Category: healthcare

Electrically Stimulating The Vagus Nerve May Be Able To Reverse Chronic Inflammation

As one of the most primitive parts of our nervous system, the vagus nerve controls many aspects of the body that are outside our conscious control.

What Is The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act?

What is the PWFA, and what do employers and employees need to know about it? Answer by Kara Govro, Principal HR Legal Analyst.

Viroids and Virusoids: Hiding In Plain Sight

Viroids and virusoids are the smallest known pathogens. They have traditionally been considered fairly uncommon; new research challenges this assumption.

Rite Aid Loss Hits $306 Million As Troubles Mount

Rite Aid reported a quarterly loss of more than $306 million as the drugstore chain grapples with the loss of customers from its pharmacy benefit business.

Rite Aid Loss Hits $306 Million As Troubles Mount

Rite Aid reported a quarterly loss of more than $306 million as the drugstore chain grapples with the loss of customers from its pharmacy benefit business.

Qiming-Backed AI Drug Discovery Startup Insilico Medicine Files For Hong Kong IPO

Insilico Medicine was valued at about $895 million after raising $95 million last July from the likes of leading Chinese healthcare-focused firm Qiming Venture Partners and billionaire Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital, among others.

Canadian Wildfires Are Affecting Millions – How Exposure To Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Brain

Growing research is looking at the effects wildfire smoke exposure has on the health of the brain and on cognition.

InnovationRx: Intelligence Agencies Say No ‘Direct Evidence’ For Covid Lab Leak

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Measles—Once An Afterthought In The U.S.—Is Making A Comeback

Imagine a time when an estimated 4 million people in the United States were infected with measles virus each year, of which nearly 50,000 required hospitalization and …

Bill Maher Hosts RFK Jr. But Does Not Fact Check These Statements

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made unfounded claims about vaccination and autism and that “The only medicine that never gets tested are vaccines.