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Medicare, health overhaul playing key role on the campaign trail

The Associated Press offers an issue breakdown regarding the health law positions taken by President Barack Obama and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney while The Washington Post examines new studies that detail how Romney's Medicare proposals might impact seniors.

17 Sep 2012

Natural antibiotic to treat tuberculosis

A natural product secreted by a soil bacterium shows promise as a new drug to treat tuberculosis report scientists in a new study published in EMBO Molecular Medicine. A team of scientists working in Switzerland has shown how pyridomycin, a natural antibiotic produced by the bacterium Dactylosporangium fulvum, works.

17 Sep 2012

Researchers investigate African plants effective in treating snakebite

A PhD student at the University of Copenhagen has drawn on nature's own pharmacy to help improve the treatment of snakebites in Africa.

17 Sep 2012

Novel drug combination for patients with NRAS-mutant melanoma

A new study published online in Nature Medicine, led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, describes the discovery of a novel drug combination aimed at a subset of melanoma patients who currently have no effective therapeutic options.

17 Sep 2012

Jennerex Phase 2 JX-594 clinical data for hepatocellular carcinoma presented at ILCA meeting

Jennerex, Inc., a private, clinical-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the development and commercialization of first-in-class targeted oncolytic immunotherapies, presented Phase 2 clinical data of JX-594 delivered first intravenously and subsequently through intra-tumoral route demonstrating safety as well as disease control and tumor responses in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer, HCC).

17 Sep 2012

Risks of antidiabetic drug substantially overrated for patients with reduced kidney function

The antidiabetic drug metformin is not prescribed for patients with reduced kidney function because the risk of adverse effects has been regarded as unacceptably high. A study at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has found that the risks have been substantially overrated. As a result, many more patients with diabetes may be able to enjoy the benefits of the medication.

17 Sep 2012

New method to precisely predict premature birth

Babies born early run a greater risk of serious complications. The researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have now developed a method to predict if pregnant women with preterm contractions will give birth within seven days. The method offers new possibilities to delay delivery and prepare care for the premature baby.

17 Sep 2012

First Edition: September 17, 2012

Today's headlines include a number of reports about how Medicare and other health policy issues are playing important roles on the campaign trail.

17 Sep 2012

Bed nets and insecticides could fail to protect people from new malaria-transmitting mosquitoes

A potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito has been discovered in Kenya by scientists from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. This species, which has never been implicated in the transmission of malaria before, poses a threat because it bites humans at times when they are not protected by current malaria control techniques.

17 Sep 2012

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: an interview with Sven Hoffner

In contrast to drug-susceptible tuberculosis, which can be cured with available drug therapies, drug-resistant, and especially multi-drug resistant, tuberculosis is much more difficult to cure and it takes a much longer time for patients to become non-infectious.

17 Sep 2012

Progenra’s P5091 inhibits growth of bortezomib resistant multiple myeloma tumor cells

Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Progenra, Inc. announce the publication of a research article entitled "A Small Molecule Inhibitor of Ubiquitin-Specific Protease-7 Induces Apoptosis in Multiple Myeloma Cells and Overcomes Bortezomib Resistance."

17 Sep 2012

PARP inhibitors may be novel treatment strategy in women with HER2-positive breast cancers

Poly (ADP-Ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors, shown to have clinical activity when used alone in women with familial breast and ovarian cancers linked to BRCA mutations, may be a novel treatment strategy in women with HER2-positive breast cancers, according to the results of a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

17 Sep 2012

ASU announces expansion of Doctor of Nursing Practice program

The College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University has added a post-master's Innovation Leadership Concentration to its accredited Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. The concentration is the seventh offered in the program.

17 Sep 2012

Breath testing could discriminate between benign and malignant pulmonary nodules

A pilot study, published in the October 2012 issue of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer's (IASLC) Journal of Thoracic Oncology, showed that breath testing could be used to discriminate between benign and malignant pulmonary nodules.

17 Sep 2012

UK researchers team up to help improve training for elite athletes

Some of the UK's leading bioscience and sports researchers have teamed up to help improve training for elite athletes, thanks to special funding from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and UK Sport with additional money from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

17 Sep 2012

Results from largest ever health and lifestyle survey of cities and conurbations across Europe

Researchers have announced the results of the largest ever health and lifestyle survey of cities and conurbations across Europe - including five British urban centres.

From The University of Manchester 17 Sep 2012

Bruker introduces new solariX XR Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer with ParaCell

At the 19th International Mass Spectrometry Conference, Bruker today introduced the breakthrough new solariX XR Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer (FTMS) with the revolutionary ParaCell for extreme mass resolution greater than 10 million.

17 Sep 2012

WWE announces partnership with Susan G. Komen for the Cure

WWE today announced a partnership with Susan G. Komen for the Cure featuring WWE Superstar John Cena co-branded, pink and black ring gear, which will be debuted at tonight's Night of Champions pay-per-view event in Boston. Cena will wear the Special Edition gear through October in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

17 Sep 2012

MVK mutations linked to disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis

A Chinese research team, led by Anhui Medical University and BGI, has found the strong genetic evidences of mevalonate kinase gene (MVK) mutations link to disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis (DSAP).

17 Sep 2012

Democrats confident that Medicare issue will help them win in November

News outlets are reporting that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that the Republican plans for Medicare are driving votes to Democratic candidates.

17 Sep 2012

Medical News

Medicare, health overhaul playing key role on the campaign trail

Natural antibiotic to treat tuberculosis

Researchers investigate African plants effective in treating snakebite

Novel drug combination for patients with NRAS-mutant melanoma

Jennerex Phase 2 JX-594 clinical data for hepatocellular carcinoma presented at ILCA meeting

Risks of antidiabetic drug substantially overrated for patients with reduced kidney function

New method to precisely predict premature birth

First Edition: September 17, 2012

Bed nets and insecticides could fail to protect people from new malaria-transmitting mosquitoes

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: an interview with Sven Hoffner

Progenra’s P5091 inhibits growth of bortezomib resistant multiple myeloma tumor cells

PARP inhibitors may be novel treatment strategy in women with HER2-positive breast cancers

ASU announces expansion of Doctor of Nursing Practice program

Breath testing could discriminate between benign and malignant pulmonary nodules

UK researchers team up to help improve training for elite athletes

Results from largest ever health and lifestyle survey of cities and conurbations across Europe

Bruker introduces new solariX XR Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer with ParaCell

WWE announces partnership with Susan G. Komen for the Cure

MVK mutations linked to disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis

Democrats confident that Medicare issue will help them win in November

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

The importance of ketones from a clinical and medical perspective

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