Category: 5. Health

InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Getty Images for SXSW Infertility can be incredibly expensive with a single in vitro fertilization, or IVF, cycle running upwards of $20,000. Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven Clinic, is trying… Continue Reading

– getty Everyone deserves access to the preventive care and screenings that are essential to leading a healthy life. by Anand Parekh, MD, MPH & Kate Berry, senior vice president, clinical innovation & strategic partnerships, at AHIP. Imagine a world where deadly diseases are caught early,… Continue Reading

TOPSHOT – David Hester inspects damages of his house after Hurricane Helene made landfall in … [+] Horseshoe Beach, Florida, on September 28, 2024. At least 44 people died across five US states battered by powerful storm Helene, authorities said on September 27, after torrential flooding… Continue Reading

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Science Translational Medicine, shows that people with type 2 diabetes have lower levels of the protein that breaks down and converts creatine in the muscles. This leads to impaired function of the mitochondria, the ‘powerhouses’ of the cell.

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have created a CRISPR-based rapid molecular diagnostic for two forms of leukemia that are driven by mutations that involve gene fusions. The technology accurately detects the presence of these gene fusions in acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and… Continue Reading

Step aside tropical rainforests and coral reefs — the latest hotspot to offer awe-inspiring biodiversity lies no further than your bathroom. In a new Northwestern University-led study, microbiologists found that showerheads and toothbrushes are teeming with an extremely diverse collection of… Continue Reading

Bacteria that cause diseases, so-called pathogens, develop various strategies to exploit human cells as hosts to their own advantage. Together with medical professionals and experts for structure determination and imaging, a team of biologists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has… Continue Reading

An analysis of data in the UK Biobank has found that COVID-19 infection may increase the risk of heart attack, stroke and death from any cause for up to three years for people with and without cardiovascular disease, according to new research published today in the American Heart Association’s… Continue Reading

Opioid drugs are highly effective at relieving pain but come with severe drawbacks. Their side effects range from dizziness to potentially fatal respiratory depression. Their illegal use contributes to nearly half a million deaths worldwide each year. Researchers from the University of Geneva… Continue Reading

It’s one of the basic tenets of biology: We get our DNA from our mom and our dad. But one notable exception has perplexed scientists for decades: Most animals, including humans, inherit the DNA inside their mitochondria — the cell’s energy centers — from their mothers alone, with all traces of… Continue Reading