Leading skin cancer experts have called for increased coordination between the NHS, local authorities and voluntary groups to change people’s attitudes and behaviour towards sun protection. This is one of 20 recommendations…
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DiaMedica Announces Positive Final Results In Type 1 Diabetes Study
DiaMedica Inc., (TSX-V:DMA) is pleased to announce positive final results from its previously announced type 1 diabetes study. The study was designed to observe the potential protective and/or regenerative effects on beta…
Effects Of Anti-Cancer Drug Could Be Enhanced By Soft Drink
Experiments with an artificial stomach suggest that a popular lemon-lime soft drink could play an unexpected role in improving the effectiveness of an oral anticancer drug. The experiments produced evidence that patients…
N.C. Children’s Hospital Part Of $12-million Grant To Create First-Of-Its-Kind Disease Registry For Inflammatory Bowel Disease
This extraordinary collaboration will make available electronic medical record data about symptoms, treatments and outcomes for patients at multiple locations throughout the United States. It will allow doctors and researchers to assess…
Use Of Deep Brain Stimulation To Treat Parkinson’s: Researchers Reach Consensus
Since the late 1990s, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has proven to be a lifeline for some patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease, a cruel neurological disorder that can cause lack of control over…
Can Wii Help Control Gestational Diabetes?
Many women have trouble finding time to exercise in their busy lifestyles. That’s especially true for pregnant women who live in northern climates such as Canada, where the weather can limit outdoor…
Nicotine Could Play Role In Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy
A team of neuroscientists has discovered important new information in the search for an effective treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, the debilitating neurological disorder that afflicts more than 5.3 million Americans and is…
NIH Studies Influence Revision Of WHO Guidelines For Treating HIV-Infected Women, Infants
WHAT: Two studies appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine and funded by the National Institutes of Health helped influence the World Health Organization (WHO) to change its guidelines this year…
Overseas Nurses Feel Their Skills Are Underused And They Aren’t Valued Or Respected
Many overseas nurses have negative experiences of living and working in the UK, particularly when it comes to feeling personally valued and professionally respected, according to the October issue of the Journal…
University Of East Anglia Makes Cancer Breakthrough
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the way anti-cancer drugs are tested. A tumour cannot grow to a large size or spread until it has…
Epilepsy Community Delighted At Government Back-Down On Dangerous Drug Substitution Plans
National charity Epilepsy Action has expressed delight and relief at the government’s announcement that plans for generic substitution of drugs are to be dropped. The charity campaigned nationally for anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs)…
Brain Imaging Reveals How We Learn From Our Competitors
Learning from competitors is a critically important form of learning for animals and humans. A new study has used brain imaging to reveal how people and animals learn from failure and success….
Mechanism For The Major Genetic Risk Factor Of Alzheimer’s Disease Revealed By Gladstone Scientists
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an extremely complicated disease. Several proteins seem to be involved in its cause and progression. For example, the lipid-transport protein apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) is the major genetic risk…
Research team creates first ‘lipidome’ of human plasma
Human blood is famously fraught with fats; now researchers have a specific idea of just how numerous and diverse these lipids actually are. A national research team, led by scientists at the…
Deadly cattle disease eliminated
Scientists are poised to eliminate the deadly cattle disease Rinderpest, ending a malady that has devastated animal herds for centuries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said. “It would be the…