Morning Read: Small cancer study reveals need for better communication for terminally ill patients
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So far the treatment has preliminary regulatory approval from the European Medicines Agency — The Wall Street Journal Arbor Pharma has agreed to acquire XenoPort, a company famous for its restless leg syndrome drug, in a $467 million deal. — NPR Massachusetts General Hospital wants to bring remote monitoring to people with Downs Syndrome in the form of a virtual clinic under development starting this July. — BusinessWire A group of researchers from Canada and France are exploring how monitoring publicly available messages from social media networks such as Facebook for signs of mental illness. The team will focus on finding words that are connected to negative emotions, and monitoring the user’s time spent on social media to see if there’s any variation in their usage. — Discover Magazine A Rutgers University Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Ronke Olabisi sees the potential for using seashells, among other things, to regrow bone, skin and retinal tissue through proteins from them.