Cancer - detection, diagnosis
AI in medicine and health care - diagnosis, scanning and testing
Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry
Synthetic biology, and Cancer research
Health and the Immune system
Medical school in the USA - university education to become a doctor
Healthcare quality - USA
Medicaid - Healthcare USA
Health and Child mortality - trends, statistics, issues
A collection of articles about Vaccines - health, science
Variants, Strains and Mutations of COVID19 Coronavirus - and the challenges for vaccines
Data Modeling COVID19 - Coronavirus epidemic, pandemic
Data Sets and AI in medicine and health care
Pfizer - developing a treatment, cure candidate for COVID19 Coronavirus
Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care - assisted living medical healthcare for old, ageing
History: the Roaring '20s, after the 1918 flu, global pandemic
Online Doctors, Virtual healthcare, Telehealth, medicine
American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)
The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)
We believe that any new technology has to be 10 times better to successfully displace the last one – marginal improvements aren’t worth the effort.... (2023)
The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho... (2023)
How are healthtech companies creating sustainable growth paths by selling to SMBs? Can companies solely rely on SMB sales to get to scale, or do th... (2022)
Helping doctors and patients find each other is an essential role in the U.S. healthcare system. (2020)
Paxlovid is an oral antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 that can be taken soon after symptoms surface to help keep high-risk patients from getting so ... (2022)
As a matter of basic economics, fewer doctors means less care and more expensive services. (2022)
Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work? (2022)
A covid pill could cut serious illnesses and help prevent the next pandemic. But it's expensive and in short supply. (2022)
The scientist who identified the first life-saving Covid drug will launch a project tomorrow to transform treatments for heart disease, dementia an... (2022)
In our long history, how likely was it that our ancestors died as children? Historical studies suggest that around one-quarter of infants died in t... (2021)
A promising new approach to potentially treat Alzheimer's disease—and also vaccinate against it—has been developed by a team of UK and German scien... (2021)
The protective effect was so convincing that an independent panel monitoring a trial of the drug advised it be stopped early. (2021)
The first generation HPV vaccine cut cervical cancer rates among women by 87%, British researchers reported. (2021)
"The U.K. is now the first country in the world to approve an antiviral that can be taken at home for COVID-19," Health and Social Care Secretary S... (2021)
We’ve starved our public-health sector. The Costa Rica model demonstrates what happens when you put it first. (2021)
Cases are growing exponentially across the world. Again. If you don’t know where this is going, a historical refresher might help. India has suffer... (2021)
Throughout the pandemic, there has been serious tension between what the public wants to know and what scientists have been able to say for certain... (2021)
The landmark decision has been eagerly awaited by millions but will be hotly contested by some experts doubt the drug’s effectiveness. (2021)
Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)
The hype around “scariants” is overblown. But we also shouldn’t be too complacent. (2021)
Classed as a 'protease inhibitor', it has been formulated to attack the "spine" of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and stop it replicating in our nose, throat... (2021)
The company has produced about 10 million doses of the vaccine for the U.S. but the FDA has not yet authorized their use. (2021)
Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)
When Microsoft announced it was acquiring Nuance Communications this morning for $19.7 billion, you could be excused for doing a Monday morning dou... (2021)
It is now possible to grow and culture human brain tissue in a device that costs little more than the price of a cup of coffee Why?: Culturin... (2021)
Grand Rounds CEO Owen Tripp will be chief executive of the company, which will combine online medical consultations with telehealth. (2021)
Chemotherapy and radiation can cause too much collateral damage to treat some brain tumors. Crumb-sized robots could be the solution. (2021)
The technology used in COVID-19 vaccines may also be used to prevent other viral infections and to treat cancer and multiple sclerosis. (2021)
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)
TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins (2023)
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)
4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain di... (2021)
a16z Published on Dec 15, 2017 The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2010; this is expected to double by 2020. Why so expensive? And wh... (2018)
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. An estimated 10 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 experience long-haul symp... (2021)
Listen to this episode from Fresh Air on Spotify. Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography 'The Code Breaker,' sh... (2021)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. From the start of the pandemic, the US said it was committed to ordering and stockpil... (2020)
More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to... (2020)
Listen to this episode from Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman on Spotify. To safely re-open a business, you need more than masks. Cov... (2020)
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Some people think it’s the only way out of the pandemic. Those people are very wrong. Tran... (2020)
WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? W... (2020)
The Takeaway hears from former guest David Lat on his experience recovering from COVID-19. (2020)
On the podcast we speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about changes in scientific communi... (2020)
We've only made vaccines for so many diseases. Let's look at the history. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. (2020)
Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)
There’s been a lot of talk about technology — and AI, deep learning, and machine learning specifically — finally reaching the healthcare sector. Bu... (2017)
medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution (2020)
Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international respo... (2020)