FDA https://www.fda.gov has awarded 19 new grants and new contracts totaling more than $38 million over the next four years to support clinical trials, natural history studies, and regulatory science tools related to rare diseases. …Continue reading
Digital Health Initiative Launched
University of Utah Health https://healthcare.utah.edu has launched an initiative seeking to better integrate digital health applications into daily medical care including prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, heart disease, and other life threatening conditions. …Continue reading
ECHO Program Helping DHA
The ECHO Program for Pain is an example of the Defense Health Agency’s (DHA} telementoring program. ECHO an educational program developed at the University of New Mexico in 2003 has expanded access to pain specialty care and is used globally. …Continue reading
Company Spins Out Gene Editing Co.
Christiana Care https://christianacare.org has announced that the company has spun out its first commercial biotechnology private start-up company named CorriXR Therapeutics. https://www.corrixr.com. …Continue reading
RTI to Address Opioid Addiction
RTI International, https://www.rti.org a nonprofit research institute, has been funded by NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) https://nida.nih.gov with $2,259,661, to establish a specialized research center that will use multidisciplinary and innovative sciences to reduce the public health burden caused by opioid addiction. …Continue reading
Grant to Study Long Term COVID
Nearly three years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2, viruses are still circulating across the globe. Scientists are investigating how they work and how best to treat the viruses. …Continue reading
Health IT Summit Coming 2023
Registration is now open for the Armed Forces Communications Electronic Association’s (AFCEA) 15th Annual Health IT Summit to be held January 17-18, 2023 in person at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center on Marinelli Road in Bethesda Maryland. …Continue reading