For Immediate Release:March 10, 2020 For more information contact:Public Health Communications(213) [email protected] LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) is investigating one additional case of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County; the total number of cases reported by Public Health is now 17. These cases exclude the cities of Long...
Month: <span>March 2020</span>
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The Power of Hand-Washing to Prevent Coronavirus
Brenda Goodman, MA The single most important piece of advice health experts can give to help us stay safe from COVID-19 is this one: Wash your hands. “In the final analysis, it’s the hands. The hands are the connecting piece,” says Elizabeth Scott, PhD. Scott co-directs the Center for Hygiene and Health in Home and...
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Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI
Machine learning spots molecules that work even against ‘untreatable’ strains of bacteria. Jo Marchant A pioneering machine-learning approach has identified powerful new types of antibiotic from a pool of more than 100 million molecules — including one that works against a wide range of bacteria, including tuberculosis and strains considered untreatable. Antibiotic resistance has a...
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Altair Medical awarded FDA Breakthrough Device status to address the global opioid crisis
Altair Medical, a medical technology company developing a groundbreaking solution to the global opioid crisis, today announce that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded the Company Breakthrough Device designation for its RESPMETERTM wearable biosensor device. Altair Medical’s RESPMETERTM is a chest-worn wireless sensor that accurately detects when someone is suffering Opioid Indused...
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A promising new strategy to help broken bones heal faster
People with diabetes are at a higher risk of fracturing a bone than the general population. And if they do break one it also takes longer than normal to heal. In the issue of Biomaterials, Henry Daniell, Shuying (Sheri) Yang, and colleagues at Penn’s School of Dental Medicine share promising findings from an animal model...
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Blacks are at higher risk for Alzheimer’s, but why?
by Renã A.s. Robinson, The Conversation Blacks are at higher risk for several health conditions in the U.S. This is true for heart disease, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and stroke, which are often chronic diseases. And it is also for Alzheimer’s disease, in which blacks have two times higher incidence rates than whites. So, why...
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New tech takes radiation out of cancer screening
by Matthew Grant, University of Waterloo Researchers have developed a new, inexpensive technology that could save lives and money by routinely screening women for breast cancer without exposure to radiation. The system, developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo, uses harmless microwaves and artificial intelligence (AI) software to detect even small, early-stage tumors within...
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A Breakthrough in Genetic Medicine for Rare Diseases
A long-disdained therapy that targets RNA is suddenly achieving spectacular success By Lydia Denworth | Scientific American March 2020 Issue Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are short strings of chemically modified DNA or RNA that are designed to home in on RNA strands to alter the proteins the body ultimately produces. After decades of struggling to get...
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Immunotherapy combo effective for patients with high-grade neuroendocrine cancer
by SWOG Many patients with rare, fast-growing neuroendocrine tumors respond well to a common immunotherapy drug combination, according to the first peer-reviewed publication out of DART, short for Dual Anti-CTLA-4 and Anti-PD-1 Blockade in Rare Tumors, a unique rare cancer clinical trial. Many patients with rare, fast-growing neuroendocrine tumors respond well to a common immunotherapy...
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Simple blood test could help reduce heart disease deaths
by Newcastle University Scientists at Newcastle University have revealed how a simple blood test could be used to help identify cardiovascular ageing and the risk of heart disease. For the first time, experts led by Professor Konstantinos Stellos report that higher levels of amyloid-beta in the blood may be a key indicator of cardiovascular disease....