Health & Medicine
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Buck Institute: Research Center Focused Solely on Aging Biology
NOVATO, Calif., July 14 — 1999. That is the year the Buck Institute for Research on Aging opened its doors, becoming the…
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Psychologist Jean Twenge Links Screen Time to Teen Mental Decline
MANILA, July 14 — For communities across Asia watching their children grow up with smartphones and tablets in hand, the research of…
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CAR-T cancer therapy costs up to $1.2 million in first year
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The figure that matters in cancer care this year is $1.2 million. That is the high end of…
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Screen Time Linked to Shorter Attention Spans in Digital Learning
LONDON, July 14 — The relationship between children’s screen time and cognitive development has come under renewed scrutiny, with research pointing to…
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FDA’s critical decision looms on full approval for Alzheimer’s drug
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, on January 6, 2023,…
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Alzheimer’s Costs Hit $345 Billion Annually, New Treatments Emerge
NEW YORK, July 14 — Alzheimer’s disease now carries a total price tag of $345 billion in annual health-care, long-term care and…
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Autoimmune Disorders Vary Widely, Pose Diagnostic Challenges
LONDON, July 14 — Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system mistakenly identifies the body’s own cells as foreign and attacks them.…
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CRISPR and Off-the-Shelf Cells Advance Next-Gen CAR-T Therapies
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14 — The next generation of cancer immunotherapy is racing toward a milestone that could change how thousands of…
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Geneticist Nir Barzilai Leads TAME Trial Testing Metformin for Longevity
NEW YORK, July 14 — The figure that matters: 200. That is the number of peer-reviewed papers Dr. Nir Barzilai has published…
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Brain cancer’s blood-brain barrier blocks most treatments, raising survival concerns
LONDON, July 14 — Brain cancer, including its most aggressive forms such as glioblastoma, remains one of the most difficult cancers to…
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CAR-T Therapy Shows 83% Remission in Late-Stage Blood Cancer Trial
HOUSTON, July 14 — On the ground at MD Anderson Cancer Center, doctors are watching a new weapon against leukemia unfold. A…
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New Alzheimer’s Drug Lecanemab Slows Cognitive Decline in Trial
WASHINGTON, July 14 — For the millions of American families watching a loved one slowly lose their memories, the arrival of lecanemab…
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FDA Warns 45 Percent of CAR-T Trial Patients Had Cytokine Storm
WASHINGTON, July 14 — A June 2024 clinical trial for the investigational CAR-T therapy CTX-112 recorded cytokine release syndrome in 45 percent…
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WHO Data: Global Life Expectancy Rises, Disparities Persist 2000-2020
GENEVA, July 14 — The numbers tell a story of two worlds. The World Health Organization reports global life expectancy at birth…
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Cognitive Decline Costs Billions in Workforce Readiness
WASHINGTON, July 14 — A 2020 study by the OECD estimated that a 25-point drop in PISA scores could reduce a country’s…
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James Allison’s CTLA-4 Discovery Pioneered Cancer Checkpoint Therapy
HOUSTON, July 14 — The technical reality of cancer immunotherapy is that the body’s own T cells often have the means to…
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Vaccine Development Timeline: From 1796 to mRNA in 2020
ROME, July 14 — For families, the story of vaccines is not a dry list of dates and laboratories. It is the…
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Immune System’s Key Players: Cells, Tissues, Organs
WASHINGTON, July 14 — Every day, inside the hollow chambers of our bones, a quiet manufacturing miracle unfolds. For a healthy adult,…
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Emily Whitehead, first child to get CAR-T therapy, cancer-free since 2012
PHILADELPHIA, July 14 — On the pediatric oncology floor of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the scene in 2012 was dire. A…
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Nine Hallmarks of Aging: Cellular Drivers of Age Decline
WASHINGTON, July 14 — A scientific framework first laid out in 2013 has become the dominant map for researchers trying to understand…
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Immunotherapy harnesses immune system to fight cancer tumors
NEW YORK, July 14 — When James Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2018, they…
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From HIV Research to a Living Drug: Carl June’s CAR-T Breakthrough
PHILADELPHIA, July 14 — The man who rewrote the rules of cancer immunotherapy never set out to be a revolutionary. Carl June,…
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Jonas Salk’s 1955 Polio Vaccine Reduced U.S. Cases By 96 Percent
WASHINGTON, July 14 — The geopolitical chessboard of global health has few moves as decisive as the one Jonas Salk made in…
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Caloric Restriction Study Links Diet to Longer Lifespan
NEW YORK, July 14 — For decades, the idea that eating less could help you live longer has hovered at the edge…
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