The science that informs medicine -- including the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease -- routinely fails to consider the critical impact of sex and gender. These omissions exist at the same time diseases such as lung cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's Disease and depression profoundly...
Read MoreAlzheimer's disease accounts for many more deaths than we've realized, a new study concludes, making it nearly as lethal as the nation's two biggest killers, heart disease and cancer. Death certificates record immediate cause of death, but often miss the underlying cause, which is why Alzheimer's...
Read MoreC. Simone FIshburn, February 27, 2014, SciBX - Science-Business eXchange Although small-and medium-sized biotechs are absent from the NIH's new Accelerated Medicines Partnership with industry and not-for-profit organizations, consortium leaders expect that making results publicly available on their search for new targets and biomarkers in four...
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