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Cogstate test shows effective treatment option for schizophrenia

Medical technology company Cogstate continues to strengthen its position as an essential partner for measuring cognition in important studies around the world, with results from a schizophrenia study using Cogstate's test published in a major scientific journal.

27 Sep 2013

New details emerge on health law spending, effects on business

News outlets examine how some businesses are dropping their cheapest health plans and steering employees to the new health insurance online exchanges. Others explore how insurers are responding to new rules and the cost of the Obamacare exchanges.

27 Sep 2013

Genomic instability in CFS is associated with less favorable outcome in patients with CaP

Detailed evaluation of a prostate cancer tumor biopsy may predict treatment outcomes for image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) or surgery for prostate cancer, according to research presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO's) 55th Annual Meeting.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists unravel secrets of mechanism that snips our genes

Certain diseases such as cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy are linked to genetic mutations that damage the important biological process of rearranging gene sequences in pre-messenger RNA, a procedure called RNA splicing.

27 Sep 2013

New imaging technique reveals first 3D pictures of chromosome structure

A new method for visualising chromosomes is painting a truer picture of their shape, which is rarely like the X-shaped blob of DNA most of us are familiar with.

27 Sep 2013

HARM score tool to measure quality, clinical outcomes for colon, rectal surgery patients

Since the publication in 2000 of a report titled "To Err is Human" by the Institute of Medicine which called for a reduction in preventable medical errors, there has been an increasing demand for making improvements in the quality and measurement of health care outcomes.

27 Sep 2013

Viewpoints: The debate on locking up people with mental illness; Michael J. Fox's new role

The awful mass killings this month by a delusional shooter at Washington's Navy Yard provoked familiar demands to fix the nation's mental health system. ... There's no question that the nation's mental health system needs improvement.

27 Sep 2013

Four Geisinger Health System researchers receive $25M grant to initiate ClinGen Project

Four Geisinger Health System researchers have taken center stage in the national arena of genomics thanks to new funding from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), an arm of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

27 Sep 2013

GOP considers shutdown alternatives

Republicans are exploring a possible new strategy: shifting the fight over President Barack Obama's health-care law to a separate bill that would raise the nation's debt limit. Other media outlets report that the debt limit deadline is Oct. 17 -- about two weeks earlier than had been anticipated.

27 Sep 2013

VVRP receives contract from NIH to continue its work as Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units

The Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program (VVRP) has received a contract from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue its work as one of the nation's Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEU).

27 Sep 2013

Group Health helps protect public from infectious diseases through nationwide network

A nationwide group of institutions that conducts clinical trials of promising candidate vaccines and therapies for infectious diseases, known as the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units (VTEUs), has been awarded nine contracts to strengthen and broaden the scope of its research. Group Health Research Institute is one of these institutions.

27 Sep 2013

Sackler Institute to create Global Research Agenda to identify knowledge gaps in field of nutrition

With nearly two billion people suffering from malnutrition across the planet, scientists and public health experts came together under an unprecedented alliance spearheaded by The Sackler Institute for Nutrition Science at the New York Academy of Sciences to create A Global Research Agenda for Nutrition Science to identify the most critical knowledge gaps in the field of nutrition.

27 Sep 2013

New hepatitis virus reported by scientists was a false alarm

The report by scientists of a new hepatitis virus earlier this year was a false alarm, according to UC San Francisco researchers who correctly identified the virus as a contaminant present in a type of glassware used in many research labs.

27 Sep 2013

Genes in mitochondria shape each person's risk for heart disease and diabetes

Genes in mitochondria, the "powerhouses" that turn sugar into energy in human cells, shape each person's risk for heart disease and diabetes, according to a study published recently by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Biochemical Journal.

27 Sep 2013

For regional audiences, the key question is what will a new policy cost here?

Local news outlets examine data released by the Obama administration to see the average rates that local consumers will pay for insurance on the new health marketplaces.

27 Sep 2013

Scientists discover critical regulator for directing pluripotent stem cells to make blood-forming stem cells

Stem cell scientists have moved one step closer to producing blood-forming stem cells in a Petri dish by identifying a key regulator controlling their formation in the early embryo, shows research published online today in Cell.

27 Sep 2013

Researchers confirms strong link between preterm birth and risk of infant death, autism and ADHD

An unprecedented study of preterm birth suggests that only some of the problems previously associated with preterm birth are actually caused by preterm birth itself.

27 Sep 2013

D.C.'s Obamacare insurance exchange hits technology snag

The District of Columbia's online health exchange will not be able to immediately calculate a person's subsidy to help them buy coverage or sign up for Medicaid when the health law exchange opens Oct. 1. Instead, such determinations will be done offline as officials try to fix the problems.

27 Sep 2013

House and Senate negotiators reaching agreement on compounding pharmacy legislation

The measure would apply uniform national standards to pharmacy compounding while enacting a track-and-trace system to ensure the safety of drugs throughout the supply chain.

27 Sep 2013

NIH program provides $22M for low- and middle-income countries to combat HIV/AIDS epidemic

A new NIH program supporting HIV-related research training will provide $22 million over five years for activities in 15 low- and middle-income countries. The Fogarty International Center's HIV Research Training Program is issuing 22 awards, which are intended to strengthen the ability of the grantee institutions to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic, while building expertise in a particular scientific or critical research infrastructure area.

27 Sep 2013

Research News and Research

Cogstate test shows effective treatment option for schizophrenia

New details emerge on health law spending, effects on business

Genomic instability in CFS is associated with less favorable outcome in patients with CaP

Scientists unravel secrets of mechanism that snips our genes

New imaging technique reveals first 3D pictures of chromosome structure

HARM score tool to measure quality, clinical outcomes for colon, rectal surgery patients

Viewpoints: The debate on locking up people with mental illness; Michael J. Fox's new role

Four Geisinger Health System researchers receive $25M grant to initiate ClinGen Project

GOP considers shutdown alternatives

VVRP receives contract from NIH to continue its work as Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units

Group Health helps protect public from infectious diseases through nationwide network

Sackler Institute to create Global Research Agenda to identify knowledge gaps in field of nutrition

New hepatitis virus reported by scientists was a false alarm

Genes in mitochondria shape each person's risk for heart disease and diabetes

For regional audiences, the key question is what will a new policy cost here?

Scientists discover critical regulator for directing pluripotent stem cells to make blood-forming stem cells

Researchers confirms strong link between preterm birth and risk of infant death, autism and ADHD

D.C.'s Obamacare insurance exchange hits technology snag

House and Senate negotiators reaching agreement on compounding pharmacy legislation

NIH program provides $22M for low- and middle-income countries to combat HIV/AIDS epidemic

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