$3b drive to end diseases apt to tap Boston area's talent and other top stories.

• $3b drive to end diseases apt to tap Boston area's talent

  It set the Longwood Medical Area and Kendall Square abuzz last week: not a medical breakthrough or the latest big-money biotech deal, but the audacious announcement by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan, his Quincy-bred wife, that they would commit $3 billion to the bold goal of beating all diseases into submission by the end of the century.Like Bill and Melinda Gates before them, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, as the couple’s philanthropic organization is known, will bols..

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• Doctors Dig for More Data About Patients

  

  The race is on to develop better ways to predict if patients will develop diabetes, heart disease or other critical conditions. Spurred by employers and insurers that want health-care providers to prevent illness—and not merely treat it—doctors and hospitals are creating ever more complex algorithms to forecast their patients’ medical future. And they’re searching for new kinds of data to make those predictions as accurate as...

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• Body fat link to bacteria in faeces

  

  Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption At least 50% of human faeces is made up of bacteria shed from the gut The make-up of the bacteria found in human faeces may influence levels of dangerous fat in our bodies, say researchers from King's College London.Their analysis of stool samples in a study of more than 3,600 twins found evidence that some of this bacteria is inherited.What is contained in faeces bacteria could therefore partly expl..

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• Nebraska Town Considers Banning Smoking in Apartments

  Some leaders in a blue-collar Nebraska suburb that's home to Offutt Air Force Base are borrowing an idea from a vastly more liberal state: Ban apartment renters from smoking cigarettes and e-cigarettes inside. The proposal, which would be one of the few such restrictions outside of California and is similar to federal rules for public housing across the U.S., isn't meant to protect the health of the city's 50,000 residents, but instead to prevent fires. Councilman Don Preister proposed the ..

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• More Hispanics Treated at Breast Cancer Center After Obamacare

  

  By Mary Elizabeth Dallas, HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay) SUNDAY, Sept. 25, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- After the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in 2014, more Hispanic women received breast cancer treatment and enrolled in clinical trials at a California cancer center, a new study finds. "Our study shows that with the implementation of the ACA in California, our cancer center's Hispanic breast cancer patient population increased significantly," Chloe Lalonde said in a news r..

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