Medical Research News

RSS

Population Council gets USAID cooperative agreement to develop non-ARV microbicides that block HIV, STI

The Population Council today announced it was awarded a cooperative agreement from the US Agency for International Development's (USAID) Office of HIV and AIDS: "Non-ARV Based Combination Microbicide that Blocks HIV and Other STIs."

6 Jan 2014

Influenza and pneumococcal vaccines together appear to increase risk of fever in children

Giving young children the influenza and pneumococcal vaccines together appears to increase their risk of fever, according to a study led by researchers from Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). However, the fever was brief, and medical care was sought for few children, supporting the routine immunization schedule for these vaccines, including the recommendation to administer them simultaneously.

6 Jan 2014

Ossianix forms strategic research partnership with Lundbeck

Ossianix, Inc. today announced a strategic research collaboration with Lundbeck A/S. This collaboration follows a previous investment in 2012. The collaboration uses Ossianix's innovative single domain antibody platform based on the shark VNAR structure and will focus on two projects.

6 Jan 2014

Longer duration breastfeeding may reduce risk of rheumatoid arthritis

In a new study of over 7,000 older Chinese women published online today in the journal Rheumatology, breastfeeding - especially for a longer duration - is shown to be associated with a lower risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

6 Jan 2014

MIT receives $90M from Ludwig Cancer Research to strengthen interdisciplinary approach to cancer research

MIT has received $90 million from Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder Daniel K. Ludwig, a gift that aims to transform basic research on metastasis, the process by which cancer cells spread from a primary tumor to distant sites in the body.

6 Jan 2014

Adenosine deaminase has potential to improve prognosis, diagnosis and treatment of ESCC

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (ESCC), the major histological form of esophageal cancer, is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a biomarker, called adenosine deaminase acting on RNA-1 (ADAR1), which has the potential to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of this disease.

6 Jan 2014

New approach aims to prevent brain cancer recurrence by attacking tumors at the source

Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute and Department of Neurosurgery identified immune system targets on cancer stem cells - cells from which malignant brain tumors are believed to originate and regenerate - and created an experimental vaccine to attack them.

6 Jan 2014

Researchers discover novel compounds that are hundreds of times more mutagenic

Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions - such as those found in vehicle exhaust or grilling meat - that are hundreds of times more mutagenic than their parent compounds which are known carcinogens.

6 Jan 2014

Autism Speaks grants $2.7M to develop potential treatments for ASD, increase access to high-quality early intervention

Autism Speaks, the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, today announced the award of nearly $2.7 million for the funding of 13 new research projects over the next three years.

6 Jan 2014

Researchers hope to improve treatment, survival rates of ischemic heart disease

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Case Medical Center hope to improve treatment and survival rates of ischemic heart disease patients by providing doctors an unprecedented look at the stents they place in coronary arteries.

6 Jan 2014

Stephen J. Teach receives $2.2M award to study how cell phones help manage asthma in children

Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH, Associate Chief of Emergency Medicine at Children's National Health System, says that aggressively managing parental stress and using cell phone apps to monitor medication usage in at-risk youth with asthma may improve children's adherence to asthma medications.

6 Jan 2014

LA BioMed receives grant to study role of serum Vitamin A in people with multiple sclerosis

Some 2.5 million people around the world have multiple sclerosis (MS), a potentially debilitating disease in which the body's immune system destroys the protective sheath (myelin) that covers nerves.

6 Jan 2014

Implanting tubes in ears is less likely to improve long-term cognitive and functional development

Watchful waiting or ear tube surgery? It is a decision faced by millions of families of children with recurrent or chronic otitis media with effusion (non-infected fluid in the middle ear) each year.

6 Jan 2014

Perioperative analgesia may improve prostate cancer outcomes

Neuraxial analgesia added to general anesthesia for radical retropubic prostatectomy may lead to improved oncologic outcomes in prostate cancer, US researchers have found.

6 Jan 2014

SUI and UUI show complex interrelationship

A study by US researchers has failed to identify any modifiable risk factors for urgency urinary incontinence among women undergoing surgery for stress urinary incontinence.

6 Jan 2014

Sleep duration predicts chronic depression and anxiety

Short and long sleep duration, but not insomnia, predict a chronic course of depressive and anxiety disorders independent of symptom severity, research indicates.

6 Jan 2014

Clinical features not sufficiently pathognomonic in pneumonia

Clinical signs and symptoms are not sufficiently reliable to distinguish the different etiologies of pneumonia, Dutch researchers report.

6 Jan 2014

Tight blood pressure control urged in patients with cardiovascular disease

Intensive antihypertensive treatment to a systolic blood pressure target of 130 mmHg is equally beneficial for patients with and without established cardiovascular disease, research suggests.

6 Jan 2014

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists to receive $90M in new funding for cancer research

cientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center will receive $90 million in new funding as part of a $540 million gift from Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder Daniel K. Ludwig, to six U.S. institutions. The new award is among the largest for a single private gift to cancer research.

6 Jan 2014

Professor studies impact of different levels of physical contact on premature infants

The benefit that premature infants gain from skin-to-skin contact with their mothers is measurable even 10 years after birth, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry.

6 Jan 2014

Medical Research News

Population Council gets USAID cooperative agreement to develop non-ARV microbicides that block HIV, STI

Influenza and pneumococcal vaccines together appear to increase risk of fever in children

Ossianix forms strategic research partnership with Lundbeck

Longer duration breastfeeding may reduce risk of rheumatoid arthritis

MIT receives $90M from Ludwig Cancer Research to strengthen interdisciplinary approach to cancer research

Adenosine deaminase has potential to improve prognosis, diagnosis and treatment of ESCC

New approach aims to prevent brain cancer recurrence by attacking tumors at the source

Researchers discover novel compounds that are hundreds of times more mutagenic

Autism Speaks grants $2.7M to develop potential treatments for ASD, increase access to high-quality early intervention

Researchers hope to improve treatment, survival rates of ischemic heart disease

Stephen J. Teach receives $2.2M award to study how cell phones help manage asthma in children

LA BioMed receives grant to study role of serum Vitamin A in people with multiple sclerosis

Implanting tubes in ears is less likely to improve long-term cognitive and functional development

Perioperative analgesia may improve prostate cancer outcomes

SUI and UUI show complex interrelationship

Sleep duration predicts chronic depression and anxiety

Clinical features not sufficiently pathognomonic in pneumonia

Tight blood pressure control urged in patients with cardiovascular disease

Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists to receive $90M in new funding for cancer research

Professor studies impact of different levels of physical contact on premature infants

CellVoyant's AI-Powered Vision for the Future of Cell Therapy

Scalable, Smart, and Accessible: The Future of Lab Automation

Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures: A Conversation with WHO’s Dr. Allotey

Latest News