Big Pharma

Plastic Surgery Bundling Booms But Beware     New York, NY, October, 2022 — Social media, cell phone cameras and video conferencing apps like Zoom and Teams drove a significant uptick in facial plastic surgeries over the past couple of years. Now, the trend is pivoting back to the body, says top New York City plastic surgeon Dr. Richard Westreich.   “Body contouring is surging and in demand,” said Dr. Westreich. “Now that we're getting a level of normalcy, the boom from Zoom is switching back to focusing on the body.”    Also on trend? Bundling more than one procedure in...

One in three Alzheimer’s disease family caregivers has persistent symptoms of depression More than 60% of family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) experienced at least mild depressive symptoms already at the time the individual with AD was diagnosed. In one third of them, depressive symptoms worsened during a five-year follow-up.               The study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland included 226 family caregivers of individuals with AD. Depressive symptoms experienced by family caregivers were monitored for five years, starting from the diagnosis of the individual with AD. 61.5% of family caregivers experienced depressive symptoms at the time...

Kahun Secures $8M round for its ‘XAI’ engine for clinical reasoning Kahun builds the world’s largest map of clinical knowledge containing more than 30 million medical insights in order to replicate clinical reasoning at scale, overcoming the major ‘black box’ problem which prevents AI solutions from mass adoption by medical institutions. The seed round was led by UK VC LocalGlobe with participation from the EU’s EIC fund and The Founders Kitchen fund by Waze Co-founder Uri Levine, who also led the pre-seed round. In total the company has raised $13M to date. Givatayim, Israel  2022 — Kahun, an evidence-based clinical...

Unlocking the doors to effective COVID-19 treatments Watch video SASKATOON – A team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) are hoping to identify effective COVID-19 therapeutics. With help from the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, the team has been able to visualize the interaction between inhibitory molecules and viral proteins. This allows researchers to see if their drug designs work as intended. “We have libraries of molecular fragments and drug candidates that we are testing,” said Michael Maddalena, a research intern in Steven LaPlante’s lab at INRS. “We are screening...

Image and keep track of protein crystal building with the CrysCam UV™ and plate incubator from Art Robbins Instruments (PresseBox) Asbac The CrysCam UV™ is an automated imaging system from Art Robbins Instruments for observing protein crystals under visible and UV-light. The stand-alone system allows to set up workflows, image plates in ANSI/SLAS- and Linbro formats, and LCP slides and analyse your images with a user-friendly software. The software is capable of measuring crystals and comparing images from different plates, light sources and days. Deep-field slicing where one image contains pictures of different levels of a crystal are also possible....