By Brian Blum People living with cystic fibrosis received encouraging news in late 2019: A new Trikafta treatment combining three drugs — elexacaftor, tezacaftor and ivacaftor — reduces symptoms for this ultimately deadly disease that affects some 90,000 people worldwide. The new medication, although not a cure, works wonders for the 80 percent of cystic […]

By Vandita Agrawal El cambio climático, la inversión en infraestructura para contrarrestar la enorme Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta por parte de China, así como la diplomacia mundial de las vacunas, serán el centro de las conversaciones cuando el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joseph R. Biden Jr., reciba hoy a los primeros ministros […]

By Martin M Barillas Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the psychoactive substance that creates the “high” experienced by cannabis users — caused birth defects in laboratory mice in a recent study, piquing concerns over its possible effects on pregnant women and their babies. Cannabis is the most common illicit drug consumed by pregnant women in countries where […]

By Martin M Barillas You’ve probably heard of what brain researchers call “flow” — the state the brain is in when a person is “in the zone.” Now, researchers say there’s a similar brain state shared by a group when its members get in the zone together. “Team flow” happens when the lead guitar player, […]

By Joseph Golder Canadian doctors kept a pregnant woman in urgent need of a double lung transplant alive using life-support equipment developed for COVID-19 patients so that she could give birth. After the birth at 29 weeks of her son Cameron, Candice Cruise received the transplant, medical experts from the University Health Network in Toronto […]

By Martin M Barillas Scientists may have discovered a new way to treat obesity — a health problem affecting more than 40 percent of American adults — by using fat and skinny genes. Experts at the University of Virginia have identified 14 genes that cause weight gain and three that help prevent it. “We know […]

By Abigail Klein Leichman A groundbreaking point-of-care machine that determines whether an infection is viral or bacterial has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for both children and adults. Last year, MeMed received CE [European Union] clearance for sales of its testing platform in Europe. The MeMed BV test is an immune-based protein […]

By Jon Schiller White blood cells called eosinophils can be “summoned” in order to fight cancer by both destroying the cancer cells directly as well as recruiting the immune system’s cancer-fighting T-cells, according to a new study published in the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Eosinophils produce powerful destructive proteins intended for […]