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Yale researchers identify racial disparities in prescribing opioids for chronic pain

Yale researchers have identified racial disparities in the treatment of patients who are prescribed opioids for chronic pain.

20 Aug 2018

Researchers find STAT3 as therapeutic target for chronic active EBV infection

Tokyo Medical and Dental University study shows that ruxolitinib-induced inhibition of STAT3 activity blocks survival and reduces pro-inflammatory cytokine production in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-infected clonally proliferating T- or NK-cells in Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus infection.

20 Aug 2018

RDMD raises $3 million in seed funding to accelerate rare disease research, drug development

RDMD, a healthcare technology company dedicated to accelerating research for patients with rare diseases, today announced that it has raised $3 million in seed financing.

20 Aug 2018

NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center expands Blood and Marrow Transplant Program

To further advance the study and treatment of blood cancers, Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health has significantly expanded its Blood and Marrow Transplant Program.

20 Aug 2018

Chagas disease causes chronic heart disease and has spread outside of Latin America

Chagas disease, caused by infection with a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi (T cruzi), causes chronic heart disease in about one third of those infected.

20 Aug 2018

New drug shows potential to prevent painful side effect of therapy

About 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed annually with head, neck, nasal and oral cancers. Most are treated with radiation, and of those, 70-80 percent develop a painful and debilitating side effect called severe oral mucositis.

20 Aug 2018

Thrombospondin-1 contributes to development of aortic aneurysm in mice and humans, study finds

Researchers centered at the University of Tsukuba and Kansai Medical University in Japan reveal matricellular protein Thrombospondin-1 (Thbs1) contributes to the development of aortic aneurysm in mice and humans.

20 Aug 2018

Study unravels cellular and molecular mechanisms behind dermal condensate formation

Hair growth is regulated by a small cluster of hair-specific fibroblasts, the dermal papilla. But exactly how dermal papilla forms has remained elusive until now.

20 Aug 2018

Harbour Biomed and Kelun-Biotech collaborate to develop, commercialize anti-PD-L1 antibody

Harbour BioMed today announced it has entered into an exclusive strategic partnership with Sichuan Kelun-Biotech Biopharmaceutical Co., Ltd. to develop and commercialize A167, an anti-PD-L1 antibody in Phase 2 clinical development, worldwide outside of the Greater China region.

20 Aug 2018

Novel system can pinpoint ingestible implants inside the body using wireless signals

Medical processes like imaging often require cutting someone open or making them swallow huge tubes with cameras on them. But what if could get the same results with methods that are less expensive, invasive and time-consuming?

20 Aug 2018

New assay may help improve both sarcoma diagnosis and treatment

Sarcomas are rare tumors that are often misdiagnosed. Specific recurrent chromosomal rearrangements, known as translocations, can serve as essential diagnostic markers and are found in about 20 percent of sarcomas.

20 Aug 2018

Loyola Medicine offers scalp cooling treatment to reduce risk of chemotherapy hair loss

Loyola Medicine is offering cancer patients a treatment that reduces the risk of hair loss by cooling the scalp.

18 Aug 2018

HSS takes young patients with physical challenges on a surfing trip

Hospital for Special Surgery made a splash this week with a surfing trip for young patients. Giving new meaning to the term "patient care," the Adaptive Sports Academy at Lerner Children's Pavilion at HSS treated 12 patients, along with some of their siblings, to sand and surf in Long Beach, Long Island.

17 Aug 2018

Study offers possibility of squelching a focal epilepsy seizure before symptoms appear

Patients with focal epilepsy that does not respond to medications badly need alternative treatments.

17 Aug 2018

New modeling studies highlight urgent need for effective drug policy reforms to prevent HIV

While global incidence rates of HIV have declined notably in recent years, the virus that causes AIDS remains a major and, in some ways largely unmitigated, public health threat in some countries and regions.

17 Aug 2018

Strategies to make socially assistive robots valuable and trustworthy assistants for medical therapies

In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients' rate of survival after diseases with severe functional deficits, such as a stroke, will increase.

17 Aug 2018

Tandem Diabetes Care introduces t:slim X2 Insulin Pump with Basal-IQ Technology in the US

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. , a medical device company and manufacturer of the only touchscreen insulin pumps with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) integration, today announced its launch of the t:slim X2 Insulin Pump with Basal-IQ™ Technology, a predictive low glucose suspend (PLGS) feature designed to help reduce the frequency and duration of low glucose events (hypoglycemia).

17 Aug 2018

Innovative platform developed to destroy cancer cells

The new treatment will serve as both diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors. This breakthrough in the technologies of cancer diagnosis and treatment was made by an interdisciplinary Russian-German collaboration of chemists, physicists, and biologists from NUST MISIS, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU), and the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany).

17 Aug 2018

Making robots as valuable and trustworthy assistants for medical therapies

17 Aug 2018

Researchers discuss techniques to help combat growing epidemic of obesity

More than 60 percent of American adults weigh more than is healthy, which results in increased health issues for the patient and high health care costs.

17 Aug 2018

Therapy News and Research

Yale researchers identify racial disparities in prescribing opioids for chronic pain

Researchers find STAT3 as therapeutic target for chronic active EBV infection

RDMD raises $3 million in seed funding to accelerate rare disease research, drug development

NYU Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center expands Blood and Marrow Transplant Program

Chagas disease causes chronic heart disease and has spread outside of Latin America

New drug shows potential to prevent painful side effect of therapy

Thrombospondin-1 contributes to development of aortic aneurysm in mice and humans, study finds

Study unravels cellular and molecular mechanisms behind dermal condensate formation

Harbour Biomed and Kelun-Biotech collaborate to develop, commercialize anti-PD-L1 antibody

Novel system can pinpoint ingestible implants inside the body using wireless signals

New assay may help improve both sarcoma diagnosis and treatment

Loyola Medicine offers scalp cooling treatment to reduce risk of chemotherapy hair loss

HSS takes young patients with physical challenges on a surfing trip

Study offers possibility of squelching a focal epilepsy seizure before symptoms appear

New modeling studies highlight urgent need for effective drug policy reforms to prevent HIV

Strategies to make socially assistive robots valuable and trustworthy assistants for medical therapies

Tandem Diabetes Care introduces t:slim X2 Insulin Pump with Basal-IQ Technology in the US

Innovative platform developed to destroy cancer cells

Making robots as valuable and trustworthy assistants for medical therapies

Researchers discuss techniques to help combat growing epidemic of obesity

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

Expanding access to NMR with the Fourier 80 Duo

Advancing Intracellular Delivery with LumiPore®

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