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Giving birth in Liberia? You might need to bring your own bleach to get in a hospital

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The $100 price tag is too much for the poor. Image credit: Joel R. Public hospitals in Liberia may require a bag of supplies to gain admission for delivery: bleach, baby clothes, diapers. One nurse has a solution.

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Drug-delivery microcapsules tagged with zirconium-89 can be tracked by PET imaging

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If these hollow capsules are modified to target a solid tumor, PET imaging and therapeutic ultrasound can be used to rupture them and release an anticancer drug at ground zero. Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

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Behavioural considerations for acceptance and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines

The Pharma Data

The Behavioural Insights Unit of the WHO released a meeting report of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on the special session on acceptance and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, held on 15 October 2020. Click here to download image in full size. . The discussion was structured around three key questions. Source link.

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Smart pharmaceutical and healthcare labels: Lets trace medicines from its origin

Roots Analysis

Traditionally, text and images were printed on pharmaceutical products to convey important information. It is worth noting that smart labels contain a transponder code which can be read by sophisticated devices, including radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags and near-field communication (NFC) chips.

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Perfusion MRI and Other Perfusion Imaging Techniques for Clinical Trials

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has had a part in clinical trials for more than three decades now. MRI may also be used to evaluate drug dosing regimens, to gain insight about the mechanism of drug action, and to collect imaging biomarker data which could provide an earlier indication of response to therapy than clinical outcomes.

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Scientists uncover secret to success in new class of cancer drugs

Drug Discovery World

The study’s first author Randy Watson, a postdoctoral researcher in the Lander lab, spent more than a year devising a recipe for stabilising cereblon in association with a ubiquitin-system partner protein, in order to image it with low-temperature electron microscopy (cryo-EM). . Switching to a ‘closed’ conformation .

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IBM sells off large parts of Watson Health business

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Francisco Partners is picking up a range of databases and analytics tools – including Health Insights, MarketScan, Clinical Development, Social Programme Management, Micromedex and other imaging and radiology tools – for an undisclosed sum estimated to be in the region of $1 billion.

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