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TarvalThat mullesting of measles continues to spread. In Texas, the epicenter of the disease where a child has died, the number of cases confirmed has now reached 223. Cases have now been accumulated in a dozen states, including New Mexico (where an adult who positively tested for the disease is dead), New Jersey and Maryland.
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases, however the rate of protective vaccinations has fallen as the misinformation around them circulates online. Human Health and Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It has called vaccinations a “personal choice” as we talk about vitamin A, COD liver oil and steroids. “Mention of liver oil and vitamins is mentioned [are] Simply leaving people away from what should be the only message, which is to raise the level of vaccination, “he told Dr. Amish Adalja, a doctor of infectious disease and elderly researcher with the Johns Hopkins Center for health safety, NPR told him.
As the cases continue to grow, some Texas cities are finishing the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) as people look at vaccinating themselves and their children. At Walgreens’ sites in Austin, none of the pharmacists had the MMR vaccine in stock at the end of last week, according to The Guardian. In ft. It is also worth Lubbock, where most of the 23 patients hospitalized in the state are being treated, vaccines were also scarce.
According to the CDC, 90.8% of children across the country received two doses of the MMR vaccine until the age of two. That sounds high, but the measles are as contagious as a vaccination rate of at least 95% is required for the herd immunity. In the Rural Gaines region, the most difficult area of Texas, the vaccination rate among the gardens is only 82%. Most children who were ill with measles were unjustified.
Despite the risks, the National Institute of Health is canceling or cutting more than 40 grants for research as to why some people do not want to be vaccinated and how to increase their intake, according to an internal email taken from Washington Post.
This startup allows paralyzed people to use computers – without a chip on their heads
Director General of Cognixion Andreas Forsland
Cognition
withAbbi Yitzi Hurwitz has spent a decade communicating only with his eyes. Diagnosed with amiotrophic side sclerosis (ALS), named “Lou Gehrig” disease in 2013, rapid loss of muscle control meant that he could “speak” only by pronouncing words for a chart. It is not as disappointing and demoralizing as you can imagine.
One of the 30,000 Americans currently living with ALS (about 5,000 new cases are diagnosed each year), Hurwitz has had several opportunities for relief, though new are slowly emerging. Among them is the one developed by Andreas Forsland, CEO of Cognixion. It is a brain interface that can help paralyzed patients interact with computers and communicate. And unlike similar technologies from neuralralink Elon Musk, it does not require surgical implantation in the skull. The company announced today that it has begun its first clinical test, which will study technology with 10 ALS patients. Rabbi Hurwitz, is one, and he is already drilling on the device three days a week.
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Bioteknika and Pharma
Gilead pharmaceutical giant issued new data, published in LancetThis suggests a new formulation of its HIV prophylactic lanepavir can be effective for a whole year. The new findings come after the stage 3 evidence of its current formulation showed effectiveness in preventing HIV for six months. FDA is currently reviewing that formulation for approval. Lancet The study found that patients maintained high levels of new formulation in their blood after 56 weeks. The company said it plans to launch a trial of phase 3 of the new formulation before the end of the year.
Digital health and he
Lila Sciences stealthily came out with the software he said he could unlock scientific data lands and turn them into physical results with $ 200 million in seed pioneers, the general catalyst and others. Cambridge, the Mass -based flag founded the company in its laboratories in 2023 for the purpose of creating “scientific supervision”. In projects demonstrating technology, Lila has generated new antibodies to combat the disease and developed new materials for carbon capture, according to New York Times. The announcement comes less than a month after Google released his “co-scientist” he. Other major technology and health companies are developing similar programs, but as Techcrunch reports, many research scientists remain skeptical about the usefulness of these tools.
Plus: Elsevier rotated sciencedirect he, a generator tool for researchers allowing users to look for and receive answers from within the full text of 14 million articles and book chapters. The world’s largest research platform revised by peers said the new vehicle would help scientists shorten their time of searching for half literature.
Flawed
Two patients have successfully had their mitral valve, which controls the blood flow between the upper and lower rooms of the second side of the heart, replaced by robotic surgery. Most patients who have problems with this valve are not good candidates for replacement operation with current technology. The robotic arm used in the operation was developed by Santa Cruz -based Capstan Medical, which developed a way to replace the valve with a catheter -based procedure than conventional open heart surgery.
Public health and hospitals
Jack will become the first state to stop fluorine in public water systems. Utah Republican Governor Spencer Cox said he will sign a draft law to stop using it there, starting from the beginning of May, going against public health expert recommendations in favor of using it to prevent tooth decay. The mineral strengthens your teeth and reduces cavities. Utah will be the first state to stop Fluori, something that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has rode against his confirmation. In a letter to Governor Cox opposing the detention, the American Dentistry Association wrote that “Water fluoride is listed as one of the ten major public health achievements of the last century by US centers for disease control and prevention, in accordance with vehicle safety measures, mothers and healthiest infants and reduces deaths from coronary disease.”
Week deal
India’s Sun Pharmaceuticals, which is controlled by billionaire Dilip Shanghvi, agreed to receive the US -based biotechnical control therapeutics in a $ 355 million agreement. In December, FDA approved the remedy of the checkpoint, an antibody that treats advanced skin cancer by forcing with PDL1, a protein that inhibits the body’s natural responses to cancer. The deal is expected to close this summer, pending approval by regulators and shareholders of the checkpoint.
Plus: Jazz Pharmaceuticals plans to take Chimerix – and her promising drug cancer drug – for nearly $ 1 billion. And the Virtual Firm of Physical Therapy Hinge Health, worth $ 6.2 billion in its previous round of funding, presented for an IPO that can raise up to $ 500 million in what is expected to be an important sign for public market appetite for health offers.
What are we reading
USAID staff has been ordered by the acting executive secretary Erica Carr to destroy the classified documents and personnel data.
Doge staff cuts in veterans’ issues are delaying clinical evidence and disrupt the anterior treatment for veterans. The deeper cuts are planned.
Proposed cuts in Medicaid in the budget that passed the Republican -controlled home could close rural hospitals and destroy the US Rural Health System.
Former NIH director Francis Collins warned in a stance on Rally Science that major health research programs are “in severe risk” due to Trump’s cuts.
How Walgreens passed from a 100 billion dollar toa health giant “Private Evil Salvation Project” in 10 years as the industry changed.
Hundreds of thousands of people with tuberculosis cannot receive tests or treatments due to USAID cuts. Meanwhile, Johns Hopkins, the country’s best speaker in R&D Science, plans to rest staff after losing $ 800 million in federal grants.
An Australian man survived for 100 days with an artificial heart before being replaced with a donor.
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