Find and Access Publicly Available Health Data

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Public health data – from basic disease statistics to large datasets of de-identified data – are a vital resource to researchers, clinicians, and even patients.  However, these resources are not found in a single place but are spread out over a wide variety of government, international, and non-profit organizations.

Here’s where to locate and get access to some of the most useful health data.

General Demographic Statistics:

General Health Statistics:

Cancer Statistics:

New York(City/State) Health Data:

 

“Driving Towards New CAR-T Cell Applications and Productive Peer Review” – Registration now open

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Join us for our first Advancing Authorship event of 2020 – Driving Towards New CAR-T Cell Applications and Productive Peer Review.

Register now to save your seat. 

Join Dr. Eric Smith as he discusses using multiple myeloma as a model for CAR-T cell therapy for solid tumors, including the findings from his 2019 Science Translational Medicine study, “GPRC5D is a target for the immunotherapy of multiple myeloma with rationally designed CAR-T cells.” 

Plus, hear from the journal’s editor, Dr. Lindsey Pujanandez, about the process of working with Dr. Smith on his manuscript from submission to publication, and get advice on how to make it through the editorial triage process.

Location: Rockefeller Research Labs Building (430 E 67th St), Room 116
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020, 1:00 pm—2:30 pm

Complimentary refreshments will be served. Register now. 

Eric Smith, MD, PhD, Director of Clinical Translation,  Cellular Therapeutics Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering

 

 

 

 

 

Lindsey Pujanandez, PhD, Associate Editor,  Science Translational Medicine (STM), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

 

 

 

Mitochondria Found in Blood Might Bring New Tools for Early Cancer Detection

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What is blood made of? While you may think that this question has already been well answered, French researchers discovered the presence of a new component in the blood. 

In a breakthrough study published in The Faseb Journal, the authors report their discovery of the presence of fully functional, respiratory competent, extracellular mitochondria in blood. Prior to this study only cell‐derived mitochondrial components have been found in the extracellular space. Interestingly, Mitochondria seem to be present in large numbers: “We estimate that there are between 200 000 and 3.7 million cell-free intact mitochondria per mL of plasma”.

This discovery may have implications for cancer diagnosis. As mentioned in Science Daily, “the research team is now devoting its attention to evaluating the extracellular mitochondria as biomarkers in non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and cancer.”

Both plasma of healthy individuals and cell culture media contain structurally intact mitochondria. Fluorescence microscopy images of the MitoTracker Green stained 16gP from PPAP plasma A, SW620 CCCM B, and DLD-1 CCCM C, Electron microscopy images of the 16gP from of a PPAP plasma D, SW620 CCCM E, and DLD-1 CCCM F. From: Al Amir Dache, Z., Otandault, A., Tanos, R., Pastor, B., Meddeb, R., Sanchez, C., … & El Messaoudi, S. (2019). Blood contains circulating cell‐free respiratory competent mitochondria. The FASEB Journal.