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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children & Families' Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) has issued a grants notice for Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Grants: Culturally Specific Sexual Assault Capacity Building Centers (CSSAC). The grants aim to enhance intervention and
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U.S. Senators have introduced legislation to prevent the use of taxpayer funds for abortions by illegal immigrants. The proposed bill, the No Taxpayer Funds for Illegal Alien Abortions Act, aims to prohibit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Research from the New York Genome Center has identified several genes and pathways that predict the response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy in cancer patients. The study analyzed six whole-exome sequencing cohorts with matched disease outcomes to identify genes and pathways that are significantly mutated and associated with ICB
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that autoimmune diseases can accelerate the development of chronic cardiovascular disease in humans. The study, which was funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health, demonstrates that blocking a specific protein can reduce the
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House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) issued a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on August 10, 2022, urging the agency to take all necessary steps to ensure patients can safely and easily access the antiviral medication TPOXX (tecovirimat) for the treatment
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U.S. Senators Mazie K. Hirono, Elizabeth Warren, and Tammy Baldwin joined forces to send a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) urging concrete actions to protect and expand access to medication abortion. The letter comes ahead of the deadline set by President Biden's
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A new study published in Nature Communications has shed light on the role of IL-9 signaling in the tumor microenvironment, revealing its potential as a therapeutic target for lung cancer. Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine discovered that IL-9 promotes the expansion of pulmonary macrophages, which in turn
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Chemoimmunotherapy has recently failed to demonstrate significant clinical benefit in advanced bladder cancer patients, and the underlying mechanisms of this response remain unclear. Research has focused on tumor-intrinsic properties that render bladder cancer cells "immune-excluded," making them resistant to treatment. A recent study published in Nature Communications explored
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Researchers have developed a novel diagnostic approach that combines metagenomics-based pathogen detection in cerebrospinal fluid with a host gene expression-based machine learning classifier to diagnose tuberculosis meningitis (TBM) and its mimics. The study, conducted by a team of researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), enrolled 368 HIV-infected
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The Biden administration announced Friday that the Affordable Care Act has helped send the nation's uninsured rate to near record lows, with an estimated 35.8 million people now covered as of early 2022. This includes over 13.6 million people enrolled in policies purchased on the Obamacare
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The National Cancer Institute has announced its intention to grant an exclusive patent license to practice inventions related to engineered tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes for cancer therapy to Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. This license would allow Iovance to develop, manufacture, distribute, sell, and use autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) adoptive cell therapy products for
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A recent study from Tianjin University has shed light on the role of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) in human cancer, specifically in aerobic glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP). The research found that inhibition of H3K9 methylation suppressed aerobic glycolysis and enhanced the PPP in human mesothelioma cells. Funded by
