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Researchers launch detailed atlas with environment and health maps

Researchers have launched a detailed atlas with environment and health maps at a fine scale across England and Wales.

25 Apr 2014

Enhanced recovery approach used for colorectal surgery cut hospital stays

Changes in managing patients before, during and after colorectal surgery cut hospital stays by two days and reduced readmission rates, according to researchers who led a study of the approach at Duke University Hospital.

25 Apr 2014

HemoShear announces research collaboration with Medivir

HemoShear, LLC, the human disease biology company, today announced research collaboration with Medivir AB of Stockholm, Sweden, an emerging research-based pharmaceutical company focused on infectious diseases.

23 Apr 2014

Lodging fund eases financial burden for Loyola liver disease patients

The hefty cost of a Chicago hotel room is an expected expense for many who are traveling for business or pleasure. But for many Downstate families of Loyola liver patients, the added expense of a hotel room to be near a loved one battling a serious and chronic disease takes a huge financial toll.

23 Apr 2014

New tool can help doctors identify patients at highest risk for respiratory failure after surgery

A new prediction tool can help doctors better identify patients who are at highest risk for respiratory failure after surgery and therefore prevent the often deadly condition, suggest data from a large multi-center study published in the May issue of Anesthesiology.

23 Apr 2014

Johns Hopkins scientists find a way to prevent atherosclerosis

Working with mice and rabbits, Johns Hopkins scientists have found a way to block abnormal cholesterol production, transport and breakdown, successfully preventing the development of atherosclerosis, the main cause of heart attacks and strokes and the number-one cause of death among humans. The condition develops when fat builds inside blood vessels over time and renders them stiff, narrowed and hardened, greatly reducing their ability to feed oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle and the brain.

23 Apr 2014

Studies identify 2 genes highly associated with IBD

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a group of chronic inflammatory disorders of the intestine that result in painful and debilitating complications, affects over 1.4 million people in the U.S., and while there are treatments to reduce inflammation for patients, there is no cure.

23 Apr 2014

Symposium focused on Surefire Medical's COSY clinical trial to be held at ECIO meeting

Surefire Medical, Inc. announced that a symposium focused on the Coiling vs. Surefire Infusion System in Y90 (COSY) clinical trial will be held during the European Conference on Interventional Oncology (ECIO) meeting taking place in Berlin, Germany April 23-26. T

23 Apr 2014

New computational tool identifies undiagnosed illnesses and unknown gene mutations

23 Apr 2014

University of Utah software successfully identifies diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases

A computational tool developed at the University of Utah (U of U) has successfully identified diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases, U of U researchers and their colleagues report in a new study in The American Journal of Human Genetics. The software, Phevor (Phenotype Driven Variant Ontological Re-ranking tool), identifies undiagnosed illnesses and unknown gene mutations by analyzing the exomes, or areas of DNA where proteins that code for genes are made, in individual patients and small families.

22 Apr 2014

Neoadjuvant targeted treatment shows feasibility for limited clear-cell RCC

Treating patients with nonmetastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor axitinib could not only prevent disease progression, but also shrink tumours before surgery, show the results of a phase II trial.

22 Apr 2014

Cost of Hep C medicines vexing insurers

As health insurance companies reveal much anticipated first-quarter earnings, it's the unpredictable impact from the five-figure cost of new Hepatitis C treatments that are the subject of as much Wall Street worry as the Affordable Care Act.

22 Apr 2014

Study helps physicians better identify patients at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome

Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a leading cause of respiratory failure after surgery. Patients who develop the lung disorder postoperatively are at higher risk of dying in the hospital, and those who survive the syndrome may still bear its physical effects years later.

22 Apr 2014

Stool color guide and free mobile app help diagnose liver-ravaging disorder in babies

Fecal color and consistency are well-known markers of digestive health in both children and adults, but paying attention to a newborn's shade of poop can be a decided lifesaver in babies born with the rare, liver-ravaging disorder biliary atresia, commonly heralded by white or clay-colored stool.

22 Apr 2014

Synageva announces publication of LAL Deficiency review in Atherosclerosis

Synageva BioPharma Corp., a biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic products for rare diseases, today announced the publication of an overview of lysosomal acid lipase deficiency (LAL Deficiency) in the online version and an upcoming print edition of Atherosclerosis, the official journal of the European Atherosclerosis Society.

21 Apr 2014

Scientists lay groundwork for understanding immune responses in Lyme disease patients

A team of scientists led by Johns Hopkins and Stanford University researchers has laid the groundwork for understanding how variations in immune responses to Lyme disease can contribute to the many different outcomes of this bacterial infection seen in individual patients. A report on the work appears online April 16 in PLOS One.

21 Apr 2014

Liver News and Research

Researchers launch detailed atlas with environment and health maps

Enhanced recovery approach used for colorectal surgery cut hospital stays

HemoShear announces research collaboration with Medivir

Lodging fund eases financial burden for Loyola liver disease patients

New tool can help doctors identify patients at highest risk for respiratory failure after surgery

Johns Hopkins scientists find a way to prevent atherosclerosis

Studies identify 2 genes highly associated with IBD

Symposium focused on Surefire Medical's COSY clinical trial to be held at ECIO meeting

New computational tool identifies undiagnosed illnesses and unknown gene mutations

University of Utah software successfully identifies diseases with unknown gene mutations in three separate cases

Neoadjuvant targeted treatment shows feasibility for limited clear-cell RCC

Cost of Hep C medicines vexing insurers

Study helps physicians better identify patients at risk of acute respiratory distress syndrome

Stool color guide and free mobile app help diagnose liver-ravaging disorder in babies

Synageva announces publication of LAL Deficiency review in Atherosclerosis

Scientists lay groundwork for understanding immune responses in Lyme disease patients

Northwestern Medicine study provides new insights on tissue scarring in scleroderma

Scientists uncover new way immune system may fight cancers and viral infections

Skin docs prescribe costlier drugs after free samples

Adrenaline does not boost long-term survival rates in heart attack patients, says study

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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