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On Wednesday, Grail, a healthcare firm that is developing a blood test for early detection of cancer, has named ex Google X Senior Vice President Jeff Huber as its CEO.

Huber said he is willing to apply his experience building large-scale data systems in improving the gene sequencing technology that Grail uses in the detection of cancerous material in patients, showing no symptoms of the disease.

Gene sequencing company Illumina Inc formed the San Francisco-based Grail and it received over $100 million in Series A financing. The majority owner of the firm is Illumina.

The main investors are some technology giants, including the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, and ARCH Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.

In an announcement, drug store chain Walgreens said that it is going to make heroin overdose antidote naloxone accessible without a prescription.

The company is going to launch a strategy program to fight prescription drug abuse by selling the antidote without requiring a prescription in its pharmacies across 35 states in over 5,800 stores.

These days, deaths related to heroin overdose have gone up at a quite fast pace due to the opioid epidemic growth. Though some people might know about the existence of an antidote that could reverse the addicting drug’s effects, they would require prescriptions to get it in pharmacies throughout the United States.

A latest study authored by Vanderbilt University researchers has disclosed that heart disease is the most common non-cancer death cause in prostate cancer survivors.

Knowing this, the cardio-oncology program of the university has decided to shift its focus on toning down the heart disease risk factors in patients, mainly the ones receiving the prostate cancer treatment known as androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Dr. Eric Shinohara, a radiation oncologist and a medical director at the university said that though ADT therapy is quite beneficial for a lot of patients with prostate cancer, it could also raise the vulnerability of developing diabetes or suffering a heart attack or stroke.

The increasing level of education now offers protection against developing dementia. If not fully eliminating the neural disease, it can definitely help in delaying the same. The disease, associated with cardiovascular health, has less impact on people enjoying better lifestyle and physical health.

The new study, looking for risk trend in dementia, reported highest decline in vascular dementia caused by cardiovascular problems. Another common form of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease, cases of which are falling too.

The brain preservation foundation awarded the researchers with Small Mammal Brain Preservation Prize for successfully preserving a rabbit’s brain for a long time without damaging the neural circuits. The research by 21st Century Medicine (21CM) was published in Cryobiology.

Countless studies on climate change have already warned that human civilization is going to face a tough phase in future if we don’t take strict actions today. But a new study has linked the Little Ice Age to alteration in history.

There is an association between Little Ice Age, a period of cooling in 536, 540, and 547 AD, and historical events, like the Arab Empire’s rise and Eastern Roman Empire’s fall, as per the study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

As per historians, Asia and Europe faced the dramatic social change at the same time. Events like pandemic plague outbreak and migration of Slaves jolted Europe, while food shortage was an issue of all regions of the globe. It also included change of Chinese dynasties and fall of Eastern Roman Empire.