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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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XTalks

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The free AlphaFold Server is available to scientists globally to access high-definition molecular predictions. Developed with Johns Hopkins University, Bayesian Health’s adaptive AI platform uses real-time data to detect critical conditions like sepsis with 82 percent sensitivity — alerting doctors 5.7

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

nurses, doctors, and hospital auxiliary staff) to meet these needs. This is leading to increasingly costly and unproductive health services across the world that faces growing strain from the common conditions of the elderly and a shrinking talent pool (e.g.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 16, 2021

According to the BMJ EMA scientists ensuring the manufacturing quality of the product found “truncated and modified mRNA species present in the finished product”. In a review of the documents, the BMJ said they showed concerns over unexpectedly low quantities of intact mRNA in batches of the vaccine developed for commercial production.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Clinicians view autism as a broad spectrum of related disorders, and the origin of the disease’s heterogeneity has puzzled scientists, doctors, and affected families for decades. NEW YORK, NY (Dec. 22, 2020)–One of the most recognizable characteristics of autism is an amazing diversity of associated behavioral symptoms.

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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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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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XTalks

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Clinical Research Scientist. Clinical Research Scientist Job Description. Clinical research scientists are responsible for performing scientific research and clinical investigations to study diseases and other illnesses to advance diagnosis and treatments. How to Become a Clinical Research Scientist.

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Scienmag

APRIL 29, 2021

INRS will be awarding an honorary doctorate to Edith Cloutier Credit: Paul Brindamour The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) is proud to announce that it will be awarding an honorary doctorate to Edith Cloutier, a dedicated ambassador of Indigenous identity and a defender of Indigenous rights.

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XTalks

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Leaving academia for industry is a route that academic scientists and professors did not traditionally pursue in the past due to perceived differences in skillsets, experiences and even associated stigmas. WeiQi Lin, MD, PhD, executive vice president of research & development and principal scientist, DURECT Corporation.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The issue that is vexing the US doctors is that vaccines are given to healthy people, meaning the tolerance for any side-effect is much lower than in medicines where patients are already sick. Scientists and authorities therefore may have to weigh the risk of any uncommon side-effects against a vaccine that might curb the pandemic.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The decision by shareholders has been greeted with consternation by health charities, public health specialists and doctors organisations, which have mounted a campaign against placing a pharma company in the hands of a big tobacco group. — Sarah Woolnough (@swoolnough) September 16, 2021.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Bella Kaufman recognized for her role in the development of PARP inhibitors for the treatment of BRCA-related cancers PHILADELPHIA – The Basser Center for BRCAat the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, the world’s first comprehensive center aimed at advancing research, treatment, and prevention of BRCA-related cancers, (..)

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XTalks

APRIL 6, 2022

Scientists at the University of Cambridge evaluated the use of a personalized blood test that detects ctDNA to help predict the relapse risk of lung cancer. If that happens, it is a big setback for patients and the doctors treating them,” said Dr. Rosenfeld in a news release by Cancer Research UK.

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 8, 2022

Dr Doina Ionescu (DI): After completing my PhD in physics at the University of Southampton, I joined Merck as a research scientist in 1998. I was encouraged instead to use my interest in science and study medicine, and I trained to be a hospital doctor at King’s College London. Who has helped to inspire and shape your career?

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