Whether you love it or hate it, there’s no escaping it! When it comes to AI or artificial intelligence, this statement holds true. Today, over 80% of digital marketers make use of AI in some way or the other. Whether it is using ChatGPT for generating ideas or Jasper for your captions, AI is here […]

First, think of how vast the internet is, and how impossible it is to reach every crack, corner, and crevice. Now, imagine a place where millions of people endlessly sift through this vastness, promoting what’s worthy of the front page and removing what’s rubbish. That’s Reddit. If you’ve spent only a few minutes redditting, you […]

The World Health Organization called the COVID-19 variant JN.1 a standalone “variant of interest.” JN.1 will drive an increase in cases of the virus, the global health agency announced late Tuesday. JN.1 was previously grouped with its relative, BA.2.86, but has increased so much in the past 4 weeks that the WHO moved it to […]

Metrion Biosciences Limited (Metrion), the specialist ion channel CRO and drug discovery company, today announced that it has secured £3.5m in new equity financing, including £2.5m from lead investor Maven Capital Partners (Maven) and £1 million from existing investor, Gresham House Ventures (Gresham House). The funding will be used to further expand Metrion’s laboratories in […]

SAN DIEGO — Two proposed new multiple myeloma staging systems offer similar prognostic accuracy compared with the standard staging system, but the new systems provide more refined risk classifications across different disease stages.  The findings should encourage greater use of these newer staging systems in routine clinical practice, first author Manni Mohyuddin, MD, said during […]

Healthcare workers will be relieved to know that hospital coffee machines are not responsible for spreading disease and a general ban doesn’t seem necessary, finds a study published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. In a bid to eliminate hospital acquired (nosocomial) infections, various objects have been investigated as breeding grounds for bacteria including […]

Newly unionized resident physicians and fellows at Stanford Health Care in California will see a 21% pay increase over 3 years after reaching their first contract with the health system. The tentative deal for about 1500 physicians also includes paid rideshares, fertility benefits, and a new grievance process, the Committee of Interns and Residents , […]

Major depressive disorder affects 16.1 million adults in the United States and costs $210 billion annually. While the primary symptoms of depression are psychological, scientists and doctors have come to understand that depression is a complex disease with physical effects throughout the body. For example, measuring markers of cellular metabolism has become an important approach […]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved belzutifan (Welireg) for adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma following progression on a PD-1/L1 inhibitor and a vascular endothelial growth factor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (VEGF-TKI). The approval makes belzutifan the first agent indicated for renal cell carcinoma that has progressed after checkpoint inhibition and a VEGF-TKI.  […]

SAN DIEGO — Two frontline therapy combinations for patients with multiple myeloma who are not eligible for hematopoietic stem cell transplant are listed as “preferred” regimens, according to National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines.  However, a new analysis of real-world patient outcomes suggests that one regimen may be significantly better. The study found that frontline triple […]