A new global review has found that receiving Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) is associated with lower risk of multiple causes of death among people with opioid dependence. The review found that people with opioid dependence were less likely to experience overdose-related, suicide, alcohol-related, cancer, and cardiovascular-related mortality while receiving OAT. Researchers from the National Drug…
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Computational Biology Department in the School of Computer Science have developed a new process that could reinvigorate the search for natural product drugs to treat cancers, viral infections and other ailments. The machine learning algorithms developed by the Metabolomics and Metagenomics Lab match the signals of a microbe’s metabolites with…
ITHACA, N.Y. – All fish are not created equal, at least when it comes to nutritional benefits. This truth has important implications for how declining fish biodiversity can affect human nutrition, according to a computer modeling study led by Cornell and Columbia University researchers. The study, “Declining Diversity of Wild-Caught Species Puts Dietary Nutrient Supplies…
SAN FRANCISCO – June 2, 2021 — Centivax Inc. announced today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center (NMRC) for Phase I clinical development of Centi-B9, Centivax’s SARS-CoV-2 broad-spectrum injectable antibody therapeutic and prophylactic. Centi-B9 has been engineered to broadly neutralize the mutated emerging coronavirus variants, with…
People of color are more than twice as likely to die after a traumatic brain injury as white people, according to a new retrospective review from Oregon Health & Science University. The study published today in the journal Frontiers in Surgery. In the report, “Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Mortality During Hospitalization for Traumatic Brain…
Headliner Popular, Cantina & Pisco Bar, Louis The global hotelier Ian Schrager has completely made over the restaurants, entry and garden at his Public hotel on the Lower East Side, which was closed as a result of the pandemic. He opened it just four years ago with Jean-Georges Vongerichten as its marquee chef. Now he…
Following an outcry over comments about racism made by an editor at JAMA, the influential medical journal, the top editor, Dr. Howard Bauchner, will step down from his post effective June 30. The move was announced on Tuesday by the American Medical Association, which oversees the journal. Dr. Bauchner, who had led JAMA since 2011,…
Sometimes You Have to Say It Twice “I’m so happy to be here with you,” Ugonna said, looking at me. I was stunned. After months apart during the pandemic, my best college friend and I had finally reunited. Sitting across from each other, eating comforting falafels as the cicadas chirped, Ugonna said it again, even…
1940s: Zoot Suit The zoot suit is perhaps the only style to have caused an actual riot. In 1943, white American serviceman inflicted violence on African American, Mexican American, and Filipino American youths, claiming that their attire was unpatriotic, reasoning that the amount of fabric used bucked the rationing of materials during WWII.
Moderna on Tuesday became the latest pharmaceutical company to apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for full approval for its Covid-19 vaccine for use in people 18 and older. F.D.A. approval would allow the company to market the shot directly to consumers, and could also help raise public confidence in the vaccine. Full…