This is the weirdest story of medical research and a regulatory gray area that I've heard of in quite a while. You should read it.

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A new study in rats is offering insight into *why* is it that exercise is good for us: statnews.com/2024/05/01/ben…

A fun outtake: the advice out there on what type of exercise is better for what is largely based on... well, nothing.

Three years ago, Moderna, flush with cash, announced it would start working on the burgeoning field of gene editing.

Now, the company has broken off a collaboration with its main CRISPR partner $MGX and parted ways with its top gene editing executive

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.FDA says pasteurization does appear to kill #H5N1 #birdflu in milk, and sour cream and cottage cheese too. Megan Molteni reports. statnews.com/2024/05/01/bir…

I'm told that Dept. of Agriculture got 2 samples from New Mexico that were labeled as non-bovine. They tested positive. Not sure when this was but I think early April. USDA later discovered the samples were from cows & has adjusted the outbreak total to include 2 additional NM outbreaks.
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It's been just over 1 month since Dept. of Agriculture reported finding #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows. There are still many questions about what's going on & the risk it poses to people. But some things are starting to come into focus. By Megan Molteni & me. statnews.com/2024/04/30/h5n…

.U.S. FDA has more evidence pasteurization kills #H5N1 #birdflu virus in milk, saying it was unable to grow virus from some PCR-positive samples. Doesn't say how many samples it's tried yet, though.
Testing infant formula did not show evidence of H5. fda.gov/food/alerts-ad…

Everything you ever wanted to know about vaccines for H5N1 avian influenza (including things you didn't even know you wanted to know...)👇

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1. So much today on the #H5N1 #birdflu story! Just coming up for air. U.S. FDA has found genetic evidence of the virus in commercial milk, but so far it sounds like killed virus. More info on where they found it/how prevalent it was would be useful. statnews.com/2024/04/23/h5n…

STAT asked 100 hospitals — two from each state — to speak with physicians about changes in maternal health care since the Dobbs ruling. Only six made a physician available statnews.com/2024/04/22/dob… via STAT

1. CDC issued a statement today explaining what it's doing to assess the risk to people of #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows. Among their actions: monitoring ER visit data from hospitals near outbreaks looking for an increase in flu-like illness or conjunctivitis. No far, none

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'Viruses still kill people. That doesn’t mean there’s always money to be made in killing viruses,' Jason Mast explains in this profile of Vir Biotechnology statnews.com/2024/04/15/vir… via STAT

Functional testing has long been done to see which antibiotics are best suited to fighting a patient’s particular infection. Oncologists now have the tools to try the same approach to fight cancer. Fascinating coverage of an innovative trial by Angus Rohan Chen

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