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New antibiotic development slowing - warns World Health Organization

According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) released yesterday, antibiotics development at present is not at par with the rising antimicrobial resistance worldwide and soon the demand may outgrow the supply. The WHO warns that this could mean that pathogens causing these infections could mean a great threat for humans in the coming years.

19 Sep 2017

PET imaging helps scientists to study progression of Zika virus infection in mice

For the first time, scientists have used Positron Emission Tomography imaging to study brain inflammation following Zika virus infection in mice, according to a study recently published online in the journal Molecular Imaging and Biology.

19 Sep 2017

Sleep deprivation rapidly reduces depression symptoms in nearly half of depressed patients

Sleep deprivation -- typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings -- rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of depression patients, according the first meta-analysis on the subject in nearly 30 years, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

19 Sep 2017

QMUL professor receives Cancer Research UK Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor Jack Cuzick from Queen Mary University of London has received the Cancer Research UK Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on cancer prevention and detection.

19 Sep 2017

As care shifts from hospital to home, guarding against infection falls to families

Angela Cooper arrived home from work to discover her daughter’s temperature had spiked to 102 degrees — a sign that the teenager, who has cancer, had a potentially deadly bloodstream infection.

19 Sep 2017

Research finds link between victimization of transgender adolescents and suicidal thoughts, substance abuse

In two peer-reviewed papers, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that transgender adolescents are twice as likely to have suicidal thoughts as the general population, and they are up to four times as likely to engage in substance use.

19 Sep 2017

Beta blockers offer no additional benefit for heart attack patients who take other drugs

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill finds beta blockers are not needed after a heart attack if heart-attack survivors are taking ACE inhibitors and statins.

19 Sep 2017

Epidemiologist to advance research on hormonal markers for better prediction of breast cancer risk

Epidemiologist Susan Hankinson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to build upon and advance her research group's earlier work to identify and validate hormonal markers to better predict the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

19 Sep 2017

Research could lead to improvements in treating diseases caused by mutations in genes

Research carried out by academics at Northumbria University, Newcastle could lead to improvements in treating patients with diseases caused by mutations in genes, such as cancer, cystic fibrosis and potentially up to 6,000 other inherited conditions.

19 Sep 2017

Researchers pinpoint significant link between educational attainment and HIV risk behavior

African-American men who have sex with men remain at heightened risk for HIV infection and account for the largest number of African-Americans living with HIV/AIDS. It has long been understood that there is a clear and persistent association between poverty, transactional sex behavior, and HIV risk.

18 Sep 2017

Researchers precisely describe effects of frequent genetic mutation in congenital hyperinsulinism

Diabetes is characterized by a deficiency of insulin. The opposite is the case in congenital hyperinsulinism: patients produce the hormone too frequently and in excessive quantities, even if they haven't eaten any carbohydrates.

18 Sep 2017

Research shows how bacteria inactivate common drug used to treat cancers

To the reasons that chemotherapy sometimes does not work, we can now add one more: bacteria. In a study published today in Science, researchers describe findings that certain bacteria can be found inside human pancreatic tumors.

18 Sep 2017

Scientists genetically engineer mice that display behavioral hallmarks of human bipolar disorder

Johns Hopkins researchers report they have genetically engineered mice that display many of the behavioral hallmarks of human bipolar disorder, and that the abnormal behaviors the rodents show can be reversed using well-established drug treatments for bipolar disorder, such as lithium.

18 Sep 2017

Combination of anti-malarial drug and photosensitizer could effectively kill cancer cells

Artemisinin, a potent anti-malarial drug, has been widely hailed as a promising alternative cancer treatment. Scientists from the National University of Singapore recently showed that its anti-cancer properties could be enhanced by 10 folds when used in combination with Aminolaevulinic acid, a photosensitizer or a drug which, upon exposure to light, leads to generation of free radicals that can kill cells.

18 Sep 2017

People with schizophrenia three times more likely to die than general population

People with schizophrenia are three times more likely to die, and die younger, than the general population, indicating a need for solutions to narrow this gap, according to research published in CMAJ.

18 Sep 2017

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes double their risk for smoking tobacco cigarettes

Teenagers who try e-cigarettes double their risk for smoking tobacco cigarettes, according to a new study.

18 Sep 2017

Link between breast cancer and obesity may be more complex than previously thought

Obese women with large bellies may be at risk of developing a different subtype of breast cancer than those with widespread fat accumulation, according to a new study published in The Oncologist. This suggests that the link between breast cancer and obesity may be more complex than previously thought.

18 Sep 2017

Without price breaks, rural hospitals struggle to stock costly, lifesaving drugs

Hospital pharmacist Mandy Langston remembers when Lulabelle Berry arrived at Stone County Medical Center's emergency department last year.

18 Sep 2017

Researchers create chimera virus that allows study of molecules to treat cancers

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpesvirus infection in mice models of disease.

18 Sep 2017

Multiple drugs or vaccines could be delivered with a single shot soon

Engineers from MIT have devised a new method that could benefit millions by allowing delivery of more than one drug or vaccine with a single injection. They have designed a new type of drug-carrying particle that when injected could deliver the drugs or vaccines in blood over a period of time as desired.

17 Sep 2017

Drugs News and Research

New antibiotic development slowing - warns World Health Organization

PET imaging helps scientists to study progression of Zika virus infection in mice

Sleep deprivation rapidly reduces depression symptoms in nearly half of depressed patients

QMUL professor receives Cancer Research UK Lifetime Achievement Award

As care shifts from hospital to home, guarding against infection falls to families

Research finds link between victimization of transgender adolescents and suicidal thoughts, substance abuse

Beta blockers offer no additional benefit for heart attack patients who take other drugs

Epidemiologist to advance research on hormonal markers for better prediction of breast cancer risk

Research could lead to improvements in treating diseases caused by mutations in genes

Researchers pinpoint significant link between educational attainment and HIV risk behavior

Researchers precisely describe effects of frequent genetic mutation in congenital hyperinsulinism

Research shows how bacteria inactivate common drug used to treat cancers

Scientists genetically engineer mice that display behavioral hallmarks of human bipolar disorder

Combination of anti-malarial drug and photosensitizer could effectively kill cancer cells

People with schizophrenia three times more likely to die than general population

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes double their risk for smoking tobacco cigarettes

Link between breast cancer and obesity may be more complex than previously thought

Without price breaks, rural hospitals struggle to stock costly, lifesaving drugs

Researchers create chimera virus that allows study of molecules to treat cancers

Multiple drugs or vaccines could be delivered with a single shot soon

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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