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Right now, the RNAi drug is limited to cells that go through the liver, which is — in relative terms — easy to target. Getting the drug to other tissue, like the skin or brain, is more challenging. “It’s always been the same problem. And it’s delivery, delivery, delivery,” Steven Dowdy, a cancer biologist at the University of California, San Diego’s school of medicine, tells Stat. “It’s always been the 800-pound gorilla in the room.”
The U.S. News & World Report analyzed 4,500 hospitals based on several factors, including performance in 16 specialty areas and reputation. This year, the report put a greater emphasis on patient outcomes. Joining USCF in the top ten of the Honor Roll were: UCLA Medical Center, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital.
The Mar-a-Lago group is led by the reclusive chairman of Marvel Entertainment, Isaac Perlmutter, 75, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump’s and a member of his West Palm Beach golf club. Veterans advocates are worried that the group is going to exert pressure on new VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.
Hospice Company Was Prepared When The Time Came To Evacuate Because Of The Wildfires
With fires becoming more common in California, health care companies say the best way to handle the worst-case scenarios is to prepare for them.
Campaign Aims To Cut C-Section Rates By Educating Moms-To Be, Encouraging Conversations With Doctors
In recent years, nearly one-third of low-risk, first-birth deliveries occurred via c-section in California.
Expanded Mental Health Coverage Under ACA Hasn’t Always Translated To More People Getting Care
In Amador County, which has the state’s third-highest suicide rate, there’s a common complaint that there aren’t enough mental health providers to meet the need.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Offers Look At What Is Needed To Woo Patients These Days
Stanford’s new, $1.3 billion building is among the largest of numerous expansion projects at children’s hospitals across the country, and provides a model for what the hospital of the future needs to offer to patients.
Jury Awards Man With Terminal Cancer $289M In Suit Against Company That Makes Weedkiller Roundup
Dewayne Johnson, 46, is a groundskeeper who used the products during his job. The jury found that Monsanto had failed to warn Johnson of the cancer risks posed by its weedkillers.
Religious Regulations Could Complicate Merger Between Catholic Health Initiatives And Dignity Health
Under the merger, all but one of Dignity’s non-Catholic hospitals would be placed in a separate not-for-profit corporation and allowed to continue performing medical services that are deemed immoral by the church. But if church authorities later found this arrangement unethical, some or all of the non-Catholic hospitals could be severed from the combined CHI-Dignity system, which has yet to be named.
Rep. Eshoo Targeted With Ads Over Money She’s Received From Big Pharma
The campaign against Rep. Anna Eshoo is the first time the super PAC Patients For Affordable Drugs Action has targeted a Democrat in its campaign to oust politicians “in the pockets of Big Pharma.”