Wed.Feb 05, 2025

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Spinal cord stimulation restores neural function, targets key feature of progressive neurodegenerative disease

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Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, including ALS.

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FDA Approves Susvimo for Diabetic Macular Edema

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Susvimo (ranibizumab) 100 mg/mL for treating diabetic macular edema.Susvimo is the first and only FDA-approved treatment shown to maintain vision in people with diabetic.

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Researchers discover simple solution to break down forever chemicals

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A researcher has discovered a new method to remove so-called 'forever chemicals' from our drinking water by heating the PFAS with granular activated carbon. The discovery represents a significant breakthrough in managing PFAS-containing solid wastes, biosolids and spent adsorbent media that are major concerns to farmers and communities.

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Weed Use Tied To Increase in Schizophrenia

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- Schizophrenia cases associated with problematic weed use have skyrocketed in the wake of Canada's legalization of marijuana, a new study says.The proportion of schizophrenia cases associated with cannabis use disorder.

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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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One in four chance per year that rocket junk will enter busy airspace

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There's a 26 per cent annual chance that space rocket junk will re-enter the atmosphere and pass through a busy flight area, according to a recent study. While the chance of debris hitting an aircraft is very low, the research highlights that the potential for uncontrolled space rocket junk to disrupt flights and create additional costs for airlines and passengers is not.

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In a milestone that brings quantum computing tangibly closer to large-scale practical use, scientists have demonstrated the first instance of distributed quantum computing. Using a photonic network interface, they successfully linked two separate quantum processors to form a single, fully connected quantum computer, paving the way to tackling computational challenges previously out of reach.

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FDA Approves Symbravo for Acute Treatment of Migraine in Adults

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Symbravo (meloxicam and rizatriptan) for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults. The approval was based on the results of three phase 3 trials of.

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Researchers discover the brain cells that tell you to stop eating

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Newly discovered brain cells count each bite before sending the order to cease eating a meal.

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COVID Might Clog Arteries, Increase Heart Risk

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- Even a mild infection with COVID-19 can promote clogged arteries, increasing the risk of heart attack in some people, a new study says.Infection with the COVID virus is associated with rapid growth of plaque in arteries.

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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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School bans alone not enough to tackle negative impacts of phone and social media use, researchers find

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Students attending schools that ban the use of phones throughout the school day aren't necessarily experiencing better mental health and wellbeing, as the first worldwide study of its kind has found that just banning smartphones is not enough to tackle their negative impacts.

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'Good' Cholesterol Could Be Bad For Glaucoma

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- The cholesterol thats good for your heart health might be bad for your eye health, and vice versa, a new study says.Good HDL cholesterol appears to increase risk of glaucoma in people older than 55, researchers repor.

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Cancer vaccine shows promise for patients with stage III and IV kidney cancer

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Researchers report that all nine patients in a clinical trial being treated for stage III or IV clear cell renal cell carcinoma (a form of kidney cancer), generated a successful anti-cancer immune response after initiation of a personalized cancer vaccine.

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The Pill Protects Against Ovarian Cancer, Study Says

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- The Pill prevents pregnancy -- and maybe ovarian cancer, too, a new study suggests.Women whove ever used the contraceptive pill have a 26% lower risk of ovarian cancer, researchers say.Women who used the pill after age 4.

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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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Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird

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Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ancestors of today's waterfowl, surviving that mass extinction event was like. water off a duck's back. Location matters, as Antarctica may have served as a refuge, protected by its distance from the turmoil taking place elsewhere on the planet.

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GSK, Pfizer sales of RSV shots slow as vaccination rates ebb

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Revenue for Arexvy and Abrysvo fell sharply year over year in the fourth quarter due to narrower U.S. guidelines for their use.

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Clean air policies having unintended impact driving up wetland methane emissions by up to 34 million tons

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Reducing sulphur in the air may inadvertently increase natural emissions of methane from wetlands such as peatlands and swamps, a new study has found. The resulting additional future release of 20-34 million tons of methane each year from natural wetlands would mean targets to reduce human-caused emissions need to be more stringent than currently set out in the Global Methane Pledge.

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Everyone's Happiest In The Morning, Study Says

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- Never mind the grumbles and groans that accompany a clock alarm, along with a lunge for the snooze bar and murmurs of five more minutes.People generally wake in their best frame of mind, enjoying peak mental health and w.

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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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Physicists measure a key aspect of superconductivity in 'magic-angle' graphene

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Physicists measured how readily a current of electron pairs flows through 'magic-angle' graphene, a major step toward understanding how this unusual material superconducts. By determining how readily electron pairs flow through this material, scientists have taken a big step toward understanding its remarkable properties.

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Kids Consume More Mature Media When Parents Overuse Screens

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- Yikes! The way parents use their phones around their kids may influence how much inappropriate content kids consume.Researchers reported Feb. 4 in the journal BMC Pediatrics that the odds of kids watching R-rated movies.

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Dusting for stars' magnetic fingerprints

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Astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought to be forming. The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure 'fingerprint' of the magnetic field. This will help improve our understanding of planet formation.

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Novo outlines new late-stage study of obesity drug CagriSema

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

CagriSema, which underperformed expectations in its first Phase 3 test, will be studied at different doses and for longer duration in the new trial.

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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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Scientists simulate asteroid collision effects on climate and plants

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A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

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Illumina placed on China’s ‘unreliable entity’ list

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Analysts said the move comes amid rising trade tensions with the U.S. and as Illumina faces stiff competition in China’s genome sequencing market.

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Obese and healthy

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Body weight and body mass index alone are not enough to predict whether someone will develop a metabolic disease. A new atlas of cells in fat tissue could help to explain why some overweight people stay healthy, while others do not.

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Spinal Zap Implant Helps Muscle Disease Patients Regain Strength

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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5, 2025 -- A new spinal cord implant may help people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) regain some muscle function, giving them stronger movement and improved walking ability, researchers report.In a small, month-long pilot study.

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The early roots of carnival? Research reveals evidence of seasonal celebrations in pre-colonial Brazil

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An international team of scientists has tentatively found some of the earliest indications of alcoholic drink production in the Patos Lagoon region of Brazil. State-of-the-art analysis of pottery fragments showed traces of beverages made from vegetables, likely to have been tubers, sweetcorn, and palm.

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