House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, speaks during a news conference on Capitol … More
Category: 5. Health
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HHS And CDC To Examine Role Of Fluoride In Public Water
WASHINGTON – AUGUST 15: The exterior of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is seen in … More
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Disease…
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Shared Governance Is Transforming Nursing Leadership
Shared governance is transforming nursing leadership putting frontline voices at the heart of … More
When you think about nurses, the first images that come to mind might be compassion, care,…
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Why These Investment Firms Bet $400 Million On A Chinese Ozempic Rival
Serial Salesman: Kailera CEO Ron Renaud has built and sold three biotechs, the last for $8.7 billion. “Companies get bought, they don’t get sold,” he says. But the obesity market’s frenzy could make Kailera a prime acquisition target.
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Scientists Turn Paper Into Plastic
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a biodegradable plastic made from trees, a $3 million prize for scientists working with the Large Hadron Collider, why we’re one step closer to a holodeck and more. You can sign up to get…
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Snakes are often the villains. A new book gives them a fair shake
Slither
Stephen S. Hall
Grand Central Publishing, $30Snakes don’t often get to be the protagonists. From the biblical tempter in the Garden of Eden to the eponymous snakes on a plane, your stereotypical serpent often gets cast…
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Driving the CAR to fight acute myeloid leukemia
One main goal of anti-cancer therapies is to kill tumor cells without affecting the surrounding normal cells. Therefore, many drugs are designed to target tumor-specific antigens, which are molecules only expressed by cancer cells. However, it…
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Amgen’s First CTO Has Big Plans For AI–And An AI Head From Nike to Help Fulfill Them
Amgen’s Sean Bruich, senior vice president of artificial intelligence and data, (left) and chief technology officer David Reese: “Most of the talent [in AI] lies outside biopharma, not within it,” Reese said.
Amgen
When Dr. David Reese, Amgen’s…
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An overlooked organ may help the ovary function
When an expansive curlicue of tissue sitting below the ovaries was discovered more than a century ago, it was dismissed as useless and erased from biology textbooks. Biologists now are taking a new look at the structure and its…
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How Health Insurers Can Fix The Broken Patient Experience
Dominique Entzminger, a physician assistant of family medicine, wears a stethoscope during an … More
In response to mounting scrutiny over medical claim denials and patient experience,…
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