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Scotland's NHS Golden Jubilee heart transplant unit expands to support more patients

Scotland’s only heart transplant centre at NHS Golden Jubilee, is expanding to support more patients across Scotland than ever before.

13 Jan 2024

Cardiovascular surgeon and Michelin chef team up to create 'The Heart Surgeon's Cookbook'

An unprecedented collaboration between an eminent heart surgeon, a Michelin-starred chef and a global cardiovascular device provider sees the launch of a unique, surgically inspired recipe book, conceived to help surgeons take their skills practice out of the operating room and into the kitchen.

13 Jan 2024

UVA researchers join international consortium to study climate-related childhood diarrhea

UVA Health researchers have joined a new international consortium that will work to understand how climate change could affect dangerous diarrheal diseases, a leading cause of death for children under 5 years old.

13 Jan 2024

New analysis of cancer cells identifies 370 targets for smarter, personalized treatments

A new, systematic analysis of cancer cells identifies 370 candidate priority drug targets across 27 cancer types, including breast, lung and ovarian cancers.

13 Jan 2024

Increased cholesterol levels in adolescence linked to early heart damage

Heart disease is the number one killer disease in the world. Elevated cholesterol and dyslipidaemia in children and adolescents increase the risk of premature death in the mid-forties and subclinical atherosclerosis in the mid-twenties.

13 Jan 2024

Novel type 2 oral polio vaccine secures WHO prequalification for broader rollout

The novel type 2 oral polio vaccine (nOPV2), developed by a team including scientists from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has today (9 January) been quality-assured (prequalified) by the World Health Organization (WHO).

13 Jan 2024

Planning prompts show promise in improving prescribing safety

Physicians who are notified that a patient has died of a drug overdose are more judicious in issuing controlled substances if the notification includes a plan for what to do during subsequent patient visits, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

13 Jan 2024

Leveraging nutritional interventions for effective TB control

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious killer worldwide, with 10.6 million cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2021 alone.

13 Jan 2024

Science takes center stage at Open Forum Davos 2024

As part of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024, this year's Open Forum Davos – convening under the theme "From Life to Lab: Science in Action – will feature sessions on topics of critical importance through a scientific lens.

13 Jan 2024

MHRA unveils roadmap for new medical device regulations in the UK

MHRA sets out new plans to protect patient safety and enable access without delay for UK patients to innovative medical technologies.

13 Jan 2024

Study explains why "being in love" makes us tunnel visioned

Love is blind, the saying goes, and thanks to a world-first Australian study, we are now a step closer to understanding why.

13 Jan 2024

Exploring the link between pancreatic islet cell loss and age-related health conditions

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have studied pancreatic islet cell loss in people with no previous pancreatic problems. They identified key trends in the types of cells lost due to islet cell loss in different age groups and sexes, finding that ICL in the elderly population was largely due to insulin-producing beta cell loss.

13 Jan 2024

New study offers hope for reducing malaria in pregnant women living with HIV

In women living with HIV, preventive treatment with DHA-PPQ is a safe and effective strategy to prevent malaria during pregnancy, according to the final results of MAMAH, a clinical trial funded by the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by "la Caixa" Foundation.

12 Jan 2024

Swedish blood donor study reveals high prevalence of undiagnosed TBE infections

The number of infections by the tick-borne TBE virus that are not detected by health services is far higher than previously assumed.

12 Jan 2024

RBM5 identified as key regulator of HOXA9 in acute myeloid leukemia

The protein HOXA9 is overexpressed in most acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cases and is associated with poor patient outcomes.

12 Jan 2024

FDA-approved drug may help to decrease pain after surgery, study finds

Researchers in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have found that an FDA-approved drug may help to decrease pain after surgery.

12 Jan 2024

10 years of University of Kentucky's Healthy Hearts for Women takes aim at heart disease

The University of Kentucky will mark a decade of raising awareness and continuing its effort to warn women about the dangers of heart disease with the annual Healthy Hearts for Women Symposium.

12 Jan 2024

Pazopanib activity confirmed in EWSR1-NFATC2 bone sarcoma

A new case report was published in Oncoscience (Volume 10) on September 20, 2023, entitled, "Activity of pazopanib in EWSR1-NFATC2 translocation-associated bone sarcoma."

12 Jan 2024

Community health workers champion genetic literacy for minorities

Changes to DNA, known as mutations, can increase the likelihood of developing cancer. Specifically, people with mutations in their BRCA 1 and 2 genes are substantially more likely to develop hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. But how do people know if they have these mutations?

12 Jan 2024

3D nanomatrix vascular sheet model for high-throughput atherosclerosis drug testing

A groundbreaking 3D, three-layer nanomatrix vascular sheet that possesses multiple features of atherosclerosis has been applied for developing a high-throughput functional assay of drug candidates to treat this disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers report in the journal Biomaterials.

12 Jan 2024

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Scotland's NHS Golden Jubilee heart transplant unit expands to support more patients

Cardiovascular surgeon and Michelin chef team up to create 'The Heart Surgeon's Cookbook'

UVA researchers join international consortium to study climate-related childhood diarrhea

New analysis of cancer cells identifies 370 targets for smarter, personalized treatments

Increased cholesterol levels in adolescence linked to early heart damage

Novel type 2 oral polio vaccine secures WHO prequalification for broader rollout

Planning prompts show promise in improving prescribing safety

Leveraging nutritional interventions for effective TB control

Science takes center stage at Open Forum Davos 2024

MHRA unveils roadmap for new medical device regulations in the UK

Study explains why "being in love" makes us tunnel visioned

Exploring the link between pancreatic islet cell loss and age-related health conditions

New study offers hope for reducing malaria in pregnant women living with HIV

Swedish blood donor study reveals high prevalence of undiagnosed TBE infections

RBM5 identified as key regulator of HOXA9 in acute myeloid leukemia

FDA-approved drug may help to decrease pain after surgery, study finds

10 years of University of Kentucky's Healthy Hearts for Women takes aim at heart disease

Pazopanib activity confirmed in EWSR1-NFATC2 bone sarcoma

Community health workers champion genetic literacy for minorities

3D nanomatrix vascular sheet model for high-throughput atherosclerosis drug testing

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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