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That is the finding from a recent report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the activities of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) CBO previously estimated that CMMI’s activities would reduce net federal spending but now estimates that they increased that spending during the first 10 years of the center’s operation and will…
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman. The prizewinner’s work lead to the development of COVID-19 vaccines which averted millions of deaths worldwide. The Nobel Prize press release describes the scientific breakthrough in more detail: Karikó and Weissman noticed that dendritic cells recognize in vitro transcribed mRNA as a…
As reported in the Economist: In 2019, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit) did something unusual in modern medicine—they found a new antibiotic, halicin. In May this year another team found a second antibiotic, abaucin. What marked these two compounds out was not only their potential for use against two of the most…