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Gut microbiome changes align with increased risk of type 2 diabetes

Broad Institute

If you only study a small, homogeneous population, you will probably miss something," said co-corresponding author Daniel (Dong) Wang, an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and of nutrition at Harvard Chan School, and an associate member of Broad's Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program (IDMP).

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Drop in COVID Cases Seen in Nursing Homes as U.S. Vaccine Effort Makes Headway

The Pharma Data

1, 2021 — As America’s vaccination campaign begins to gain momentum, a promising sign has emerged: Federal data shows that coronavirus cases in nursing homes have declined over the past four weeks. The country recorded 17,584 cases in nursing homes during the week ending Jan. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

PLOS: DNA Science

Peter Marinkovich, MD, director of the Blistering Disease Clinic at Stanford Health Care, calls DEB a devastating disease. “Until now, doctors and nurses had no way to stop blisters and wounds from developing on dystrophic EB patient skin and all we could do was to give them bandages and helplessly watch as new blisters formed.

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Covid-19: Health workers 'sick' with fear at thought of second wave

The Pharma Data

‘A scary time’ Clementine Stott, an organ donation specialist nurse at Worcester Royal Hospital, was redeployed to the intensive care unit during the first wave which, for her, meant separating from her 10-year-old son for seven weeks. “With the virus, we had to adapt to a totally different way of working,” she said.

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NHS staff sign up to Covid-19 sniffer dog trial

The Pharma Data

Eleven hospitals across the UK are taking part in the study, with scientists hoping at least 3,500 staff will provide “odour samples” Testing has begun to see if medical detection dogs can be trained to smell the disease. If the trial is successful, the dogs could be used at UK airports to screen people arriving from abroad.

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The Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” Needs to Change

Eye on FDA

We are long gone from the days of being threatened by a rampant Alpha virus to having several successive variants. We have the emergence of monoclonal antibodies and protease inhibitors being utilized or being considered as treatments for various stages of disease. The COVID-19 pandemic is a rapidly changing landscape.

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Big Spike Seen in COVID Cases Among Kids

The Pharma Data

29, more than 853,000 children in the United States had tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began — 200,000 of them in October alone. “This virus is highly contagious, and as we see spikes in many communities, children are more likely to be infected, too. TUESDAY, Nov. In the week ending Oct.

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