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Researchers make progress toward gene-based strategies to treat inherited neurometabolic diseases

Researchers are making great strides toward developing gene-based strategies to treat a variety of inherited neurometabolic diseases characterized by severe neurological involvement.

29 Oct 2019

Patterns of Alzheimer's-related damage differ by subtype and age of onset, study finds

Despite decades of scientific scrutiny, Alzheimer's disease researchers have yet to work out its cause or treatment. Understanding what underlies its three distinct subtypes is thought to be a promising new research avenue.

29 Oct 2019

Financial incentives significantly decrease patient preference for testing

Providing financial incentives to forego testing significantly decreases patient preference for testing, even when accounting for test benefit and risk. That is the finding of a study published in the October 2019 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, a journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

29 Oct 2019

Measuring gaze patterns of children watching movies can help detect autism

Measuring children's gaze patterns as they watch movies of social interactions is a reliable way to accurately identify nearly half of autism spectrum disorder cases, according to a new study just published in Autism Research by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers.

29 Oct 2019

Scientists solve first structure of human cotransporter protein KCC1

In work that could someday improve treatments for epilepsy, UT Southwestern scientists have published the first three-dimensional structure of a member of a large family of human proteins that carry charged particles – ions – across the cell membrane.

29 Oct 2019

NSU study points to another potential connection between sleep and overall good health

As if you didn't already have enough to worry about to keep you up at night, a new study indicates that poor sleep can negatively affect your gut microbiome, which can, in turn, lead to additional health issues.

29 Oct 2019

States try a gentler approach to getting Medicaid enrollees to work

Under pressure from the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania legislature to require Medicaid recipients to work as a condition for coverage, state health officials have devised a gentler approach to getting beneficiaries into jobs.

29 Oct 2019

NYU researcher awarded $1.7 million NIH grant to optimize cancer treatment

Weiqiang Chen, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, has been awarded the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (R35) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health.

29 Oct 2019

Pro-inflammatory protein could play key role in protecting against herpes virus

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have discovered a function in a pro-inflammatory protein that could play an important part in improving current and future therapeutics for the herpes virus.

29 Oct 2019

Snooze you can use: California legislates more sleep for better health

Teenagers don’t get enough sleep, and California's effort to fix the problem may serve as a wake-up call to other states' lawmakers.

29 Oct 2019

Fresenius Medical Care enhances support for home dialysis patients in Western Australia

Fresenius Medical Care, the world's leading provider of dialysis products and services, announced the further enhancement of support for home dialysis patients in Western Australia.

29 Oct 2019

New diagnostic technique enables grading of tumor consistency using MRI

Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have developed a new diagnostic technique which enables the grading of tumor consistency using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The researchers used an imaging technique known as tomoelastography to visualize the mechanical properties of liver tumors.

28 Oct 2019

NCCN ORP plans to support phase II randomized trial for lung cancer patients

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Oncology Research Program today announced plans to support a phase II randomized trial for lung cancer patients.

28 Oct 2019

Cancer drug may delay progression of bone and other myeloma-related organ damage

The largest randomized trial in asymptomatic patients with smoldering multiple myeloma suggests that lenalidomide, a cancer drug, may delay the onset of bone and other myeloma-related organ damage.

28 Oct 2019

Developing AI-assisted telecoaching solution for people with disabilities and diabetes

Mohanraj Thirumalai, Ph.D., has received a three-year National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research grant to investigate and develop an artificial intelligence-assisted telecoaching solution for people with disabilities and diabetes.

25 Oct 2019

Non-biologic simulators could prove to be better alternative for training plastic surgeons in microsurgery

Microsurgery is an intricate and challenging surgical technique that involves using miniature instruments and sutures as fine as a hair strand aided by sophisticated microscopes.

25 Oct 2019

New injectable formula to treat joint inflammation has sustained effect for ten days

Thanks to a new injectable formula, Brazilian researchers have succeeded in enhancing the efficacy and prolonging the duration of action of a drug commonly used to treat joint inflammation.

25 Oct 2019

Bariatric surgery is safe and beneficial for teenagers with morbid obesity

Bariatric surgery is safe and, in many cases, beneficial for teenagers with morbid obesity who would otherwise face a heightened risk of developing severe health problems, including heart disease and stroke, according to a new study from Penn Medicine and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

25 Oct 2019

Decision support tool could avert needless referrals of low-risk patients to cardiac specialists

Few events strike more fear in parents than hearing their child's heart "hurts."

25 Oct 2019

Functional medicine model linked to improvements in health-related quality of life

In the first retrospective cohort study of the functional medicine model, Cleveland Clinic researchers found that functional medicine was associated with improvements in health-related quality of life. The study was published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open.

25 Oct 2019

Education News and Research

Researchers make progress toward gene-based strategies to treat inherited neurometabolic diseases

Patterns of Alzheimer's-related damage differ by subtype and age of onset, study finds

Financial incentives significantly decrease patient preference for testing

Measuring gaze patterns of children watching movies can help detect autism

Scientists solve first structure of human cotransporter protein KCC1

NSU study points to another potential connection between sleep and overall good health

States try a gentler approach to getting Medicaid enrollees to work

NYU researcher awarded $1.7 million NIH grant to optimize cancer treatment

Pro-inflammatory protein could play key role in protecting against herpes virus

Snooze you can use: California legislates more sleep for better health

Fresenius Medical Care enhances support for home dialysis patients in Western Australia

New diagnostic technique enables grading of tumor consistency using MRI

NCCN ORP plans to support phase II randomized trial for lung cancer patients

Cancer drug may delay progression of bone and other myeloma-related organ damage

Developing AI-assisted telecoaching solution for people with disabilities and diabetes

Non-biologic simulators could prove to be better alternative for training plastic surgeons in microsurgery

New injectable formula to treat joint inflammation has sustained effect for ten days

Bariatric surgery is safe and beneficial for teenagers with morbid obesity

Decision support tool could avert needless referrals of low-risk patients to cardiac specialists

Functional medicine model linked to improvements in health-related quality of life

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