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STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings
Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with others. That’s right. Send us your changes, and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going. And here is our regular feature in which
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A longitudinal metabolomics study on blood mercury and depressive symptoms
Participants and study design The data was from a follow-up study of college students at Binzhou Medical University in Yantai, Shandong Province20,21. The first wave of data was collected between August 23 and September 23, 2019. Baseline information including questionnaires and blood samples22. The questionnaire contained the following: Demographic data (age, sex, BMI). Lifestyle information
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Sarepta Therapeutics crisis is huge blow to Duchenne families, company
Adam Feuerstein is a senior writer and biotech columnist, reporting on the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and biotechnology. He is also a co-host of the weekly biotech podcast The Readout Loud and author of the newsletter Adam’s Biotech Scorecard. You can reach Adam on Signal at stataf.54. Sarepta Therapeutics confronted one of
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Former food agency head charged in bribery probe
The former director of Vietnam’s Food Administration is one of several people who have been charged as part of a corruption investigation. The Ministry of Public Security said Nguyễn Thanh Phong was among the 18 defendants. An expanded bribery investigation involves the food safety department under the Ministry of Health and companies in Hanoi and
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Sarepta gene therapy deaths must not halt Duchenne progress
They say death is one of life’s few certainties. For a boy or young man living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, that certainty has a cruel twist: the anticipation of dying young. As mothers of children with this disease, we have wept helplessly in recent months as friends — fellow members of a club we never
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The neurofucntional abnormalities of temporal gyrus underly impaired sensory attenuation in schizophrenia during action-outcome contingent paradigm
Participants Participants were recruited between August 2023 and the time of statistical analysis through offline advertisements at Beijing Huilongguan Hospital. A total of 22 individuals with schizophrenia and 22 healthy controls matched for gender, age, and educational level were initially enrolled. Due to excessive head motion (translation > 3 mm or rotation > 3°), imaging data from 2 patients and
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Conservative politicians using flawed abortion-pill report to attack FDA
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration has partnered with clinicians and industry to deliver evidence-based medical innovations using a gold-standard framework for drug development and oversight. The agency has the authority to review any approved drug, and such reviews are a vital part of ensuring public health. That process has long been grounded in
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An end-to-end multifunctional AI platform for intraoperative diagnosis
Patient cohorts This multicenter study included retrospective development and validation of the GAS platform, followed by a prospective validation to assess its generalizability. The Generation module was trained using retrospectively collected data from the Internal GZCC. External validation involved six independent cohorts from JMCH, HZCH, DGPH, JMPH, ZSZL, and TCGA. A prospective cohort was enrolled
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Dirty water, warm trucks, and the real reason romaine keeps making us sick
E. coli outbreaks in romaine lettuce have long been a public health concern. and now a new Cornell University paper suggests that a combination of efforts in the field, and even postharvest techniques, can minimize risk to human health. Co-authored by Renata Ivanek, a professor in the department of population medicine and diagnostic sciences, and