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Digital mammography screening with new photon-counting technique offers high diagnostic performance

Digital mammography screening with new photon-counting technique offers high diagnostic performance, according to a study published online in the journal Radiology.

4 Feb 2014

Sanford Hospital starts clinical trial to study dissolving device in patients with CAD

Sanford Heart Hospital has started a clinical trial to study a dissolving device in patients with coronary artery disease. The ABSORB III clinical trial will investigate the safety and effectiveness of the Absorb Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold (BVS) device, manufactured by global health care company Abbott.

4 Feb 2014

Admedus' HSV-2 therapeutic vaccine achieves primary endpoint in Phase 1 trial

Admedus today announced that interim study results on its Phase 1 trial of a therapeutic vaccine for Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-2) have shown that it achieved the primary endpoint of the study by being safe in the study subjects. In addition, the study has also shown that the vaccine was able to generate a T-cell response.

3 Feb 2014

Weight rhythms: Weight increases during weekends and decreases during weekdays

There are sleep cycles and there are also weight loss cycles. Almost everyone loses weight on weekdays and gains weight on weekends. What separates the slim from the heavy isn't how much more they gain on weekends.

3 Feb 2014

New noninvasive chemical probe detects common species of staph bacteria in the body

Chances are you won't know you've got a staph infection until the test results come in, days after the symptoms first appear. But what if your physician could identify the infection much more quickly and without having to take a biopsy and ship it off for analysis?

From Integrated DNA Technologies 3 Feb 2014

VIB and CD3 sign agreement with AstraZeneca for development of novel MALT1 inhibitors

VIB and CD3 (KU Leuven) today announced the signing of a license and collaboration agreement with AstraZeneca for the development of novel MALT1 inhibitors as therapeutics in inflammatory and oncological diseases.

31 Jan 2014

Beaumont Health System use new balloon ablation technology to treat atrial fibrillation

Beaumont Health System is the first center outside of Japan to use a new balloon ablation technology to treat atrial fibrillation, the most common heart rhythm disorder that affects about 3 million people in the U.S.

31 Jan 2014

Chesapeake Urology for Kids introduced for pediatric care

Chesapeake Urology Associates, PA, the premier urology practice in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region, introduces Chesapeake Urology for Kids, a comprehensive program to treat urologic conditions in children from pre-natal to 18 years of age. This new division is being led by Robert Mevorach, MD, a fellowship trained pediatric urologist. An office exclusively for pediatric patients is now open at 25 Crossroads Drive in Owings Mills, Maryland.

31 Jan 2014

Researchers pinpoint neural circuitry that promotes stress-induced anxiety

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, over 18 percent of American adults suffer from anxiety disorders, characterized as excessive worry or tension that often leads to other physical symptoms. Previous studies of anxiety in the brain have focused on the amygdala, an area known to play a role in fear.

31 Jan 2014

New insight into how gut bacteria digest fibre

New insight into how gut bacteria digest fibre could lead to advances in areas as diverse as health and environmentally-friendly biofuels.

31 Jan 2014

Longer looks: Doctor guilt; an abortion provider's hidden record

Okay, I know I'm a health writer, but I really don't like going to the doctor. Part of it is an unshakeable, irrational certainty that they will find something horribly wrong with me that I'd rather not know about, and part of it is a rational certainty that they will find something mildly wrong with me that is my fault and chastise me for it - drinking too much, not exercising enough, whatever. One should be able to talk to one's doctor about these things - the aspects of one's lifestyle that maybe aren't so great. ... But in 2009, a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego found that half of the patients surveyed had experienced shame as a result of something a doctor said to them.

31 Jan 2014

Researchers identify components of C. diff bacteria that can be used to develop better treatment

Rhode Island Hospital researchers have identified components in Clostridium difficile (C. diff) that may lead to new diagnostic tools, and ultimately more timely and effective treatment for this often fatal infection. C. diff is a spore-forming bacterium that causes severe diarrhea and is responsible for 14,000 deaths annually in the U.S. The study is published online in advance of print in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

31 Jan 2014

Bubble CPAP device increases survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness

The first clinical study of a low-cost neonatal breathing system created by Rice University bioengineering students demonstrated that the device increased the survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness from 44 percent to 71 percent.

31 Jan 2014

Researchers gain better understanding of HIV infection through electron microscopy

The human intestinal tract, or gut, is best known for its role in digestion. But this collection of organs also plays a prominent role in the immune system. In fact, it is one of the first parts of the body that is attacked in the early stages of an HIV infection. Knowing how the virus infects cells and accumulates in this area is critical to developing new therapies for the over 33 million people worldwide living with HIV. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology are the first to have utilized high-resolution electron microscopy to look at HIV infection within the actual tissue of an infected organism, providing perhaps the most detailed characterization yet of HIV infection in the gut.

30 Jan 2014

NeoGenomics validates and launches series of NeoTYPE cancer profiling tests

NeoGenomics, Inc., a leading provider of cancer-focused genetic and molecular testing services, announced today that it has validated and launched a series of NeoTYPE cancer profiling tests covering 22 different categories of cancer. Each of these tests is designed to investigate the most common and actionable genomic abnormalities reported for that particular tumor.

30 Jan 2014

American Cancer Society, SU2C partner to fight against cancer

The American Cancer Society, the largest voluntary health organization in the world dedicated to eliminating cancer, and Stand Up To Cancer, the charitable initiative supporting groundbreaking research aimed at getting new treatments to patients in an accelerated timeframe, announced today an historic collaboration in the fight against cancer, which takes more than 585,000 lives in the U.S. each year and nearly 8 million worldwide.

30 Jan 2014

New molecule could help lower diabetic patients' risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's

Researchers at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem have created a molecule that could potentially lower diabetic patients' higher risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

30 Jan 2014

UCLH selects Nexthink's V5 modular platform to improve IT infrastructure

Nexthink, the unique provider of End-user IT Analytics, has today announced that its V5 modular platform has been selected by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to provide real-time visibility and analytics across its technical estate and network infrastructure.

30 Jan 2014

Oramed Pharmaceuticals' ORMD-0801 Phase 2a study meets primary and secondary endpoints

Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a developer of oral drug delivery systems, announced today results from its Phase 2a clinical trial for its ORMD-0801 oral insulin capsule for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The trial was conducted under a United States Food and Drug Administration IND (Investigational New Drug) protocol. The Phase 2a study met all primary and secondary endpoints.

30 Jan 2014

Singapore to become a major hub in Asia for food and nutrition research

The Clinical Nutrition Research Centre - a $20 million joint-venture by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research and National University Health Systems - is the most comprehensive centre in Asia that will conduct nutritional studies to understand the causes of metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity, and develop products and formulate diets that can reduce the risks of these diseases. CNRC will also conduct studies in research areas such as nutrition in women, children and the elderly, and body weight control.

30 Jan 2014

Technology News and Research

Digital mammography screening with new photon-counting technique offers high diagnostic performance

Sanford Hospital starts clinical trial to study dissolving device in patients with CAD

Admedus' HSV-2 therapeutic vaccine achieves primary endpoint in Phase 1 trial

Weight rhythms: Weight increases during weekends and decreases during weekdays

New noninvasive chemical probe detects common species of staph bacteria in the body

VIB and CD3 sign agreement with AstraZeneca for development of novel MALT1 inhibitors

Beaumont Health System use new balloon ablation technology to treat atrial fibrillation

Chesapeake Urology for Kids introduced for pediatric care

Researchers pinpoint neural circuitry that promotes stress-induced anxiety

New insight into how gut bacteria digest fibre

Longer looks: Doctor guilt; an abortion provider's hidden record

Researchers identify components of C. diff bacteria that can be used to develop better treatment

Bubble CPAP device increases survival rate of newborns with severe respiratory illness

Researchers gain better understanding of HIV infection through electron microscopy

NeoGenomics validates and launches series of NeoTYPE cancer profiling tests

American Cancer Society, SU2C partner to fight against cancer

New molecule could help lower diabetic patients' risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's

UCLH selects Nexthink's V5 modular platform to improve IT infrastructure

Oramed Pharmaceuticals' ORMD-0801 Phase 2a study meets primary and secondary endpoints

Singapore to become a major hub in Asia for food and nutrition research

The Critical Role of Sample Storage in Drug Discovery and Development

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

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