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Study finds 87% of teens who quit chewing gum experience relief of migraine headache

Teenagers are notorious for chewing a lot of gum. The lip smacking, bubble popping, discarded gum stuck to the sole give teachers and parents a headache.

20 Dec 2013

European research project to develop new rapid diagnostic devices

Led by the Basque R&D Alliance IK4, 13 organisations in 8 different countries have been conducting research for three years under the European LabOnFoil project to develop new rapid diagnostic devices.

19 Dec 2013

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania celebrates 40th anniversary

This December marks the 40th anniversary of the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania being designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. To celebrate this momentous milestone, over 400 people gathered together early this month for an event recognizing the center's vast achievements in cancer research, patient care, and education during the last four decades.

19 Dec 2013

Scientists develop simple analysis tool for tears

Identifying vitamin deficiencies in babies involves drawing blood, a disheartening experience for all involved. Scientists at Michigan Technological University are working on a painless alternative.

19 Dec 2013

Measuring changes in certain proteins may better predict the progression of ALS

Measuring changes in certain proteins -- called biomarkers -- in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis may better predict the progression of the disease, according to scientists at Penn State College of Medicine.

17 Dec 2013

Navidea seeks FDA approval for marketing Lymphoseek Injection for SLN detection

Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on precision diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, announced today that it has submitted a Supplemental New Drug Application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seeking approval for the marketing and sale of Lymphoseek (technetium 99m tilmanocept) Injection for sentinel lymph node detection in patients with head and neck cancer, an indication for which Lymphoseek was also granted Fast Track designation earlier this month.

17 Dec 2013

Researchers use ATX-Red AR-2 as new imaging agent to illuminate tumors

Researchers from Echelon Biosciences, Inc. and collaborators from the University of Utah report the use of ATX-Red AR-2 as a new imaging agent that effectively illuminates tumors.

17 Dec 2013

Eurofins Medigenomix, Orion Diagnostica Oy sign co-exclusive technology license agreement

Eurofins Medigenomix, a part of the Eurofins Genomics Business line of Eurofins Scientific and Orion Diagnostica Oy, an in vitro diagnostics company specialising in the development, production and sales of diagnostic test systems, announced that they have signed a co-exclusive technology license agreement. Orion Diagnostic Oy owns the global rights for the SIBA- isothermal nucleic acid detection technology in all fields.

17 Dec 2013

Two on-the-rise esophagus conditions can be the result of food allergy, say doctors

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine found that two on-the-rise esophagus conditions are so similar that even a biopsy is not enough to distinguish one disease from the other.

17 Dec 2013

Study explores how blood sugar levels during pregnancy influence children’s fat

Researchers from Manchester have begun a new study to determine whether blood sugar levels during pregnancy, lower than the level used to diagnose gestational diabetes, influences later levels of body fat in children and development of diabetes in mothers after giving birth.

16 Dec 2013

Research suggests new way of treating asthma in obese people

Research conducted at Boston Children's Hospital indicates that obesity might cause asthma via factors in the immune system and suggests a new way of treating asthma in obese people—who often respond poorly to standard asthma medications. The study, conducted in a mouse model of asthma and in human lung fluid, was published online Dec. 15 by Nature Medicine.

16 Dec 2013

Conventional echocardiography increases accuracy of pre-participation sports screening

Echocardiography with conventional M-mode and 2D modalities is a simple and cost effective way to increases the accuracy of pre-participation sports screening, according to research presented at EuroEcho-Imaging 2013 by Dr Alexander Kisko from Presov, Slovakia.

14 Dec 2013

Study shows effectiveness of PAM50-based Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay

NanoString Technologies, Inc., a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced new results from a combined analysis of the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group 8 (ABCSG-8) and Trans-Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination (TransATAC) studies. These results, which evaluated samples from 2,137 patients, suggest that the PAM50-based Prosignaz Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay may help identify women with late distant recurrence after five years of endocrine treatment.

13 Dec 2013

Bioethics Commission releases ethical recommendations to manage incidental and secondary findings

Researchers conduct a memory study, scan a participant's brain, and find more than they bargain for: a tumor. What do the researchers owe the participant? What does the participant want to know?

13 Dec 2013

Methodology needed to diagnose quality of life of individual cancer patients or survivors

Due to improved treatments and technologies, more children than ever are surviving cancer. Unfortunately, about 70 percent of these children experience late effects from their disease and treatment 30 years after their cancer diagnosis, which University of Florida Health researchers say significantly impact their quality of life.

13 Dec 2013

Researchers uncover second rare genetic mutation linked to higher risk of Alzheimer's disease

A research team from The University of Nottingham has helped uncover a second rare genetic mutation which strongly increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease in later life.

13 Dec 2013

WHO hands over management of world's largest public collection of TB strains to ITM in Antwerp

The World Health Organisation handed over the management of the world's largest public collection of tuberculosis strains to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp. These TB-strains play a key role in supporting scientific research into infectious diseases, particularly towards a better understanding of the TB bacterium's drug resistance.

13 Dec 2013

NLST data provides vital information to better understand the benefits, risks of lung cancer screening

Data from the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial—conducted by the American College of Radiology Imaging Network and National Cancer Institute Lung Screening Study—provided researchers the opportunity to investigate the probability that a cancer detected with screening low-dose computed tomography would not have progressed to become life threatening. The results of this investigation published online today in JAMA Internal Medicine suggest that up to 18 percent of the cancers detected by LDCT may not have progressed enough to affect patient health if left undetected.

12 Dec 2013

Market research report on global and China insulin industry

As the third largest human health disease following neoplastic disease, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, the number of diabetic patients has continued growing from 246 million in 2007 to 382 million in 2013 at a compound annual growth rate of 7.6%.

12 Dec 2013

Circulating nucleosomes and colorectal cancer diagnostics: an interview with Dr. Stefan Holdenrieder, University Hospital Bonn

For my MD thesis I modified and evaluated an immunological assay that detected the cell death products “nucleosomes” as a new blood-based cancer biomarker. As cell death processes are enhanced or suppressed during different stages of tumor development, it was assumed that they may enable stage-dependent detection of cancer disease.

12 Dec 2013

Diagnostic News and Research

Study finds 87% of teens who quit chewing gum experience relief of migraine headache

European research project to develop new rapid diagnostic devices

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania celebrates 40th anniversary

Scientists develop simple analysis tool for tears

Measuring changes in certain proteins may better predict the progression of ALS

Navidea seeks FDA approval for marketing Lymphoseek Injection for SLN detection

Researchers use ATX-Red AR-2 as new imaging agent to illuminate tumors

Eurofins Medigenomix, Orion Diagnostica Oy sign co-exclusive technology license agreement

Two on-the-rise esophagus conditions can be the result of food allergy, say doctors

Study explores how blood sugar levels during pregnancy influence children’s fat

Research suggests new way of treating asthma in obese people

Conventional echocardiography increases accuracy of pre-participation sports screening

Study shows effectiveness of PAM50-based Prosigna Breast Cancer Prognostic Gene Signature Assay

Bioethics Commission releases ethical recommendations to manage incidental and secondary findings

Methodology needed to diagnose quality of life of individual cancer patients or survivors

Researchers uncover second rare genetic mutation linked to higher risk of Alzheimer's disease

WHO hands over management of world's largest public collection of TB strains to ITM in Antwerp

NLST data provides vital information to better understand the benefits, risks of lung cancer screening

Market research report on global and China insulin industry

Circulating nucleosomes and colorectal cancer diagnostics: an interview with Dr. Stefan Holdenrieder, University Hospital Bonn

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