With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus right away, without having to train the immune system to make them.Antibodies are proteins the body makes when an infection occurs; they attach to a virus and help…
More and more companies are announcing retrenchments as part of business rescue plan. An increasing number of companies are filing for business rescue and considering retrenchments as part of the rescue process.Labour lawyers say they are within their rights to do so but they must follow the law and if not, workers have a recourse.There…
Imagine attending a doctor's appointment with the same ease that you use Uber (UBER) and Lyft (LYFT) to travel, DoorDash for food delivery and Amazon (AMZN) for shopping. Telemedicine companies are making that happen. X And using your smartphone or computer to see your doctor is now several steps closer to being the norm. The…
The adage of Kodak meeting its end because it failed to adapt to market changes is, by now, something of a cliché.The 131-year-old company is probably as famous for having its revenue fall from $16 billion in 1996 to $1.2 billion in 2019 as it is for making cameras.In a more philosophical take, author of…
3 min read HEART FAILURE. RECTAL cancer. Brain bleeds. Each of the people in this package of stories might not be alive today without a key medical innovation that took many years, millions of dollars, and countless setbacks and breakthroughs to get quite right. Who are the next people to be saved? Survivors Stories 1.
When the hair rises on the back of your neck through a process called piloerection or something hurts so much your primitive response prompts you to run away, your body can completely block out pain to deal with the survival scenario at hand. “Beautiful” is the word Luke Henderson, PhD, uses to describe this process
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