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Cancer - detection, diagnosis

Cancer - detection, diagnosis

AI in medicine and health care - diagnosis, scanning and testing

AI in medicine and health care - diagnosis, scanning and testing

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

Health and the Immune system

Health and the Immune system

Medical school in the USA - university education to become a doctor

Medical school in the USA - university education to become a doctor

Healthcare quality - USA

Healthcare quality - USA

Medicaid - Healthcare USA

Medicaid - Healthcare USA

Health and Child mortality - trends, statistics, issues

Health and Child mortality - trends, statistics, issues

Vaccines - health, science

A collection of articles about Vaccines - health, science

Fears of Variants, Strains and Mutations of COVID19 Coronavirus - old (2020)

Variants, Strains and Mutations of COVID19 Coronavirus - and the challenges for vaccines

Previous projections: How bad would it get? COVID19 - Coronavirus pandemic

Data Modeling COVID19 - Coronavirus epidemic, pandemic

Data Sets, Open Access and AI in medicine and health care

Data Sets and AI in medicine and health care

Pfizer - developing a treatment, cure candidate for COVID19 Coronavirus

Pfizer - developing a treatment, cure candidate for COVID19 Coronavirus

Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care - assisted living medical healthcare for old, aging

Nursing Homes, Long-Term Care - assisted living medical healthcare for old, ageing

History: the Roaring '20s, after the 1918 flu, global pandemic

History: the Roaring '20s, after the 1918 flu, global pandemic

Online Doctors, Virtual healthcare, Telehealth, medicine

Online Doctors, Virtual healthcare, Telehealth, medicine

Resources within this category

Article

America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects

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)


Article

Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry

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)


Article

Where Will AI Have the Biggest Impact? Healthcare. | Andreessen Horowitz

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)


Article

The Opportunity for Healthcare x Fintech | Andreessen Horowitz

The healthcare system is broken—fintech offers solutions. How technology will make healthcare more intuitive, efficient, and cost-effective. Tho... (2023)


Article

HealthTech: Selling to SMBs, a Founder's Playbook | a16z Andreessen Horowitz

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)


Article

Everything You Need To Know About Zocdoc | The Motley Fool

Helping doctors and patients find each other is an essential role in the U.S. healthcare system. (2020)


Article

12 Things To Know About Paxlovid, the Latest COVID-19 Pill > Yale Medicine

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)


Article

Why America Has So Few Doctors - The Atlantic

As a matter of basic economics, fewer doctors means less care and more expensive services. (2022)


Article

Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them - Our World in Data

Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work? (2022)


Article

How Pfizer made an effective anti-covid pill | MIT Technology Review

A covid pill could cut serious illnesses and help prevent the next pandemic. But it's expensive and in short supply. (2022)


Article

Covid blueprint to transform new drugs for millions

The scientist who identified the first life-saving Covid drug will launch a project tomorrow to transform treatments for heart disease, dementia an... (2022)


Article

Mortality in the past – around half died as children - Our World in Data

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)


Article

New approach provides potential vaccine and treatment for Alzheimer's

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)


Article

Pfizer antiviral pill reduced risk of covid hospitalization and death by 89 percent in high-risk people

The protective effect was so convincing that an independent panel monitoring a trial of the drug advised it be stopped early. (2021)


Article

HPV vaccine reduced cervical cancer rates by 87% in women, study finds - CNN

The first generation HPV vaccine cut cervical cancer rates among women by 87%, British researchers reported. (2021)


Article

Merck's COVID-19 antiviral pill is now approved in the U.K. : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

"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)


Article

Costa Ricans Live Longer Than Us. What’s the Secret? | The New Yorker

We’ve starved our public-health sector. The Costa Rica model demonstrates what happens when you put it first. (2021)


Article

COVID Delta Variant: Everything You Need to Know - by Tomas Pueyo - Uncharted Territories

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)


Article

It took a pandemic, but the US finally has (some) centralized medical data | MIT Technology Review

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)


Article

FDA grants historic approval to Alzheimer’s drug designed to slow cognitive decline

The landmark decision has been eagerly awaited by millions but will be hotly contested by some experts doubt the drug’s effectiveness. (2021)


Article

Pharmaceuticals and innovation. Less buck for the bang. Are drug patents worth it?

Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)


Article

Five reasons why you don’t need to panic about coronavirus variants | MIT Technology Review

The hype around “scariants” is overblown. But we also shouldn’t be too complacent. (2021)


Article

Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could become first-ever home cure for COVID-19

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)


Article

USA will share millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses worldwide - POLITICO

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)


Article

Lessons learned — and forgotten — from the horrific epidemics of the U.S. Civil War

Important public health lessons from the Civil War became mainstream 20th century practices. Then many of them fell by the wayside. (2021)


Article

Microsoft goes all in on healthcare with $19.7B Nuance acquisition – TechCrunch

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)


Article

Human brain organoids grown in cheap 3D-printed bioreactor | New Scientist

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)


Article

Grand Rounds merges with Doctor On Demand to form multibillion-dollar digital health company

Grand Rounds CEO Owen Tripp will be chief executive of the company, which will combine online medical consultations with telehealth. (2021)


Article

A possible new cancer treatment? Robots that attack tumors - Los Angeles Times

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause too much collateral damage to treat some brain tumors. Crumb-sized robots could be the solution. (2021)


Article

Scientists Are Working on mRNA Vaccines for HIV, Flu, Cancer and More - POZ

The technology used in COVID-19 vaccines may also be used to prevent other viral infections and to treat cancer and multiple sclerosis. (2021)


Video

Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? | Eric Topol | TED

AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)


Video

TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins

TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins (2023)


Video

How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed

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)


Video

How aspirin was discovered - TED Ed Krishna Sudhir

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)


Video

Challenges in Healthcare Innovation | a16z

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)


Podcast

ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify

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)


Podcast

The enduring mystery of long Covid - Today, Explained | Podcast on Spotify

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)


Podcast

Author Walter Isaacson On The Gene Editing Revolution - Fresh Air | NPR

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)


Podcast

Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)


Podcast

Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Pfizer Vaccine Doses? - The New York Times | Podcast

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)


Podcast

COVID-19 Death Rates Are Going Down, And Not Just Among The Young And Healthy

More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments make a big difference, but so does flattening the curve to... (2020)


Podcast

Rapid Response: The Covid test facts every CEO needs - Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

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)


Podcast

The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1) - Andreessen Horowitz

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)


Podcast

The truth about herd immunity - Vox | Today, Explained Podcast

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)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond

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)


Podcast

"My Lungs Are Still Not the Same": The Long Road to Recovery from COVID-19 | The Takeaway

The Takeaway hears from former guest David Lat on his experience recovering from COVID-19. (2020)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology

On the podcast we speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about changes in scientific communi... (2020)


Podcast

The history of vaccines and how they work : Planet Money

We've only made vaccines for so many diseases. Let's look at the history. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here. (2020)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health – Andreessen Horowitz

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)


Podcast

a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice – Andreessen Horowitz

There’s been a lot of talk about technology — and AI, deep learning, and machine learning specifically — finally reaching the healthcare sector. Bu... (2017)


Website

medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences

medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution (2020)


Website

Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center

Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international respo... (2020)


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