Earlier today, UK-based regulator the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved Voxelotor for use across the NHS to treat over 4,000 Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) patients. After years of setbacks in its approval, with support from novel data generation firm Sanius Health, the therapy will provide thousands of patients with SCD across […]
Listen to this article 00:00 06:47 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. When Kathleen Walker-Meikle, a historian at the University of Basel, in Switzerland, ponders the Middle Ages, her mind tends to drift not to religious conquest or Viking raids, but to squirrels. Tawny-backed, white-bellied, tufted-eared red squirrels, to be […]
A rally in support of Daca recipients in Los Angeles on 12 November 2019. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images View image in fullscreen A rally in support of Daca recipients in Los Angeles on 12 November 2019. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images Biden administration expands healthcare coverage for Daca recipients New rule allows Dreamers to access healthcare […]
The Albemarle lithium processing facility in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Logan Cyrus | Bloomberg | Getty Images Albemarle‘s plans to reopen a resource-rich lithium mine in North Carolina will take longer than originally expected as a collapse in lithium prices weighs on the company. Albemarle, a top lithium producer, […]
An exam room in a women’s health clinic in Florida on 30 April 2024. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images View image in fullscreen An exam room in a women’s health clinic in Florida on 30 April 2024. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images ‘This is life and death’: inside a Florida clinic after the six-week abortion ban State’s […]
Thousands of patients with sickle cell disorder are to be offered a new “life-changing” treatment on the NHS from today following the approval and roll-out of a new drug that could significantly improve their quality of life. Up to 4,000 people with sickle cell disease in England could benefit from the drug Voxelotor if recommended […]
With an estimated 19.3 million new cancer cases and almost 10.0 million cancer deaths in 2020, cancer is a major global health threat”. This, quoted in the European Patent Office (EPO) “Patents and innovation against cancer” report of February 2024, highlights the scale of the challenge to researchers in the fight against this devastating disease. Reassuringly, the […]
This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes new electric bike models launched by Pedego, a discussion of the rising trend of potted e-bike batteries, Bosch-powered e-bikes enter Taiwan, I also entered Taiwan to test Gogoro’s new […]
Earlier this week, news leaked of the biggest change in federal drug policy in more than half a century. The Associated Press reported—and the Department of Justice later confirmed—that the Drug Enforcement Administration plans to recategorize marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act. Since the 1970s, it’s been placed in Schedule I, a highly controlled group […]
Soon after their arrival in late December 2020, the Covid-19 vaccines turned the pandemic around and opened a path back to normalcy. They prevented about 14.4 million deaths worldwide, according to one estimate. In a small percentage of people, they also produced side effects. Over the course of more than a year, The New York […]
