How runaway healthcare costs are a threat to older adults and what to do about it

WASHINGTON, DC and SAN DIEGO, CA – Feb. 6, 2020 – Empowering Medicare to directly negotiate drug prices, accelerating the adoption of value-based care, using philanthropy as a catalyst for reform and expanding senior-specific models of care are among recommendations for reducing healthcare costs published in a new special report and supplement to the Winter…

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Cancer-causing culprits could be caught by their DNA fingerprints

Causes of cancer are being catalogued through an international study revealing the genetic fingerprints of DNA-damaging processes that drive cancer development. Researchers from University of California San Diego School of Medicine, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, with collaborators around the world, have created the most detailed…

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Research!America to Honor Sen. Mike Enzi and Rep. Anna Eshoo for Championing Research

ARLINGTON, Va.– February 6, 2020 — Senator Mike B. Enzi (R-WY) and Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA-18) will receive the Edwin C. Whitehead Award for Medical Research Advocacy for the pivotal roles they have played in accelerating life-saving medical progress. Research!America will honor these leaders at its Advocacy Awards Dinner on Wednesday, March 11, 2020…

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Scientists create ‘Chemical gardens’ that can be used as bone substitute materials

A new way of making bone-replacement materials that allows for cells to grow around and inside them has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. The team adopted a novel approach called chemobrionics, in which chemical components are controllably driven to react together in specific ways, enabling the self-assembly of intricate bio-inspired structures.…

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Coronavirus Live Updates: Evacuated Americans Arrive Home; China Clamps Down on Negative News

Here’s what you need to know: ImagePatients being transferred to a newly completed hospital in Wuhan this week.Credit…EPA, via Shutterstock The Chinese authorities have started clamping down on news coverage of the outbreak. In the early days of the new coronavirus, the Chinese public’s frustrations over the how the Communist government was handling the problem…

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