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Alert to CAM use in asthma

Researchers from Canada say that physicians should be aware of the high prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine use among patients with asthma.

11 Sep 2013

Astrazeneca Licenses Merck's Cancer Candidate MK-1775

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11 Sep 2013

Hedgepath, Mayne Repurposing Fungal Infection Drug For Cancer

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11 Sep 2013

Perkins+Will completes UF's Clinical and Translational Research Building

The Miami office of global architecture and design firm, Perkins+Will, recently completed a major healthcare, education and research project, the University of Florida's Clinical and Translational Research Building.

11 Sep 2013

MicroBiome Therapeutics' NM504 eliminates diarrhea caused by metformin in type 2 diabetes patient

MicroBiome Therapeutics LLC, a biotechnology company developing pharmaceutical and medical food products that shift the human microbiome in specific ways for improved health, today reported publication of a case report suggesting a potentially important new application for its lead product, NM504. NM504 is in clinical development to promote healthy blood glucose levels and metabolic fitness in prediabetic and diabetic populations.

11 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 11, 2013

Today's headlines include reports that some House GOP lawmakers are taking a hard line against funding for the health law in the ongoing debate about raising the nation's debt limit.

11 Sep 2013

Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells may have targeting capacity for glioma

Glioblastoma is the most common ma-lignant primary brain tumor in adults. The aggressive growth manner, characterized by marked angiogenesis and extensive tumor cell invasion into normal brain parenchyma with frequent formation of tumor microsatellites at distal sites, makes eradication impossible even after extensive microsurgical resection combined with current standard chemoradiation and adjuvant temozolomide.

11 Sep 2013

Developing Analytical Techniques for Biotherapeutics

News-Medical talks to Dr. Lewis about the development of analytical equipment for a new era of drug development that goes beyond small molecule synthesis.

From Malvern Panalytical 11 Sep 2013

Improved lung function in patients with moderate asthma severity observed with investigational Tiotropium

Boehringer Ingelheim will present a pooled analysis of new data from the Phase 3 UniTinA-asthma® program at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress 2013 in Barcelona. The data from the individual MezzoTinA-asthma® Phase 3 studies (NCT01340209 and NCT00565266), from which the pooled data are derived, show the addition of tiotropium delivered via the Respimat® inhaler to medium-dose maintenance inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy (defined as 400-800 µg budesonide/day or equivalent) improved lung function and provided sustained bronchodilation over 24 hours in patients with moderate asthma and airflow limitation. Tiotropium is being investigated to determine the medicine’s efficacy in treating asthma patients and is not currently approved for this indication.

11 Sep 2013

Better ways to combat mosquitoes

In an advance toward providing mosquito-plagued people, pets and livestock with an invisibility cloak against these blood-sucking insects, scientists today described discovery of substances that occur naturally on human skin and block mosquitoes’ ability to smell and target their victims.

11 Sep 2013

New advances toward making molecular prosthetics a reality

The vision for a new branch of medicine, inspired by the ancient field that began with peg legs and hand hooks, commanded the spotlight in a major address by its pioneer here today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.

11 Sep 2013

Phobias, anxiety are typical reasons why many decline to donate blood

As few as 3 percent of Americans eligible to donate blood do, and fear and anxiety are common reasons why many decline to give. U.S. hospitals are always in need of new donors; at Mayo Clinic, that need is heightened by concern about iron deficiency in frequent givers.

11 Sep 2013

Tri-linear interpolation algorithm can achieve cerebral white matter fiber reliable tracking

At present, fiber tracking algorithms are divided into deterministic tractography and probabilistic tractography. In deterministic algorithms, scholars proposed the fiber assignment by continuous tracking algorithm, the tensor deflection algorithm, the tensorline algorithm.

11 Sep 2013

Scientists use nanodiamonds to boost delivery of drug to leukemic cells

By binding multiple molecules of a common leukemia drug with nanodiamonds, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to boost the delivery of the drug to leukemic cells and retain the drug within the cells to combat the cancer.

11 Sep 2013

UK and US policies risk conscription into unwanted 'war against dementia'

A political drive, led by the UK and US, to screen older people for minor memory changes (often called mild cognitive impairment or pre-dementia) is leading to unnecessary investigation and potentially harmful treatment for what is arguably an inevitable consequence of ageing, warn experts on bmj.com today.

11 Sep 2013

Neuroscientist explores latest research into night-time brain to understand real benefits of sleep

The role of sleep in processing our waking life and making sense of difficult emotions and experiences has been little understood and disputed amongst scientists for many years.

From The University of Manchester 11 Sep 2013

Expression of stress protein induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury, say researchers

Spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury is a stress injury to the spinal cord. Therefore, research on the expression of stress-related protein in neurons could be of great significance for the pathological mechanism and control measures for spinal cord ischemia/reperfusion injury.

11 Sep 2013

Research News and Research

Alert to CAM use in asthma

Astrazeneca Licenses Merck's Cancer Candidate MK-1775

Hedgepath, Mayne Repurposing Fungal Infection Drug For Cancer

Perkins+Will completes UF's Clinical and Translational Research Building

MicroBiome Therapeutics' NM504 eliminates diarrhea caused by metformin in type 2 diabetes patient

First Edition: September 11, 2013

Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells may have targeting capacity for glioma

Developing Analytical Techniques for Biotherapeutics

Improved lung function in patients with moderate asthma severity observed with investigational Tiotropium

Better ways to combat mosquitoes

New advances toward making molecular prosthetics a reality

Phobias, anxiety are typical reasons why many decline to donate blood

Tri-linear interpolation algorithm can achieve cerebral white matter fiber reliable tracking

Scientists use nanodiamonds to boost delivery of drug to leukemic cells

UK and US policies risk conscription into unwanted 'war against dementia'

Neuroscientist explores latest research into night-time brain to understand real benefits of sleep

Expression of stress protein induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury, say researchers

Schemes that grant wish have positive impact on seriously ill children and their parents

Older people retain ability to judge others' emotions using acquired knowledge, but not sensory cues

New types of choices, expertise add value to idea of 'aging in place'

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