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Scientists find interplay between two specific proteins crucial for flawless repair of crosslink damage

Environmental influences such as ionizing radiation, intense heat or various chemical substances damage the DNA constantly.

27 May 2014

Researchers develop active agents that may improve healing of inflammatory illnesses

It is something like the police force of our body: the immune system. It disables intruding pathogens, it dismantles injured tissue and boosts wound healing. In this form of 'self-defense' inflammatory reactions play a decisive role.

27 May 2014

First Edition: May 27, 2014

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the health law's effect on unions and hospitals and a new IRS ruling designed to keep employers from dumping workers onto the law's online marketplaces.

27 May 2014

Imperial College London receives £40 million gift for new biomedical engineering centre

Imperial College London is to build a new and pioneering biomedical engineering centre thanks to an unprecedented £40 million gift from Michael Uren OBE and the Michael Uren Foundation.

27 May 2014

World No Tobacco Day: Apunipima to hold educational events in Cape York

Apunipima is holding events across 10 Cape York communities this week to celebrate World No Tobacco Day which falls on May 31.

27 May 2014

Griffith, Blackmores Institute launch special online course on complementary medicines

Pharmacists and other healthcare professionals will have the opportunity to boost their knowledge of complementary medicines when Griffith University and Blackmores Institute launch a special online course.

27 May 2014

Study suggests that stiff arteries alone enough to cause high BP in "virtual human"

High blood pressure is highly age-related and affects more than 1 billion people worldwide. But doctors can't fully explain the cause of 90 per cent of all cases. A computer model of a "virtual human" suggests that stiff arteries alone are enough to cause high blood pressure.

27 May 2014

Eyeball Networks releases Messenger SDK Version 10

Eyeball Networks today announced the release of Messenger SDK version 10, bringing HD video conferencing to 3G and 4G networks and devices.

27 May 2014

Nationwide Insurance Foundation donates $10M to Nationwide Children's Hospital

Nationwide Children's Hospital today announced that it has received a $10 million gift from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation.

27 May 2014

FDA issues Complete Response Letter to QRxPharma regarding Moxduo NDA

QRxPharma Limited announced today the United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a Complete Response Letter regarding the Moxduo New Drug Application for the treatment of moderate to severe acute pain.

27 May 2014

Research report on medical waste management market

MRRBIZ includes new market research report "Medical Waste Management Market (Activity Type - Collection, Processing And Disposal; Waste Generators - Large Quantity Generators And Small Quantity Generators) Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast, 2013 - 2019" to its large collection of research report.

27 May 2014

X-ray dark-field radiography creates higher resolution images of lung disease

Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) working in cooperation with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Hospital (KUM) and the Technischen Universität München (TUM) tested for the first time X-ray dark-field radiography on a living organism for the diagnosis of lung disease.

27 May 2014

New study of how biodiversity arises

A new study of how biodiversity arises, by evolutionary biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, shows how a mutation in a single gene during development can lead to different consequences not only in how animals' skull and jaw are shaped, but how this leads to different feeding strategies to exploit different ecological niches.

27 May 2014

WHO member states recognize psoriasis as chronic, non-communicable disease

At the 67th World Health Assembly, the WHO member states adopted a resolution on psoriasis, recognizing it as "a chronic, non-communicable, painful, disfiguring, and disabling disease for which there is no cure."

27 May 2014

Chest CT helps identify individuals at risk for future heart attacks

Incidental chest computed tomography (CT) findings can help identify individuals at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.

27 May 2014

Inovio announces positive results on DNA-based monoclonal antibody therapy targeting CHIKV

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that its novel DNA-based therapeutic monoclonal antibody targeting Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) completely protected mice from a lethal CHIKV challenge.

27 May 2014

Wolters Kluwer Health launches UpToDate Anywhere mobile app in the UK

Today, Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information for healthcare professionals and students, announced today the UK launch of UpToDate® Anywhere, enabling hospitals and healthcare organisations to provide clinicians with access to its acclaimed clinical decision support resource anytime, anywhere via mobile app and electronic patient record (EPR).

27 May 2014

Health Ethics Australia aims at improving literacy, compassion around death

Knowledge and information empowers people facing a terminal diagnosis or end of life, delegates heard at the National Medicines Symposium in Brisbane last week.

27 May 2014

EMA recommends marketing authorisation for Octapharma’s human cell line recombinant human FVIII, Nuwiq

Octapharma confirmed today the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion towards human cell line recombinant human FVIII, Nuwiq®, recommending the granting of a marketing authorisation for the medicinal product for treatment and prophylaxis of bleeding (also during and after surgery) in paediatric and adult patients with haemophilia A (congenital FVIII deficiency).

27 May 2014

Allergists warn e-smokers of unknown risks

Caveat emptor - or "buyer beware" holds true when it comes to the unknown health effects of e-cigarettes. An article in the June issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), examines risks, including the ongoing dependence on nicotine and the dual use of e-cigarettes and regular cigarettes.

27 May 2014