September 29, 2016
(Reuters) – In the shadow of one of China’s top cancer hospitals in Beijing, a catacomb-like network of ramshackle brick buildings has become a home-from-home for hundreds of cancer patients and their families waiting for treatment. The cluster of nine … Read More
September 29, 2016
(Kasier Health News) – Drugmaker Sarepta Therapeutics won a big victory when its $300,000 muscular dystrophy drug was recently approved, but the company had other reasons to celebrate, too. They were also awarded the drug world’s equivalent of a Willy … Read More
September 29, 2016
(MIT Technology Review) – Most experts in the medical field will tell you that gene therapy has finally come of age, but the numbers tell a different story. Despite 30 years of research and a bigger pipeline than ever, only … Read More
September 29, 2016
(NPR) – Researchers trying to understand diseases and find new ways to treat them are running into a serious problem in their labs: One of the most commonly used tools often produces spurious results. More than 100 influential scientists met … Read More
September 28, 2016
(Nautilus) – Dr. Hans Reiter achieved the one thing most likely to keep a physician’s name in textbooks forever: He got an illness named after him. While working as a medic in the German army in World War I, he … Read More
September 28, 2016
(STAT News) – The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first so-called artificial pancreas, an out-of-body device expected to lift the burden for some diabetics on the daily grind they must go through to keep their blood sugar levels stable. It will soon … Read More
September 28, 2016
(The Atlantic) – The U.S. threatened to cut off talks with Russia Wednesday after intensified airstrikes in eastern Aleppo took out two of the area’s largest hospitals. The warning follows the Syrian government’s intensified campaign—backed by Russian military power—to wrest … Read More
September 27, 2016
(Quartz) – For decades, nurses from Asia have looked to hospitals in the US for a chance at upward mobility. Hundreds of thousands of people from countries like the Philippines, India, and China, aided by a nursing shortage in the … Read More
September 27, 2016
(News-Medical) – Researchers have demonstrated the ability to deliver a fully functional copy of the CLN3 gene to stem cells of patients with juvenile NCL, an inherited neurodegenerative disease in which a mutation in the CLN3 gene causes early-onset severe … Read More
September 26, 2016
(Daily Mail) – Senior doctors sparked fury yesterday for suggesting the NHS should work out the ‘cost effectiveness’ of caring for children with Down’s syndrome. It was condemned as ‘putting a price on a life’ by families of children with … Read More
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