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Is factory farming to blame for coronavirus?
Scientists are tracing the path of Sars-CoV-2 from a wild animal host – but we need to look at the part played in the outbreak by industrial food productionCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhere did the virus causing the current pandemic come from? How did it get to a food market in Wuhan, China, from where it is thought to have spilled over into humans? The answers to these questions are gradually being pieced together, and the story they tell makes for uncomfortable reading.Let ’s start at the beginning. As of 17 March, we know that the Sars-CoV-2 virus (a member of the coronavirus family...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 28, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Laura Spinney Tags: Coronavirus outbreak Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science World news UK news Epidemics Genetics Zoology Source Type: news
LJI scientists identify potential targets for immune responses to novel coronavirus
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) Publishing in the March 16, 2020, online issue of Host, Cell and Microbe, a team of researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology, in collaboration with researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute, provides the first analysis of potential targets for effective immune responses against the novel coronavirus. The researchers used existing data from known coronaviruses to predict which parts of SARS-CoV-2 are capable of activating the human immune system.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - March 11, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
$18M health care development planned in East Louisville
An East End health facility is getting a major facelift that's projected to cost about $18.5 million.
Cincinnati-based Episcopal Retirement Services, a nonprofit senior care and housing provider, announced Thursday that it will demolish a building that was constructed in the 1970s to make room for additional independent living patio homes, a new personal care building and a pond at the Episcopal C hurch Home campus.
Episcopal Church Home, or ECH, is one of Louisville's largest providers of long-term…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - February 10, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Chris Larson Source Type: news
Shakopee hospital to get $25 million facelift
St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Shakopee this week outlined its plans upgrade its emergency department and cancer center to the tune of $25 million, a move that — though scaled back from an earlier draft — will still add another 26 rooms to the hospital.
The project will renovate 15,000 existing square feet, with another 15,000 square feet of new construction added to the hospital. Knutson Construction will serve as the contractor, while Hammel, Green and Abrahamson has been tapped…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - January 31, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Carrigan Miller Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: U.S.$7,5 Million Facelift for Hospital
[The Herald] Zimbabwe and Japan have committed US$7,75 million towards the refurbishment and immediate needs of Sally Mugabe Central Hospital (formerly Harare Central Hospital) in the next three months, in line with the aspirations of the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP), which priorities infrastructure development.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 30, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Rwanda: King Faisal Hospital to Get $20m Facelift
[New Times] - A new Doctor's Plaza with 45 outpatient consultation room
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 15, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Fred H. Gage receives the ISSCR Achievement Award
(International Society for Stem Cell Research) The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) will award its inaugural Achievement Award to Fred H. Gage, Ph.D., president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif. The prize recognizes the transformative body of work of an investigator that has had a major impact on the field of stem cell research or regenerative medicine. The Award will be presented on 27 June at ISSCR 2020 in Boston, Mass., US.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 14, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Pleural and Peritoneal Mesothelioma Combination Can Be Managed
A patient diagnosed with pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma today can survive well beyond expectations, provided personalized treatment can be found at a specialty center.
Research from the Columbia University Medical Center in New York City has shown that despite the poor prognosis typically accompanies this rare diagnosis, patients still can thrive.
“This is an understudied, and poorly understood, group of patients that often is just written off,” surgical oncologist Dr. Michael Kluger at Columbia told The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos.com. “But we’ve shown a meaningful survival.”
Kluger, who specializes in ...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - January 9, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Matt Mauney Source Type: news
Cellular culprit suspected of pushing dengue fever from bad to worse is cleared by transcripts
(La Jolla Institute for Immunology) No one knows what makes a mild dengue viral infection morph into a severe and sometimes deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome. Experts previously believed the likely cause was ramped up activity of T cells, which can massively boost an immune response to a virus. Now, researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), have found definitive evidence that CD4 T cells, one of two main subtypes of T cells, are not to blame.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
AI Can Now Make Medical Predictions from Raw Data. But Can Deep Learning Be Trusted?
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Source: TIME: Health - December 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Eric Bender / Undark Tags: Uncategorized medicine onetime Research syndication Source Type: news
Remarks by Anna Abram to the Biocom Celebration of Life Dinner - 11/21/2019
Remarks by Anna Abram
Biocom Celebration of Life Dinner
La Jolla, CA
Nov. 21, 2019
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - November 22, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Why women in their 40s are seeking full-on facelifts instead of botox
Civil servant Mel Beard, 49, from West Sussex, pictured left before her facelift and right after the procedure said she considered going under the knife five years earlier.
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Risk for Birth Defects Not Increased With Adalimumab
FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 2019 -- Adalimumab exposure in pregnancy does not increase the risk for birth defects, according to a study published online Oct. 18 in PLOS ONE.
Christina D. Chambers, from the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, and...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 1, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Avidity Biosciences Appoints Sarah Boyce as Chief Executive Officer
LA JOLLA, Calif., Oct. 1, 2019 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Avidity Biosciences, a privately-held biotechnology company pioneering Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs), announced today the appointment of global business leader Sarah... Biopharmaceuticals, Personnel Avidity Biosciences, Antibody-Oligonucleotide Conjugates
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - October 1, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Column: A stem cell clinic under fire by the FDA and ex-patients files for bankruptcy
A La Jolla clinic pitching $15,000 stem cell treatments files for bankruptcy, facing a lawsuit from former patients.
Source: L.A. Times - Health - September 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Michael Hiltzik Source Type: news
