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Combining epigenetic drugs with immunotherapies may provide additional clinical benefit to cancer patients

Recent data suggest that epigenetic therapies are likely to provide additional clinical benefit to cancer patients when rationally combined with immunotherapeutic drugs, according to a review published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

15 Sep 2015

Research shows people consume more food and drink when offered larger-sized portions, packages or tableware

A new review has produced the most conclusive evidence to date that people consume more food or non-alcoholic drinks when offered larger sized portions or when they use larger items of tableware.

15 Sep 2015

SunSense UK’s nationwide tour highlights the dangers of intentional tanning

Sunscreen brand, SunSense, has this week completed a nationwide tour of the UK with the aim of encouraging the public to think twice about tanning.

15 Sep 2015

Obese people may be malnourished before they undergo weight loss surgery, shows study

Malnutrition is a known complication of weight loss surgery, but findings from a small study by researchers at Johns Hopkins show many obese people may be malnourished before they undergo the procedure.

15 Sep 2015

FDA grants Orphan Drug Designation to TxCell's Col-Treg for treatment of autoimmune uveitis

TxCell SA, a biotechnology company developing innovative, personalized T cell immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory T-cells (Ag-Tregs) for severe chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, announces today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Office of Orphan Products Development has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to TxCell's Col-Treg, a personalized T cell immunotherapy using collagen-II specific regulatory T-cells, for the treatment of chronic non-infectious uveitis.

15 Sep 2015

Hadassah celebrates two years of Heart Health Program that helps women to take control of their health

Today, Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, celebrates two years of the successful Every Beat Counts: Hadassah’s Heart Health Program, which has reached over 10,000 women with educational events nationwide since starting in 2013.

15 Sep 2015

Cancer Research UK introduces three new funding schemes to support careers of cancer doctors

Cancer Research UK is launching three new funding schemes to support the careers of cancer doctors researching new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease.

15 Sep 2015

Antidepressants can increase depression, mood cycling in rapid-cycling bipolar disorder patients

In patients with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, antidepressants can increase incidents of depression and mood cycling. Rif S. El-Mallakh, M.D., director of the Mood Disorders Clinical and Research Program at the University of Louisville, along with Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., of Tufts University and other researchers, conducted the first randomized clinical trial that analyzes how modern antidepressants affect patients with rapid-cycling (RC) bipolar disorder (BD).

15 Sep 2015

Scientists identify a gene that can cause more aggressive cancer in AML patients

University of Manchester scientists have identified a gene - FOXC1 - that, if switched on, causes more aggressive cancer in a fifth of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients, according to a Cancer Research UK study published in the journal Cancer Cell, today (Monday).

14 Sep 2015

WFU awarded $6 million federal grant to further study knee osteoarthritis

A $6 million federal grant, the largest ever awarded to Wake Forest University, will enable health and exercise science researchers to further study knee osteoarthritis and successful treatment measures in community-based settings.

14 Sep 2015

Researchers examine neuroanatomical signature of schizophrenia in different ethnic groups

While it is known that the incidence and outward symptoms of schizophrenia are strongly influenced by ethnic factors--for instance, patients from Asian ethnicities are more likely to experience visual hallucinations, whereas patients from western cultures and Caucasian ethnicities are more likely to suffer from auditory hallucinations--it was unclear if brain deficits would differ amongst suffers from various ethnic backgrounds.

14 Sep 2015

Innovative mouse study could lead to advances in understanding autism

They don't use gondolas or croon like Sinatra. But scientists have known for a long time that male mice belt out something like love songs to females when the time seems right to them.

14 Sep 2015

Communicating risk status to at-risk Alzheimer's patients

How would you feel, as a cognitively healthy person, if a doctor said you had high odds of developing Alzheimer's disease within two to five years?

14 Sep 2015

Surgeons use 3D printed implant in patient diagnosed with chest wall sarcoma

After being diagnosed with a chest wall sarcoma, a 54-year-old Spanish man's surgical team made the decision to remove his sternum and a portion of his rib cage and replace it with an implant.

14 Sep 2015

Oxford researchers find that pedalling may reduce performance in most people

Pedalling like Chris Froome or Alberto Contador might seem appealing, but Oxford University researchers have found that for most of us it's likely to reduce rather than improve our performance.

14 Sep 2015

Earliest known case of rickets in the UK identified in Neolithic Tiree skeleton

Rickets has been identified in a Neolithic skeleton from the Scottish island of Tiree, making it the earliest case of the disease in the UK, according to research announced at the British Science Festival in Bradford.

14 Sep 2015

Better treatment could be on the horizon for Myasthenia Gravis

Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is a debilitating and potentially deadly disease that can afflict anyone, characterized by severe muscle weakness, affecting control of facial expressions, arm and leg movements, chewing, swallowing, coughing and breathing. There is no cure, only treatment.

14 Sep 2015

US-Ireland partnership awarded £2.9m to develop nanomedicine for treatment of pancreatic cancer

A US-Ireland partnership involving researchers at Queen's University Belfast has been awarded £2.9m to develop new treatments for pancreatic cancer, which is the fifth most common cause of cancer deaths in the UK.

14 Sep 2015

Patient position helps increase effectiveness of colonoscopy for CRC screening

Having patients lie on their left side while the right side of their colon is being examined can result in more polyps being found, thus increasing the effectiveness of colonoscopy for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, according to a study in the September issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE).

14 Sep 2015

New research shows marijuana use may increase prediabetes risk

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that current and former users of marijuana are more likely to have prediabetes--the state of poor blood sugar control that can progress to type 2 diabetes--than never users of marijuana. However the researchers, led by Mike Bancks (University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA) failed to establish a direct link between marijuana use and type 2 diabetes.

14 Sep 2015

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Combining epigenetic drugs with immunotherapies may provide additional clinical benefit to cancer patients

Research shows people consume more food and drink when offered larger-sized portions, packages or tableware

SunSense UK’s nationwide tour highlights the dangers of intentional tanning

Obese people may be malnourished before they undergo weight loss surgery, shows study

FDA grants Orphan Drug Designation to TxCell's Col-Treg for treatment of autoimmune uveitis

Hadassah celebrates two years of Heart Health Program that helps women to take control of their health

Cancer Research UK introduces three new funding schemes to support careers of cancer doctors

Antidepressants can increase depression, mood cycling in rapid-cycling bipolar disorder patients

Scientists identify a gene that can cause more aggressive cancer in AML patients

WFU awarded $6 million federal grant to further study knee osteoarthritis

Researchers examine neuroanatomical signature of schizophrenia in different ethnic groups

Innovative mouse study could lead to advances in understanding autism

Communicating risk status to at-risk Alzheimer's patients

Surgeons use 3D printed implant in patient diagnosed with chest wall sarcoma

Oxford researchers find that pedalling may reduce performance in most people

Earliest known case of rickets in the UK identified in Neolithic Tiree skeleton

Better treatment could be on the horizon for Myasthenia Gravis

US-Ireland partnership awarded £2.9m to develop nanomedicine for treatment of pancreatic cancer

Patient position helps increase effectiveness of colonoscopy for CRC screening

New research shows marijuana use may increase prediabetes risk

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