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As Parents Drop Kids Off for Their Freshman Year at College, An Expert Offers Tips

Drugs.com

SATURDAY, Aug. 26, 2023 -- Tears may flow when parents drop their teen off at college. Watching kids leave the nest can tug at the heart and make parents a little anxious about what's to come. That makes sense, but it’s natural that young adults.

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Eating emulsifiers during pregnancy and lactation linked to health risks in mouse offspring

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

A new study in mice shows that consuming emulsifiers—a common ingredient in ultra-processed human foods—during pregnancy or breast-feeding is associated with mild health risks for offspring. Maria Milà-Guasch of the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues present these findings August 24th in the open access journal PLOS Biology.

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The Analytical Detective: Benefit-Risk Balance and the Analytical Testing Process

DS in Pharmatics

In any pharmaceutical development program, there are risk-benefit analyses being done to assist with decision-making processes. Expedited development presents a different balance to a company’s risk-benefit in order to bring a particular molecule forward as quickly as possible because of the potential benefits.

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Mysterious Neptune dark spot detected from Earth for the first time

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot on the planet has ever been observed with a telescope on Earth.

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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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AI-powered voice & video scams: India the unfortunate leader

Perficient: Drug Development

Ally Armeson, the executive program director of Cybercrime Support Network, a nonprofit organization, says “Generative AI is evolving very quickly. Like any technology, generative AI can be misused or exploited for harmful purposes, so certainly regulation will be necessary as these generative AI tools continue to develop.” And before the regulations were imposed, the technology started getting misused.

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DNA chips as storage media of the future: What challenges need to be overcome

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The hereditary molecule DNA can store a great deal of information over long periods of time in a very small space. For a good ten years, scientists have therefore been pursuing the goal of developing DNA chips for computer technology, for example for the long-term archiving of data.

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Adrenocortical carcinoma: No mitotane for low risk of recurrence

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

In 2017, the teams of Massimo Terzolo and Martin Fassnacht published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine that provided evidence for the efficacy of Mitotane in the prevention of recurrence in adrenocortical carcinoma.

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Zuranolone

New Drug Approvals

Zuranolone CAS 1632051-40-1 Zurzuvae FDA APPROVED 8/4/2023, To treat postpartum depression Press Release WeightAverage: 409.574 Monoisotopic: 409.272927379Chemical FormulaC 25 H 35 N 3 O 2 SAGE 217 SAGE-217 SAGE217 Zuranolone , sold under the brand name Zurzuvae , is a medication used for the treatment of postpartum depression. [1] [2] It is taken by mouth. [1] The most common side effects include drowsiness , dizziness , diarrhea , fatigue , nasopharyngitis , and urinary tract infe

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Sediment movement during Hurricane Harvey could negatively impact future flooding, prove costly to Houston, UH study finds

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Enormous amounts of sediment, or sand and mud, flowed through Houston waterways during Hurricane Harvey in 2017, due in part to modifications made by humans to bayous, rivers and streams over the past century, that could seriously impact future flooding events and be costly to the City of Houston.

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A US-led study shows that the estuaries in the Bay of Cádiz are a treasure trove for ecological fish farming

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The study, published in the prestigious journal Marine Environmental Research and led by José Manuel Guerra García, professor at the Department of Zoology of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Seville, reveals that gilt-head sea bream farmed in estuaries in the Bay of Cadiz show many similarities to wild gilt-head sea bream.

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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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Cattle farming expansion and unchecked climate change would expose more than 1 billion cows to heat stress

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection is low, according to new research published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters.

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2023 Global Heat Wave: July brought the hottest three weeks observed so far

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

In the summer of the year 2023, several hot spells of variable length and intensity occurred partly simultaneously in different regions of the northern hemisphere.

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The swansong of African hydropower?

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Abundant rainfall, massive gorges, enormous waterfalls: the geography of Africa has all the elements for producing electricity from river flow. For decades, many African countries have relied on hydropower for electricity generation, including projects that inspire as much awe as controversy.

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Study shows technology boosts public health programs

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

An examination of the SCALE-UP Counts program was recently published in the journal Pediatrics.

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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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Study: Individuals feel sex-specific symptoms before impending cardiac arrest

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai are one step closer to helping individuals catch a sudden cardiac arrest before it happens, thanks to a study published today in the peer-reviewed journal Lancet Digital Health. Credit: Photo courtesy of Ventura County EMS Agency.

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