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Clinical study examines impact of yoga on side-effects caused by prostate cancer treatment

Men who attended a structured yoga class twice a week during prostate cancer radiation treatment reported less fatigue and better sexual and urinary function than those who didn't, according to a clinical trial led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

6 Apr 2017

MedCision announce program for companies undergoing early cell therapy trials

Limited-time program to help companies and investigators de-risk thawing of cell therapies in early stage clinical trials.

6 Apr 2017

Researchers solve medical mystery through genetics

Researchers have identified the genetic mutation responsible for one patient's serious health problems, finally solving a medical mystery that has endured for over 30 years.

6 Apr 2017

Protocol violations in reduced radiotherapy lead to worse outcomes in children with brain tumors

A team of investigators has determined that young children participating in a clinical trial to assess the effectiveness of reduced radiotherapy did worse when there were deviations from the treatment protocol.

6 Apr 2017

Are we sleeping less than we used to?

There's no solid evidence that we sleep fewer hours today than we ever did, this is something I have gone into large amounts of detail in my book, in my published papers and at a recent meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine.

6 Apr 2017

Research projects provide better understanding on opportunities and risks of nanomaterials

In the past six years, the National Research Programme "Opportunities and Risks of Nanomaterials" (NRP 64) intensively studied the development, use, behaviour and degradation of engineered nanomaterials, including their impact on humans and on the environment.

6 Apr 2017

Researchers use modified AAV as ‘Trojan Horse’ for delivering genes to restore congenital deafness

There are more than 300 genetic defects that have been found to prevent the hair cells in the human inner ear, the sensory cells of the ear as it were, from working properly.

6 Apr 2017

ISCT honors Dr. Adrian Gee with career achievement award

The International Society for Cellular Therapy, the global society of clinicians, researchers, regulatory specialists, technologists and industry partners in the cell therapy sector, today announces that Dr. Adrian Gee, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, US, and Director of the Clinical Applications Laboratory at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, is to be awarded the 2017 ‘ISCT Career Achievement Award in Cellular Therapy’.

6 Apr 2017

Acelity launches V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE Dressing for complex wounds

C Acelity, a global advanced wound care company, today announced the global launch of the V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE Dressing, providing clinicians with a novel, adjunctive non-surgical option that may help clean large complex wounds when complete surgical debridement is not possible or appropriate.

6 Apr 2017

Overall balance of bacteria on skin may be key factor for acne development

Researchers, led by Dr Huiying Li, an associate professor of molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, used over-the-counter pore cleansing strips to obtain skin follicle samples from 72 individuals: 38 with acne and 34 who didn't have the disease.

6 Apr 2017

MSU and Venn Therapeutics develop promising therapy to delay B16 melanoma tumor growth

Michigan State University researchers presented promising cancer therapy results at the American Association for Cancer Research International Meeting in Washington, DC.

5 Apr 2017

Researchers achieve new step towards treatment of myotubular myopathy using gene therapy

A team of researchers in France, led by Dr. Ana Buj-Bello (Genethon/Inserm) and teams at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School in the United States, achieved a new step towards the treatment of myotubular myopathy by gene therapy.

5 Apr 2017

Protein testing may become potential tool to detect prostate cancer

In 2016, more than 181,000 new cases of prostate cancer were reported in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is one of the earliest ways clinicians can detect prostate cancers in their patients.

5 Apr 2017

Number of HIV-positive cancer patients in the U.S. projected to decrease through 2030

As the population of people living with HIV in the United States ages, the burden of cancer for these patients is expected to shift away from cancers linked to AIDS and toward malignancies that affect the general population, according to a new study led by a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researcher.

5 Apr 2017

Oxytocin system may be key target for developing medications to treat opioid addiction

A new review of published research indicates that the oxytocin system—a key player in social reward and stress regulation—is profoundly affected by opioid use.

5 Apr 2017

Tumor microenvironment poses unique challenges for effective ovarian cancer T-cell therapy

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center immunotherapy researchers Drs. Kristin Anderson and Philip Greenberg and their colleagues are working on ways to tweak their team's early successes with T-cell therapy for leukemia to apply to solid tumors.

5 Apr 2017

CBT program to promote alcohol abstinence among HIV-infected people could help save money

Public health research shows that alcohol may be a factor in more than 13 percent of deaths due to infectious diseases, including HIV.

5 Apr 2017

Liver shows positive response to leptin therapy in patients with partial lipodystrophy, study finds

Researchers at Michigan Medicine have found the livers of patients with a rare disease that affects metabolism have responded positively to leptin therapy.

5 Apr 2017

Method based on genetic information predicts response to drugs in epileptic patients

Researchers affiliated with the University of Campinas in São Paulo State, Brazil, have shown that genetic information can be used to improve early prediction of the response to drugs in patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), one of the most severe forms of epilepsy.

5 Apr 2017

New strategy in antimicrobial peptides holds promise for combating multi-drug resistant bacteria

In an article published recently in Plos One, researchers from INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier Research Centre reported a strategy that could lead to the discovery of new cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) with greatly enhanced antimicrobial properties.

5 Apr 2017

Therapy News and Research

Clinical study examines impact of yoga on side-effects caused by prostate cancer treatment

MedCision announce program for companies undergoing early cell therapy trials

Researchers solve medical mystery through genetics

Protocol violations in reduced radiotherapy lead to worse outcomes in children with brain tumors

Are we sleeping less than we used to?

Research projects provide better understanding on opportunities and risks of nanomaterials

Researchers use modified AAV as ‘Trojan Horse’ for delivering genes to restore congenital deafness

ISCT honors Dr. Adrian Gee with career achievement award

Acelity launches V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE Dressing for complex wounds

Overall balance of bacteria on skin may be key factor for acne development

MSU and Venn Therapeutics develop promising therapy to delay B16 melanoma tumor growth

Researchers achieve new step towards treatment of myotubular myopathy using gene therapy

Protein testing may become potential tool to detect prostate cancer

Number of HIV-positive cancer patients in the U.S. projected to decrease through 2030

Oxytocin system may be key target for developing medications to treat opioid addiction

Tumor microenvironment poses unique challenges for effective ovarian cancer T-cell therapy

CBT program to promote alcohol abstinence among HIV-infected people could help save money

Liver shows positive response to leptin therapy in patients with partial lipodystrophy, study finds

Method based on genetic information predicts response to drugs in epileptic patients

New strategy in antimicrobial peptides holds promise for combating multi-drug resistant bacteria

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