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First nonprescription birth control pill approved by FDA

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The oral contraceptive’s maker, Perrigo, said the pill will be available in drug and grocery stores early next year, but did not disclose its planned price.

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Longevity Biotech Startup Gero Demonstrates the Power of Quantum Computing in Drug Design

Drug Discovery Today

Research published in Nature Scientific Reports builds on earlier work and demonstrates that commercially available quantum computing services can dramatically accelerate discovery of a new universe of unique chemical structures that are synthetically feasible and possess drug-like properties for tackling complex diseases and aging

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B 7/14 -- Lisa Marie Presley Died of Common Complication of Weight-Loss Surgery

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, July 14, 2023 -- Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, died from complications of a weight-loss surgery she had several years ago, according to an autopsy report released Thursday. The singer/songwriter died Jan. 12 of natural.

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Do clinical trials pay for travel?

Antidote

For medical research to advance, the participation of individuals in a clinical trial is essential. However, accessing trial sites can present an undue burden. A survey about barriers to clinical trial participation found that the primary reason patients declined to enroll in a study was due to the inconvenience associated with travel. This is backed up by research from Deloitte, which reveals that 70% of potential clinical trial participants in the United States live at least two hours away fro

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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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European regulators probe suicide risk to Ozempic, other Novo drug Saxenda

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Three reports from Iceland spurred the EMA to evaluate whether certain Novo Nordisk drugs, including Ozempic, might cause thoughts of self harm.

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A how-to for performing quantitative bioimaging

Broad Institute

A how-to for performing quantitative bioimaging By Makenzie Kohler July 13, 2023 Breadcrumb Home A how-to for performing quantitative bioimaging Bioimaging expert Beth Cimini discusses a comprehensive online guide aimed at making quantitative imaging more accessible. By Makenzie Kohler July 13, 2023 Credit: Beth Cimini, Imaging Platform A collage of a cell sample imaged in different channels using the Cell Painting protocol.

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A Squishy Sea Creature Regenerates a Body from a Severed Head

PLOS: DNA Science

Humans aren’t very good at regeneration — we can do it for skin, bone, and liver, but that’s about it. Flatworms, zebrafish, cockroaches, and salamanders can regenerate entire limbs. Yet even these abilities are unimpressive compared to those of Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus , aka a “squishy sea creature.” Only Simpler Animals Regenerate Hydractinia , along with jellyfish, sea anemones, hydra, and corals, are among 11,000 or so species in phylum Cnidaria, from the G

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Condensate biology: advancing drug discovery for complex diseases

Drug Target Review

Drug discovery is a complex and vital field that continually seeks to identify new therapeutic targets and develop effective treatments. In recent years, a novel approach known as condensate biology has emerged, revolutionising the way researchers think about drug discovery and development. Dewpoint Therapeutics, a platform drug discovery company founded in 2018, has been at the forefront of this exciting field.

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A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics

Broad Institute

A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics By Allessandra DiCorato July 10, 2023 Breadcrumb Home A scientist devotes her career to tackling inequity in genomics Genetic datasets do not reflect the diversity of the world’s population. Alicia Martin is working to correct this through data-driven social justice. Watch now By Allessandra DiCorato July 10, 2023 The small prairie town of Cottonwood, Idaho might be the last place in the world where you'd expect someone who studies

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Racial Discrimination Raises Risk for Childhood Obesity

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, July 14, 2023 -- Racial discrimination may drive health inequities from an early age, according to researchers who found that it puts kids at risk for obesity. “Exposure to racial discrimination must be acknowledged as both a social.

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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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Perficient Recognized by Sitecore for Excellence in Business Impact

Perficient: Drug Development

Each year, Sitecore recognizes the achievements of their most deserving partners through the Sitecore Global Partner Awards. Today, we’re proud to announce Sitecore has recognized Perficient with a 2023 Partner Award for Excellence in Business Impact. The award recognizes Perficient for driving business impact and value for many of our shared customers.

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Biochemical assays and deep cyclic inhibition in cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

The clinical-stage oncology company develops medicines for broad populations of cancer patients and aims to achieve universal-RAS activity through deep cyclic inhibition of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway, selectively impacting cancer cells while sparing healthy cells. In the drug discovery process, Immuneering uses patient-aligned 3D tumour growth assays (3D-TGAs), pharmacogenomics and bioinformatics data, deep learning AI technology, and available clinical data to identify

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#ScienceSaturday: July 8, 2023

KIF1A

#ScienceSaturday posts share exciting scientific developments and educational resources with the KAND community. Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. KIF1A-Related Research Preferential transport of synaptic vesicles across neuronal branches is regulated by the levels of the anterograde motor UNC-104/KIF1A If axons are the highways KIF1A drive on, synapses are like

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First Murder Conviction for Fentanyl Dealer Delivered in California

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, July 11, 2023 -- A fentanyl dealer has been found guilty of second-degree murder in what authorities believe is the first-ever murder conviction for dealing the dangerous drug. The conviction happened in Placer County, Calif., in a case.

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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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File Based Routing in Next.js

Perficient: Drug Development

Next.js is a framework for building web applications built on top of React. Everything we can do in React we can also do in Next.js – with some additional features like routing, API calls, authentication, and more. We don’t have these features in React. Instead, we must install some external libraries and dependencies – like React Router, for routing in a single-page React app.

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Air monitor can detect COVID-19 virus variants in about 5 minutes

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Now that the emergency phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has ended, scientists are looking at ways to surveil indoor environments in real time for viruses. By combining recent advances in aerosol sampling technology and an ultrasensitive biosensing technique, researchers at Washington University in St.

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Avrobio halts gene therapy research and considers a sale

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The decision to explore “strategic alternatives” comes about six weeks after the company sold its most advanced treatment to Novartis for nearly $90 million.

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Nearly 1 in 5 Say Their Workplace Can Be Toxic, Poll Finds

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, July 13, 2023 -- About one-fifth of American workers say their workplace is toxic, and many say their mental health is harmed as a result. The American Psychological Association (APA) questioned 2,515 employed adults in April for its.

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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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Theoretical Models Part 6 –Understanding the Social Identity and Cultural Affirmation Model

Perficient: Drug Development

In the realm of disability studies, the Social Identity and Cultural Affirmation Model of Disability has gained recognition as a powerful framework that acknowledges the significance of social and cultural factors in shaping the experiences of individuals with disabilities. This model recognizes disability as a social construct influenced by identity, culture, and societal attitudes.

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Salinity changes threatening marine ecosystems, new UNF study shows

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

A groundbreaking study published today reveals the critical yet severely understudied factor of salinity changes in ocean and coastlines caused by climate change. The study was co-authored by an international team of researchers, including Dr. Cliff Ross, University of North Florida biology chair/professor, and Dr.

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EMA expands probe of possible suicide risk to popular weight loss, diabetes drugs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The European drug regulator says it now has 150 reports of possible cases involving self-injury and suicidal thoughts among people taking GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic.

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New Type of Treatment Tackles Tough-to-Treat Prostate Cancer

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, July 13, 2023 -- A preclinical study offers a potential new therapy for treatment-resistant prostate cancer, offering new hope for men with the disease. The study used the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, administered orally, to disrupt the.

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The Active Ingredient Stands Alone

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Sara W. Koblitz — One of the most important questions FDA has to answer is whether a given product is appropriately characterized as a drug, biologic, device, food, cosmetic, or something entirely different. As we have explained before , that distinction is critical to assigning a particular product to the appropriate regulatory scheme. While it is exceedingly obvious that some products, like eyeshadow for example, are cosmetics, or a pacemaker is a device, it can get thorny where the disti

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DBST: a lightweight block cipher based on dynamic S-box

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Block ciphers, a branch of modern cryptography, are playing a more prominent role in protecting information security as 5G technology develops. Although encryption algorithms of the traditional Feistel structure have great advantages in terms of consistent encryption and decryption, they have poor diffusion effects.

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Lilly to buy Versanis, adding to obesity drug pipeline

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The pharma will pay up to $1.9 billion to acquire the private biotech and its experimental antibody, which Lilly plans to pair with its own weight loss medicines.

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FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill, Opill

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, July 13, 2023 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the nation's first over-the-counter birth control pill, a move that will likely pave the way for far greater access to contraception for Americans. Women will be.

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Multiple ecosystems in hot water after marine heatwave surges across the Pacific

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Rising ocean temperatures are sweeping the seas, breaking records and creating problematic conditions for marine life. Unlike heatwaves on land, periods of abrupt ocean warming can surge for months or years. Around the world these 'marine heatwaves' have led to mass species mortality and displacement events, economic declines and habitat loss. New research reveals that even areas of the ocean protected from fishing are still vulnerable to these extreme events fueled by climate change.

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Multimillion dollar consortium to address southwest water concerns

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The Colorado River, which provides drinking water to tens of millions of people and irrigation water to more than 5 million acres of farmland, has dropped by one-third in recent years. Arizona recently limited housing construction in the Phoenix area based on projections that groundwater will be unable to meet growing demand.

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Startup Tenpoint raises $70M to develop regenerative medicines for the eye

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Backed by F-Prime Capital and Sofinnova Partners, the company claims to have technology that could allow it replace eye cells destroyed in age-related and inherited ocular conditions.

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Melanoma an Even More Deadly Disease in Black Men

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, July 12, 2023 -- Black men are more likely to die of melanoma, new research shows, and one reason why may be the unusual places where the deadly skin cancer is likely to show up on their bodies. Even though the disease is more common in.

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Neutrophil Migration Assay with Zebrafish

biobide

In the field of Drug Development and chemical safety assessment, evaluating the potential immunotoxicity of compounds is of utmost importance. Zebrafish has emerged as a valuable model organism for assessing immunotoxicity and Neutrophil Migration Assay offers a valuable and efficient approach.

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Award of Excellence for Arlington’s unique rideshare program

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

The University of Texas at Arlington received an Award of Excellence for Innovation from the International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI). Credit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington received an Award of Excellence for Innovation from the International Parking & Mobility Institute (IPMI).

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Takeda withdraws FDA approval application for dengue vaccine

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

While the shot is approved in the EU, Takeda wasn’t able to address data collection issues raised by the US regulator in its current review cycle.