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Fats can help tag medical implants as friend or foe

Medical Xpress

Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh and collaborators have found that lipid deposition on the surfaces of implants can play a mediating role between the body and implants, with some lipids acting as peacekeepers while others stir up conflict.

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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

World of DTC Marketing

Kesselheim, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School via the Washington Post , says “the worst thing for people with Alzheimer’s would be to put out a product that doesn’t work.” If the drug is approved you can bet that it’s going to carry a huge price tag. Biogen needs a new drug revenue badly.

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Cannabinoids receptors: popular preclinical target but banned in 137 countries

Pharmaceutical Technology

Despite this, the medical use of cannabinoid drugs is heavily restricted, including being banned in 137 countries, according to the United Nations. Collectively, cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2) are currently the most popular targets in preclinical stage of development, with 391 drugs tagged in total.

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Grand Rounds October 27, 2023: Digital, Decentralized and Democratized: Lessons From The Yale PaxLC Trial (Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

PaxLC brings together many innovations including online screening, digital medical record review, e-consent, home-delivery of medications, local clinical blood draws, home-based biospecimen collection, online diaries and surveys, digital medical record outcomes, and participant-centricity, and return of results.

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Are scientists being fooled by bacteria?

Scienmag

For decades, a small group of cutting-edge medical researchers have been studying a biochemical, DNA tagging system, which switches genes on or off. Many have studied it in bacteria and now some have seen signs of it in, plants, flies, and even human brain tumors. However, according to a new study by researchers at the […].

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ARTICLE ON FUTURISTIC APPROACH FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS ; BIOCHIP

Pharma Tutor

ARTICLE ON FUTURISTIC APPROACH FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS ; BIOCHIP. Read more about ARTICLE ON FUTURISTIC APPROACH FOR MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS ; BIOCHIP Log in or register to post comments About Author. Meenu Maurya. Email : meenudinesh15@gmail.com. Wed, 03/16/2022 - 15:06.

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STAT+: Cepheid faces fresh criticism over the pricing of its TB diagnostics

STAT News

A controversy has broken out over a diagnostic for tuberculosis that, until recently, had been subsidized by the World Health Organization — the latest flare-up over access to a medical product in mostly poor countries. per cartridge, a reduction from the previous price tag of $16.86. In exchange for $11.1