Tag: medical research
Health: Artificial intelligence, synthetic data, and health
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Many of the lines of artificial intelligence research today bear on the health sciences. An example concerns the right to privacy. Is it...
Health: International Cooperation and the Campaign Against Hepatitis B
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When scientists from countries around the world work together, wonderful things can happen. This is clear in the case of an ongoing campaign...
Health: Woman Declared Free of HIV Due to Umbilical Blood
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An American woman with leukemia has become the first woman, and only the third person, to be cleared of HIV, the virus that...
Health: Hope for Victims of Severe Spinal Cord Injuries
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Researchers at Northwestern University have tested a treatment on paralyzed mice that holds great promise for reversal serious spinal injuries. A single injection...
Science: Life & Health Sciences at the University of Liverpool
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Administration at the U.K.'s University of Liverpool has targeted many members of the faculty, especially those teaching and researching biology and medicine, as...
Health: The Virus Hijacks the Alarm System
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New research by scientists at the Weizmann Institute, in Israel, sheds light into how the Covid-19 virus manages to strike its victims so...
Health: Racism and Medical Research
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The American Medical Association's governing body, the House of Delegates, resolved recently that racism, as it operates within the realms of medical research...
Health: Physiology Does (Somewhat) Spare Children from Covid
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"Hard to believe. I don’t know how you feel about it but they have much stronger immune systems than we do somehow...
Health: Biogen Invests in ALS Project
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Last week, pharmaceutical giant Biogen Inc. and start-up Scribe Therapeutics announced a joint project to develop therapies for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also...
Health: Renee C. Fox, Rest in Peace
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One of the founders of the academic study of medical sociology, Renee C. Fox, passed away quietly last month at a hospice in...