Leveraging AI For Good In The Healthcare Industry
Artificial intelligence has garnered a lot of buzz over the last year, rightfully so, for its potential to revolutionize many industries, including healthcare....
25 January, 2024
Clinical Trials
Cancer center leader discusses promising research areas, treatment challenges
Dr. Howard Bailey, director of the Madison-based cancer treatment and research organization, spoke this week during a meeting of the Wisconsin Technology Council’s Innovation Network. He emphasized the progress being made in understanding and developing more effective treatments for the disease, as well as new...
25 January, 2024
HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14
A historic new study out of Scotland shows the real-world impact of vaccines against the human papillomavirus: The country has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13....
25 January, 2024
Bridging the ‘vast divide’: Mistrust, bias fuel racial disparities in lupus research
Lupus significantly and disproportionately impacts Black, Hispanic and Asian patients, but these populations are underrepresented in clinical trials for the disease....
22 January, 2024
New blood test that screens for Alzheimer’s may be a step closer to reality, study suggests
Testing a person’s blood for a type of protein called phosphorylated tau, or p-tau, could be used to screen for Alzheimer’s disease with “high accuracy,” even before symptoms begin to show, a new study suggests....
22 January, 2024
Cancer vaccine with minimal side effects nearing Phase 3 clinical trials
Dr. Thomas Wagner, founder of the biotech company Orbis Health Solutions and cancer researcher, has made it his life's mission to find a way to treat cancer without the dreaded side effects that, for some, can become worse than the cancer itself or may even...
20 January, 2024
Many doctors are in the dark about how FDA approves devices and drugs, survey finds
In her final presentation for health policy class at the University of Chicago, first-year medical student Robin Ji informed her classmates that the Food and Drug Administration does not require randomized controlled trials of most medical devices. Her peers’ immediate reaction was disbelief....
16 January, 2024
The WHO and drug regulators want to reformulate the flu vaccine. It’s easier said than done
Last fall, the World Health Organization and some national drug regulators urged influenza vaccine manufacturers to drop the component known as B/Yamagata from flu vaccines as quickly as possible, citing the fact that this lineage of flu B viruses appears to have been snuffed out...
16 January, 2024
Breast Cancer Mortality Reduced by 58% Over Past Four Decades
Breast cancer screening and new treatments were associated with a large reduction in mortality from the disease over the past 45 years, according to results from a simulation model-based study....
16 January, 2024
Putting Diversity at the Center of Clinical Trials With Real-World Data
As new treatments reach the market, a problem appears: real-world research shows dissatisfying outcomes and access disparities. One US study reveals that within the early years of a novel interventional device usage, women fare significantly worse than men, even after accounting for underlying differences....
12 January, 2024