by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | Companies, News
Eli Lilly will be cutting prices for older formulae of insulin later this year, and capping prices on other prescriptions for more patients. Many people with diabetes face thousands of dollars in annual costs for the insulin that keeps them alive. Before the 1992...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 28, 2022 | Companies, News
Mark Cuban has launched an online pharmacy meant to drive drug prices down. Billionaire Mark Cuban, investor, entrepreneur, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, opened the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company last Wednesday. It is meant, specifically, to be...
by Admin | Feb 23, 2017 | News, Technology
Scientists at Stanford University have developed a flexible computer chip which functions like a “lab on a chip,” allowing doctors to test samples for a variety of different cell types or diseases, and the whole thing only costs about one cent to print out. The...
by Admin | Oct 16, 2015 | News, Technology
As the oldest and first institution in the world dedicated to research and teaching in the field of tropical medicine, researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and colleagues of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Kenya Research...
by Admin | Aug 10, 2015 | News, Technology
Lots of animals have whiskers, which they use for navigation in the dark or in narrow spaces. Cats, despite humanity’s best efforts, are largely nocturnal hunters, while rats and moles tend to live underground or in close spaces, relying on tunnels and warrens to get...