Chinese investors lead another monster round into this early cancer detection company
Looking to detect cancer early through a simple blood test, Grail Inc. raised a $300 million from several Chinese investors on top of $1.2 billion in two earlier rounds over the past two years.
The Menlo Park company, which has been rumored to be planning a $500 million initial public offering in Hong Kong later this year, said the oversubscribed Series C round will help it develop and validate experimental products for early cancer detection.
A year ago, it bought Chinese blood diagnos tics company… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - May 22, 2018 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news
Chinese investors lead another monster round into this early cancer detection company
Looking to detect cancer early through a simple blood test, Grail Inc. raised a $300 million from several Chinese investors on top of $1.2 billion in two earlier rounds over the past two years.
The Menlo Park company, which has been rumored to be planning a $500 million initial public offering in Hong Kong later this year, said the oversubscribed Series C round will help it develop and validate experimental products for early cancer detection.
A year ago, it bought Chinese blood diagnos tics company… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - May 22, 2018 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news
Google's New Voice Bot Sounds, Um, Maybe Too Real
The company touts AI that peppers its conversation with "uh" and "hmm" to imitate the tics of human speech. Many observers took issue with how the bot apparently tricked a human on the phone.(Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - May 9, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Laurel Wamsley Source Type: news
Novel Endocannabinoid Modulator Improves Tics in Tourette's
(MedPage Today) -- In small study, total number, intensity decreased with minimal side effects, although no change for vocal tics (Source: MedPage Today Neurology)
Source: MedPage Today Neurology - April 27, 2018 Category: Neurology Source Type: news
'I'm just the same as you': Tourette's sufferer creates video to stop his bullies
First grader Gavin Clampett, of Connecticut, experiences a variety of motor and vocal tics due to the neurological disorder, including grunting, exaggerated sniffing and blinking. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Versatile sensor against tumor initiating cells
(Institute for Basic Science) The IBS researchers developed the first fluorescent sensor to visualize TICs. Functional in lung, central nervous system, melanoma, breast, renal, ovarian, colon, and prostate cancer cell cultures, this could become a useful tool for biopsy-free post-treatment assessment and anti-TIC drug development. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 7, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Chinese boy has his tics cured by a poo transplant
The nine-year-old, from China, suffered from his involuntary tics for nearly three years. But they were stopped after undergoing the transplant to replenish his gut with 'good' bacteria. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 24, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Deep-Brain Stimulation Improves Tourette's Tics Deep-Brain Stimulation Improves Tourette's Tics
Deep-brain stimulation significantly improves tics associated with Tourette ' s syndrome, a new registry-based study suggests.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - January 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology & Neurosurgery News Source Type: news
Brain Zaps May Help Curb Tics of Tourette Syndrome
The procedure, called deep brain stimulation (DBS), improved tic severity by nearly half in 171 patients with uncontrolled Tourette symptoms at 31 hospitals in 10 countries. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - January 16, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
DBS Suppresses Tics in Uncontrolled Tourette Syndrome (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- 45% improvement in tic severity, but 35% of patients report side effects (Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry)
Source: MedPage Today Psychiatry - January 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news
Brain Zaps May Help Curb Tics of Tourette Syndrome
TUESDAY, Jan. 16, 2018 -- Electric zaps can help rewire the brains of Tourette syndrome patients, effectively reducing their uncontrollable vocal and motor tics, a new study shows.
The procedure, called deep brain stimulation (DBS), improved tic... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 16, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Tics are common in famous boys choir
(Wiley) 'Tis the season for choirs to raise their voices in holiday song. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - December 20, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Shock troupe: medical film and the performance of 'shell shock' for the British nation at war - Powell JM.
In 1917, physician Arthur F. Hurst began filming the peculiar tics and hysterical gaits of 'shell-shocked' soldiers under his care. Editions of Hurst's films from 1918 and 1940 survive. Cultural products of their time, I argue, the films engaged with conte... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - October 16, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Here ’s the Surprising Celebrity Zac Efron Wants a Love Scene With
This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s seen the new Baywatch movie starring Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson and Zac Efron, but the former High School Musical lead revealed in a new “73 Questions” video with Vogue that The Rock is, indeed, pretty much his celebrity crush.
“He’s perfect,” Efron said of sharing a (comedy) kiss with his beloved co-star and notable inspirational person in their movie. And when asked who he would like do a love scene with in future? “The Rock. Finish what we started,” he quipped in response.
Efron, who will next be seen ...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - September 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Raisa Bruner Tags: Uncategorized celebrities zac efron Source Type: news
OCD Is Not Just Having A Few Odd Tics. It's A Disordered Way Of Thinking .
When people joke about being “so OCD,” what they mean to say is that they have a preference for something to be ordered specifically (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
