Hospitals that buy surgical robots end up performing more prostate cancer operations, suggesting that technology has become a driving force behind decisions about men’s cancer care, new research shows. The study, published…
Response of W.H.O. to Swine Flu Is Criticized
A panel of independent experts has harshly reviewed the World Health Organization’s handling of the 2009 epidemic of H1N1 swine flu, though it found no evidence supporting the most outlandish accusation made…
Newly Identified Spider Toxin May Help Uncover Novel Ways Of Treating Pain And Human Diseases
Spider venom toxins are useful tools for exploring how ion channels operate in the body. These channels control the flow of ions across cell membranes, and are key components in a wide…
Development Of Stem Cells In The Brain Guided By Cerebral Spinal Fluid
Cerebrospinal fluid – the clear and watery substance that bathes the brain and spinal cord – is much more important to brain development than previously realized. Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Christopher…
Mutation In Important Muscle Protein Causes Muscle Disease And Cognitive Impairment – A New Form Of Muscular Dystrophy
A strong international collaboration and a single patient with mild muscle disease and severe cognitive impairment have allowed University of Iowa researchers to identify a new gene mutation that causes muscular dystrophy….
Scientists develop new model for neurodegenerative disease
A team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has developed a new model for how inherited genes contribute to a common but untreatable and incurable neurodegenerative disease. The…
Some Patients With Cerebral Palsy Have Asymmetric Pelvic Bones
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers have discovered that most children with severe cerebral palsy have starkly asymmetric pelvic bones. The newly identified misalignment can affect how surgeries of the pelvis, spine and…
Diabetes people can benefit from noninvasive polarimetric glucose monitor
People with diabetes, who currently monitor their glucose with painful and inconvenient blood tests or implanted probes, could in the future get the same results quickly and non-invasively by safely shining a…
Discovery Could Lead To New Treatments For Anxiety Disorders
Stimulation of a distinct brain circuit that lies within a brain structure typically associated with fearfulness produces the opposite effect: Its activity, instead of triggering or increasing anxiety, counters it. That’s the…
Preliminary phase I trial results show safety of bone marrow stem cells in children with TBI
Stem cells derived from a patient’s own bone marrow were safely used in pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), according to results of a Phase I clinical trial at The University…
New initiative for pregnant women and newborns in rural settings
Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development, was launched today to seek innovative prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in rural, low-resource settings. This partnership leverages the…
Potential New Drug To Treat Leukemia, Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer, Prostate And Pancreatic Cancers
Predictive Biomarker Sciences (PBS-Bio) has uncovered how the experimental drug UNBS1450, produced by Unibioscreen, kills cancer cells. Previous studies have shown that over-activity of a gene known as MCL1 can cause cancer…
Scientists identify chemical compound that may lead to cancer-fighting drugs
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a chemical compound that may eventually lead to a drug that fights cancers that are dependent on a particular anti-viral enzyme for growth. The…
Nanodiamond-Drug Combo Significantly Improves Treatment Of Chemotherapy-Resistant Cancers
Chemotherapy drug resistance contributes to treatment failure in more than 90 percent of metastatic cancers. Overcoming this hurdle would significantly improve cancer survival rates. Dean Ho, an associate professor of biomedical engineering…
China’s Healthcare Reforms Progress
In the latest developments in the People’s Republic of China, the government has pledged to invest in improving the standards of public hospitals as part of its continuing reform programme of the…