February 6, 2025
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Study: Among veterans with alcohol use disorder, women drink as much as men and have more severe mental health symptoms

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Women veterans with alcohol use disorder (AUD) are drinking in similar quantities to their male peers and have more severe symptoms of co-occurring depression, anxiety, and PTSD, a new study suggests. Among veterans, the rates of AUD and related impairments in physical and mental functioning are higher than in the general population. The study in Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research implies that drinking trends among veterans are paralleling those in the general population.
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Opinion: Medical research depends on government money—even a day’s delay throws science off-kilter

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In the early days of the second Trump administration, a directive to pause all public communication from the Department of Health and Human Services created uncertainty and anxiety among biomedical researchers in the U.S. This directive halted key operations of numerous federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health, including those critical to advancing science and medicine.
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Kaneka Acquires EndoStream Medical Ltd.

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TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kaneka Corporation (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Kazuhiko Fujii) (TOKYO:4118) acquired 96.8% of shares of EndoStream Medical Ltd. (Headquarters: Or Akiva, Israel; CEO: Danel Mayer; hereinafter referred to as ESM), an Israeli medical equipment company, on December 23, 2024. By combining Kaneka’s manufacturing and ESM’s technology, we will jointly develop new medical devices, mainly for cerebrovascular treatment, in addition to the Nautilus™ device for aneury
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Research assesses how infertility treatments can affect family and work relationships

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Infertility is a problem that affects between 8% and 12% of couples of reproductive age worldwide. For some of them, the problem interrupts a life project, which is the desire to have children and build a family. Advances in technology and medicine have made assisted reproductive treatments possible, but they can be physically and psychologically draining for the couples involved, especially because of expectations of results that may not be achieved.
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UPS Completes Acquisitions of Healthcare Cold-Chain Logistics Providers Frigo-Trans and BPL

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ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Frigo-Trans and its sister company BPL, which provide industry-leading, complex healthcare logistics solutions across Europe. The acquisitions further enhance the end-to-end capabilities available to UPS Healthcare customers, who increasingly need temperature-controlled and time-critical logistics solutions globally. Frigo-Trans’ network includes temperature-controlled warehousing ranging from cry
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Vistagen Initiates Fasedienol Repeat Dose Study for the Acute Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vistagen (Nasdaq: VTGN), a late clinical-stage company dedicated to pioneering neuroscience based on nose-to-brain neurocircuitry, today announced enrollment of the first subject in a repeat dose study of fasedienol, its investigational neuroactive pherine nasal spray in Phase 3 development for the acute treatment of social anxiety disorder (SAD). The repeat dose study is a small exploratory U.S. Phase 2 multi-center, randomized, double-blind, place
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