State Health Improvement Plan Moves to Strategy Selection – Wyoming Department of Health
State Health Improvement Plan Moves to Strategy Selection November 18, 2021 The Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) is inviting state residents to participate in the next stage of preparing an overall state health improvement plan for Wyoming. WDH, together with the State Health Improvement Plan Steering Committee organized by the department, chose behavioral health, access […]
Research finds key advances towards reducing the cost of plant improvement
Crop improvement often involves the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another to produce a valuable trait. Some major examples of crops with these so-called “transgenes” include disease-resistant cotton and beta-carotene-enhanced golden rice. However, when foreign DNA is introduced into a host organism, a natural defensive response in plants is to repress or […]
Oral Drug Active in Teens With Atopic Dermatitis
Teenagers with moderate or severe atopic dermatitis (AD) had significant improvement at 12 weeks with the investigational oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor abrocitinib plus topical therapy, a placebo-controlled trial showed. Almost half of the patients had clear or almost clear skin by clinician assessment (IGA), and about 70% of patients treated with either of two […]