A Cure for the Double Chin
Getting tired of your double chin? Well, I’ve got good news for you! An advisory panel for the FDA has just unanimously approved a new drug for getting rid of […]
Tag Archives: Medicine
Cancer Immunotherapy
Today’s Science Times features an interview with Dr. James Allison, the 2014 recipient of the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize, which carries Nobel Prize-like prestige. Dr. Allison received this award in honor of his groundbreaking […]
“The Peanut Patch”
Tragically, millions of people will never get to experience the amazing taste of peanut butter. Even more tragically, for some people a single peanut can be the difference between life and death. […]
Gene Therapy 101
Today, a biotech start-up in Cambridge, Bluebird Bio Inc., has just gotten the FDA to designate their new drug therapy for beta-thalassemia, Lentiglobin, as a “breakthrough therapy”, which will speed up its […]
Placebos, brand name or generic?
Wait a second, they make brand-name placebos? Nope, not really. But apparently telling a patient that they’re taking the “higher-priced treatment” enhances the placebo effect. As Lenny Bernstein of the Washington […]
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