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Oct 27, 2019

A Breakthrough in Spinal Cord Injury Treatment with Dr. Wise Young

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Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador and founder of Bioquark, interviews Dr Wise Young M.D., Ph.D., the Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience, Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience and the Founding Director of the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University.

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Oct 27, 2019

Rare Diseases! — University of Pennsylvania’s Dr. David Fajgenbaum, MD — ideaXme — Ira Pastor

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Oct 27, 2019

Spinal Cord Injuries and Treatment — Rutgers University’s Dr. Wise Young MD, PhD. — ideaXme — Ira Pastor

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Oct 26, 2019

Panic in Pakistani City After 900 Children Test Positive for H.I.V

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Health workers say the reuse of syringes drove the outbreak in the city of Ratodero.

Oct 25, 2019

Gut instincts: Researchers discover first clues on how gut health influences brain health

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New cellular and molecular processes underlying communication between gut microbes and brain cells have been described for the first time by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell’s Ithaca campus.

Over the last two decades, scientists have observed a clear link between and a variety of psychiatric conditions. For example, people with autoimmune disorders such as (IBD), psoriasis and multiple sclerosis may also have depleted gut microbiota and experience anxiety, depression and mood disorders. Genetic risks for autoimmune disorders and psychiatric disorders also appear to be closely related. But precisely how gut health affects brain health has been unknown.

“Our study provides new insight into the mechanisms of how the gut and brain communicate at the molecular level,” said co-senior author Dr. David Artis, director of the Jill Roberts Institute for Research in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, director of the Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation and the Michael Kors Professor of Immunology at Weill Cornell Medicine. “No one yet has understood how IBD and other chronic gastrointestinal conditions influence behavior and mental health. Our study is the beginning of a new way to understand the whole picture.”

Oct 24, 2019

NIH and Gates Foundation lay out ambitious plan to bring gene-based treatments for HIV and sickle cell disease to Africa

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Two major U.S. biomedical research funders plan to each put at least $100 million over 4 years toward bringing cutting-edge, gene-based treatments to a part of the world that often struggles to provide access to even basic medicines: sub-Saharan Africa. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the unusual collaboration to launch clinical trials for gene-based cures for HIV and sickle cell disease within the region in the coming decade.

The ambitious goal is to steer clear of expensive, logistically impractical strategies that require stem cell transplantation, and instead develop simpler, affordable ways of delivering genes or gene-editing drugs that can cure these diseases. “Yes, this is audacious,” NIH Director Francis Collins said during a press teleconference this morning on the project. “But if we don’t put our best minds, resources, and visions together right now, we would not live up to our mandate to bring the best science to those who are suffering.”

After decades of work and setbacks, the traditional gene therapy approach of delivering DNA into the body to replace a defective gene or boost a protein’s production is now reaching the clinic for several diseases, including inherited blindness, neuromuscular disease, and leukemia. Animal studies and some clinical trials have suggested that two diseases prevalent in Africa, HIV and sickle cell disease, can be treated by gene therapies or newer genome-editing tools such as CRISPR.

Oct 24, 2019

U.S. Travel Ban Disrupts The World’s Largest Brain Science Meeting

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Society For Neuroscience Assists Scientists Denied U.S. Visas : Shots — Health News Scientists from nations including Iran, Mexico, and India were refused visas to attend this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago. Some researchers got stand-ins to present their work.

Oct 23, 2019

Amazon buys healthcare start-up Health Navigator

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Marketing always starts with Demand (Reuters) — http://Amazon.com/ Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.


(Reuters) — Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it bought healthcare start-up Health Navigator, its second purchase in the healthcare services industry.

The deal comes after the company acquired online pharmacy PillPack last year, pitting itself against drugstore chains, drug distributors and pharmacy benefit managers. (reut.rs/31DSU8k)

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Oct 23, 2019

Dr. Virginia Byers Kraus, MD, PhD — Cartilage Regeneration — Duke University — ideaXme — Ira Pastor

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Oct 23, 2019

Dr. Josh Mitteldorf — DataBETA Project — Population Scale Longevity Clinical Trials — ideaXme — Ira Pastor

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