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27 Aug 2013

Novel Parkinson’S Target Uncovered

Researchers from Johns Hopkins and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) highlighted a novel mechanism underlying Parkinson's disease while simultaneously putting to rest a previously held theory regarding progression of the disorder. They also identified a compound that alleviates the disease's symptoms in mice.

27 Aug 2013

Companion diagnostics: an interview with Trevor Hawkins, SVP, Strategy, Innovation and Business Development for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Companion diagnostics is critical in helping to pave the way for personalized medicine, in which the treatment is adapted and precisely tailored to the patient.

From Siemens Healthineers 27 Aug 2013

Vanderbilt adds genetic screening for drug tacrolimus to PREDICT program

Vanderbilt has added genetic screening for the drug tacrolimus to its personalize medicine pharmacogenomics program PREDICT. The new drug screening protocol was added following data that shows a single genetic variation largely impacts different dose requirements for patients.

27 Aug 2013

University of Utah started construction on Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building

The University of Utah on Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, broke ground on the $36.4 million Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building, which when completed in December 2014 will house the University's new School of Dentistry.

27 Aug 2013

Implementation of better blood-management plan changes culture at UAB

Blood is in big demand at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, once the fourth largest user of blood among U.S. hospitals served by the American Red Cross. And although blood transfusions can be life-saving during cancer care, trauma, surgery, transplants and difficult pregnancies, supply doesn't always rise to meet demand.

27 Aug 2013

Plymouth researcher receives award to develop lab-based mouse cell for research work

A researcher from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry has received an award of - 94,365 (Sterling) from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs), for a pilot study to develop the lab-based creation of a type of mouse cell which could be used in place of the live animals for research related to infectious and allergic lung conditions.

27 Aug 2013

Study reveals role of cadherin receptor BT-R3 in killing action of Cry4B mosquito toxin

Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), led by Dr. Lee Bulla, have demonstrated for the first time the selective cytotoxicity of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis Cry4B toxin is mediated by BT-R3.

27 Aug 2013

Physicians and health professionals need to be on alert for caregiver-fabricated illness in children

While it's rare for a parent to fabricate an illness in their child, a McMaster University researcher says physicians and other health professionals need to be on the alert for this form of child abuse.

27 Aug 2013

Comparison of guidelines highlights when player can resume athletic activity after concussion

Concussions are a common sports injury that can have long-term neurological consequences if not properly diagnosed and treated. Several new or updated guidelines for managing sports concussions were released earlier this year, and their key areas of consensus, including recommendations for return to play, are presented in an article in Journal of Neurotrauma, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

27 Aug 2013

Brain's tactile and motor neurons shape internal spatial image of body

The brain's tactile and motor neurons, which perceive touch and control movement, may also respond to visual cues, according to researchers at Duke Medicine.

27 Aug 2013

Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital to receive transition-to-scale grants

he Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development recently shortlisted 53 finalists from around the world from more than 400 entries. Only 22 teams were awarded grants for their bold, new ideas to save the lives of mothers and newborns in developing countries.

27 Aug 2013

Northwestern surgical oncologists use minimally invasive procedure to remove malignant melanoma

That's when she received the results from her dermatologist, who removed a part of the blister and had it tested. It turns out that little red bump was malignant melanoma, the leading cause of skin cancer death in the United States. It's a cancer that kills one person every hour, which translates to more than 8,700 Americans each year.

27 Aug 2013

Comprehensive test of biomarkers have prognostic and diagnostic value in Parkinson's disease

Perelman School of Medicine researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report the first biomarker results reported from the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), showing that a comprehensive test of protein biomarkers in spinal fluid have prognostic and diagnostic value in early stages of Parkinson's disease.

27 Aug 2013

HIV-infected people who carry gene face greater risk of contracting cryptococcal disease

HIV-infected people who carry a gene for a specific protein face a 20-fold greater risk of contracting cryptococcal disease, according to a study published in mBio-, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

27 Aug 2013

Sorting out end-of-life, long-term care issues as America ages

As America ages, end-of-life and long-term care issues increase. One doctor is helping families cope with end-of-life care while a looming shortage of caregivers worries some.

27 Aug 2013

Weight-management intervention effective for weight gain prevention among black women

An intervention not focused on weight loss was effective for weight gain prevention among socioeconomically disadvantaged black women, according to a report published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

27 Aug 2013

Cannabis affects addiction processes in adolescent brain

The nature of the teenage brain makes users of cannabis amongst this population particularly at risk of developing addictive behaviors and suffering other long-term negative effects, according to researchers at the University of Montreal and New York's Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

27 Aug 2013

tDCS for 15 days improves sleep and fatigue symptoms in patients with PPS

Of the 15 million people around the world who have survived poliomyelitis, up to 80% report progressive deteriorating strength and endurance many years after infection, a condition known as post-polio syndrome (PPS).

27 Aug 2013

Mount Sinai scientists receive NIH grant to study clinical benefit of IGF-1 in children with PMS

Scientists at the Seaver Autism Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to study Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1, a promising treatment for a subtype of autism called Phelan McDermid Syndrome.

27 Aug 2013

Medicine News and Research

Haplogen, Cemm Offer Huge Collection Of Mutant Cell Lines

Novel Parkinson’S Target Uncovered

Companion diagnostics: an interview with Trevor Hawkins, SVP, Strategy, Innovation and Business Development for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Vanderbilt adds genetic screening for drug tacrolimus to PREDICT program

University of Utah started construction on Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Education Building

Implementation of better blood-management plan changes culture at UAB

Plymouth researcher receives award to develop lab-based mouse cell for research work

Study reveals role of cadherin receptor BT-R3 in killing action of Cry4B mosquito toxin

Physicians and health professionals need to be on alert for caregiver-fabricated illness in children

Comparison of guidelines highlights when player can resume athletic activity after concussion

Brain's tactile and motor neurons shape internal spatial image of body

Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital to receive transition-to-scale grants

Northwestern surgical oncologists use minimally invasive procedure to remove malignant melanoma

Comprehensive test of biomarkers have prognostic and diagnostic value in Parkinson's disease

HIV-infected people who carry gene face greater risk of contracting cryptococcal disease

Sorting out end-of-life, long-term care issues as America ages

Weight-management intervention effective for weight gain prevention among black women

Cannabis affects addiction processes in adolescent brain

tDCS for 15 days improves sleep and fatigue symptoms in patients with PPS

Mount Sinai scientists receive NIH grant to study clinical benefit of IGF-1 in children with PMS

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Managing vibration in IVF laboratories

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