Category: 4. Health

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the impact of Trump’s proposed budget cuts on biomedical research and global health, news from the ASCO cancer meeting, Summit Therapeutics’ Maky Zanganeh and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.

The Trump Administration’s detailed budget proposal, released on Friday, slashes spending for research on diseases and global health. If enacted, it would set back the effort to find cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s…

A recent case in Europe has reignited debate over the regulation of sperm donation after a man unknowingly carrying a rare, cancer-causing genetic mutation fathered at least 67 children across eight countries. Ten of these children have been diagnosed with cancer, including leukemia, brain tumors and lymphomas. The case…

Joint pain, headaches, stomachaches, fibromyalgia – the list sounds like an inventory of ailments that might plague people as they age. Yet these are chronic, painful conditions that frequently affect children.

People often imagine childhood as a time when the body functions at its best, but about 25% of children experience chronic pain. I was one of them: Starting in elementary school, migraines incapacitated me for hours at a stretch with excruciating pain that made it impossible…

The brain is shielded from many substances by the blood-brain barrier, but this shield is not impenetrable. There are immune cells in the brain called microglia that can respond to potential invaders in the brain, but there is a lot we don’t know about how the adaptive immune system, which can ‘remember’ previous infections and respond accordingly, functions in the brain. Scientists have now shown that there are cells of the adaptive immune system in the…

Low-income individuals that received regular monthly cash stipends visited the emergency department less, had fewer hospital admissions and participated in more outpatient subspecialty…

Unlike cells in the central nervous system, sensory neurons in the nasal cavity have a remarkable ability to…

Newly-minted M.D.s are among the thousands of students, trainees, teachers and exchange visitors put in limbo after the Trump State department hit pause on new visa appointments last week, as it develops a plan to vet visa candidates’ social media. For foreign-born and educated doctors who haven’t snagged an appointment yet, the timing…

The right combination of certain species can provide up to 60% more nutrients than if someone ate the same quantity of even a highly nutritious species, according to an analysis by Cornell University researchers.

“This research hopefully highlights the importance of biodiversity,…

The study, which analyzed blood samples provided by 330 pregnant women from the Atlanta metropolitan area, is believed to be the first…

Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells thrive in the lungs or liver, environments that are as distinct to cells as the ocean and desert are to animals. The spread of cancer cells to organs like these often produces the very first symptoms of pancreatic cancer. But by that time, the pancreatic cancer has spread out of control.

The findings, published…