Medical Condition News

RSS

Quickly clearing out damaged proteins may help prevent neurodegenerative disorders: Study

Recycling is not only good for the environment, it's good for the brain. A study using rat cells indicates that quickly clearing out defective proteins in the brain may prevent loss of brain cells.

22 Jul 2013

Sir Michael Stratton, Thijn Brummelkamp and Anne Glover to speak at The EMBO Meeting 2013

Predisposition to cancer and other diseases, genetic testing, infectious proteins and ubiquitin signalling -- these are some of the topics internationally renowned speakers will tackle at The EMBO Meeting 2013 to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 21-24 September 2013.

22 Jul 2013

Jersey Shore to present free educational conference focusing on thyroid cancer patients, survivors

On Friday, August 2, 2013, Jersey Shore, in partnership with Meridian Cancer Care and the Light of Life Foundation, will present a free educational conference featuring Meridian Health specialists.

22 Jul 2013

Study sheds light on how cells regenerate protective sheaths around nerve fibres in the brain

Multiple sclerosis treatments that repair damage to the brain could be developed thanks to new research.

22 Jul 2013

Study reveals correlation between premature death and mental illness in people with epilepsy

People with epilepsy are ten times more likely to die early, before their mid-fifties, compared with the general population, according to a 41 year study in Sweden published today in the Lancet and part-funded by the Wellcome Trust.

22 Jul 2013

University of Florida receives RPB Sanders Construction grant

Research to Prevent Blindness has awarded a prestigious, one-time laboratory grant of $600,000 to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Florida, College of Medicine. The newly created laboratory will be permanently named the RPB Mildred Krahmer Sanders and William Clifford Sanders Laboratory for Vision Research.

20 Jul 2013

State highlights: Court hears arguments on Fla. 'gun-gag' law; Univ. of Minn. seeks to scale back coverage; fewer Utah docs see Medicaid patients

The top attorney for the state of Florida asked a federal appeals court today to reinstate a Florida law that regulates what physicians can ask patients about gun ownership, asserting that the law does not actually stifle such questions. Yes, it does, countered a lawyer representing several Florida medical societies and individual physicians who challenged the law as an infringement on their First Amendment right to free speech (Lowes, 7/18).

20 Jul 2013

Research roundup: Eye care disparities; more complications for Medicaid patients after spine surgery; the cost to states opting against Medicaid expansion

After analyzing 2003-2004 data of patients who underwent spinal surgery at two medical institutions, they found that Medicaid beneficiaries were at much higher risk of experiencing any type of complication than patients who are privately insured. "The results of our study further support the growing body of literature that Medicaid patients have higher rates of complications," the authors write. When evaluating patients and considering the likelihood of complications, "Medicaid status should be considered as well," they concluded (Hacquebord et al., 7/15).

20 Jul 2013

New research project has potential to treat human deafness and loss of balance

The sounds of success are ringing at Kansas State University through a research project that has potential to treat human deafness and loss of balance.

20 Jul 2013

Vegetation may not protect people from ozone pollution, says new research

During heat waves - when ozone production rises - plants' ozone absorption is curtailed, leaving more pollution in the air, and costing an estimated 460 lives in the UK in the hot summer of 2006.

20 Jul 2013

ACC report helps clinicians optimize appropriate use of noninvasive vascular tests

A new report issued today by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and developed in collaboration with 10 other leading professional societies provides detailed criteria to help clinicians optimize the appropriate use of certain noninvasive vascular tests when caring for patients with known or suspected disorders of the venous (veins) system.

20 Jul 2013

Hyundai Motor America to open Hyundai Cancer Institute at CHOC Children's

On Tuesday, July 23, Hyundai Motor America and its U.S. dealer council, through their nonprofit organization Hyundai Hope On Wheels, will celebrate the grand opening of the Hyundai Cancer Institute.

20 Jul 2013

Professional athletes can return to competition after vertebral fusion surgery

Most professional athletes are able to return to competition within a year after vertebral fusion surgery on the upper (cervical) spine, reports a study in the July issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

20 Jul 2013

U.S. News and World Report names Porter Adventist Hospital as one of Colorado's top three hospitals

Porter Adventist Hospital has recently been named as one of the top three hospitals in the state by U.S. News and World Report.

20 Jul 2013

Family caregivers of older adults with dementia willing to stop cancer screening: Research

Research from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University Center for Aging Research has found that many family caregivers of older adults with dementia are willing to consider stopping cancer screening of the elderly individual; they are also relieved when the older adult's physician brings it up.

20 Jul 2013

Viewpoints: Expanding abortion restrictions; Lift the ban on gay blood donors; Medicare's price schedules

What's going on in Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa ought to be a wake-up call to Minnesotans who prefer that physicians, not politicians, guide an individual's medical care. Minnesota's neighbors have moved with alarming alacrity to cripple women's access to a safe and legal medical procedure - abortion (7/18).

20 Jul 2013

Almost 70% of New Yorkers with disability are obese

The New York State Department of Health's new information on the high rates of obesity among the disabled community is deeply concerning, says a statewide coalition of disease prevention experts and advocates.

20 Jul 2013

Investigators report complete catalog of genes expressed in retina

Investigators at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have published the most thorough description of gene expression in the human retina reported to date. In a study published today in the journal BMC Genomics, Drs. Michael Farkas, Eric Pierce and colleagues in the Ocular Genomics Institute at Mass. Eye and Ear reported a complete catalog of the genes expressed in the retina.

20 Jul 2013

Research collaboration to tackle multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease

Research into multiple sclerosis and motor neurone disease is to be boosted with an international collaboration to further understanding of these illnesses.

20 Jul 2013

NKX2-8 mutation in dogs may be a risk factor for human neural tube defects, say researchers

A gene related to neural tube defects in dogs has for the first time been identified by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and University of Iowa.

20 Jul 2013

Medical Condition News

Quickly clearing out damaged proteins may help prevent neurodegenerative disorders: Study

Sir Michael Stratton, Thijn Brummelkamp and Anne Glover to speak at The EMBO Meeting 2013

Jersey Shore to present free educational conference focusing on thyroid cancer patients, survivors

Study sheds light on how cells regenerate protective sheaths around nerve fibres in the brain

Study reveals correlation between premature death and mental illness in people with epilepsy

University of Florida receives RPB Sanders Construction grant

State highlights: Court hears arguments on Fla. 'gun-gag' law; Univ. of Minn. seeks to scale back coverage; fewer Utah docs see Medicaid patients

Research roundup: Eye care disparities; more complications for Medicaid patients after spine surgery; the cost to states opting against Medicaid expansion

New research project has potential to treat human deafness and loss of balance

Vegetation may not protect people from ozone pollution, says new research

ACC report helps clinicians optimize appropriate use of noninvasive vascular tests

Hyundai Motor America to open Hyundai Cancer Institute at CHOC Children's

Professional athletes can return to competition after vertebral fusion surgery

U.S. News and World Report names Porter Adventist Hospital as one of Colorado's top three hospitals

Family caregivers of older adults with dementia willing to stop cancer screening: Research

Viewpoints: Expanding abortion restrictions; Lift the ban on gay blood donors; Medicare's price schedules

Almost 70% of New Yorkers with disability are obese

Investigators report complete catalog of genes expressed in retina

Research collaboration to tackle multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease

NKX2-8 mutation in dogs may be a risk factor for human neural tube defects, say researchers

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

Latest News