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Diffregen awarded SBIR Phase 1 grant to advance Angiocidin towards human clinical trials

Diffregen LLC, a Temple University startup company, has been awarded a small business innovation research Phase 1 grant by the National Cancer Institute to advance Angiocidin, a university-created therapeutic to treat acute myeloid leukemia, to the doorstep of human clinical trials.

24 Oct 2013

Biocompatible compounds can be used to develop customized implant designs with 3-D printing

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Laser Zentrum Hannover have discovered that a naturally-occurring compound can be incorporated into three-dimensional (3-D) printing processes to create medical implants out of non-toxic polymers.

24 Oct 2013

Metformin could serve as radiosensitizer to treat patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer

Treating aggressive lung cancer with the diabetes drug metformin along with radiation and chemotherapy may slow tumor growth and recurrence, suggests new preliminary findings from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania being presented during an oral abstract session October 28 at the 15th World Conference on Lung Cancer.

24 Oct 2013

People with higher blood sugar levels more likely to have memory problems

Even for people who don't have diabetes or high blood sugar, those with higher blood sugar levels are more likely to have memory problems, according to a new study published in the October 23, 2013, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

24 Oct 2013

Study: Youth obesity associated with receptiveness to TV fast food advertising

Youth obesity is associated with receptiveness to TV fast food advertising, Norris Cotton Cancer Center researchers found in a study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

24 Oct 2013

Case Western oral pain expert encourages people with persistent mouth pain to check for BMS

Oral pain that feels like a scalded mouth and can last for months has baffled dental researchers since the 1970s, when burning oral sensations were linked to mucosal, periodontal, and restorative disorders and mental or emotional causes.

24 Oct 2013

Researchers improve cytostatic therapy for children with chronic immune deficiency disorder

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and colleagues at University Children's Hospital Z-rich in Switzerland have managed to improve cytostatic therapy for children with the chronic immune deficiency disorder granulomatous disease prior to stem cell transplantation.

24 Oct 2013

Testosterone treatment in hypogonadal men may reduce cardiovascular disease risk

Research from Boston University School of Medicine suggests that testosterone treatment in hypogonadal (testosterone deficient) men restores normal lipid profiles and may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. These finding currently appear online in the International Journal of Clinical Practice.

24 Oct 2013

HIV testing more effective than brief patient-centered counseling in preventing AIDS

For decades, people seeking an HIV test have been counseled on realistic and achievable steps they could take to avoid infection. But a national study led by Miller School investigators has determined that, given the rapid HIV tests available today, the resources devoted to pre-test counseling would be better spent on universal testing that could detect more HIV cases earlier, and link newly infected people to the treatment that could halt the spread of the virus.

24 Oct 2013

Researchers describe why current medications only moderately reduce Fragile X symptoms

When you experience something, neurons in the brain send chemical signals called neurotransmitters across synapses to receptors on other neurons. How well that process unfolds determines how you comprehend the experience and what behaviors might follow. In people with Fragile X syndrome, a third of whom are eventually diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, that process is severely hindered, leading to intellectual impairments and abnormal behaviors.

24 Oct 2013

Researchers explore the origin of sweat gland stem cells

Without sweat, we would overheat and die. In a recent paper in the journal PLOS ONE, USC faculty member Krzysztof Kobielak and a team of researchers explored the ultimate origin of this sticky, stinky but vital substance - sweat gland stem cells.

24 Oct 2013

Newly discovered proteins in spinal fluid can serve as markers for Alzheimer's disease

23 Oct 2013

Doctors-in-training must employ etiquette-based communications to improve medical recovery, patient satisfaction

Johns Hopkins investigators have found that doctors-in-training are unlikely to introduce themselves fully to hospitalized patients or sit down to talk to them eye-to-eye, despite research suggesting that courteous bedside manners improve medical recovery along with patient satisfaction.

23 Oct 2013

New technological approach may help improve stem cell-based neurodegenerative diseases

An international research group has successfully tested the use of a new type of porous material for the efficient delivery of key molecules to transplanted cells derived from stem cells. These results can lead to improvements in the way stem cell-based neurodegenerative diseases are treated.

23 Oct 2013

A simple blood test may reveal the earliest signs of pancreatic cancer

Reporting on a small preliminary study, Johns Hopkins researchers say a simple blood test based on detection of tiny epigenetic alterations may reveal the earliest signs of pancreatic cancer, a disease that is nearly always fatal because it isn't usually discovered until it has spread to other parts of the body.

23 Oct 2013

Inflammation causally linked to functional decline in aging

Inflammation is the common denominator of many chronic age-related diseases such as arthritis, gout, Alzheimer's, and diabetes. But according to a Yale School of Medicine study, even in the absence of a disease, inflammation can lead to serious loss of function throughout the body, reducing healthspan - that portion of our lives spent relatively free of serious illness and disability.

23 Oct 2013

Fatty acid entry into cells happens by diffusion

The current global epidemic of obesity-linked diabetes and its associated consequences -cardiovascular, neurological and renal diseases - is a growing public health problem for which therapeutic options are limited.

23 Oct 2013

Study could enhance process of reprogramming adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells

Bioengineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that physical cues can replace certain chemicals when nudging mature cells back to a pluripotent stage, capable of becoming any cell type in the body.

23 Oct 2013

Scientists create artificial protein that mimics key site on the outer coat of HIV

A team of scientists at Duke Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has created an artificial protein coupled with a sugar molecule that mimics a key site on the outer coat of HIV where antibodies can bind to neutralize a wide variety of HIV strains.

23 Oct 2013

Viewpoints: 'Unforced error' on marketplace website raises questions about administration's handling of health issues; Obama's 'desperate sales pitch;' GOP's faux concerns for exchanges

Anyone who supports the plan to cover Americans who couldn't get health insurance has to hope the administration quickly gets it right. But you can't help but wonder: Where was all this frantic effort in the three-and-a-half years from the time Obama signed the health law to the day the exchanges opened on Oct. 1?

From Quest Diagnostics 23 Oct 2013

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Diffregen awarded SBIR Phase 1 grant to advance Angiocidin towards human clinical trials

Biocompatible compounds can be used to develop customized implant designs with 3-D printing

Metformin could serve as radiosensitizer to treat patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer

People with higher blood sugar levels more likely to have memory problems

Study: Youth obesity associated with receptiveness to TV fast food advertising

Case Western oral pain expert encourages people with persistent mouth pain to check for BMS

Researchers improve cytostatic therapy for children with chronic immune deficiency disorder

Testosterone treatment in hypogonadal men may reduce cardiovascular disease risk

HIV testing more effective than brief patient-centered counseling in preventing AIDS

Researchers describe why current medications only moderately reduce Fragile X symptoms

Researchers explore the origin of sweat gland stem cells

Newly discovered proteins in spinal fluid can serve as markers for Alzheimer's disease

Doctors-in-training must employ etiquette-based communications to improve medical recovery, patient satisfaction

New technological approach may help improve stem cell-based neurodegenerative diseases

A simple blood test may reveal the earliest signs of pancreatic cancer

Inflammation causally linked to functional decline in aging

Fatty acid entry into cells happens by diffusion

Study could enhance process of reprogramming adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells

Scientists create artificial protein that mimics key site on the outer coat of HIV

Viewpoints: 'Unforced error' on marketplace website raises questions about administration's handling of health issues; Obama's 'desperate sales pitch;' GOP's faux concerns for exchanges

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