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15 Minutes With Dr. Fauci
Read More: 15 Minutes With Dr. FauciHealthyWomen’s editor-in-chief, Jaimie Seaton, recently spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci. As the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), chief medical advisor to President Biden, and a practicing physician, he’s an extraordinarily busy man. So, we were honored when he agreed to give us 15 minutes from 5:00 to 5:15 to…
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Clinically Speaking: What Are Biosimilars?
Read More: Clinically Speaking: What Are Biosimilars?Medically reviewed by Lisa Kennedy Sheldon, Ph.D.
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Coming Soon to a Pharmacy Near You: Biosimilars
Read More: Coming Soon to a Pharmacy Near You: BiosimilarsMedically reviewed by Lisa Kennedy Sheldon, Ph.D. Wondering what a biosimilar is? It’s hard to understand them without first understanding biologics, so let’s start there. Biologics, also called biologicals or reference products, are drugs that are created from a living source such as plant cells, animal cells or even human cells. There are many different…
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Women Need Biosimilars
Read More: Women Need BiosimilarsMedications exist that could cut costs, expand treatment options, and potentially save lives โ but you can’t access most of them. They’re called biosimilars, and they’re medicines that have no clinically meaningful differences from biological medicines, also called reference products or biologics. These medicines are derived from living microorganisms, animal cells or plants and are…
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We Scanned the DNA of 8,000 People to See How Facial Features Are Controlled by Genes
Read More: We Scanned the DNA of 8,000 People to See How Facial Features Are Controlled by GenesBy Seth M. Weinberg, University of Pittsburgh and John R. Shaffer, University of Pittsburgh Takeaways A new study reveals more than 130 regions in human DNA play a role in sculpting facial features. The nose is the facial feature most influenced by your genes. Understanding the link between specific genes and facial features could be…
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Your Brainโs Built-in Biases Insulate Your Beliefs From Contradictory Facts
Read More: Your Brainโs Built-in Biases Insulate Your Beliefs From Contradictory FactsBy Jay Maddock, Texas A&M University A rumor started circulating back in 2008 that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. At the time, I was serving as chair of the Hawaii Board of Health. The director and deputy director of health, both appointed by a Republican governor, inspected Obama’s birth certificate in…
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The Global Threat of Superbugs
Read More: The Global Threat of SuperbugsGetting a simple infection is no big deal. You just go to the doctor and get a prescription for an antibiotic. For the most part, this is a good thing. After all, people don’t die from a simple cut like they used to. But the ease of getting antibiotics also has a downside. Their overuse…
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The Biden Administration Needs to Wage War Against Antimicrobial Resistance Starting on Day One
Read More: The Biden Administration Needs to Wage War Against Antimicrobial Resistance Starting on Day OneTrillions of microscopic bacteria, viruses and fungi live on our skin, in our mouths, in our guts and throughout our bodies. Most of them are harmless and some are beneficial, but a handful of them are pathogenic, meaning they produce diseases or infections. The discovery of antimicrobial drugs, a group of drugs that includes antibiotics…
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How the Coronavirus Spreads Through the Air: 5 Essential Reads
Read More: How the Coronavirus Spreads Through the Air: 5 Essential ReadsBy Stacy Morford, The Conversation Scientists have been warning for months that the coronavirus could be spread by aerosols – tiny respiratory droplets that people emit when they talk or sneeze and that can linger in the air. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appeared to acknowledge that risk on Sept. 18. It posted…
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LโOreal Fellow Lisa Poulikakos Uses Engineering to Improve Breast Cancer Diagnostics
Read More: LโOreal Fellow Lisa Poulikakos Uses Engineering to Improve Breast Cancer DiagnosticsIn the United States, one in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. Diagnosis is closely tied to a woman’s chance of survival, but diagnostic methods aren’t always fast enough, precise enough or affordable enough for all. Lisa Poulikakos, 32, a postdoctoral materials scientist and engineer at Stanford University and a 2019 fellow…
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Brain Scientists Havenโt Been Able to Find Major Differences Between Womenโs and Menโs Brains, Despite Over a Century of Searching
Read More: Brain Scientists Havenโt Been Able to Find Major Differences Between Womenโs and Menโs Brains, Despite Over a Century of SearchingAri Berkowitz, University of Oklahoma People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century, when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes. Gustave Le Bon found men’s brains are usually larger than women’s, which prompted Alexander Bains and George Romanes…
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The Color of COVID: Will Vaccine Trials Reflect Americaโs Diversity?
Read More: The Color of COVID: Will Vaccine Trials Reflect Americaโs Diversity?JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News When U.S. scientists launch the first large-scale clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines this summer, Antonio Cisneros wants to make sure people like him are included. Cisneros, who is 34 and Hispanic, is part of the first wave of an expected 1.5 million volunteers willing to get the shots to help…
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We Need More Black Women in Clinical Trials
Read More: We Need More Black Women in Clinical TrialsAcross America, clinical trials, which are a vital step in bringing a new drug to market, have strikingly low rates of Black female participants. This is the case even with clinical trials centered on diseases that disproportionately affect African Americans in general or Black women in particular, such as including Alzheimer’s, breast cancer, heart disease,…
