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08/05/2021

What Could Go Right? A closer look at breakthrough infections

This week in our newsletter, steadying news about the Delta variant, a decline in police shootings in many US cities, and more.

The Graphic Truth: Life is actually getting better

There's a lot of doom and gloom in the world these days, and much cause for pessimism. Still, the advent of new technologies and scientific advancements has lifted billions out of poverty and increased quality of life for many over the last half century.

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Gabrielle Debinski and Ari Winkleman

The Hill

07/28/2021

FDA approves ‘game changing’ new breast cancer treatment

The federal health agency gave the nod to Merck’s immunotherapy Keytruda to treat an early form of aggressive breast cancer.

Joseph Guzman

Axios

07/27/2021

Study: Expanding Medicare eligibility may shrink racial disparities

Medicare helps to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and close gaps in insurance coverage, a new study in JAMA Network shows.

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Marisa Fernandez

The Hill

07/23/2021

Illinois becomes one of the first Midwest states to allow over-the-counter birth control

A new law signed this week by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) will allow residents of the state to access birth control over the counter.

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Brooke Seipel

07/20/2021

First Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted In the US

The artificial heart has four chambers and runs on external power. Welcome to a new cyborg future.

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Ameya Paleja

The Hill

07/21/2021

House passes bill requiring EPA to regulate ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish national drinking water standards for “forever chemicals” — a group of toxic compounds linked to kidney and liver issues, among other health problems.

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Sharon Udasin

The Progress Network

07/22/2021

What Could Go Right? The kids are safe

We ask whether it's time to reassess the risk profile of mass-vaccinated countries and Scotland builds the world's first tidal energy farm in the latest edition of the newsletter.

PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all insurance plans

Insurers have been advised that they shouldn’t be charging for Truvada and Descovy as HIV prevention and that associated clinic visits and labs must also be free.

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Benjamin Ryan

New Atlas

07/15/2021

Nanoparticle urine test diagnoses cancer and pinpoints its location

The earlier cancer is detected, the better the outcome for the patient. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a new diagnostic system that can be performed as a simple urine test to detect the presence of cancer, and if a positive is returned, a follow-up test can locate where it is in the body.

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Michael Irving

Euro News

07/18/2021

Beyond condoms: Do new options mean men will take more responsibility for birth control?

Male contraception has been limited to the same two options for more than a century: wearing condoms or having a vasectomy.

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Natalie Huet

Quartz Africa

07/14/2021

Analyzing sewage poop in Nairobi averted a polio crisis and is now providing answers for antibiotic resistance

In 2018, the Kenyan ministry of health discovered a vaccine-derived polio outbreak when studying sewage samples in Nairobi. They immediately launched a renewed polio campaign targeting 2.8 million children in high risk areas. Kenya had, from 1988 to 2017, reduced the number of children suffering from polio-related paralysis from 350,000 a year to 22 and is close to eradicating polio.

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Verah Okeyo

Chicken little forecast

Still Chugging Along

Tag: Health

What Could Go Right? A closer look at breakthrough infections

This week in our newsletter, steadying news about the Delta variant, a decline in police shootings in many US cities, and more.

The Graphic Truth: Life is actually getting better

There's a lot of doom and gloom in the world these days, and much cause for pessimism. Still, the advent of new technologies and scientific advancements has lifted billions out of poverty and increased quality of life for many over the last half century.

FDA approves ‘game changing’ new breast cancer treatment

The federal health agency gave the nod to Merck’s immunotherapy Keytruda to treat an early form of aggressive breast cancer.

Study: Expanding Medicare eligibility may shrink racial disparities

Medicare helps to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and close gaps in insurance coverage, a new study in JAMA Network shows.

Illinois becomes one of the first Midwest states to allow over-the-counter birth control

A new law signed this week by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) will allow residents of the state to access birth control over the counter.

First Total Artificial Heart Successfully Transplanted In the US

The artificial heart has four chambers and runs on external power. Welcome to a new cyborg future.

House passes bill requiring EPA to regulate ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish national drinking water standards for “forever chemicals” — a group of toxic compounds linked to kidney and liver issues, among other health problems.

What Could Go Right? The kids are safe

We ask whether it's time to reassess the risk profile of mass-vaccinated countries and Scotland builds the world's first tidal energy farm in the latest edition of the newsletter.

PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, must now be totally free under almost all insurance plans

Insurers have been advised that they shouldn’t be charging for Truvada and Descovy as HIV prevention and that associated clinic visits and labs must also be free.

Nanoparticle urine test diagnoses cancer and pinpoints its location

The earlier cancer is detected, the better the outcome for the patient. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a new diagnostic system that can be performed as a simple urine test to detect the presence of cancer, and if a positive is returned, a follow-up test can locate where it is in the body.

Beyond condoms: Do new options mean men will take more responsibility for birth control?

Male contraception has been limited to the same two options for more than a century: wearing condoms or having a vasectomy.

Analyzing sewage poop in Nairobi averted a polio crisis and is now providing answers for antibiotic resistance

This week in our newsletter, steadying news about the Delta variant, a decline in police shootings in many US cities, and more.

There's a lot of doom and gloom in the world these days, and much cause for pessimism. Still, the advent of new technologies and scientific advancements has lifted billions out of poverty and increased quality of life for many over the last half century.

The federal health agency gave the nod to Merck’s immunotherapy Keytruda to treat an early form of aggressive breast cancer.

Medicare helps to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and close gaps in insurance coverage, a new study in JAMA Network shows.

A new law signed this week by Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) will allow residents of the state to access birth control over the counter.

The artificial heart has four chambers and runs on external power. Welcome to a new cyborg future.

The House on Wednesday approved a bill that would require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish national drinking water standards for “forever chemicals” — a group of toxic compounds linked to kidney and liver issues, among other health problems.

We ask whether it's time to reassess the risk profile of mass-vaccinated countries and Scotland builds the world's first tidal energy farm in the latest edition of the newsletter.

Insurers have been advised that they shouldn’t be charging for Truvada and Descovy as HIV prevention and that associated clinic visits and labs must also be free.

The earlier cancer is detected, the better the outcome for the patient. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a new diagnostic system that can be performed as a simple urine test to detect the presence of cancer, and if a positive is returned, a follow-up test can locate where it is in the body.

Male contraception has been limited to the same two options for more than a century: wearing condoms or having a vasectomy.

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