This week marked considerable optimism for neuroscience breakthroughs
Category: healthcare
In The Costly U.S. Health Care Market, Mark Cuban’s Company Has A Plan To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs
By operating transparently as a public benefit corporation, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company aims to expand affordable access to medication and help to reshape the $4.1 trillion U.S. health care industry.
Two Are Better Than One: Expanding Our Covid-19 Vaccine Antigens
Like influenza, SARS-CoV-2 is an expert at mutating and evading prior immunity. This includes vaccine-induced immunity. New research suggests that expanding the target area of our vaccines to include the virus’ nucleocapsid protein may offer stronger a…
Alzheimer’s Drug Lecanemab’s Positive Phase 3 Data Could Lead To Loosening Of Medicare Coverage Restrictions
If deemed to meet the reasonable and necessary criteria, Medicare may – for lecanemab – remove the conditional access barrier it imposed on all beta amyloid-directed monoclonal antibodies in the National Coverage Determination (NCD) issued in April of …
Meet The Iranian Immigrant Who Became A Covid MedTech Billionaire
Joe Kiani surmounted overwhelming personal and professional odds to build a better blood oxygen monitoring device. So why should he be afraid to push his scrappy company into consumer electronics, challenging firms 100 times its size?
Is Candy-Like ‘Rainbow Fentanyl’ A Real Halloween Scare Targeting Your Kids?
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Anne Milgram as stated that, “Rainbow fentanyl—fentanyl pills and powder that come in a variety of bright colors, shapes, and sizes—is a deliberate effort by drug traffickers to drive addiction a…
National Safety Review Ordered For English Mental Health Facilities
The review was announced in response to footage of patient abuse at an public hospital.
Can You Get The Flu Vaccine And Covid-19 Booster At The Same Time?
Also, here’s the best time to get the influenza shot in general.
An Interview With Dr. Miriam Levitt Flisser, Candidate For Congress In NY District 16
Bronx-raised Dr. Miriam Levitt Flisser was nominated by the Republican Party to run in New York’s Congressional District 16. Her photo would definitely appear under the term ‘Achieving the American Dream.’
British Obstetrician Recounts 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak – Lessons For How To Cope With Current Crisis In Uganda
Perhaps lessons can be learned on how to cope with the current Ugandan crisis from a British obstetrician’s account of what it was like to be a doctor on the front lines of an unfolding Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone in 2014 while struggling to save th…
