Mississippi opioid settlement council finalizes grant applications
Mississippi’s Opioid Settlement Fund Advisory Council has finalized and expects to soon release grant applications for the tens of millions of dollars it oversees, moving the state closer to using its settlement money to address addiction. The council held a make-up meeting in Jackson late Friday afternoon after a virtual session was derailed by hackers […]
Health District reminds parents: Don’t wait to vaccinate before school starts Back-to-school immunizations available at locations across the Valley
NOTE: This release reflects a correction to the Henderson Public Health Center’s special back-to-school immunizations schedule. LAS VEGAS—With the first day of school less than a month away, the Southern Nevada Health District is reminding parents and guardians to schedule their child’s required immunizations now. The new school year begins Monday, August 11, and appointments […]
Novel Chemo Delivery System Achieves High Response Rate in Bladder Cancer
CHICAGO — An investigational intravesical delivery system designed to provide sustained local release of gemcitabine into the bladder produced high rates of complete response (CR) in difficult-to-treat non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), data from an ongoing phase IIb study showed. Preliminary results from the SunRISe-1 trial demonstrated that monotherapy with the novel treatment, dubbed TAR-200, led […]
Sam Neill’s Rare Lymphoma
Jurassic Park actor Sam Neill was recently interviewed by The Guardian in advance of the release of his memoir, Did I Ever Tell You? Originally planned as a glimpse into his career, his life as a celebrity, and his farm in New Zealand, the book takes a dark turn in chapter 1: “The thing is, […]
High-Intensity Billing for ‘Treat and Release’ ED Visits Has Shot Up Since 2006
High-intensity billing during “treat and release” emergency department (ED) visits rose dramatically over the last two decades, according to an observational study. From 2006 to 2019, the share of treat-and-release visits at the ED (those where patients were not admitted) that included high-intensity billing jumped from 4.8% to 19.2%, reported researchers led by Alexander Janke, […]
Second Trial Participant Dies in Alzheimer’s Drug Study
Days before the release of promising phase III trial data of lecanemab, an investigational anti-amyloid drug for early Alzheimer’s disease, a death possibly linked to the treatment was reported. An unpublished case report featured in Science suggested the death of a 65-year-old lecanemab trial participant who also had cerebral amyloid angiopathy — a condition in […]
Toxicologist From ‘The Good Nurse’ on Catching a Killer
This fall brings the release of two films on Netflix about Charles Cullen, the New Jersey nurse who admitted to murdering up to 40 patients but is suspected of having killed hundreds over his 16-year career. One film, “The Good Nurse,” is a dramatized version of events starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain, while the […]
Unraveling a perplexing explosive process that occurs throughout the universe
Mysterious fast radio bursts release as much energy in one second as the Sun pours out in a year and are among the most puzzling phenomena in the universe. Now researchers at Princeton University, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have simulated and proposed […]
Warmer soil stores less carbon
Global warming will cause the world’s soil to release carbon, new research shows. Scientists used data on more than 9,000 soil samples from around the world, and found that carbon storage “declines strongly” as average temperatures increase. This is an example of a “positive feedback,” where global warming causes more carbon to be released into […]
This New Taylor Swift Song Has A Crucial Message About Mental Health
Taylor Swift fans have been in a state of euphoria following the release of “Red (Taylor’s Version),” a rerecording of the singer’s Grammy-nominated 2012 album. Although the 10-minute version of “All Too Well” and accompanying short film got the initial buzz, other songs from the album also deserve attention — including the nine “From the […]