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UI study offers good news for care givers, health care providers

A new University of Iowa study further supports an inescapable message: caregivers have a profound influence-good or bad-on the emotional state of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.

25 Sep 2014

Elsevier honored at BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that 28 of its professional and scholarly products were honored at the British Medical Association's annual BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony at BMA House in London on Sept. 22, 2014.

25 Sep 2014

Study finds that majority of athletes return to play after having knee surgery for ACL injury

The majority of athletes included in a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine were able to return to play after having knee surgery to repair an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury.

25 Sep 2014

Enlargement of left atrial appendage may be a risk factor of strokes with cardiac origin: Finnish study

More than half of the patients who have suffered a stroke with no well-defined aetiology have an enlarged left atrial appendage of the heart, according to a Finnish study. The results indicate that the enlargement of the left atrial appendage may be an independent risk factor of strokes with cardiac origin.

25 Sep 2014

Research findings open up new avenues for development of chronic itch treatments

Areas of the brain that respond to reward and pleasure are linked to the ability of a drug known as butorphanol to relieve itch, according to new research led by Gil Yosipovitch, MD, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at Temple University School of Medicine, and Director of the Temple Itch Center.

25 Sep 2014

Ohio State researchers develop novel anticancer peptide vaccines and inhibitors

Researchers have developed two new anticancer peptide vaccines and two peptide inhibitors as part of a larger peptide immunotherapy effort at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.

25 Sep 2014

UTHealth researchers awarded $1.3 million grant to study asthma risk in Texas health care workers

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health have been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to study how the risk of asthma has changed for health care workers in Texas over the last 10 years.

25 Sep 2014

Treating prediabetes patients could help prevent severe complications associated with diabetes

Doctors at three leading research institutions and the American Diabetes Association report that treating patients with prediabetes as if they had diabetes could help prevent or delay the most severe complications associated with this chronic disease, which affects about thirty million people in the United States.

25 Sep 2014

People with memory loss more likely to develop dementia later, study finds

New research suggests that people without dementia who begin reporting memory issues may be more likely to develop dementia later, even if they have no clinical signs of the disease.

25 Sep 2014

NIH awards grants to 11 research groups to establish AMP RA/Lupus Network

The National Institutes of Health has awarded grants to 11 research groups across the United States to establish the Accelerating Medicines Partnership in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus (AMP RA/Lupus) Network.

25 Sep 2014

Bacterial communication molecules can be manipulated to prevent cancer cells from spreading

Cancer, while always dangerous, truly becomes life-threatening when cancer cells begin to spread to different areas throughout the body.

25 Sep 2014

New findings raise hope for novel class of drugs to treat lupus

New findings by a biomedical engineer and his team at the University of Houston raise hope for a new class of drugs to treat lupus that may not include the long list of adverse risks and side effects often associated with current treatments for this disease.

25 Sep 2014

Northwestern scientists develop first animal model for ALS dementia

The first animal model for ALS dementia, a form of ALS that also damages the brain, has been developed by Northwestern Medicine- scientists. The advance will allow researchers to directly see the brains of living mice, under anesthesia, at the microscopic level. This will allow direct monitoring of test drugs to determine if they work.

25 Sep 2014

Pain can disrupt sleep in surgery patients, result in longer hospital stays

Pain can make it difficult for some patients to get a good night's rest while recovering in the hospital following certain surgical procedures, often resulting in longer hospital stays, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

24 Sep 2014

Physical therapist in Southern California launches new book, Rehab the Mind

The highest rated physical therapist in Southern California, Dr. Justin C. Lin, is pleased to announce the launch of his new book, Rehab the Mind, Revive the Body, (known hereafter as the "Book" or "RR"), an inspirational account of the power of active healing based on real life stories of his patients.

24 Sep 2014

ZERO donates mobile health vehicles to Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, LSU Health Sciences Center

ZERO - The End of Prostate Cancer recently announced the donation of two mobile health vehicles to LSU Health Sciences Center and Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation. Through a competitive process, the vehicles have been awarded to two reputable health service providers.

24 Sep 2014

Eutropics inks NCI contract to develop Praedicare Dx platform technology for AML treatments

EUTROPICS Inc., a privately held company developing novel diagnostic tests, today announced that it has signed a contract with the National Cancer Institute through the Small Business Initiative Research (NCI-SBIR) program to develop its' Praedicare Dx platform for personalized medicine approaches in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) patient management.

24 Sep 2014

AIT, BioVendor and SCIENION partner to develop in-vitro diagnostic test for colon cancer

The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, BioVendor and SCIENION today announced that the three companies will partner on the development of an in-vitro diagnostic test for colon cancer. The innovative test kit shall identify cancer at an early stage based on tumor autoantibody biomarkers.

24 Sep 2014

ImmunoCellular signs licensing agreement with Caltech to develop antigen-specific T-cell technology

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics, Ltd. announced today that it has established a licensing agreement with the California Institute of Technology for exclusive rights to novel technology for the development of certain antigen specific T-cell immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer.

24 Sep 2014

Researchers explore gene expression in normal vestibular nerves, vestibular schwannomas

Researchers from the University of Toronto, directed by Drs. Gelareh Zadeh and Boris Krischek, investigated gene expression in normal vestibular nerves and vestibular schwannomas (VSs).

24 Sep 2014

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UI study offers good news for care givers, health care providers

Elsevier honored at BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony

Study finds that majority of athletes return to play after having knee surgery for ACL injury

Enlargement of left atrial appendage may be a risk factor of strokes with cardiac origin: Finnish study

Research findings open up new avenues for development of chronic itch treatments

Ohio State researchers develop novel anticancer peptide vaccines and inhibitors

UTHealth researchers awarded $1.3 million grant to study asthma risk in Texas health care workers

Treating prediabetes patients could help prevent severe complications associated with diabetes

People with memory loss more likely to develop dementia later, study finds

NIH awards grants to 11 research groups to establish AMP RA/Lupus Network

Bacterial communication molecules can be manipulated to prevent cancer cells from spreading

New findings raise hope for novel class of drugs to treat lupus

Northwestern scientists develop first animal model for ALS dementia

Pain can disrupt sleep in surgery patients, result in longer hospital stays

Physical therapist in Southern California launches new book, Rehab the Mind

ZERO donates mobile health vehicles to Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, LSU Health Sciences Center

Eutropics inks NCI contract to develop Praedicare Dx platform technology for AML treatments

AIT, BioVendor and SCIENION partner to develop in-vitro diagnostic test for colon cancer

ImmunoCellular signs licensing agreement with Caltech to develop antigen-specific T-cell technology

Researchers explore gene expression in normal vestibular nerves, vestibular schwannomas

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