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Pre-birth and early life nutrition affects children's cognitive, emotional and behavioural development

The statement "you are what you eat" is significant for the development of optimum mental performance in children as evidence is accumulating to show that nutrition pre-birth and in early life "programmes" long term health, well being, brain development and mental performance and that certain nutrients are important to this process.

13 Sep 2013

New Springer title explores history, social implications of the machines of sex research

Showtime viewers are looking forward to the widely anticipated new series, Masters of Sex, which tells the story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. And while Masters and Johnson may have been responsible for a part of the sexual revolution in America, what audiences may not know is how the tools used by these and other sex researchers have helped fuel both progress and oppression.

13 Sep 2013

Researchers present research outcomes on food risk and benefit communication created by FoodRisC

Consumers in Europe are often overwhelmed with the vast amounts of food risk and benefit information presented to them, some of which can be perceived as conflicting or confusing.

13 Sep 2013

ACC, Symphony Health Solutions partner to improve quality of cardiovascular care

Symphony Health Solutions, a provider of high-value data, analytics and technology solutions for life science manufacturers, payers and providers, and the American College of Cardiology, a professional organization dedicated to improving cardiovascular health, today announced they have entered into a business relationship to develop new insights from an integrated healthcare database, which will include assets from the ACC's rich National Cardiovascular Data Registry and Symphony Health's Integrated DataverseTM.

13 Sep 2013

Survey finds professional societies face declining membership and growing expectations

An article published in the September issue of BioScience highlights the challenges facing biological societies and offers insights for scientific societies to respond and adapt to the changing dynamics of 21st century science.

13 Sep 2013

Four new pre-clinical drug development projects at NIH develop treatment for rare disease

Four new pre-clinical drug development projects at the National Institutes of Health will target a form of blindness and diseases characterized by cardiac problems. The projects were selected for their potential to treat specific rare diseases and to help scientists uncover new information that can be shared with other researchers.

13 Sep 2013

Cardiologist receives $1.9M grant from PCORI to study mHealth services

Richard Katz, M.D., Bloedorn Professor of Cardiology, professor of medicine, and director of the division of cardiology at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), has been awarded $1.9 million by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) for a three-year project to study the combined use of mobile phones and community health workers to enhance patient management of chronic disease.

13 Sep 2013

Stem cells and gene therapy play important role in regeneration of inner ear hair cells

Since Moffat and Ramsden for the first time discovered the possibility of the auditory system in humans in 1977, over the last two decades, great progress has been made in physiopathological research on neurosensory hearing loss. J-rgensen and Mathiesen were the first authors to note the capacity for regeneration of the normal vestibular epithelium in adult Australian parrots.

13 Sep 2013

Data shows Americans are living longer, reporting fewer symptoms of disease

Thanks to medical advances, better treatments and new drugs not available a generation ago, the average American born today can expect to live 3.8 years longer than a person born two decades ago.

13 Sep 2013

Pertussis incidence among older adults may be under-recognized, study finds

The incidence of pertussis among U.S. adults 50 and older may be greatly under-reported and under-recognized, according to findings from a study conducted by GlaxoSmithKline researchers who analyzed approximately 48 million cases of cough-related illness in the U.S. between 2006 and 2010.

13 Sep 2013

Pancreatic protein essential for maintaining functional state of beta cells

Researchers at the Pediatric Diabetes Research Center (PDRC) at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that the pancreatic protein Nkx6.1 - a beta-cell enriched transcription factor - is essential to maintaining the functional state of beta cells.

13 Sep 2013

Educational status may protect women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas against obesity

Educational status may protect women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas against obesity, finds a new study in the American Journal of Health Promotion.

13 Sep 2013

Simple method helps identify individuals who retain too much sodium

Getting a second urine sample and blood pressure measure as patients head out of the doctor's office appears an efficient way to identify those whose health may be in jeopardy because their bodies hold onto too much sodium, researchers report.

13 Sep 2013

Study shows distinct molecular structures may predominate in brains of Alzheimer's patients

Alzheimer's disease is thought to be caused by the buildup of abnormal, thread-like protein deposits in the brain, but little is known about the molecular structures of these so-called beta-amyloid fibrils.

13 Sep 2013

Using large doses of codeine may heighten sensitivity to pain

Using large and frequent doses of the pain-killer codeine may actually produce heightened sensitivity to pain, without the same level of relief offered by morphine, according to new research from the University of Adelaide.

13 Sep 2013

Three-gene biomarker can help determine treatment option for early prostate cancer

The level of expression of three genes associated with aging can be used to predict whether seemingly low-risk prostate cancer will remain slow-growing, according to researchers at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center.

13 Sep 2013

Findings may help explain why some diabetic women prone to develop kidney failure

A genetic variant on chromosome 2 is strongly linked with kidney failure in diabetic women but not in men, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

13 Sep 2013

Longer time sevoflurane preconditioning does not grant better neuroprotective effects, says study

Sevoflurane belongs to volatile anesthetics, and preconditioning with sevoflurane has been shown to exert protective effects against ischemic injury in the brain. But the mechanism is unclear.

13 Sep 2013

Discovery sheds light on boundaries between brain regions

If the violins were taken away from the musicians performing Beethoven's 9th symphony, the resulting composition would sound very different. If the violins were left on stage but the violinists were removed, the same mutant version of the symphony would be heard.

13 Sep 2013

Microbiologist finds breakthrough herbal medicine treatment for common human fungal pathogen

A Kansas State University microbiologist has found a breakthrough herbal medicine treatment for a common human fungal pathogen that lives in almost 80 percent of people.

13 Sep 2013

Medical Research News

Pre-birth and early life nutrition affects children's cognitive, emotional and behavioural development

New Springer title explores history, social implications of the machines of sex research

Researchers present research outcomes on food risk and benefit communication created by FoodRisC

ACC, Symphony Health Solutions partner to improve quality of cardiovascular care

Survey finds professional societies face declining membership and growing expectations

Four new pre-clinical drug development projects at NIH develop treatment for rare disease

Cardiologist receives $1.9M grant from PCORI to study mHealth services

Stem cells and gene therapy play important role in regeneration of inner ear hair cells

Data shows Americans are living longer, reporting fewer symptoms of disease

Pertussis incidence among older adults may be under-recognized, study finds

Pancreatic protein essential for maintaining functional state of beta cells

Educational status may protect women living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas against obesity

Simple method helps identify individuals who retain too much sodium

Study shows distinct molecular structures may predominate in brains of Alzheimer's patients

Using large doses of codeine may heighten sensitivity to pain

Three-gene biomarker can help determine treatment option for early prostate cancer

Findings may help explain why some diabetic women prone to develop kidney failure

Longer time sevoflurane preconditioning does not grant better neuroprotective effects, says study

Discovery sheds light on boundaries between brain regions

Microbiologist finds breakthrough herbal medicine treatment for common human fungal pathogen

Evolving spectrophotometry for modern biopharma workflows

Scaling B-cell cloning workflows for antibody development

Fluidics in Modern Healthcare & Medical Device Innovation

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