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As the polls more or less predicted, Tuesday’s midterm elections turned out to be very close in terms of the balance of power between the two parties. As of this writing, it is still unclear which party controls the House and the Senate. But in several states there were significant fitness issues in the survey that were more decisively addressed. In South Dakota, the electorate approved an expansion of Medicaid benefits, joining the list of many other states that bypassed legislatures to expand the program through a poll initiative. Voters in Michigan, California and Vermont approved constitutional amendments protecting abortion rights, while Kentucky voters rejected an amendment that would have declared abortion rights unprotected in the state. Meanwhile, in Arizona, many headline races are still too close to call as of this writing, yet a vote that’s rarely quite an overwhelming “yes” for Proposition 209, which expands assets and assets that don’t can be raised for health care. . the debt and also lowers the interest rate you may be charged.
VillageMD buys Summit Health for $8. 9 billion to expand clinics with medical staff across the country. The transaction announced Monday will come with investments from Walgreens Boots Alliance, which already owns more than 60% of VillageMD, and Cigna’s fitness business, Evernorth. Summit Health merged with CityMD in 2019 to create a company with over 1400 physical care providers providing primary, specialty and pressing care.
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AI Drug Discovery: Sanofi has signed a study collaboration agreement of up to $1200 million (excluding royalties) with drug discovery company Insilico Medicine to seek candidates for up to six new targets.
Better blood storage: Hemanext, which develops new blood processing and storage strategies, announced that it has raised an $18 million Series B investment circular as it moves toward commercialization in Europe.
Rural Health Collaboration: Andreessen Horowitz’s Bio Health Fund announced a strategic partnership with Bassett Healthcare Network to utilize the fund’s generation of portfolio corporations for rural physical care in central New York State.
Psychoactive Therapeutics: Sensorium Therapeutics announced the finale of a $30 million Series A to advance its drug discovery engine and initial drug candidate SENS-1 for anxiety remedy.
The low-protein content of highly processed foods like soda, potato chips and fast foods may hold the key to why they drive emerging obesity rates in the Western world, according to new research.
Based on the effects of a clinical trial, following guided mindfulness-based stress relief programs, such as meditation, would likely be as effective as antidepressants in combating anxiety disorders.
A small study suggests that Mario Kart is the most stressful game growing in the core rate of players.
Teva Pharmaceuticals will pay up to $523 million in New York to settle allegations that the company contributed to the opioid crisis, starting with a $4. 2 billion national settlement for the company.
Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their bivalent booster, which was approved by the FDA in September, is more effective at combating the BA. 4 and BA. 5 variants of omicrons than its original injection. According to their data, other people who took the current vaccine had higher immune responses than the previous booster. The new booster also showed higher levels of neutralizing antibodies when tested one month after dosing. These antibodies prevent the virus from replicating and were 4 times higher in adults over 55 who were on their boosters.
Despite the vaccine’s effectiveness, few people line up to get vaccinated, even as covid hospitalizations and deaths are rising across the country. Less than 10% of Americans won the updated retirement. Public officials continue to urge the public to obtain recalls ahead of the expected winter surge. Since BA. 5 is the most common form of the virus in the United States, experts know that protection against this subvariant is incredibly important.
A new report claims that Covid-19 was born from a twist of fate in a Chinese studies laboratory. However, the basis of the report has some problems.
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Pfizer and BioNTech have recently launched a new vaccine that combines flu coverage and omicron-specific Covid coverage in a single shot. The purpose is to use it for annual reminders.
The CDC announced that alcohol-related deaths increased by as much as 26% between 2019 and 2020 due to the pandemic, with 55-year-old men bearing the brunt.
One news story has found that normal exercise increases the efficacy of covid vaccines, with a maximum efficacy of 91. 5% in vaccinated participants who performed peak levels of physical activity.
Mastodon doesn’t update Twitter, but it has its own rewards
MIT will return to the Moon for the first time since Apollo, thanks to this startup from the area
Former Peloton CEO John Foley is back, with a carpet startup and $25 million
Electrical stimulation is helping other paralyzed people walk, and now we know why (Nature)
In ‘Raising Lazarus’, Beth Macy invokes the stone scrolls (Religion News)
FDA Panel Votes Veru’s Drug for Severe Covid (Statistic)