Month: September 2020

When it comes to finding your purpose, Jay Shetty has been on a unique personal journey. But now, the former monk-turned-global keynote speaker, life coach, and podcast host is sharing the insight and wisdom he’s learned I’m excited to read this article, because I’ve shared so many things I haven’t said before,” declares Jay Shetty
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring a “boxed warning” label for benzodiazepine medicines, such as the prescription medications Ativan, Xanax, Klonopin, Librium and Valium. The boxed warning, the agency’s most prominent safety warning, will be required classwide for all benzodiazepines, the FDA announced in its Drug Safety Communication on Sept. 23. The
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The authors of a 2018 paper purporting to find that the HPV vaccine guards against preterm birth have retracted the article after discovering they made a statistical error which could have masked the opposite effect. The researchers, from New Zealand, also failed to appropriately disclose their financial ties to a company, CSL Limited, which owns
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Members of the STORMing Cancer team on a Zoom video call. People throw around the old saying “teamwork makes the dream work”. As cheesy as it may sound, it’s a fitting tribute for our Cancer Grand Challenges STORMing Cancer team.    As a team of over 60 scientists working across 4 continents, they understand the importance of teamwork to ensure their research – investigating the role of inflammation in driving cancer – runs smoothly.  
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Sep 24 2020 The importance of cleanrooms is currently in the spotlight as the global community awaits a vaccine for Covid-19. Laboratories need controlled environments that are contamination free in order to carry out development and testing that produces reliable test results. Image Credit: ZwickRoell A cleanroom is classified according to the level of cleanliness
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loncastuximab tesirine Treatment for Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma ADC Therapeutics Submits Biologics License Application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Loncastuximab Tesirine for Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma Print this page LAUSANNE, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)– September 24, 2020 — ADC Therapeutics SA (NYSE: ADCT), a late clinical-stage oncology-focused biotechnology company
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News FDA Alerts Drug Safety Communication: Benzodiazepine Drug Class – Boxed Warning Updated to Improve Safe Use September 23, 2020 Print this page Audience: Patient, Health Professional, Pharmacy ISSUE: The FDA is requiring the Boxed Warning, FDA’s most prominent warning, be updated by adding other information to the prescribing information for all benzodiazepine medicines. This
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The coronavirus sniffer dogs named Kössi (L) and Miina cuddle with trainer Susanna Paavilainen at the Helsinki airport in Vantaa, Finland where they are trained to detect the Covid-19 from the arriving passengers, on September 22, 2020. ANTTI AIMO-KOIVISTO | AFP | Getty Images Dogs that have been trained to detect the coronavirus have started
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Iain Foulkes is our executive director of research and innovation. Another day, another set of gloomy statistics. Today’s new figures from the UK’s National Cancer Research Institute project a devastating 24% drop in the UK’s overall cancer research spending this year, driven by a 46% fall in charity sector funding. With a near constant stream
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A new survey has revealed that one in four Brits has watched post-apocalyptic films during the pandemic New data released by NOW TV reveals that Brits have been turning to apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, and dystopian movies as a source of comfort and entertainment during the ongoing Covid pandemic. Popular films featuring end-of-the-world scenarios, along with cult
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It is frightening enough to have COVID-19. But imagine going to the emergency department (ED) with symptoms, testing positive, and then being sent home only to come back days later, sicker than before. “We were surprised with the overall rate that [COVID] patients return and need admission, which is twice that of other illnesses,” said
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Bad Breath Free Forever is an online system that teaches you how to eliminate the root cause of bad breath naturally, so you can stop masking the symptoms with chewing gum, oral sprays and breath mints and begin eliminating bad breath for good entirely naturally. Unlike other systems, you do not have to do anything
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  Today the Governor of Wisconsin declared a state of emergency related to the growing number of COVID-19 cases — and the Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin -Madison announced that in-person classes will resume Sept. 26 after a 2-week lockdown. Governor Tony Evers also issued an executive order, extending the mandatory wearing of face masks while in
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Breathing enriched oxygen on a nightly basis may lead to clinically meaningful symptomatic improvement in mild to moderate major depression, new research suggests. Dr R. Haim Belmaker “We saw a highly significant effect of normobaric hyperoxia therapy in lowering Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression scores,” R. Haim Belmaker, MD, reported at the virtual congress of
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Print this page THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Sept. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced that updated data from the full Phase 1 cohort of the CodeBreaK 100 clinical study, evaluating sotorasib (proposed INN for AMG 510) in 129 patients across multiple advanced solid tumors, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Data from 59 patients with
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Doctors in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images Germany has been praised for its tackling of the coronavirus pandemic, having managed to keep deaths under 10,000 so far while its European neighbors have seen much higher fatalities.  But the chief executive of German health care group Fresenius has warned that
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After 23 years running his own family practice and 5 more as chief medical officer for Walgreens, Patrick Carroll, MD, decided to take his medical expertise online. In 2019 he became CMO of the telemedicine website called Hims & Hers. He made the jump, as explained in a blog post announcing his appointment, because he felt
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The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA’s) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended approval of baricitinib tablets (Olumiant, Eli Lilly) for adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD) who are candidates for systemic therapy. Baricitinib is already approved in the European Union (EU; and the United States) to treat moderate-to-severe active rheumatoid arthritis. If
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