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Cigarette smoking causes diverse harm that extends way beyond the lungs

Warning: Cigarette smoking presents far more health hazards than you probably realize.

14 Jun 2017

UCLA offers transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat patients with depression

Americans spend billions of dollars each year on antidepressants, but the National Institutes of Health estimates that those medications work for only 60 percent to 70 percent of people who take them.

14 Jun 2017

Cornell researchers unravel E. coli bacteria's defense secret

By tagging a cell's proteins with fluorescent beacons, Cornell researchers have found out how E. coli bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics and other poisons. Probably not good news for the bacteria.

13 Jun 2017

NIH awards $6 million grant to Cleveland Clinic for establishing new DLB consortium

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $6 million grant to Cleveland Clinic to establish a national research consortium focused on improving the diagnosis and understanding the cause for Dementia with Lewy Bodies.

13 Jun 2017

Taking diabetes medications, regular exercise may lower risk for poorly controlled blood sugar

People with diabetes who took their medications at least 80 percent of the time and people who exercised four or more times per week were at lower risk for poorly controlled blood sugar, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits.

13 Jun 2017

Melbourne study offers hope for better lung cancer treatment

A Melbourne study is set to improve treatment options for patients with the second most common type of lung cancer, lung squamous cell carcinoma, a disease for which new anti-cancer drugs are urgently needed.

13 Jun 2017

Study examines how sex alters time-course of inflammation in the brain after TBI

Male mice have much greater brain distress in the week following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) than female mice, including skyrocketing inflammation and nerve cell death, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center.

13 Jun 2017

UNC researchers evaluate investigational medication for treatment of postpartum depression

Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine announced the publication of results from a multi-site phase 2 clinical trial with brexanolone, an investigational medication, in the treatment of severe postpartum depression.

13 Jun 2017

Developing synthetic mediums for growing organoids

Organoids are bits of tissue grown in vitro, in a near-physiological 3D setting. The particularity consists in the fact that organoids retain features of the patient they are derived from, even when cultured outside of the human body. This is very different from what traditional, conventional cell culture has been able to do over the past 50 years or so.

13 Jun 2017

Out of work and looking for insurance: COBRA may be the best bet for now

This week, I answered questions from three readers who are anxious about what the House-passed health reform bill might mean for them.

13 Jun 2017

Researchers pinpoint sugar modification in cells that spurs spread of skin cancer

A team of researchers has pinpointed a sugar modification in cells that spurs the spread of skin cancer. Its findings, which appear in the latest issue of the journal Cancer Cell, spotlight a target in the battle against melanoma.

13 Jun 2017

Study: CT angiography better predicts risk for future cardiac events in patients with stable chest pain

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial - in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy - showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

13 Jun 2017

Novel peptide receptor radionuclide therapy improves wellbeing of neuroendocrine cancer patients

Malignant neuroendocrine tumors, commonly called NETs, are easy to miss and associated with discouraging survival rates and poor quality of life.

13 Jun 2017

Concurrent use of alcohol and marijuana among drivers increases risk of fatal crashes

Use of marijuana in combination with alcohol by drivers is especially dangerous, according to a latest study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

13 Jun 2017

Review suggests need for improved treatment outcome measures in clinical trials for FXS

A group of researchers from several institutions in the USA, including Johns Hopkins Medicine, reports that its review of 22 clinical trials of fragile X syndrome (FXS) suggests the need for a wider use of newer and improved treatment outcome measurement tools for this and other several neurodevelopmental disorders.

13 Jun 2017

Drugs News and Research

Cigarette smoking causes diverse harm that extends way beyond the lungs

UCLA offers transcranial magnetic stimulation to treat patients with depression

Cornell researchers unravel E. coli bacteria's defense secret

NIH awards $6 million grant to Cleveland Clinic for establishing new DLB consortium

Taking diabetes medications, regular exercise may lower risk for poorly controlled blood sugar

Melbourne study offers hope for better lung cancer treatment

Study examines how sex alters time-course of inflammation in the brain after TBI

UNC researchers evaluate investigational medication for treatment of postpartum depression

Developing synthetic mediums for growing organoids

Out of work and looking for insurance: COBRA may be the best bet for now

Researchers pinpoint sugar modification in cells that spurs spread of skin cancer

Study: CT angiography better predicts risk for future cardiac events in patients with stable chest pain

Novel peptide receptor radionuclide therapy improves wellbeing of neuroendocrine cancer patients

Concurrent use of alcohol and marijuana among drivers increases risk of fatal crashes

Review suggests need for improved treatment outcome measures in clinical trials for FXS

Roche to showcase new solutions for lab innovation at EuroMedLab

Moffitt researchers develop novel drug that may help combat castration-resistant prostate cancer

Medical responses to opioid addiction vary by state, analysis finds

New one-two combination of antibiotics and Vitamin C could knock out cancer stem cells

New review examines link between pain and opioid abuse

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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