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Children's Hospital Boston develops new web site, releases video message on current state of stem cell research

Exactly one year to the day after President Obama's historic decision to reverse an eight-year restriction on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, the Children's Hospital Boston Stem Cell Program today announced the development of a unique, comprehensive web site and released a candid video message from its top researchers on the current state of stem cell research to introduce the new site: stemcell.childrenshospital.org.

10 Mar 2010

TNS acquires license to Ergothioneine Transporter from University of Cologne

Total Nutraceutical Solutions, Inc. announced that the company has acquired from the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, an exclusive license agreement on the invention entitled “Ergothioneine Transporter,” owned by the University.

10 Mar 2010

Study provides first formal analysis of comparative effectiveness research on new therapies

An analysis by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California has found that only 32 percent of medication studies published in top medical journals compare the effectiveness of existing treatments. These studies, known as comparative effectiveness studies, help doctors know which therapies work best and under what circumstances they are most effective.

10 Mar 2010

Protein competition over MAPK provides mechanism to integrate different signals directing early embryonic development

A Princeton University-led research team has discovered that protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic development. The work suggests that these signals are combined long before they interact with the organism's DNA, as was previously believed, and also may inform new therapeutic strategies to fight cancer.

10 Mar 2010

Health plan members who participate in health and fitness-related activities have lower healthcare costs

Employers are increasingly looking to workplace wellness programs to motivate employees to play an active role in improving their health, thereby reducing overall healthcare costs. Deepak N. Patel, MD, Mmed, senior clinical specialist for Discovery Vitality, will present new findings indicating that health plan members who participated in health and fitness-related activities within an incentive-based health insurance wellness program had significantly lower healthcare costs.

10 Mar 2010

USA/Ireland Functional Foods conference to focus on science of gut function and response to diet

Understanding the science of how the human gut functions and the role that diet plays in human health will be explored at a major International Functional Foods conference in Cork, this week. Foods have an enormous role to play in keeping people healthy and many foods have properties that can enhance the health of those that consume them.

10 Mar 2010

Sonic hedgehog gene also at work in the ectoderm

Sonic hedgehog, a gene that plays a crucial rule in the positioning and growth of limbs, fingers and toes, has been confirmed in an unexpected place in the embryos of developing mice - the layer of cells that creates the skin.

10 Mar 2010

NPL completes project to help UK company diagnose medical conditions by monitoring patients' breath

Bedfont Scientific Ltd is one of the market leaders in developing personal diagnostic gas sensors for the medical market.

From Bedfont® Scientific Ltd 10 Mar 2010

African-Americans and Hispanics are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's and dementias

According to the Alzheimer's Association's® 2010 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are about two times more likely and Hispanics are about one and one-half times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer's and other dementias.

10 Mar 2010

BIOCRATES Life Sciences, CHENOMX announce co-marketing agreement

Austrian biomarker developer BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG announced today that it entered a co-marketing agreement with Canadian-based CHENOMX Inc. Both enterprises focus on a new and highly promising technology aimed at generating a metabolic profile of the human organism that can be used to monitor the effects of disease, nutrition, toxins, environment, or drugs on an organism.

10 Mar 2010

Harris Poll: Obesity increased, cigarette smoking decreased in every five-year period

The annual Harris Poll that has measured key health risks – smoking, seat belt use, weight and obesity – for the last 28 years, provides both good and bad news.

10 Mar 2010

Japanese ablation devices market: Emerging trends that will fuel market growth

According to Millennium Research Group, the global authority on medical technology market intelligence, the recent launch of irrigated-tip catheters into the Japanese market will drive the ablation catheter market by a compound annual growth rate of approximately 15% through 2014.

10 Mar 2010

Combating DVT and PE: Critical recommendations

Three critical recommendations from a national workshop have been released to address deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), a growing public health problem estimated to affect nearly 1 million Americans each year.

10 Mar 2010

Young women with heart attacks at higher risk of dying in hospital than men

Geisinger Health System and Yale School of Medicine investigators are researching how young people recover from heart attacks through VIRGO (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes in Young AMI Patients), a research project funded by the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

10 Mar 2010

Imaging tools may help address challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care: Study

New preliminary data from a pilot study in the Netherlands indicates that imaging tools may help address the most challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care as identified by the hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and its expert witnesses last week: to treat or not treat, AdMeTech Foundation's President and CEO Dr. Faina Shtern said today.

10 Mar 2010

Visitors to Rockefeller Center to get unexpected lesson on Alzheimer’s disease throughout March

Throughout the month of March, visitors to Rockefeller Center in the heart of midtown Manhattan will get an unexpected lesson on Alzheimer’s disease.

10 Mar 2010

CDC survey finds HSV-2 infection as one of the most common STDs in U.S.

About 1 in 6 Americans (16.2 percent) between the ages of 14 and 49 is infected with herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), according to a national health survey released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. HSV-2 is a lifelong and incurable infection that can cause recurrent and painful genital sores.

10 Mar 2010

ASH report: Health of nation could be greatly improved by increasing tobacco taxation

The health of the nation could be greatly improved by increasing tobacco taxation, a new report by anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health has claimed.

10 Mar 2010

Genetic basis unknown in many children with mental retardation and developmental delays

Researchers from four laboratories that perform diagnostic genetic testing of chromosome abnormalities in individuals with unexplained physical and developmental disabilities recently identified a previously unrecognized genetic disorder.

10 Mar 2010

Alison Walker selected to receive ASH-AMFDP Award

Alison Walker, MD, has been selected to receive the ASH-AMFDP Award, and will begin her research in acute myeloid leukemia in July of this year. The award, designed to help increase the number of underrepresented minority scholars in the field of hematology, is the result of a partnership between the American Society of Hematology and the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

10 Mar 2010

Research News and Research

Children's Hospital Boston develops new web site, releases video message on current state of stem cell research

TNS acquires license to Ergothioneine Transporter from University of Cologne

Study provides first formal analysis of comparative effectiveness research on new therapies

Protein competition over MAPK provides mechanism to integrate different signals directing early embryonic development

Health plan members who participate in health and fitness-related activities have lower healthcare costs

USA/Ireland Functional Foods conference to focus on science of gut function and response to diet

Sonic hedgehog gene also at work in the ectoderm

NPL completes project to help UK company diagnose medical conditions by monitoring patients' breath

African-Americans and Hispanics are at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's and dementias

BIOCRATES Life Sciences, CHENOMX announce co-marketing agreement

Harris Poll: Obesity increased, cigarette smoking decreased in every five-year period

Japanese ablation devices market: Emerging trends that will fuel market growth

Combating DVT and PE: Critical recommendations

Young women with heart attacks at higher risk of dying in hospital than men

Imaging tools may help address challenging clinical dilemma of prostate cancer care: Study

Visitors to Rockefeller Center to get unexpected lesson on Alzheimer’s disease throughout March

CDC survey finds HSV-2 infection as one of the most common STDs in U.S.

ASH report: Health of nation could be greatly improved by increasing tobacco taxation

Genetic basis unknown in many children with mental retardation and developmental delays

Alison Walker selected to receive ASH-AMFDP Award

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