Online Portal
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is launching an online portal “health care central” as a reference for all things
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Medical Technology
How do we solve the crisis in cancer communication?
(By Lynn O’Connor Vos for STAT) Five rounds of the usual chemotherapy/radiation protocol kept Alan Gross alive through decades of
Read MoreMerger May Revitalize California’s Flagging Effort To Pool Medical Records
(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News) After a sluggish start, the Cal INDEX medical database
Read MoreElectronic Health Records May Help Customize Medical Treatments
(By Richard Harris for NPR) Chances are your doctor has stopped taking notes with pen and paper and moved to
Read MoreCleveland Clinic physicians perform first-ever deep brain stimulation surgery for stroke recovery
(By Heather Punke for Becker’s Hospital Review) On Dec. 19, Cleveland Clinic physicians became the first to perform deep brain
Read MoreUnexpected Risks Found In Editing Genes To Prevent Inherited Disorders
(By Jill Neimark for NPR) In September, reproductive endocrinologist John Zhang and his team at the New Hope Fertility Center
Read MoreCAR-T therapy makes early inroads in treating brain cancer
(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) Glioblastoma is one of the deadliest cancers — an illness that responds to few treatment options,
Read MoreCyber Bugs in Medical Devices
The Food and Drug Administration released a 30-page guidance containing rules for addressing cyber vulnerabilities in medical devices; providing manufacturers
Read MoreOnce-promising diabetes ‘breakthrough’ comes unglued with a major retraction
(By Damian Garde for STAT) One of the highest-profile researchers in diabetes has retracted a paper once heralded as a
Read MoreReplicating Nature
In the science journal Angewandte Chemie, Timothy Noel at Eindhoven University of Technology, revealed he and his colleagues have developed
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