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A University College London research team said its artificial intelligence algorithm could potentially increase the number of drug-resistant epilepsy cases successfully treated with surgery by detecting more cortical abnormalities than humans can detect on their own. (University College London/Konrad Wagstyl). Epilepsy still has no cure, and while many cases can …

Biotechnologists have yet to discover the therapeutic key to the frustrating disease that is non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Now, researchers from the University of Michigan have identified an interesting hormone that could unblock the worse liver disease that NASH is a harbinger of. The findings, published Monday in Cell Metabolism, focus …

Lobe Sciences’ study will focus on mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder. (iStock/Getty Images Plus/DisobeyArt) Lobe Sciences is hiring Australian CRO iNGENū to conduct at least three trials for the Canadian biotech’s psychedelic drug candidates. These trials, which will be conducted in Australia, will focus on Lobe’s psilocin analogues L-130 …

Nearly a year and a half after the FDA publicly raised BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics’ stem cell-based amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) treatment, the company is back and asking regulators for approval. BrainStorm said in Monday’s second-quarter earnings report that thanks to “ongoing analysis” and “feedback” from scientific presentations related to Phase …

After more than two years of pandemic-driven growth, Labcorp is spinning off its clinical development arm as a standalone public company. The spinoff — for now called a “clinical development business” — would focus exclusively on contract research work and help companies conduct clinical trials through confirmatory Phase 4 trials. …

Balimbing organic product is known by several names. Most nations refer to it as carambola and some basically refer to it as a stellar organic product. Balimbing is normally star-shaped and can be eaten with unblemished skin. It is the most popular snack for mains in the Philippines and is …

The microbiome testing organization made deceptive claims about its capabilities and a business technique that allegedly depended on tricking specialists into requesting redundant tests, as suggested by the US government. Organizers behind uBiome, a microbiome testing organization that failed and went out of business after an FBI crackdown in 2019, …

Two new drugs to treat an unusual and fatal neuromuscular infection have prohibitive costs and sketchy viability, experts say. The US Food and Drug Administration recently approved two drugs to treat an inherited deformity known as spinal solid decay (SMA), a muscle-wasting mess that is often fatal before the age …

The large study adds to a growing list of conditions previously thought to be helped by vitamin D supplementation. ABOVE: © ISTOCK.COM, FCAFOTODIGITAL Vitamin D supplements have long been touted to offer a myriad of health benefits, including protection against cognitive decline, cancer and bone fractures, and even prolonging life. …

Governmental clinical reasoning for all could expand access to clinical intervention—the real goal of biomedical research. For more than 10 years, Americans have debated the best method to fix our broken health care framework, which allows 35,000 Americans to receive consistent medical care and many more to go without it. …