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PBS to Air Documentary on Vaccine Attitudes and Disease

Paul Offit, left, and Sonya Pemberton (A. Kotok)

4 September 2014. Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will air a documentary next week on the changing public attitudes toward vaccines and their effects on the growing occurrence of communicable diseases in the U.S. The show, Vaccines — Calling the Shots premieres on PBS as part . . . → Read More: PBS to Air Documentary on Vaccine Attitudes and Disease

Calico, AbbVie Partner on Aging Disorder Therapies

(National Institutes of Health)

3 September 2014. California Life Sciences LLC, better known as Calico, and the pharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc. are collaborating on discovery and commercialization of drugs for age-related diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. The partnership, which includes building a new research center, could result in a joint investment . . . → Read More: Calico, AbbVie Partner on Aging Disorder Therapies

Multi-Purpose Drug Boosts Adherence After Heart Attack

(Yale School of Medicine/Wikimedia Commons)

3 September 2014. Researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and National Centre for Cardiovascular Research in Madrid, Spain found a pill combining three cardiovascular drugs usually prescribed separately helps heart attack patients stick to their medications better than the three drugs taken separately. The team led . . . → Read More: Multi-Purpose Drug Boosts Adherence After Heart Attack

Breakthrough Status Given Parkinson’s Psychosis Drug

(DARPA.mil)

2 September 2014. Acadia Pharmaceuticals says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration designated its drug candidate pimavanserin as a breakthrough therapy for the treatment of psychosis associated with Parkinson’s disease. Acadia is a biopharmaceutical company in San Diego specializing in neurological and central nervous system disorders.

Pimavanserin is Acadia’s lead therapy candidate, . . . → Read More: Breakthrough Status Given Parkinson’s Psychosis Drug

U.S. Diet Quality Improves, But Still Not Healthy

(Agricultural Research Service/USDA)

2 September 2014. A study by researchers at Harvard University shows some improvement in the health benefits of food eaten by Americans over the last decade, but the overall quality of the American diet remains poor. The study led by nutrition and epidemiology professor Walter Willett appears online in the . . . → Read More: U.S. Diet Quality Improves, But Still Not Healthy

Labor Day 2014

1 September 2014. Today is Labor Day in the U.S. and Labour Day in Canada, thus Science & Enterprise will be taking a break. Regular posting resumes tomorrow.

Way before rap, there was talking blues. Here’s a recording of the late Pete Seeger with a talking blues song for Labor Day, Talking Union.

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