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Oldest known alphabet unearthed in ancient Syrian city

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

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U.S. Postpartum Depression Diagnoses Doubled in a Decade

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- Rates of postpartum depression have more than doubled in little over a decade among American women, a new analysis shows. While about 1 in every 10 new moms (9.4%) suffered postpartum depression in 2010, that number rose.

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Athletes have significantly better working memory than sedentary people

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A recently published meta-analysis reveals an advantage in sports-related information processing compared to non-athletes. The data consisted of 21 studies involving a total of 1455 participants. Athletes had better working memory than non-athletes and this advantage was further enhanced when athletes were compared to sedentary people.

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Flagship, Pfizer alliance yields two more startup deals

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Pfizer will work with Ampersand Biomedicines and Montai Therapeutics to find drugs for obesity and lung cancer, respectively, adding to collaborations it previously formed with other Flagship startups.

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Synchronized movement between robots and humans builds trust, study finds

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Trust between humans and robots is improved when the movement between both is harmonized, researchers have discovered.

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Listening for early signs of Alzheimer's disease

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People with Alzheimer's exhibit a loss of motor control along with cognitive decline, and one of the earliest signs of this decay can be spotted in involuntary eye movements known as saccades. These quick twitches of the eyes in Alzheimer's patients are often slower, less accurate, or delayed compared to those in healthy individuals. Researchers are exploring an alternative method using a more ubiquitous and less intrusive technology: earpiece microphones.

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About 1 in 10 U.S. Adults Have High Cholesterol

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- Nearly 1 in every 10 American adults is living with high levels of cholesterol in their arteries, according to the latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The data, from 2021 through 2023.

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Turning carbon emissions into methane fuel

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Chemists have developed a novel way to capture and convert carbon dioxide into methane, suggesting that future gas emissions could be converted into an alternative fuel using electricity from renewable sources.

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Human Cell Atlas Will Be 'Google Maps' for Health Research

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- Scientists from around the world are making headway in compiling a Human Cell Atlas -- a deep dive into the myriad types of cells in the body and their disparate roles in health and disease. The atlas is not yet.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Mapping 1.6 million gut cells to find new ways treat disease

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By combining 25 datasets, researchers have created the largest cohesive cell atlas of the human gut and uncovered a new way that stomach cells may play a role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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A-fib Plus Heart Failure a Dangerous Combo

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- For the 4 in 10 patients with newly diagnosed heart failure who also have the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation, the prognosis can be poor."Atrial fibrillation can make heart failure much more problematic, and.

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An innovative antibiotic for drug-resistant bacteria

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Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed. Researchers have demonstrated a potential antibacterial treatment from a modified darobactin, a compound originally from a bacterium. The team reports proof-of-concept animal trials on infections caused by bacteria, including E. coli, that are known to develop drug resistance.

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Four Million Americans Could Lose Health Coverage Once ACA Credits Expire

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- If Congress lets healthcare tax credits established during the pandemic expire, 4 million Americans will become uninsured, a new analysis warns.The tax credits, which have significantly lowered out-of-pocket costs for.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Sweet tooth- Ethiopian wolves seen feeding on nectar

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For the first time, Ethiopian wolves have been documented feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers. This is the first large carnivore species ever to be documented feeding on nectar. In doing so, the wolves may act as pollinators -- perhaps the first known plant-pollinator interaction involving a large carnivore.

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Child-Teacher Bond in Early Education Could Have Lasting Impact

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- Fostering good relationships with teachers in the early grades may have long-lasting benefits, new research suggests."These early connections significantly influence not only academic achievement, but also social and.

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Thanksgiving special: Dinosaur drumsticks and the story of the turkey trot

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Wings may be the obvious choice when studying the connection between dinosaurs and birds, but a pair of paleontologists prefer drumsticks. That part of the leg, they say, is where fibular reduction among some dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago helped make it possible for peacocks to strut, penguins to waddle, and turkeys to trot.

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Surgeon General Says U.S. Smoking Rates Have Tumbled, But Not for Everyone

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- Although the United States has made significant headway in curbing cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke exposure, a new report finds deep divisions remain and they run along predictable fault lines.Disparities in.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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A bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract

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Inspired by the jets of water that squids use to propel themselves through the ocean, a team developed an ingestible capsule that releases a burst of drugs directly into the lining of the stomach or other organs of the digestive tract.

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Earlier Type 2 Diabetes Diagnoses Bring Higher Odds for Dementia

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- A type 2 diabetes diagnosis before age 50 comes with a health risk that patients might not expect.Especially if they are obese, these folks are more likely to develop dementia later, new research warns."Our study.

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Researchers catalog the microbiome of US rivers

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Scientists have detailed both broad and specific information about the presence and function of microorganisms in rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the continental U.S. Cataloging the microbiome of these rivers is the result of a years-long participatory science effort.

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California Child Tests Positive for Bird Flu

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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20, 2024 -- A child in California has tested positive for bird flu, despite having no known contact with infected animals, state officials reported Tuesday."California has identified a possible bird flu case in a child in Alameda.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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Human immune system is 'ready to go' long before birth

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The most comprehensive map of the developing human thymus sheds light on how immune responses are built and maintained at early life, with implications for understanding and treating immunodeficiency, autoimmunity, and cancer.

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Chasing new ‘checkpoints,’ startup Valora emerges from a Nobel winner’s lab

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Built around research by Stanford scientist Carolyn Bertozzi and MIT researcher Jessica Stark, Valora Therapeutics is designing drugs to target glyco-immune checkpoints.

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Early skeleton map reveals how bones form in humans

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Full view of how bones and joints form in the first trimester uncovers cells and pathways that could help diagnose and treat skeletal conditions in the future.

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Sage’s string of research failures continues

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Negative results from a Huntington’s trial add to a calamitous year for Sage, which last month decided to overhaul its research, reconfigure its executive team and lay off a third of its staff.

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Multiclass Text Classification Using LLM (MTC-LLM): A Comprehensive Guide

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Introduction to Multiclass Text Classification with LLMs Multiclass text classification (MTC) is a natural language processing (NLP) task where text is categorized into multiple predefined categories or classes. Traditional approaches rely on training machine learning models, requiring labeled data and iterative fine-tuning. However, with the advent of large language models (LLMs), this task can now be approached differently.