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• Bone marrow cancer drug shows success in treatment of blood disorder, finds study

  The New England Journal of Medicine published the trial results, which show that patients with HHT who were administered the medication, pomalidomide, had a significant decrease in the intensity of nosebleeds, required fewer blood transfusions and iron infusions than HHT frequently requires, and had a better quality of life.

  

• Biden is announcing $150 million in research grants as part of his 'moonshot' push to fight cancer

  The president and first lady Jill Biden toured medical facilities that receive federal funding to investigate cancer treatments at Tulane University, where researchers demonstrated using a piece of raw meat how they are working to improve scanning technology to quickly distinguish between healthy and cancerous cells during surgeries.

  

• US embassy in Delhi celebrates major milestone in HIV, AIDS care

  ​For over three decades, these efforts have been supported through the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) in partnership with Government of India.

  

• Service dogs helped ease PTSD symptoms in US military veterans, researchers say

  ​The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs provides talk therapy and medications to veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and runs a pilot program involving service dogs. The VA can prescribe service dogs to certain veterans diagnosed with a visual, hearing or substantial mobility impairment, including eligible veterans with PTSD, and will cover some costs associated with having a service dog.

  

• US pediatricians group reverses decades-old ban on breastfeeding for those with HIV

  ​Before the medications became widely available starting a decade ago, about 30% of HIV infections transmitted from moms to babies occurred during breastfeeding, said Dr. Lynne Mofenson, an adviser to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. In the early 1990s, about 2,000 infections occurred in U.S. infants each year. Today, it's fewer than 30.

  

• US taxpayers money used for controversial virus research in Wuhan

  ​In July 2023, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) barred the Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving federal grants for the next 10 years. Additionally, EcoHealth Alliance, which had its funding pulled by HHS for the next three years, has faced scrutiny for its involvement in the research.

  

• Will AI replace doctors who read X-rays, or just make them better than ever?

  ​For doctors who review scans to spot cancer and other diseases, however, AI has loomed for about a decade as more algorithms promise to improve accuracy, speed up work and, in some cases, take over entire parts of the job. Predictions have ranged from doomsday scenarios in which AI fully replaces radiologists, to sunny futures in which it frees them to focus on the most rewarding aspects of their work.

  

• US defense official had 'Havana syndrome' symptoms during a 2023 NATO summit, the Pentagon confirms

  The foremost Cuba-based researcher of the incidents, Mitchell Valdes-Sosa, told The Associated Press that the "60 Minutes" report had failed to provide any scientific basis to substantiate the existence of the Havana syndrome. Valdes-Sosa, director of Cuba's Center for Neuroscience, is the de facto spokesperson on the issue for the Cuban health ministry, which arranged the interview.

  

• AI fails to detect depression signs in social media posts by Black Americans: study

  The use of "I-talk" or self-focused attention, and self-deprecation, self-criticism and feeling like an outsider were related to depression exclusively for white individuals, said study co-author Sharath Chandra Guntuku of the Center for Insights to Outcomes at Penn Medicine.

  

• BioNTech gets US agency notice over default on COVID vaccine royalties

  According to BioNTech, the German business has received a notification from the US National Institutes of Health concerns nonpayment of royalties and other monies associated with their COVID-19 vaccine. However, BioNTech, which collaborated with the massive American pharmaceutical company Pfizer on the COVID-19 vaccine, stated that it disagreed with the NIH's stance and that it planned to fight back against any claims of violations.