Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed lab-grown "mini-guts" to better understand and treat Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease affecting millions worldwide. These mini-guts, or organoids, mimic the gut lining's key functions and could pave the way for more...
Ethnopharmacyis the study of how various medicines are viewed and put to use in a society. Although ethnopharmacy focus ontraditional or folk medicinesused in the society, it also looks at more modern pharmaceutical uses. It is the study of origin ofpharmaceuticals,whether they are from naturall...
the Cambridge scandal didn’t significantly impact the way they go about their business. “I was expecting to get more questions, but it has been business as usual,” says Amrita Bhowmick, chief community officer for Health Union, which operates 18 condition-specific online communities, each...
When a student decides, after hearing directly from doctors and other health professionals, to change their original idea and recommit themselves to nursing, or PA school, or pharmacy school, rather than becoming a physician, I feel that is a tremendously valuable thing for them to have figured...
startup has been constructing a platform that allows consumers to order their own diagnostic tests—for hereditary cancer risk, cholesterol levels, sexual health and dozens more conditions—supported by what CEO Peter Foley calls its three pillars: clinical diagnostics, telehealth and pharmacy services....
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Voluntis said Tuesday that it would work with New York-based BMS to use its Theraxium Oncology system to create and investigate the programs, centered on a mobile app for patients, with the goal of supporting management of symptoms and remote monitoring by healthcare...
Additionally, you shall be meeting, selecting, and choosing to become part of other Founders StartUps, or invite others to become part of our Start Up in your field, or even promote your own Startup that you have been working on for some time, or join a freshly minted Health-Tech Start...
Chan School of Public Health Boston, Massachusetts P. A. Bromberg MD University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North CarolinaJ.S. Brown, PhDU.S. Environmental Protection AgencyResearch Triangle Park, North Carolina P.R. Byron, PhDVirginia Commonwealth University School of PharmacyRichmond, Virginia...
Christi Deaton, PhD, chief investigator from the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge commented on the issues around diagnosis in a press release. "We heard some clinicians asking: what’s the point of diagnosis if there is no specific treatment? But ident...
The formulations may be prepared by any methods well known in the art of pharmacy. Such methods include the step of bringing into association the active compound with a carrier which constitutes one or more accessory ingredients. In general, the formulations are prepared by uniformly and intimately...