China's Clinical Trial Boom(asimov.press)

137 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 72 comments

How Amgen Lost the PCSK9 Patent War(alexkesin.com)

8 points by quadrin 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Day Novartis Chose Discovery(alexkesin.com)

22 points by quadrin 1 year ago | 8 comments

Potential Microbiome Links to Skin Aging(today.ucsd.edu)

40 points by gmays 2 years ago | 21 comments

Mega-dose vitamin C in treatment of the common cold (2001)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

76 points by jacquesm 3 years ago | 60 comments

EpiPen For Heart Attacks? Idorsia Launches Phase III Study Of Selatogrel (2021)(scrip.citeline.com)

78 points by bookofjoe 2 years ago | 53 comments

New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study(lji.org)

615 points by codebyaditya 3 months ago | 262 comments

La Jolla Institute for Immunology news release on a new HIV vaccine approach that produced high levels of HIV-neutralizing antibodies in non-human primates.

Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial(bloomberg.com)

775 points by toomuchtodo 2 years ago | 345 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Gilead's twice-yearly HIV prevention shot prevented all infections in a large trial of African women.

FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection(newatlas.com)

332 points by MBCook 1 year ago | 135 comments

New Atlas article reporting FDA approval of Yeztugo (lenacapavir), a twice-yearly injectable HIV prevention drug, and its planned global rollout.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others(ctvnews.ca)

365 points by randycupertino 11 months ago | 399 comments

CTV News article reporting that OpenAI updated ChatGPT usage policies to disallow providing tailored legal and medical advice.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.