How To Fast-Track An Ebola Vaccine
Science Companies, governments, and other groups are considering compromises such as speedier quality-control tests and relaxed packaging rules. The World Health Organization said it will have Ebola...
View ArticleVaccine Prevents Hundreds Of Cases Of Malaria During Experiment
Health It’s not 100 percent effective, but it’s the best solution out there In 2013, almost 600,000 people died of malaria, a disease caused by a parasite passed to humans through mosquito bites. But...
View ArticleHow Artificial Intelligence Can Make Drugs Better and Faster
Technology Existing genetic analyses just aren’t powerful enough When researchers used to try to diagnose and treat diseases, they would often search for one mutation on a single gene that was causing...
View ArticleIn Painkiller Trials, Placebo Effect Is Becoming More Powerful
Health Phenomenon prevents more drugs from hitting the market Painkiller manufacturers are confused. Their drugs have maintained the same efficacy at relieving symptoms for the past 25 years, but the...
View ArticleApple’s Newest ResearchKit Apps Will Study Autism, Epilepsy, And Melanoma
Health Transforming clinical studies, one app at a time Apple announced yesterday that it is planning to use its ResearchKit platform to study three huge health problems: epilepsy, autism, and...
View ArticleHigh-Tech Glasses Can Treat Lazy Eye
Health The first new treatment for the condition in 50 years Researchers have developed high-tech glasses, called Amblyz, which can be programmed to treat lazy eye. The results of the first clinical...
View ArticleHere’s Why Scientists Are Shocked By The Results Of This Cancer Treatment Trial
Health It's not perfect, but it could make immunotherapy a “pillar” of cancer treatment, researcher says Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle tested a version of...
View ArticleWomen Are Being Excluded From Clinical Trials
Health "Complexities of the menstrual cycle" are to blame Even though sex-based equality has progressed in other fields, women have been routinely excluded from clinical trials, the group of British...
View ArticleCould An Antidepressant Help Kids With Down Syndrome?
Health Parents have pushed a potential treatment from chat rooms to clinical trial How Parents Pushed to Test a Down Syndrome Treatment…
View ArticleHow to conduct human drug trials without needing any pesky humans
Health Meet the body on a chip A tiny replica body-on-a-chip could be a safer, more accurate testing ground for new drugs…
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