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Parkinson's Disease: New theory on the disease's origins and spread

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New hypothesis paper builds on a growing scientific consensus that Parkinson's disease route to the brain starts in either the nose or the gut and proposes that environmental toxicants are the likely source.

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Household Radon Can Lead to Lung Cancer -- Has Your Home Been Tested?

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Kentucky resident Chasity Harney embraced a thoroughly healthy lifestyle -- eating right, exercising and never touching tobacco.So, her 2018 diagnosis of advanced lung cancer, which came at the age of 40, was a complete.

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Star Trek's Holodeck recreated using ChatGPT and video game assets

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Star Trek's Holodeck is no longer just science fiction. Using AI, engineers have created a tool that can generate 3D environments, prompted by everyday language.

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Gene Discovery May Lead to Better Alzheimer's Treatments

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- The discovery of a gene variant that rids the brain of toxic plaques linked to Alzheimer's might lead to new treatments for the disease, researchers report.The variant arises naturally in people who don't seem to get.

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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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Breakthrough promises secure quantum computing at home

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies, thanks to a breakthrough guaranteeing security and privacy. This advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing.

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Ocean currents threaten to collapse Antarctic ice shelves

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Meandering ocean currents play an important role in the melting of Antarctic ice shelves, threatening a significant rise in sea levels.

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A Hidden Culprit Behind A-Fib: Gum Disease

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Oral health might have an impact on heart health, a new study has found.Folks treated for an irregular heart rhythm were more likely to keep a healthy heartbeat if they took steps to manage their gum disease, researchers.

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Beautiful nebula, violent history: Clash of stars solves stellar mystery

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star appears younger and, unlike the other, is magnetic. New data suggest there were originally three stars in the system, until two of them clashed and merged.

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Two-Thirds of Severe COVID Survivors Face Health Issues Months Later

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- People who survive a long and harrowing bout of COVID-19 do not emerge unscathed from their illness, a new study warns.Two-thirds of severe COVID patients still have physical, psychiatric and thinking problems one year.

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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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Cloud engineering could be more effective 'painkiller' for global warming than previously thought

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Cloud 'engineering' could be more effective for climate cooling than previously thought, because of the increased cloud cover produced, new research shows.

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Rare Fungal Infection Reported in Two Cats, Vet Tech

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- A rare fungal infection has been diagnosed in two cats and a vet tech who treated one of the animals, a new report warns.The three cases -- discovered in Kansas in late 2022 and early 2023 -- were caused by a fungus.

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Will Biopharma Companies Shun Vaccine R&D In A New Pandemic?

Forbes: Drug Truths

Only biopharma could have combated Covid-19; no other industry has the capacity to do so. When the world was in crisis, this industry responded. If need be, it will again, despite the financial consequences.

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Most Kids With Down Syndrome Have Sleep Apnea, But New Implant Can Help

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Four-year-old Theo Scott was born with Down syndrome, and since the age of 1 he's also had to wear a CPAP device whenever he sleeps, to help ease his sleep apnea.He's not alone: Eight out of 10 kids with Down syndrome.

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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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US sues Regeneron, alleging false price reporting on Eylea

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The lawsuit claims the drugmaker didn’t disclose reimbursement to drug distributors for credit card fees, artificially inflating the reported price of the blockbuster eye drug.

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Parents Tending Backyard Poultry Can Pass Along Dangerous Salmonella to Infants

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- A days-old newborn in Oregon was sickened with salmonella that may have been transmitted from parents who tended infected poultry located 150 miles away, a new report finds.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and.

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Century buys a startup, raises funding in cell therapy expansion

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The biotech is acquiring Clade Therapeutics and its stem cell technology at a discount price, while adding $60 million via a private placement led by Bain Capital.

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Climate Change May Be Fueling a Rise in Stroke Deaths

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Intense weather fluctuations caused by climate change could be contributing to an increase in stroke deaths, a new study claims.Freezing cold fronts and broiling heat waves are associated with more than half a million.

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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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Three Principles for Writing Effective Analytics Documentation

Perficient: Drug Development

Documentation is a crucial part of your analytics implementation. From your Solution Design Reference document to your internal wiki for all resources, making sure that you can write and edit your documentation is key to ensuring a cohesive and thorough understanding of your implementation. With effective documentation, you can: Prevent knowledge gaps among team members and assist in onboarding efforts.

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Parks, Forests Boost Preschoolers' Mental Health

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Toddlers who grow up near nature are less likely to have emotional issues, even if the green space is just a park or a big back yard, a new study shows.The more green space there is within three-fourths of a mile from a.

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Innovative Financing Models for Repurposing Generic Drugs

Drug Patent Watch

A paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Systems Medicine, AI, and Drug Repurposing proposes a novel approach to overcoming the financial barriers associated with repurposing generic drugs through… Source

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Preventive Mastectomy Less Common for Black Women With Breast Cancer

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, April 11, 2024 -- Black women with cancer in one breast are less likely than white women to have the healthy breast removed as well, a new study has found.Women with cancer affecting one breast often elect to have the other breast.

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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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Azure SQL Server Performance Check Automation

Perficient: Drug Development

On Operational projects that involves heavy data processing on a daily basis, there’s a need to monitor the DB performance. Over a period of time, the workload grows causing potential issues. While there are best practices to handle the processing by adopting DBA strategies (indexing, partitioning, collecting STATS, reorganizing tables/indexes, purging data, allocating bandwidth separately for ETL/DWH users, Peak time optimization, effective DEV query Re-writes etc.,), it is necessary to be awar

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Plasmids 101: Broad Host Range Plasmids

addgene Blog

Understanding the characteristics of natural plasmids and how they function in nature can inform us on how to create better recombinant vectors. In this blog post, we’ll define plasmid host range, identify a few of the features that confer broad host range in plasmids in nature, and provide tips on how we can harness those features to create broad host range recombinant vectors.

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How to develop drugs for neurological diseases | Insights from Josh Bagley

Elrig

How to develop drugs for neurological diseases | Insights from Josh Bagley How to develop drugs for neurological diseases One of the biggest challenges in developing drugs for neurological disorders is that the majority of models available are non-human and just do not work the same way as human brains, therefore when trying to understand the mechanism of action, efficacy, off-target effects and toxicity, these models have significant limitations.

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Identifying vascular disease associations

Drug Target Review

How do alterations in the microenvironment affect the phenotypic transition of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) from contractile to synthetic, and what implications does this have for cardiovascular health? Alterations in the microenvironment can significantly influence the phenotypic transition of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) from a contractile to a synthetic state.

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Understand Single Cell ATAC-Seq Data Analysis

Broad Institute

Understand Single Cell ATAC-Seq Data Analysis By Rose Circeo April 11, 2024 Breadcrumb Home Understand Single Cell ATAC-Seq Data Analysis The Primer on Medical and Population Genetics is a series of weekly lectures on genetics topics related to human populations and disease. Experts from across the Medical and Population Genetics community at the Broad Institute give in-depth introductions to research in human genetics through overviews of core concepts and practical tutorials on tools for biost