients with rare and deadly diseases can help their doctors decide which treatments and surgical procedures to try and which ones to avoid in life-or-death situations. Ashley is at the forefront of a push by researchers to make more genetic information available to patients facing major health care decisions.
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The visa hurdle: Why conference applicants from the global south can't always clear it
NPR Health - Shots
JULY 13, 2022
Global health meetings are often held in the West — and that's an obstacle for scientists, doctors and advocates from lower resource countries. Which means their voices aren't being heard. Image credit: Kareem Samsudeen Adebola, Zintombizodwa Nyasulu)
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First RSV vaccine caps 60-year search to stem pervasive lung illness
Medical Xpress
MAY 6, 2023
For 60 years, doctors and scientists searched for a vaccine against a common virus that, while sometimes deadly, is little known to the public. The hunt is over.
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‘That is my dream’: Scientist who uncovered likely leading cause of MS wants to tackle ALS next
STAT News
MARCH 16, 2023
Alberto Ascherio began his career as a young doctor treating tropical diseases in South American rainforests and parts of Africa. Over the next quarter-century, he made his way to what is now his wheelhouse: studying the links between viruses and neurodegenerative diseases.
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Can a heartburn drug help doctors treat COVID-19?
The Pharma Data
AUGUST 22, 2021
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors in Wuhan noticed something surprising. “There’s often a phenomenon that doctors report anecdotally, or that’s mentioned in passing in a particular research paper, and that provides a clue – a hook,” he said. That’s where data scientists come in.
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Opinion: How the world can end Covid-19 as a public health threat
STAT News
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
It took a panel of almost 400 independent-thinking scientists, doctors, and representatives of community groups from more than 100 countries (we were among the co-chairs) some 14 months to develop and agree on these recommendations. There have been times when we wondered if it was worth the effort.
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Medical community frets over fate of Twitter
Medical Xpress
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
For days, doctors, scientists and public health experts have been telling their Twitter followers where to find them on other platforms if Elon Musk's newly-acquired company tanks.
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Researchers reverse the in vitro and in vivo effects of the mutation that causes Stormorken syndrome
Medical Xpress
MAY 16, 2023
Sometimes scientists arrive at new findings and discoveries by chance. That was the case when Thilini Gamage was to carry out one of the studies in her doctoral work with Professor Eirik Frengen at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo. They study gene variation and mutations that cause rare genetic diseases.
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Scientists publish a blueprint to apply artificial intelligence to extend human longevity
Scienmag
JANUARY 27, 2021
The international team of artificial intelligence experts and medical doctors propose a framework for the application of next-generation AI to extend human longevity Credit: Deep Longevity Limited 27th of January, Wednesday, Hong Kong – Deep Longevity, a fully-owned subsidiary of Regent Pacific (HKEX: 0575), specializing in the development and (..)
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Lung research suggests new way to detect, monitor lung diseases
Scienmag
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
New lung research from an international team of scientists could offer doctors a new way to detect and monitor progressive lung diseases – and may also shed light on the fundamental causes of those conditions.
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WSU scientists discover new, simple way to classify marine biomes
Scienmag
NOVEMBER 20, 2020
Washington State University scientists have developed a new way to classify the ocean’s diverse environments, shedding new light on how marine biomes are defined and changed by nature and humans.
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2021 Young Scientist Award winners announced
The Pharma Data
JUNE 30, 2021
For their remarkable scientific contributions, doctoral student Julia Klaus, Zurich University VetSuisse Faculty, and Dr Yasmin Parr from the MRC-University of Glasgow, Centre for Virus Research, have received the 2021 ABCD Young Scientist Award. We warmly congratulate this year’s winners.”
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The Longevity Breakthrough Your Doctor Won't Tell You About
The Pharma Data
MAY 15, 2021
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Doctoral student leads paleoclimate study of precipitation and sea ice in Arctic Alaska
Scienmag
JANUARY 24, 2021
Findings demonstrate the interconnectedness of the Arctic and North Pacific on multimillennial timescales, consistent with future projections of less sea ice and more precipitation in Arctic Alaska Arctic sea ice is rapidly diminishing due to global warming, and scientists have found that sea ice dynamics have a big impact on circulation and precipitation (..)
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STAT+: Verily, struggling to turn profits, taps a Starbucks veteran and ‘Warcraft’ master
STAT News
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
The newly-minted CEO of the Alphabet health tech spinout Verily is not a doctor or a Ph.D. He’s never run a top-flight lab or published a seminal paper in health care. His breakthrough executive job, far from the halls of science or medicine, was at Starbucks.
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Low vaccination and immunity rates mean NZ faces a harsh whooping cough winter—what needs to happen
Medical Xpress
MARCH 29, 2023
Following the deaths of two infants, doctors and scientists worry New Zealand's whooping cough epidemic could be the worst in years.
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Hydroxychloroquine being 'discarded prematurely', say scientists
The Pharma Data
AUGUST 6, 2020
A trial investigating the drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventative treatment against Covid-19 may never find out if it’s effective, say scientists involved. And social media companies have removed viral online posts by doctors who reject the scientific consensus, praising the drug’s effectiveness. Source link.
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Top Russian doctor quits over questionable ethics that rushed through coronavirus vaccine
The Pharma Data
AUGUST 14, 2020
He also said: “I am depressed by the position of some of our scientists who make irresponsible statements about ready-made vaccines.”. Therefore, our number one task is to extract scientific data based on evidence-based medicine in order to understand that the action performed by scientists will not harm a person.
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Circuit model may explain how deep brain stimulation treats Parkinson’s disease symptoms
Scienmag
MAY 16, 2022
People with Parkinson’s disease and their doctors confront many unknowns, including the answer to exactly how deep brain stimulation (DBS) relieves some of the motor symptoms patients experience.
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Scientists aim to treat, prevent disease by understanding benefits of exercise
Scienmag
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications A top exercise researcher and colleagues at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have launched an ambitious effort to understand the whole-body benefits of exercise so that doctors can use that information to prevent and treat disease.
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STAT+: Despite their anger over high drug prices, Americans are giving pharma credit for helping contain Covid-19
STAT News
JULY 26, 2022
The only entities that received a statistically significant amount more credit were hospitals, makers of protective equipment, scientists, doctors, and nurses. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…
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Sloan Kettering Institute scientists learn what fuels the ‘natural killers’ of the immune system
Scienmag
JUNE 1, 2021
If T cells are like a team of specialist doctors in an emergency room, NK cells are the paramedics: They arrive first on the scene and perform damage control until reinforcements arrive. […]. Despite a name straight from a Tarantino movie, natural killer (NK) cells are your allies when it comes to fighting infections and cancer.
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Team builds better tool for assessing infant brain health
Scienmag
APRIL 28, 2021
— Researchers have created a new, open-access tool that allows doctors and scientists to evaluate infant brain health by assessing the concentration of various chemical markers, called metabolites, in the brain. Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill.
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Researchers first to predict when bacteria may become resistant to antibiotics
Scienmag
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Scientists have spotted signs of ‘pre-resistance’ in bacteria for the first time – signs that particular bacteria are likely to become resistant to antibiotics in the future – in a new study led by UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital researchers.
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Rectal cancer patients who “watch and wait” may only need few years of stringent follow-up
Scienmag
DECEMBER 13, 2020
An international team of scientists, including doctors from the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, in Lisbon, has just published results in the prestigious journal The Lancet Oncology that suggest that the majority of rectal cancer patients may be able, in the not so distant future, to replace aggressive colorectal surgery with a course of radiochemotherapy (..)
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Different diseases – common metabolic pathways
Scienmag
MARCH 22, 2021
The scientists have now published their findings in the journal Nature Medicine. Their quality of life is severely restricted, and they receive medication from different doctors, a process […]. The results argue for a comprehensive approach to disease prevention.
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Covid-19: What do scientists think of the PM's plan?
The Pharma Data
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
The new Covid restrictions for England – which allow pubs and restaurants to remain open and households to continue mixing – have been met by scientists with responses ranging from praise to despair. Now, doctors’ bodies are calling for restrictions to keep cases low, this time in order to also keep other services running.
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Giving the forgotten generation of cancer patients a voice
pharmaphorum
SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Our doctors do not think outside of the box in terms of treatments. Her breast cancer was only diagnosed after she found a lump “the size of a fist” under her arm, despite multiple trips to the doctor with symptoms including hair loss, weight gain, and unexplained bruising, over the preceding two years. But what about the rest of us?
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Scienmag
JUNE 29, 2021
Scientists and doctors at University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have given hope of a gene therapy cure to children with a rare degenerative brain disorder called Dopamine Transporter Deficiency Syndrome (DTDS).
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Astrophysics student Ellen Price awarded 51 Pegasi B Fellowship
Scienmag
MARCH 31, 2021
The fellowship provides exceptional scientists with the opportunity to conduct theoretical, observational and experimental research in planetary astronomy Credit: Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Ellen Price, a doctoral student at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has been awarded the 51 Pegasi (..)
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Another reason change is needed at FDA? Fair balance
World of DTC Marketing
JUNE 24, 2021
To portray patients, mindless people who blindly believe DTC TV ads and rush to their doctor to ask for a product are inaccurate. If the FDA understood consumer behavior like marketers instead of scientists, they would understand how DTC works. The latest TV upfront set some records because people ARE watching TV again.
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