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Kansas State University engineers developing technology to help children with special needs

A Kansas State University engineering team is developing a technology collection that can make a big difference in the lives of children with developmental disabilities.

26 Feb 2016

New Notre Dame research may lead to a therapy for Niemann-Pick Type C disease

Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC) disease is a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is currently no cure. NPC primarily strikes children before and during adolescence and affects one in every 150,000 children. The disease causes cholesterol and other lipids to build up in the body's cells, which results in symptoms such as delayed motor development, deterioration of memory and balance, and seizures.

26 Feb 2016

Allergan receives FDA approval to market ACZONE (dapsone) Gel, 7.5% for acne treatment

Allergan plc, a leading global pharmaceutical company, today announced that the Company has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market ACZONE (dapsone) Gel, 7.5%, a new prescription topical treatment for acne in patients 12 years of age and older.

26 Feb 2016

China Biologic's total sales increase by 22.6% in RMB terms to $68.3 million in Q4 2015

China Biologic Products, Inc., a leading fully integrated plasma-based biopharmaceutical company in China, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year of 2015.

26 Feb 2016

Louisiana Tech University professor receives NSF CAREER grant for engineering education

The National Science Foundation has awarded Dr. Marisa Orr, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Louisiana Tech University, a five-year, $500,000 Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to support her research in engineering education.

25 Feb 2016

Clincierge wins 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices award

Clincierge, a provider of specialized services that increase the patient-centricity of clinical drug development and help remove burdens associated with trial participation, today announced that they have been named a winner of the 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices awards.

25 Feb 2016

Immune-suppressing drug can improve cognitive ability of patients with schizophrenia

A recent study of a handful of patients supports mounting evidence that targeted suppression of inflammation packaged with standard therapy can improve the cognitive ability of patients with schizophrenia, physician-scientists report.

25 Feb 2016

MOOCs: the future of healthcare training? An interview with David Robertshaw

MOOCs are short, free courses run by major learning providers to share their knowledge of a particular academic topic or to help students develop a specific skill.

From University of Derby Online Learning 25 Feb 2016

Exercise protects people from depression after heart attack

Researchers know that exercise increases a person's chances of surviving a heart attack. Now it turns out that exercise habits also affect how the body handles a heart attack's aftermaths.

25 Feb 2016

Insulet partners with Mode AGC to develop OmniPod Artificial Pancreas system

Insulet Corporation, the leader in tubeless insulin pump technology with its OmniPod Insulin Management System (OmniPod System), today announced a license agreement and partnership with Mode AGC (Automated Glucose Control LLC), to develop and incorporate the advanced artificial pancreas algorithm created by renowned researchers Francis Doyle PhD, Eyal Dassau PhD, and Howard Zisser MD.

25 Feb 2016

Rigel begins fostamatinib Phase 2 trial for treatment of patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced that it has initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate fostamatinib, its oral SYK inhibitor, as a potential treatment for autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA).

25 Feb 2016

Moffitt researchers develop novel therapeutic strategy to keep resistant cells in check

Despite numerous advances in oncology since the War on Cancer began, many patients develop resistance to standard therapies and eventually relapse. Moffitt Cancer Center researchers hope to improve treatment outcomes with development of a novel therapeutic strategy, called adaptive therapy, which is based on evolutionary principals and aims to keep resistant cells in check by maintaining a population of chemo-sensitive cells.

25 Feb 2016

Pancreatic cancer identified as four separate diseases with different genetic triggers, survival rates

An international team led by Australian researchers has studied the genetics of pancreatic cancer, revealing it is actually four separate diseases, each with different genetic triggers and survival rates, paving the way for more accurate diagnoses and treatments.

25 Feb 2016

Ketamine appears to be safe, effective for difficult-to-sedate ER patients

For the small segment of the emergency population whose acute behavioral disturbance does not respond to traditional sedation, ketamine appears to be effective and safe, according to an Australian study published online last Thursday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Ketamine for Difficult to Sedate Severe Acute Behavioral Disturbance in the Emergency Department").

25 Feb 2016

Zika outbreak highlights need for developing and evaluating new vaccines for pregnant women

The recent outbreak of Zika virus disease and its link to fetal development highlights the need for pregnant women and those of reproductive age to be a priority group for developing and evaluating new vaccines and vaccine guidelines for Zika and other emerging infectious diseases, say the authors of a new Viewpoint article in JAMA.

25 Feb 2016

Concussion tests may present challenges for athletes who speak English as a second language

Popular sideline vision tests used to help detect immediate signs of concussion may present challenges in the interpretation of results for athletes who speak English as a second language (ESL).

25 Feb 2016

New anti-ageing therapy may be effective against aplastic anaemia

Aplastic anaemia is a rare, and potentially fatal, disease of the blood, by which the bone marrow is unable to generate blood cells at the appropriate pace. Many forms of aplastic anaemia share an important link with the ageing process: the shortening of telomeres, structures that protect the ends of chromosomes.

25 Feb 2016

Researchers reveal how stress conditions favor lytic reactivation of herpesviruses

Hiding their DNA genome inside the nucleus of the infected cells, the herpesviruses establish a lifelong infection in humans. Not well defined stress conditions are known to wake up these parasites from their dormancy - the latent phase - and reactivate the production of new viral progeny, eventually causing cell death by lysis - the lytic phase.

25 Feb 2016

New report reveals malignant brain tumors as most common cause of cancer-related deaths in young people

A new report published in the journal Neuro-Oncology and funded by the American Brain Tumor Association finds that malignant brain tumors are the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in adolescents and young adults aged 15-39 and the most common cancer occurring among 15-19 year olds.

25 Feb 2016

Scientists reveal underlying mechanism for formation and growth of epithelial tubes

A team of scientists from Singapore and France has revealed the underlying mechanism for the formation and growth of a fundamental type of tissue - epithelial tubes. Defects in the architecture of epithelial tubes lead to diseases such as cholestasis, atherosclerosis and polycystic kidney disease.

25 Feb 2016

Research News and Research

Kansas State University engineers developing technology to help children with special needs

New Notre Dame research may lead to a therapy for Niemann-Pick Type C disease

Allergan receives FDA approval to market ACZONE (dapsone) Gel, 7.5% for acne treatment

China Biologic's total sales increase by 22.6% in RMB terms to $68.3 million in Q4 2015

Louisiana Tech University professor receives NSF CAREER grant for engineering education

Clincierge wins 2016 Clinical Informatics News Best Practices award

Immune-suppressing drug can improve cognitive ability of patients with schizophrenia

MOOCs: the future of healthcare training? An interview with David Robertshaw

Exercise protects people from depression after heart attack

Insulet partners with Mode AGC to develop OmniPod Artificial Pancreas system

Rigel begins fostamatinib Phase 2 trial for treatment of patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Moffitt researchers develop novel therapeutic strategy to keep resistant cells in check

Pancreatic cancer identified as four separate diseases with different genetic triggers, survival rates

Ketamine appears to be safe, effective for difficult-to-sedate ER patients

Zika outbreak highlights need for developing and evaluating new vaccines for pregnant women

Concussion tests may present challenges for athletes who speak English as a second language

New anti-ageing therapy may be effective against aplastic anaemia

Researchers reveal how stress conditions favor lytic reactivation of herpesviruses

New report reveals malignant brain tumors as most common cause of cancer-related deaths in young people

Scientists reveal underlying mechanism for formation and growth of epithelial tubes

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