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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Flow Neuroscience’s at-home brain stimulation device to treat depression, offering an alternative to typical antidepressants that can cause side effects with long-term use, the company said on Thursday.Depression rates in the U.S. have surged 60% over the past decade, affecting more than 20 million adults, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Flow’s FL-100 delivers a gentle electrical current to the part of the brain that regulates mood and is designed for home use under remote supervision. It is the first such device to be approved in the U.S.The device is…
(This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays.)Dec 12 (Reuters) – Pfizer’s Tukysa added to maintenance therapy significantly delayed disease progression in patients with HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer who had responded well to initial treatment, according to results of a late-stage trial.Tukysa, known chemically as tucatinib, belongs to a drug class known as tyrosine kinase inhibitors that block the HER2 protein on cancer cells, helping to slow or stop tumor growth.The drug is already approved for use in colorectal cancer and for later-stage breast cancer.The 654 patients in the…
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will speak about his cancer diagnosis and recovery during a TV broadcast on Friday as the monarch continues to use his personal story to encourage others to get the early screening that can boost their chances of survival.The recorded message will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on Britain’s Channel 4, giving Charles the opportunity to reflect on his experiences in the 22 months since he announced he would undergo treatment for an undisclosed type of cancer.Charles’ decision to disclose his diagnosis was a departure for Britain’s royals, who have traditionally considered their health to…
By Deena BeasleyDec 12 (Reuters) – Alzheimer’s trials testing Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster GLP-1 drug semaglutide, despite their failure, underscore a shift to approaching the brain-wasting disease as a system of complex pathways, much the way the field of cancer therapeutics has been transformed in recent years, experts say.Just two drugs are approved to slow Alzheimer’s – Eli Lilly’s Kisunla and Leqembi from Eisai and Biogen. Both were shown to delay disease progression by around 30% by removing toxic amyloid plaques from the brain, but progress is being made to identify other targets and strategies for arresting the disease.Globally, over 55…
Dec 12 (Reuters) – The US Food and Drug Administration intends to put a ‘black box’ warning on COVID-19 vaccines, CNN reported on Friday, citing two people familiar with the agency’s plans.The ‘black box’ is the most serious type of warning, which highlights major risks such as serious side effects and restrictions.The plan to install the warnings for COVID shots is being orchestrated by Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s chief medical and scientific officer and director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, the report added.Vaccine makers Moderna, Pfizer and Novavax, as well as the U.S. Department of Health…
As Nvidia works to install some of its newest chips in Microsoft data centers, an employee at the GPU giant observed in early fall that Microsoft’s cooling approach at one facility seemed “wasteful.”Nvidia has been deploying its GB200 Blackwell architecture at Microsoft and other tech giants as demand for compute to train and run AI models surges.Blackwell, announced in March 2024, is roughly twice as powerful as its predecessor, Hopper, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at launch. GB200 is part of an earlier wave of Blackwell deployments, with the GB300 generation now available.In early fall, an internal email sent by…
LinkedIn is full of corporate braggarts. But don’t expect the best engineers to flaunt their success on the platform — or even have an account, according one former Meta employee.Michael Novati spent almost eight years at Meta, back when it was still called Facebook and hadn’t yet doubled down on AI. He reached the rank of principal software engineer and earned the nickname “coding machine.”On the “A Life Engineered” podcast, host Steve Huynh asked Novati about his claim that the top five engineers aren’t on LinkedIn. Novati stood by it.”When I was at Facebook, the top engineers were like, ‘If…
ROME (AP) — A national strike called on Friday by Italy’s largest trade union in protest against the government’s budget plans widely disrupted transportation, health and school services across the country.The protest, which targets the 2026 budget bill proposed by the conservative government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, comes just two weeks after another general strike organized by smaller trade unions, with the same motivations.The strike mainly hit railway transportation, with cancellations and delays registered for both long-distance and regional trains. Public schools across the country canceled classes, forcing students to stay home because of a lack of local public transportation…
When high school students in the West Hartford Public Schools district study World War II in the coming year, they will learn about more than just the typical hallmarks like Japanese American detention camps. They will also hear about Sadao Munemori, a soldier who died protecting comrades from a grenade. The 22-year-old posthumously became the first Japanese American awarded the Medal of Honor.Lessons like this that delve beyond places have left teachers “humbled,” said Jessica Blitzer, the district’s social studies department supervisor who helped design curriculum for secondary grade levels.“It’s one of those moments where you think ‘How have we…
A Michigan man died of rabies after receiving a kidney transplant from another man who was infected by the disease when a skunk scratched him, federal health officials said in a new report.The Michigan patient died in January after getting a kidney transplant from an Idaho donor in December 2024, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released last week. Postmortem testing confirmed that the patient had contracted rabies, but the CDC said interviews with his family revealed that he did not have any exposure to animals.”(The) diagnosis of rabies in a kidney transplant recipient with no…