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PMDA approves use of LYNPARZA in patients with BRCA-mutated breast cancer

AstraZeneca and Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency has approved LYNPARZA tablets for use in patients with unresectable or recurrent BRCA-mutated, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 -negative breast cancer who have received prior chemotherapy.

2 Jul 2018

Simple DNA test can predict risk of bad side effects to thiopurine drugs

Screening a tiny section of DNA could help East Asian patients avoid severe reactions to some medications.

2 Jul 2018

Researchers develop inexpensive blood test to diagnose hepatitis B patients

A simple $20 blood test could help diagnose thousands of patients with hepatitis B in need of treatment in some of Africa's poorest regions.

2 Jul 2018

CMS policy had insignificant impact on reducing healthcare-associated infections

Hospitals may have avoided financial penalties by billing hospital-associated conditions as present at the time of the patient's admission, supporting prior work that showed that a Medicare policy designed to monetarily penalize hospitals for preventable complications had an insignificant impact on reducing healthcare-associated infections.

2 Jul 2018

Researchers discover gene that plays role in regulating body's immune response to infection

Australia's national science agency CSIRO has identified a new gene that plays a critical role in regulating the body's immune response to infection and disease.

2 Jul 2018

Study evaluates ability of Masimo Ori to detect declining blood oxygenation during one-lung ventilation

Masimo announced today the findings of a study in which researchers evaluated the ability of Masimo ORi™ to detect declining blood oxygenation prior to standard oxygen saturation monitoring in patients undergoing elective thoracic surgery requiring one-lung ventilation

2 Jul 2018

Mathematical model assesses efficacy, cost-effectiveness of screening strategies for HCV

It is currently recommended in Europe that screening for hepatitis C virus should target people at high risk of infection.

2 Jul 2018

New hydrogel takes stretchability, self-healing, strain sensitivity to new limits

A metal carbide within a hydrogel composite senses, stretches and heals like human skin for use in medicine and robotics.

2 Jul 2018

Psychedelics and their role in treatment of mental health disorders

Psychedelics such as LSD, magic mushrooms, mescaline etc. have garnered renewed interest in the scientific world because of the possible role they could play in mental health problems. Ketamine remains the only hallucinogen at present that is used clinically as an anesthetic agent. The others are all classified under banned drugs.

2 Jul 2018

Study reports greater psychosocial well-being in amputees using sensory-enabled prostheses

In the first known study of how amputees use advanced sensory-enabled prostheses outside the lab, subjects used a mechanical hand more regularly and for longer periods of time compared to traditional prostheses--and also reported a greater sense of psychosocial well-being.

30 Jun 2018

Screening mothers for PPD in emergency setting

It's a scenario that Children's emergency medicine specialist Lenore Jarvis, M.D., M.Ed., has seen countless times: A mother brings her infant to the emergency department in the middle of the night with a chief complaint of the baby being fussy. Nothing she does can stop the incessant crying, she tells the triage nurse.

30 Jun 2018

New medication may treat chemotherapy, radiotherapy-induced oral mucositis

Researchers from the University of Granada have developed new medication which could help to treat and prevent chemotherapy and radiotherapy-induced oral mucositis in head and neck cancer patients.

30 Jun 2018

Study using i2b2 could help standardize artificial coma treatment for RSE patients

Status epilepticus, a dangerous condition in which epileptic seizures follow one another for a duration of five or more minutes without the victim's regaining consciousness between them, is the second most common neurological emergency in the United States, with a recorded maximum of around 150,000-plus cases per year.

30 Jun 2018

Study finds that several existing anti-cancer drugs may work in part by binding to RNA

Bolstering the notion that RNA should be considered an important drug-discovery target, scientists at Scripps Research have found that several existing, FDA-approved anti-cancer drugs may work, in part, by binding tightly to RNA, the regulators of the basic activities of life within cells.

30 Jun 2018

New study links air pollution to increased risk of diabetes globally

New research links outdoor air pollution - even at levels deemed safe - to an increased risk of diabetes globally, according to a study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System.

30 Jun 2018

KU Cancer Center launches clinical trial to eliminate radiation therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer

Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center have launched a clinical trial that eliminates radiation from the treatment protocol for an invasive type of breast cancer that accounts for one-fifth of all breast cancer patients.

30 Jun 2018

Individuals may react differently to environmental chemicals based upon genetic profile

Why do individuals respond differently to the same environment? Researchers from North Carolina State University and Oregon State University have pinpointed a genetic difference in zebrafish tied to differing responses to the same environmental chemical.

30 Jun 2018

Medical Research News

PMDA approves use of LYNPARZA in patients with BRCA-mutated breast cancer

Simple DNA test can predict risk of bad side effects to thiopurine drugs

Researchers develop inexpensive blood test to diagnose hepatitis B patients

CMS policy had insignificant impact on reducing healthcare-associated infections

Researchers discover gene that plays role in regulating body's immune response to infection

Study evaluates ability of Masimo Ori to detect declining blood oxygenation during one-lung ventilation

Mathematical model assesses efficacy, cost-effectiveness of screening strategies for HCV

New hydrogel takes stretchability, self-healing, strain sensitivity to new limits

Psychedelics and their role in treatment of mental health disorders

Study reports greater psychosocial well-being in amputees using sensory-enabled prostheses

Screening mothers for PPD in emergency setting

New medication may treat chemotherapy, radiotherapy-induced oral mucositis

Study using i2b2 could help standardize artificial coma treatment for RSE patients

Study finds that several existing anti-cancer drugs may work in part by binding to RNA

New study links air pollution to increased risk of diabetes globally

KU Cancer Center launches clinical trial to eliminate radiation therapy for HER2-positive breast cancer

Individuals may react differently to environmental chemicals based upon genetic profile

New computational method improves ability to track spread of cancer cells

People who survived cancer in adolescence may have higher risk of endocrine disease

Experts highlight physicians' important role in evaluating refugees' claims of torture and persecution

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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