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Health Highlights, Nov. 4, 2020

The Pharma Data

A similar provision failed in 2016, CNN reported. One would let doctors prescribe marijuana for 22 different conditions, the other would do so only for terminally ill patients, CNN reported. The affected product is packaged in HDPE bottles of 100 tablets, under NDC 29033-056-01.

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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

With hepatitis C, what changed within the last 10 years was the development of direct-acting antivirals , or DAAs, which are packaged into pills that you can take once a day for a few months. Hepatitis C used to be really difficult to treat, and those treatments had high failure rates, but DAAs revolutionized the field.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. A new paper from Michael Elowitz’s group at Caltech reports engineered RNA exporters that “efficiently and specifically package and secrete target RNA molecules from mammalian cells within protective nanoparticles.” No longer.

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Codon Digest: Seeing Colors After Gene Therapy

Codon

There’s a TV show where a bunch of doctors are walking through a hospital corridor. A new paper from Michael Elowitz’s group at Caltech reports engineered RNA exporters that “efficiently and specifically package and secrete target RNA molecules from mammalian cells within protective nanoparticles.” No longer.

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What it takes to make cancer research more inclusive

Drug Discovery World

This would entail remotely engaging with underserved populations by shipping clinical trial packages directly to patients’ homes. The patients can then liaise with local doctors and health centres in getting basic clinical support while being monitored globally as part of an ongoing decentralised trial.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

But what is less well-publicized is that the same 2016 review predicted that the vast majority of these deaths – up to 90 percent – will occur in Africa and Asia, where antibiotic use is soaring and access to alternatives is poor. UTIs, diabetic foot ulcers). I cover this more extensively in The Good Virus.

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Unblock My Hormones And Start Burning Fat TODAY With HB5

The Pharma Data

Description: How A Handsome Doctor From Texas Saved My Life. I could hear doctors and nurses speaking in hushed tones…. I gave up carbs, fats, alcohol, meat – just as the doctor ordered…. My dear old doctor told me that hormone testing is expensive and unnecessary…. My doctor said it was all simple math….