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America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects
American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)
Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry
The government vows to clear hurdles so the sector can flourish. Will it be enough? Official efforts to boost the life sciences sector are welcome,... (2023)
12 Things To Know About Paxlovid, the Latest COVID-19 Pill > Yale Medicine
Paxlovid is an oral antiviral pill to treat COVID-19 that can be taken soon after symptoms surface to help keep high-risk patients from getting so ... (2022)
Pharmaceuticals and innovation. Less buck for the bang. Are drug patents worth it?
Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)
USA will share millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses worldwide - POLITICO
The company has produced about 10 million doses of the vaccine for the U.S. but the FDA has not yet authorized their use. (2021)
The same covid-19 mutations are appearing in different places | Graphic detail | The Economist
Convergent evolution may make travel restrictions redundant (2021)
Myths of Vaccine Manufacturing
In the last few days, the question of why more drug companies haven't been enlisted for vaccine production has come up. It's mostly due to this twe... (2021)
Variation in False-Negative Rate SARS-CoV-2 Tests by Time Since Exposure | Annals of Internal Medicine
Tests for SARS-CoV-2 based on reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) are being used to rule out infection among high-risk persons... (2020)
The ‘very, very bad look’ of remdesivir, the first FDA-approved COVID-19 drug
The Food and Drug Administration held no advisory meeting on antiviral, and the European Union signed contract without knowing of failed trial (2020)
A Kid's Covid Vaccine Isn't Coming Anytime Soon - The New York Times
There are currently no trials underway, making a vaccine unlikely before fall of 2021. And students are missing online school at alarming rates. (2020)
How to Ship a Vaccine at minus –80°C, and Other Obstacles in the Covid Fight - The New York Times
Developing an effective vaccine is the first step. Then comes the question of how to deliver hundreds of millions of doses that may need to be kept... (2020)
Blood Plasma Treatment for Covid-19 Now on Hold at F.D.A. - The New York Times
Government health leaders including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci urged caution last week, citing weak data from the country’s la... (2020)
Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition - Bloomberg (July 2020)
The University of Oxford candidate, led by Sarah Gilbert, might be through human trials in September. AstraZeneca has lined up agreements to produc... (2020)
Novavax Gets $1.6 Billion for Coronavirus Vaccine From Operation Warp Speed - New York Times
The Maryland-based company, which has never brought a product to market before, just made the biggest deal to date with the Trump administration’s ... (2020)
Opinion | Can Covid Damage the Brain? - The New York Times
“I tell the same stories repeatedly; I forget words I know.” The more we learn about the coronavirus, the more we realize it’s not just a respir... (2020)
You May Have Antibodies After Coronavirus Infection. But Not for Long. - The New York Times
Antibodies to the virus faded quickly in asymptomatic people, scientists reported. That does not mean immunity disappears. (2020)
How SARS-CoV-2 causes disease and death in covid-19
There are direct routes and indirect ones “... there are other facets to the disease not so easily understood. It robs some of the infected of t... (2020)
How to Recover From Covid-19 at Home - The New York Times
Rest and fluids are essential, but not always enough. Here are some more things you can do to feel better. (2020)
How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes
The lungs are ground zero for COVID-19, but blood clots may play a surprisingly big role in severe illness (2020)
What is COVID-19's R number – and why does it matter?
Governments are monitoring it closely to decide whether to lift their lockdowns. But what actually is the “reproduction number”, and how do we keep... (2020)
The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them
It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is r... (2020)
Opinion | In the Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, We Must Go Big. Really, Really Big. - The New York Times
We should commit tens of billions toward a program. “ Today, the U.S. government could go big and create a Covid-19 vaccine A.M.C., guaranteeing... (2020)
Why Days 5 to 10 Are So Important When You Have Coronavirus - The New York Times
Tracking your daily symptoms can help you and your doctors make better decisions about whether a hospital visit is needed. "But what if you don’... (2020)
‘Will You Help Save My Brother?’: The Scramble to Find Covid-19 Plasma Donors - The New York Times
A doctor stricken with Covid-19 was running out of options. His family mounted a search for a donor whose plasma might help. Antibody rich convale... (2020)
Can the world find a good covid-19 vaccine quickly enough?
And can it mass-produce it fairly if it does? So many candidates, so little time (2020)
F.D.A. Approves First Coronavirus Antibody Test in U.S. (April 2020) - The New York Times
Such a test may help scientists learn how widespread the infection is, and how long people remain immune after recovering. (2020)
The $1 billion bet: Pharma giant and U.S. government team up in all-out coronavirus vaccine push
Johnson & Johnson’s chief scientist describes nonprofit partnership to accelerate its candidate Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the... (2020)
The antibiotic industry is broken - Netflix and pills - The Economist
Take inspiration from the entertainment industry "A WORLD WITHOUT antibiotics is horrible to contemplate. They underpin much of modern medicine ... (2019)
Antibiotics biotech firms are struggling - A tough sell - The Economist
The slim rewards for new antibiotics make them a risky business "GETTING HOLD of penicillin in 1943 was a lottery in America. The “miracle drug”... (2019)
An ageing world needs more resourceful robots - The Economist
Grandma’s little helper WHEN GILL PRATT sat down to discuss the job of running the Toyota Research Institute, the carmaker’s new research divisi... (2019)
Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? | Eric Topol | TED
AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)
TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins
TED: How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins (2023)
How to biohack your cells to fight cancer - TEDed
Check out the science of biohacking, where biologists go into a patient’s genetic code and reprogram their immune system to recognize and fight can... (2022)
How aspirin was discovered - TED Ed Krishna Sudhir
4000 years ago, the ancient Sumerians made a surprising discovery: if they scraped the bark off a particular kind of tree and ate it, their pain di... (2021)
Challenges in Healthcare Innovation | a16z
a16z Published on Dec 15, 2017 The U.S. spent $2.6 trillion on healthcare in 2010; this is expected to double by 2020. Why so expensive? And wh... (2018)
Author Walter Isaacson On The Gene Editing Revolution - Fresh Air | NPR
Listen to this episode from Fresh Air on Spotify. Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, the subject of Walter Isaacson's new biography 'The Code Breaker,' sh... (2021)
ADHD & How Anyone Can Improve Their Focus | Episode 37 - Huberman Lab | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): what it is, the co... (2022)
The enduring mystery of long Covid - Today, Explained | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. An estimated 10 percent of people who test positive for Covid-19 experience long-haul symp... (2021)
Florence Nightingale: Data Viz Pioneer - 99% Invisible | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale (played in this episode by her distant cous... (2021)
Why Did the U.S. Turn Down Pfizer Vaccine Doses? - The New York Times | Podcast
Listen to this episode from The Daily on Spotify. From the start of the pandemic, the US said it was committed to ordering and stockpil... (2020)
Rapid Response: The Covid test facts every CEO needs - Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
Listen to this episode from Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman on Spotify. To safely re-open a business, you need more than masks. Cov... (2020)
The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1) - Andreessen Horowitz
Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)
The truth about herd immunity - Vox | Today, Explained Podcast
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Some people think it’s the only way out of the pandemic. Those people are very wrong. Tran... (2020)
a16z Podcast: On Vaccines and Vaccinology, in COVID and Beyond
WHEN are we going to have a COVID-19 vaccine, and how the heck are we going from 12 years of vaccine development compressed into 12 months or so? W... (2020)
"My Lungs Are Still Not the Same": The Long Road to Recovery from COVID-19 | The Takeaway
The Takeaway hears from former guest David Lat on his experience recovering from COVID-19. (2020)
a16z Podcast: Preventing Pandemics with Genomic Epidemiology
On the podcast we speak with Trevor Bedford, Associate Professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, about changes in scientific communi... (2020)
a16z Podcast: The Infrastructure of Total Health – Andreessen Horowitz
Bernard J. Tyson is the chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, a $73 billion non-profit health organization that provides healthcare and coverage w... (2018)
a16z Podcast: Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice – Andreessen Horowitz
There’s been a lot of talk about technology — and AI, deep learning, and machine learning specifically — finally reaching the healthcare sector. Bu... (2017)
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution (2020)
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international respo... (2020)