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At an early age, Black children are indoctrinated with the mantra to be twice as good to get half of what they have. It is in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the handprint on our souls. While I don’t remember being specifically told that I had to be twice as good as my white schoolmates, I got […]

Merck filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new White House-backed program to limit drug prices, calling the initiative an unconstitutional “extortion” that will harm pharmaceutical innovation. President Joe Biden has touted the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program, which allows the Medicare health program to negotiate prices for costly drugs made by a single producer. But pharmaceutical giant Merck, in a […]

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Optogenetics and infrared neurostimulation (INS) constitutes a powerful toolbox in neuroscience to study and control neuronal activity using light. The latter optical method (INS) is recently gaining momentum as a transgene-free optical technique to investigate both the central and peripheral nervous system and therefore constitutes a promising therapeutic approach for neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. Until now, soft, biocompatible infrared fiber-based […]

A blood biomarker that measures astrocyte reactivity may help determine who, among cognitively unimpaired older adults with amyloid-beta, will go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease (AD), new research suggests. Investigators tested the blood of 1000 cognitively healthy individuals with, and without, amyloid-beta pathology and found that only those with a combination of amyloid-beta burden and abnormal astrocyte activation subsequently progressed […]

People with Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, a genetic condition caused by an extra copy of human chromosome 21, experienced a remarkable increase in life expectancy during the 20th century. In the early 1900s, less than 20% of newborns with Down syndrome survived past age 5. In the U.S. today, more than 90% of babies with this condition live past […]

Gonorrhoea: The facts and how to prevent the infection New data suggests there were a whopping 392,453 sexually transmitted infections (STIs) reported in England last year, which is more than 1,000 STI diagnoses every day. The number of gonorrhoea and syphilis diagnoses were driving this peak. Figures from the UK’s Health Security Agency (UKHSA) found that gonorrhoea diagnoses increased by […]

Thanks to the collaboration between teams from the AP-HP, the MedTech METAFORA biosystems, the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Montpellier, Cerba Healthcare, and more than 30 investigating centers coordinated by Professor Fanny Mochel at Paris Brain Institute, a reliable and rapid blood test now enables early diagnosis of Glut1 deficiency syndrome, or De Vivo disease—a rare and yet treatable neurometabolic […]

A new report from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shed some new light on the health habits of Americans. According to the report, 8.2% of adults between the ages of 18 and 64 taking prescription medications reported not taking their drugs as prescribed in order to cut costs—adding up to 9.2 million affected Americans. In 2021, […]