Vaccines | How care has changed | IBM & Cleveland Clinic | AlphaLab Health

“This is evolving science. You are seeing sausages being made — in front of the world’s eyes.” — Saad Omer, director of Yale University’s Institute of Global Health

Today’s issue:

• Why are people not getting the vaccine?
  
• Vaccines and nursing mothers
  
• How care has changed
  
• COVID-19 monitoring
  
• Allergic reactions to vaccines
• Podcast: AI in Fast Future Country
• PUDDLE HOPS: Health tech

April 21, 2021

NAVIGATING THE RECOVERY

PANDEMIC INNOVATION

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Why are people not getting the vaccine?

Jennifer Trueblood, an associate professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, worked with researchers out of the University of Chicago in a study to better understand people’s thought processes behind their decisions to get the COVID-19 vaccine or not.

Vaccines and nursing mothers

A new study at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that nursing mothers pass on antibodies through their breast milk, giving their children a “huge boost” against COVID-19.

How care has changed because of COVID-19

A pair of physician leaders at Cincinnati-based UC Health recently spoke with HealthLeaders to discuss how the health system has grappled with COVID-19, which includes adopting new modalities of care and improved communication.

COVID-19 monitoring

Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies Inc. has received a new $13 million contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to continue monitoring hospital capacity and other measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Allergic reactions

Michigan Medicine will lead the first study on allergic reactions to the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

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INNOVATORS PODCAST

With Louisville's Future of Work

Why AI implementation in Fast Future Country is getting noticed

What makes the middle of the country a good place to innovate when it comes to AI? Alan Berube, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at Brookings Institution, joins our host Ben Reno-Weber to share his findings while working on the first AI strategy for an American city and why Fast Future Country is perfectly primed to figure out how to apply new technologies.

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PUDDLE HOPS: HEALTH TECH

Fast Future has followed medical and tech news around COVID-19 from the beginning of the pandemic. We're adding coverage to this report related to health care innovation to feature more advances across Fast Future Country. 

• A gene therapy strategy developed by Mayo Clinic researchers could offer a potential treatment for propionic acidemia, a rare and fatal genetic disease that often sickens babies in their first days of life.

• A new study out of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows there are important links between human and mouse minds in how they function—and malfunction.

• Researchers at the Scheie Eye Institute in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania were able to reverse blindness in a patient with a rare genetic disorder using RNA therapy.

• Davendra Sohal, MD, a University of Cincinnati researcher and UC Health physician, is leading a national trial for a possible therapy for pancreatic cancer.

• IBM has announced a 10-year partnership with the Cleveland Clinic to establish the “Discovery Accelerator,” a research engine using emerging tech to advance healthcare and life sciences.

• Seven companies have been selected for the inaugural class of AlphaLab Health, a newly created business accelerator launched in Pittsburgh this year. The focus is on supporting health care and life sciences to provide promising health businesses.

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