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...Need to know: business Novo Nordisk announced a €1bn deal for a German biotech developing therapies to treat heart disease, as the Danish group seeks to branch out from its blockbuster diabetes and weight...
...It has also benefited from recent initiatives such as a $40mn New York state biodefence commercialisation fund, which awards money to companies with promising solutions to infectious diseases....
...Peppy influencers sharing their checklists of symptoms have increasingly filled my feeds over the past two years, centring on conditions such as OCD, dissociative identity disorder and autism....
...“It’s not a solution just to have the patent right,” he said, arguing that it would be more difficult to control quality....
...Part three looks at solutions; how to recruit more women by increasing the visibility of the IM career and how to improve its “image problem”....
...“More and more women are demanding solutions to menopause symptoms,” she said. “And investors are getting more and more interested in femtech....
...to the Covid-19 pandemic whether in vaccines, diagnostics and therapies as well as harnessing its incredible genomic capacity which is being used to full effect to spot new variants of the Covid-19 virus...
...Teresa Hassara, head of workplace solutions, says MassMutual has had “really positive feedback — when everybody works remotely, it feels like everybody has a fair shot”....
...But they were determined to explore every type of therapy, and eventually “we found a way to reach him through music”....
...They have sometimes been used with more ambitious therapeutic goals in mind — for example, to help people on the autism spectrum develop social skills, and as an alternative to group therapy for military...
...Writing it was “therapeutic”, although he adds: “I’d quite like therapy, it would be revealing.”...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on January 1 2020. @2020 Nikkei Inc....
...She runs Worldwide Massive Inc,” no longer applies. Instead, you are plain Sharon and when asked, “So what do you do?” you search about for almost any response which does not use the “R” word....
...But many people are more likely to be hit by the creeping steady rise of popular drugs and high price tags for innovative treatments, such as new therapies for cancer....
...Via Bloomberg: Moderna Inc. said its experimental vaccine for Covid-19 could be available to a select few as soon as this fall, ahead of expectations for a commercial release in a year....
...More than half the UK, France and Italy still thinks there may be a link between vaccines and autism....
...In just several decades, gene therapy has gone from being a promising concept to a practical solution to deadly and largely untreatable forms of cancer,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, said....
...Children on the autism spectrum and anxious elderly people have enjoyed their cocooning effect for some time....
...What are the solutions?...
...One of its proposed solutions is to provide a common statutory definition of employment, “dependent contractor” and self-employment for all legal, tax and NIC purposes....
...Mr Vanek says technology being developed by Asymptote, a Cambridge-based start-up that GE acquired for an undisclosed sum in April, is part of the solution....
...An emerging solution is a type of blood test for cancer known as a liquid biopsy, which can detect tiny fragments of DNA discarded by tumours....
...The solution? Recycling their own urine and faeces into nutritional supplements and using them for 3D printing of tools....
...However, it is unlikely that a single combination will provide a one-size-fits-all solution, according to Roger Perlmutter, Merck’s top scientist....
...They are bringing in experts to teach their employees techniques like cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness, as well as acceptance and commitment therapy, a form of CBT....
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