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☆ Grandmother Becomes Second Patient to Receive Kidney From Gene-Edited Pig
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( Roni Caryn Rabin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A severely ill 54-year-old woman earlier this month became the second person to receive a kidney transplanted from a genetically modified pig, surgeons at NYU Langone Health in New York announced on Wednesday. The patient, who had both heart failure and kidney failure, was given the organ on April 12, just eight days after receiving a mechanical heart pump. Surgical teams at NYU Langone carried out the two procedures over the course of nine days. The kidney came from a genetically engineered pig provided by United Therapeutics Corporation, a biotech company. The pig carried a gene for producing a sugar called alpha-gal that had been “knocked out,” or blocked.

Persons: NYU Langone, Lisa Pisano, “ Organizations: NYU Langone Health, NYU, United Therapeutics Corporation Locations: New York, New Jersey

☆ Mammography AI can cost patients extra. Is it worth it?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-26 | by ( Michelle Andrews | Kff Health News | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

In recent years, AI software that helps radiologists detect problems or diagnose cancer using mammography has been moving into clinical use. This extra review has enormous potential to improve the detection of suspicious breast masses and lead to earlier diagnoses of breast cancer. With RadNet’s AI tool, “it’s as if all patients get the benefit of our very top performer.”But is the tech analysis worth the extra cost to patients? The health system has developed AI models and is testing the technology with mammograms but doesn’t yet offer it to patients, she said. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, “computer-assisted detection” software promised to improve breast cancer detection.

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Political Cartoons View All 1211 Images“Until we get more Black women into clinical trials, we can’t change the science. Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women and tend to be diagnosed younger. As recruiting continues, enrolling Black women and other women of color will “absolutely” continue as a priority, Pisano said. At the U.S. study sites, 21% of study participants are Black women — that's higher than a typical cancer treatment study, in which 9% of participants are Black, McCaskill-Stevens said. Her sister recently completed treatment for triple negative breast cancer, an aggressive type that affects Black women at higher rates than white women.

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☆ Disgraced Harvard professor Francesca Gino's $25 million lawsuit will scare researchers away from calling out fraud, scholars fear
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Francesca Gino is suing Harvard and bloggers who accused her of data fraud for $25 million. Francesca Gino is suing Harvard and the bloggers who accused her of data fraud in a $25 million lawsuit. The Harvard professor claims they "worked together to destroy my career and reputation." In the June blog posts, Data Colada reported on a series of anomalies in Gino's data. Some worry the lawsuit will make exposing data fraud even more difficultGino is not the first high-profile professor that Data Colada has accused of unethical behavior.

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☆ How High Will Savings Rates Go in 2023?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +6 min

By Steve GarmhausenInterest rates on savings accounts have been rising fast, and savers are likely to see more improvements in 2023. Where are interest rates headed in 2023? Will savings rates go up in 2023? Though they take their cues from the fed-funds rate, banks tend to take weeks or even months to hike their savings account rates. The Fed could cut rates sooner than expected, pulling savings rates down in the process.

☆ A far-right nationalist looks likely to become Italy’s first female prime minister
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Patrick-Smith-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Patrick Smith | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

Meloni leads the Brothers of Italy Party (Fratelli d’Italia, or FdI), a populist party with roots in Italy’s post-war fascist movement. From left, The League's Matteo Salvini, Forza Italia's Silvio Berlusconi, and Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni attend the final rally of the center-right coalition in Rome on Thursday. Meloni’s office and the Brothers of Italy Party did not answer requests for comment by NBC News. Clashes between protesters and police close to a rally held by election frontrunner Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday in Palermo, Sicily. And now it’s happening with Giorgia Meloni,” he said.

☆ Italy's frontrunner party suspends candidate over Hitler praise
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An election campaign poster of Giorgia Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, is displayed on a bus ahead of the snap election of September 25, in Rome, Italy September 20, 2022. Critics, however, say fascist sympathisers still flourish in its ranks and La Repubblica newspaper published this week a social media comment posted eight years ago by party candidate Calogero Pisano, hailing Hitler as a "great statesman". "The idea that those who praise Hitler can sit in the next parliament is unacceptable," Ruth Dureghello, head of the Jewish community in Rome, wrote on Twitter. "From this moment on, Pisano no longer represents (the party) at any level," it said in a statement. Brothers of Italy is widely expected to emerge as Italy's largest single party at the Sept. 25 vote and lead an alliance of right-wing parties to a comfortable victory.

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