How Can the U.S. Preserve Its Medical Supply Chain?
WASHINGTON — Onshoring medical manufacturing is part of a strategy to shore up the nation’s medical supply chain, but it can’t be the entire strategy, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). “If you are thinking about onshoring the entire global supply chain, that would be a […]
Scientists unveil promising new approach to diabetes prevention: Experimental compound protects obese mice from diabetes-like metabolic changes
A team of scientists from Scripps Research has conducted promising early tests of a new strategy that might one day be used to prevent or treat type 2 diabetes. The scientists, whose results are reported in Nature Communications, tested an experimental compound called IXA4 in obese mice. They showed that the compound activates a natural […]
Opinion | The Devil Is in the Details: Biden’s HIV/AIDS Strategy
The Biden administration recently released the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (2022-2025), an update from the 2010 and 2015 versions spearheaded by then-President Obama. Seeing this in my email inbox and social media timelines was a welcome sight, signifying that our federal government has not forgotten its commitment to ending the HIV epidemic, despite the persistent scourge […]
Immune system-stimulating nanoparticle could lead to more powerful vaccines
A common strategy to make vaccines more powerful is to deliver them along with an adjuvant — a compound that stimulates the immune system to produce a stronger response. Researchers from MIT, the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, and other institutions have now designed a new nanoparticle adjuvant that may be more potent than others […]
Biden Unveils Plan to Hasten ‘End’ of HIV Epidemic
President Biden announced a new National HIV/AIDS strategy that he described as “a roadmap for how we’re going to put our foot on the gas, and accelerate our efforts to end the HIV epidemic in the United States by the year 2030.” On World AIDS Day, the president spoke from the East Room of the […]
Intermittent fasting can help manage metabolic disease: Popular diet trend could reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease
Eating your daily calories within a consistent window of 8-10 hours is a powerful strategy to prevent and manage chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, according to a new manuscript published in the Endocrine Society’s journal, Endocrine Reviews. Time-restricted eating is a type of intermittent fasting that limits your food intake to a […]
CDC Staff Floats ‘Risk-Based Approach’ to Potential Booster Doses
A risk-based booster dose strategy for COVID-19 vaccines could target populations at risk of severe disease and those critical to the public health infrastructure, CDC staff said at a meeting of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Monday. Though FDA has yet to review data on booster doses for COVID-19 vaccines among the […]
Ablation, CRT Boost Survival in Permanent Afib With Narrow QRS
A “pace-and-ablate” strategy substantially boosted survival for permanent atrial fibrillation (Afib) patients with a narrow QRS across the range of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), the APAF-CRT trial showed. While relatively small with 133 patients after being stopped early for efficacy at a median 29 months of follow-up, the trial showed a relative 74% survival […]
Support for MRI-Targeted Biopsy in Prostate Cancer Screening
A prostate cancer screening strategy using MRI with targeted and standard biopsy reduced the detection of clinically insignificant cancers as well as unnecessary biopsies, researchers reported. Such an approach was also as effective as a standard biopsy strategy in detecting clinically significant cancers, said Tobias Nordstrom, MD, PhD, of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, in […]
Biden Lays Out New Vaccination Path
President Biden announced plans for a more targeted vaccination strategy, including door-to-door outreach. While about 183 million Americans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Biden urged unvaccinated Americans to get their shot, particularly with the growing threat of the Delta variant. The latter is more contagious and possibly more deadly than […]