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Discovery about eye’s shape could boost effectiveness of lenses used in cataract operations

A professor at London's Kingston University has made a discovery about the shape of the eye that could boost the effectiveness of man-made lenses used in cataract operations.

1 Mar 2013

Registration open for Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting

Online meeting registration is open for the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting April 13 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans.

1 Mar 2013

Lung congestion increases dialysis patients' risks of premature death or heart attacks

Asymptomatic lung congestion increases dialysis patients' risks of dying prematurely or experiencing heart attacks or other cardiac events, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN).

1 Mar 2013

Study links grape seed and skin extracts with high-fat-diet-induced renal disease

New insight into grape seed extract as a therapeutic and preventative measure to fight obesity-induced kidney damage is presented in a new study. Grape seed and skin extract (GSSE) is known to contain powerful antioxidants.

1 Mar 2013

RNA interference identifies function of genes linked with cardiovascular disease

Studies screening the genome of hundreds of thousands of individuals (known as Genome-wide association studies or GWAS) have linked more than 100 regions in the genome to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

1 Mar 2013

Study shows how theranostic nanoparticles can effectively deliver cancer drugs to tumour cells

Tiny particles filled with a drug could be a new tool for treating cancer in the future. A new study published by Swedish scientists in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization shows how such nanoparticles can be combined to secure the effective delivery of cancer drugs to tumour cells - and how they can be given properties to make them visible in MR scanners and thus rendered trackable.

1 Mar 2013

Weekend reading: Navigating treatment; Can a robot replace your doctor?

Your pathology report indicates that you have stomach cancer. Hearing those words conveying yet another cancer-related diagnosis - my fourth since the age of 20 - I felt, at the age of 57, as though I had been airdropped into a foreign country.

1 Mar 2013

Study identifies six markers in the breath that could become stress-detector

The perennial stress-buster - a deep breath - could become stress-detector, Loughborough University researchers claim. According to a new pilot study, published today, 28 February, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Breath Research, there are six markers in the breath that could be candidates for use as indicators of stress.

1 Mar 2013

Pivotal study of olesoxime in Spinal Muscular Atrophy receives positive interim review

Trophos SA, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics from discovery to clinical validation for under-served medical needs in neurology and cardiology, announced the completion of the interim analysis of the pivotal efficacy study of olesoxime in the rare neurodegenerative condition Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA).

1 Mar 2013

Structural connectome maps reveal new details about agenesis of the corpus callosum

Combining hospital MRIs with the mathematical tool known as network analysis, a group of researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have mapped the three-dimensional global connections within the brains of seven adults who have genetic malformations that leave them without the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right sides of the brain.

1 Mar 2013

Loyola to reach more than 200 students on Mar.11 with classroom presentations on healthy snacks

Students at Proviso East High School will soon have the opportunity to learn about the importance of healthy snacking during National Nutrition Month in March. Loyola University Chicago dietetic intern, Sara Casey, will reach more than 200 students on Monday, March 11, with classroom presentations on healthy snacks to help students feel and perform their best.

1 Mar 2013

Urea cycle disorder patient successfully treated by Promethera(R) HepaStem in Phase I/II trial in France

Promethera Biosciences, a Belgian biotechnology company developing Promethera(R) HepaStem, a cell-based therapy for the treatment of liver-based metabolic diseases including Crigler-Najjar Syndrome and Urea Cycle Disorders, announced that it has successfully treated a patient with liver progenitor cells enrolled in its Phase I/II trial.

1 Mar 2013

$USPSTF posts final recommendation statement on vitamin D supplementation to prevent fractures$

USPSTF posts final recommendation statement on vitamin D supplementation to prevent fractures

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has posted its final recommendation statement on vitamin D and calcium supplementation to prevent fractures in adults.

1 Mar 2013

LDL apheresis can reduce cholesterol levels in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia

Some patients are genetically prone to such dangerously high levels of cholesterol that no amount of diet, exercise and medications can reduce their cholesterol to safe levels.

1 Mar 2013

Thyroid hormone may help reduce heart damage in humans with cardiac diseases

Thyroid hormone treatment administered to rats at the time of a heart attack (myocardial infarction) led to significant reduction in the loss of heart muscle cells and improvement in heart function, according to a study published by a team of researchers led by A. Martin Gerdes and Yue-Feng Chen from New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.

1 Mar 2013

Volunteer mentors may help overcome symptoms of depression among young people

Having the guidance of a caring adult mentor may help overcome symptoms of depression among young people, according to a five-year study of 1,300 youth in Washington State.

1 Mar 2013

New way to identify heterogeneous brain cells by looking at epigenetic variation

Scientists from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD have developed a new way to identify heterogeneous brain cells by looking at epigenetic variation (the heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence).

1 Mar 2013

Adult sleepwalking may induce violent behaviors and affect health-related quality of life

A new study found that adult sleepwalking is a potentially serious condition that may induce violent behaviors and affect health-related quality of life.

1 Mar 2013

Scientists take important step toward designing a uniform protocol for microbiome research

Earth Day may be more than a month away, but another, more personal, ecosystem has been shown to also be worth protecting-within our bodies are communities of microbes that affect the behavior of human cells hosting them.

1 Mar 2013

Oraya Therapy safe and effective for patients with wet AMD

Oraya Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that one of the patients who successfully was treated for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with Oraya Therapy during the INTREPID clinical trial has released data showing he has experienced significant, sustained vision improvement more than two years after treatment in his right eye, without any subsequent anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injections or other treatment.

1 Mar 2013

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Discovery about eye’s shape could boost effectiveness of lenses used in cataract operations

Registration open for Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting

Lung congestion increases dialysis patients' risks of premature death or heart attacks

Study links grape seed and skin extracts with high-fat-diet-induced renal disease

RNA interference identifies function of genes linked with cardiovascular disease

Study shows how theranostic nanoparticles can effectively deliver cancer drugs to tumour cells

Weekend reading: Navigating treatment; Can a robot replace your doctor?

Study identifies six markers in the breath that could become stress-detector

Pivotal study of olesoxime in Spinal Muscular Atrophy receives positive interim review

Structural connectome maps reveal new details about agenesis of the corpus callosum

Loyola to reach more than 200 students on Mar.11 with classroom presentations on healthy snacks

Urea cycle disorder patient successfully treated by Promethera(R) HepaStem in Phase I/II trial in France

USPSTF posts final recommendation statement on vitamin D supplementation to prevent fractures

LDL apheresis can reduce cholesterol levels in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia

Thyroid hormone may help reduce heart damage in humans with cardiac diseases

Volunteer mentors may help overcome symptoms of depression among young people

New way to identify heterogeneous brain cells by looking at epigenetic variation

Adult sleepwalking may induce violent behaviors and affect health-related quality of life

Scientists take important step toward designing a uniform protocol for microbiome research

Oraya Therapy safe and effective for patients with wet AMD

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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