The Biden administration on Tuesday appointed former U.N. ambassador Pamela Hamamoto to lead U.S. negotiations for the proposed global pandemic accord at the World Health Organization (WHO). The announcement highlights how seriously the Biden administration is taking the negotiations over the accord to prevent and respond to future pandemics, which WHO member countries agreed to last December.  Hamamoto previously served […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday announced it has amended its emergency authorization of the bivalent COVID-19 boosters to include children between the ages of five and 11. The FDA’s decision grants Moderna’s request for authorization to administer its bivalent booster to children as young as six and grants Pfizer’s request to administer its own booster to children […]

“The problem that we are setting out to solve is that we live in a world where the incumbent healthcare system is at best not built for [the LGBTQ] community, but more often than not, is discriminatory and lacks expertise about the differentiated medical needs that we have,” Liana Douillet Guzmán, CEO of Folx Health, said in a recent interview. […]

  Sea squirts are named for a distinguishing feature: a tube that shoots out water as these filter feeders eat. These creatures look like colorful and rubbery blobs in their natural ocean environment, but their amorphous shapes belie an advanced genetic capability. Sea squirts evolved with a way to rewrite the full range of messenger RNA that they express. Ascidian […]

Half of voters say the Supreme Court’s decision overturning the constitutional right to an abortion has made them more motivated to vote in next month’s midterm elections, with enthusiasm growing especially among Democrats and those living in states with abortion bans, according to a new poll from KFF. The survey also showed that most voters, whether they are Democrats or […]

Few Voters Know About the Medicare Drug Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, Though Seniors are More Aware and Would Be Likely to Vote for Candidates Who Support Them About a month ahead of the 2022 midterm election, abortion continues to grow as a motivating issue for voters, especially among Democrats and those living in states where abortion is now […]

Half of American voters said the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade has made them more motivated to vote in this year’s elections, according to a new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) poll. About two-thirds of Democrats and half of independents cited the Supreme Court’s decision as a motivator for voting, as did a third of Republicans. Among that same […]

The 2022 Nobel Prize for Medicine went to Svante Pääbo. Unlike many former winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Dr. Pääbo never actually invented any specific medicine or class of medicine. Rather the award was given “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. The press release from the Nobel website provides some insight, but […]