Aug
28
2020
A team of researchers from Google Health, working closely with researchers from North America, published a report recently in JAMA Oncology that showcased how their Artificial Intelligence (AI) diagnostic systems outperformed general pathologists in determining the degree of advancement...
Aug
24
2020
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany) and the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) say that our pain threshold can be linked to Neanderthal DNA. Neanderthals, or Homo neanderthalensis, lived in Eurasia up until 40,000 years ago. Current thinking...
Aug
21
2020
Oxford University published a paper in the Lancet on their trial of a Covid-19 vaccine on the 20th of July 2020. Even though Oxford University has been researching a vaccine since January 2020 and AstraZeneca (AZN.L) rushed to get...
Aug
19
2020
US President Trump signed four executive orders on the 24th July 2020 aimed at lowering drug prices and setting an International Price Index (IPI) for drugs. While the Covid-19 pandemic has muted calls for drug price reductions over the...
Aug
17
2020
In a University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) recent publication in the American Journal of Public Health, it was reported that the US federal public health expenditure has been overestimated by at least 2x. In 2019, the US...
Aug
12
2020
Nathalie Stroeymeyt, a senior lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol, drew parallels from the guides to social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic and how ants behave in a recent research study. The research was...
Aug
12
2020
A recently published white paper on medical cannabis from the Journal of Psychopharmacology has been produced and published recently presenting essential points on prescription of medical cannabinoids. See our exhibit 1 below for the 2019 value of the total...
Aug
10
2020
● Abbott Laboratories (ABT.IXIC) had sold over 40m Covid-19 diagnostic-tests by mid-July 2020. As the virus infected cases rise globally demand for tests is soaring. But are the tests efficacious and is this a new dawn for diagnostics companies...
Aug
07
2020
12 out of the 28 European countries have released Covid-19 tracing apps in June 2020, however it seems that no one is using them. Exhibit 1 - EU Covid-19 Tracing app usage Source: ACF Equity Research, VICE
Germany's Corona-Warn app is only...
Aug
03
2020
In 2016 a synthetic alternative (rFC) to horseshoe crab blood, used in bacterial infection detection for injectable procedures, was licensed. And yet horseshoe crabs are both threatened with extinction and in line for preservation due to Covid-19 and its...