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Small Molecule of the Year – 2022

Drug Hunter

We asked the global drug discovery community to nominate and vote on their favorite molecule from 2022, and the results are in. The 2022 winner, with the most overall votes across the ten finalist molecules , is BMS’ oral, deuterated allosteric TYK2 inhibitor, deucravacitinib, the first new treatment for plaque psoriasis in nearly a decade.

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EIT Health Catapult 2022 names health start-up winners

Drug Discovery Today

The EIT Health Catapult 2022 competition winners, selected from 9 finalists, are digital health start-up, Ebenbuild; medtech start-up, Leuko and biotech start-up, SolasCure. The winners were chosen during this year’s EIT Health Summit at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, which took place 24th-25th May.

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The 2022 European drought: What was the role of climate change?

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The drought that lasted through the summer of 2022 was especially intense and caused the soil in many regions of Europe to dry out substantially. Public discussions about the causes repeatedly broached the question of the extent to which climate change intensified this extreme weather event.

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U.S. Measles Cases Reach 125, Surpassing Recent Peak in 2022

Drugs.com

government data shows.That is more cases than were reported in all of 2022, the most recent annual peak. MONDAY, April 22, 2024 -- Measles infections continue to spread across the country, with 125 cases now reported in 18 states, new U.S.

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U.S. Maternal Deaths Declined in 2022

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THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 -- The number of American women who died at or soon after childbirth declined significantly in 2022, the latest government data shows, but the rate is still higher than pre-pandemic levels.The report from the U.S. National.

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U.S. Suicide Numbers Hit New Record High in 2022

Drugs.com

suicide numbers reached a grim new high in 2022. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29, 2023 -- U.S. The increase was most acute among women over the age of 24, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Overall, almost.

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Law enforcement seizures of psilocybin mushrooms rose dramatically between 2017-2022

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Law enforcement seizures of “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms” containing the psychoactive component psilocybin increased dramatically in the United States between January 2017 and December 2022, according to a new study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health.

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