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Study puts price tag on cost of menopause symptoms for women in the workplace

Medical Xpress

A newly published Mayo Clinic study puts numbers on that cost: an estimated $1.8 Menopause-related symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, sleep disturbances, joint aches and cognitive difficulties damage the quality of life for millions of women. They also can adversely affect women in the workplace.

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

World of DTC Marketing

After aducanumab showed promise in 2016, Biogen launched two late-stage trials — then stopped them halfway through, in March 2019, when an analysis concluded the studies would not reach their goal of slowing cognitive and functional impairment in participants. Will they follow the science or will they put a price tag on hope?

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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.

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‘Click’ chemistry used to tag proteins made by cancer cells 

Drug Discovery World

A new method to study the proteins released by cells, which could lead to new biomarkers for diseases including cancer, has been developed by scientists at the Francis Crick Institute and Imperial College London. . The new method involves adding chemical tags to sugar molecules which are added to cells. Click’ chemistry .

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STAT+: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices

STAT News

Two recent studies aimed to quantify how much R&D costs impact a drug’s price, and how much a drug’s effectiveness correlates with its price — factors that might, in theory, help justify a sizable price tag. But neither factor has much effect, the studies concluded.

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Why do we remember emotional events better than non-emotional ones?

Medical Xpress

In a study published on January 16, 2023 in Nature Human Behaviour, Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia Engineering, and his team identified a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory.

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Big numbers blur policy ambitions

Scienmag

Government policies often are presented with hefty price tags, but people often zone out as more zeros are added to the total cost.

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