A retired Victorian doctor has been stripped of his registration following the death of a patient whose cancer diagnosis was significantly delayed. Kadandalea Shetty was a longtime general practitioner when …
With any organ transplant, doctors are trying to balance how to prevent infections while tamping down the immune system. Without immunosuppressive drugs, the transplant organ will be rejected. But giving …
The national medicine regulator has introduced restrictions on the prescription of diabetes drug Ozempic to help manage an international shortage. Danish company Novo Nordisk advised the Therapeutic Goods Administration that …
In comparison, whole-genome sequencing determines every single base pair of DNA, and is much more expensive as a result. If you printed out all 6.4 billion letters of your whole …
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has announced it is one step closer to putting brain implants in people. Today, the company stated that it will begin recruiting patients with …
The World Health Organization (WHO) is taking on the world’s worst killer, laying out its first plan to conquer hypertension—a level of high blood pressure that affects one in every …
About 10 years ago, Žiga Avsec was a PhD physics student who found himself taking a crash course in genomics via a university module on machine learning. He was soon …
OK, you’ve lost me. What do you mean by “bring in a molecule”? It literally just means allowing a molecule into a cell. And if that molecule is a gene …
Phenylephrine, a popular ingredient found in many over-the-counter cold medicines, is an ineffective decongestant when taken orally and works no better than a placebo, an independent advisory committee to the …
A 33-year-old New Zealand woman, who was told by doctors that she was faking her illness, has died. Stephanie Aston passed away last Friday after a years-long battle with Ehlers-Danlos …