Category: 4. Health

“Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer…

By analyzing these gases, the device offers an entirely new way to assess skin health, including monitoring wounds, detecting skin infections, tracking hydration levels, quantifying exposure to harmful environmental chemicals and more.

The new technology comprises a collection of sensors that precisely measure changes in temperature, water vapor, carbon…

“Previous viral and non-viral delivery systems such as adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), and other virus-like particles (VLPs), have been valuable but face limitations,” says Dr. Dong-Jiunn Jeffery Truong, last author of the study and group leader at…

These sugars, called glycans, help cells recognize and communicate with each other. They also act as a cellular “signature,” with each subtype of pancreatic cancer cell possessing a different composition of glycans.

The new method, multiplexed glycan immunofluorescence, combines specialized software…

Although last week’s extensive tariff announcements exempted pharmaceuticals, President Trump has repeatedly maintained that he will eventually impose tariffs on the industry. The tariffs, touted as a remedy to our global vulnerabilities, have thrust the long-ignored flaws of our drug supply chain into the spotlight.

While tariffs are not a silver bullet, they are a critical catalyst for overdue change. They force the…

What an extraordinary moment in medical history: science has handed us the superpower to eradicate HIV/AIDS. Lenacapavir, a once-a-year injection, can treat HIV, prevent transmission, and stop new infections—all with a single shot. This breakthrough opens the door to eliminating HIV from humanity entirely. Yet, instead of seizing this opportunity, the United States retreats from its global leadership role in infectious disease control. In a cruel twist of…

Try to picture being completely conscious and mentally able — but not being able to speak. For people afflicted with paralysis or locked-in syndrome, that is a daily reality. However, a revolutionary brain-to-speech AI software, created by scientists at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, is hoping to change that — by…

Americans at all wealth levels are more likely to die sooner than their European counterparts, with even the richest U.S. citizens living shorter lives than northern and western Europeans. That is the key finding of our new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

We also found that while the wealthiest Americans live longer than the poorest, the wealth-mortality gap in the U.S. is far more pronounced than in Europe.

We are a team of health policy researchers who study…