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Scripps Florida scientist receives two grants to focus on sulfenylation

A scientist from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute has been awarded a pair of grants totaling $2.8 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, and from TargAnox, a Massachusetts-based biotechnology firm.

18 Sep 2012

Cognitive basis proposed for fatigue after stroke

Research shows that poststroke fatigue in patients with nondisabling stroke is tied to a specific type of cognitive dysfunction.

17 Sep 2012

Water mineral content link to alcoholic liver disease

Low magnesium content in water supplies may contribute to the development of alcoholic liver disease, say the authors of a UK study.

17 Sep 2012

Mitochondrial variations unlikely cause of osteoarthritis

Researchers have been unable to confirm a link between the development of osteoarthritis and maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA variants.

17 Sep 2012

SPECT/CT detects metastatic nodes in melanoma

The preoperative use of single-photon emission CT plus CT imaging improves the detection of metastatic lymph nodes over standard lymphoscintigraphy, research shows.

17 Sep 2012

Ionizing radiation imaging raises breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 carriers

Exposure to ionizing radiation at an early age increases the risk for breast cancer among women with BRCA1/2 mutations, reveals research published in the BMJ.

17 Sep 2012

Antimuscarinics only moderately effective for overactive bladder

A comprehensive review of oral antimuscarinics for the treatment of overactive bladder concludes that the efficacy of treatment is, at best, moderate.

17 Sep 2012

UnitedHealth to become part of Dow Jones industrial average

The inclusion of the nation's largest health insurer in the prestigious market index reflects the importance of health care spending on the economy.

17 Sep 2012

Additional campus-based health promotion strategies needed for students

A new study published today in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism looks beyond the much-feared weight gain common to first-year students and reports on the full 4-year impact of higher education on weight, BMI, and body composition.

17 Sep 2012

Nanoparticles for non-invasive photodynamic therapy of deep cancer

National University of Singapore researchers at the Faculty of Engineering's Department of Bioengineering have discovered a new technology that paves the way for a new safe and non-invasive method of treating deep cancer. Led by Associate Professor Zhang Yong, the team has so far, proven that their technology could inhibit tumour growth and control gene expression in mice. This is a world's first for the use of nanoparticles for non-invasive photodynamic therapy of deep cancer.

17 Sep 2012

Modifying fat intake during pregnancy benefits children regardless of mother's size

If you are overweight and pregnant, your baby isn't destined to a life of obesity after all, according to a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal. In the report, a team of U.S. scientists show that modifying fat intake during pregnancy to a moderate level is enough to benefit the child regardless of the mother's size.

17 Sep 2012

Mo. college files its own lawsuit over contraception mandate

A Missouri Christian college is joining the fight against the health law's mandate that insurance plans cover contraception by filing its own lawsuit.

17 Sep 2012

Migraine headaches in children linked to behavioral difficulties

Kids who get migraine headaches are much more likely than other children to also have behavioral difficulties, including social and attention issues, and anxiety and depression. The more frequent the headaches, the greater the effect, according to research out now in the journal Cephalagia, published by SAGE.

17 Sep 2012

Improve domestic health care worker recruiting, training in U.S. to improve economy, global health

"Today about 12 percent of the health work force [in the U.S.] is foreign-born and trained, including a quarter of all physicians," Kate Tulenko, senior director of health system innovation at IntraHealth International, writes in a New York Times opinion piece, adding, "That's bad for American workers, but even worse for the foreign workers' home countries, including some of the world's poorest and sickest, which could use these professionals at home."

17 Sep 2012

Orthopedists should suspect necrotizing fasciitis in patients with out of proportion pain

Dr. Russell Russo, an Orthopedic Surgeon at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and other researchers stress that orthopedists should have a high index of suspicion for necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacterial infection, in every patient with pain or other symptoms that are out of proportion to the initial diagnosis. Their recommendations are published in the September 2012 issue of Orthopedics Today.

17 Sep 2012

Single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer growths to survive

Human papillomavirus (HPV) has long been implicated in cervical cancer, but details of how it happens have remained a mystery. Now researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that a single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer and even pre-cancer growths in the cervix to survive.

17 Sep 2012

Medicare upcoding could be adding to health care costs

The Center for Public Integrity reports on a trend in which many physicians and other medical professionals are billing Medicare for complicated and costly care. Some say this pattern signals an increase in medical billing abuse while others maintain it reflects seniors' need for more complex care.

17 Sep 2012

NIH awards ASC grant to study ASC-101-treated amniotic fluid-derived stem cells in compartment syndrome

America Stem Cell, Inc. today announced that it has been awarded an Advanced Technology Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.

17 Sep 2012

New development goals should acknowledge health, education, aid, but focus on economic reform

Noting the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly begins on September 25, Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation, writes in his Bloomberg Businessweek blog, "Small World," "Accompanying the usual podium speeches will be the start of backroom discussions as to what will replace the Millennium Development Goals [MDGs], a set of targets for global progress agreed to at the 2000 General Assembly meetings."

17 Sep 2012

Scientists solve co-crystal structure of human antibody that can neutralize influenza viruses

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute and Sea Lane Biotechnologies have solved the co-crystal structure of a human antibody that can neutralize influenza viruses in a unique way.

17 Sep 2012

Research News and Research

Scripps Florida scientist receives two grants to focus on sulfenylation

Cognitive basis proposed for fatigue after stroke

Water mineral content link to alcoholic liver disease

Mitochondrial variations unlikely cause of osteoarthritis

SPECT/CT detects metastatic nodes in melanoma

Ionizing radiation imaging raises breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 carriers

Antimuscarinics only moderately effective for overactive bladder

UnitedHealth to become part of Dow Jones industrial average

Additional campus-based health promotion strategies needed for students

Nanoparticles for non-invasive photodynamic therapy of deep cancer

Modifying fat intake during pregnancy benefits children regardless of mother's size

Mo. college files its own lawsuit over contraception mandate

Migraine headaches in children linked to behavioral difficulties

Improve domestic health care worker recruiting, training in U.S. to improve economy, global health

Orthopedists should suspect necrotizing fasciitis in patients with out of proportion pain

Single HPV protein is required for cervical cancer growths to survive

Medicare upcoding could be adding to health care costs

NIH awards ASC grant to study ASC-101-treated amniotic fluid-derived stem cells in compartment syndrome

New development goals should acknowledge health, education, aid, but focus on economic reform

Scientists solve co-crystal structure of human antibody that can neutralize influenza viruses

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