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New research highlights urgent need to address distress in long-term melanoma survivors

More than one-third of Queensland melanoma survivors are suffering clinically significant psychological distress, despite the high survival rate associated with the cancer.

21 Nov 2013

Attractants prevent maturing nerve cells from migrating into brain

A vision is to implant nerve precursor cells in the diseased brains of patients with Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, whereby these cells are to assume the function of the cells that have died off.

21 Nov 2013

Study reveals benefits of bright light in treating anxiety

The bright light headset maker Valkee today announced the results of a new groundbreaking bright light study, showing statistically significant positive results in acutely alleviating anxiety symptoms. The world's first randomized, fully sham-controlled double blind trial of bright light treatment administered via ear canals brings sought-after new data to support the bright light studies carried out internationally since the 1980s.

21 Nov 2013

Brown University biologists find way to measure effects of aging

Biologists at Brown University have found a way to measure the effects of aging by watching the ebb and flow of chromatin, a structure along strands of DNA that either silences or permits gene expression. In several newly published experiments they show that gene silencing via chromatin in fruit flies declines with age.

21 Nov 2013

Kennedy Krieger Institute researchers find therapeutic benefits of virtual sailing

Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute announced today the results of a pilot study demonstrating use of a virtual therapeutic sailing simulator as an important part of rehabilitation following a spinal cord injury. Published in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, findings show that using a hands-on sailing simulator over a 12-week period helped participants safely learn sailing skills in a controlled environment, ultimately improving their quality of life by gaining the ability to participate in a recreational sport.

21 Nov 2013

Researchers engineering first-ever living, three-dimensional human arrhythmic tissue

A foundational study published in top biomedical journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) this week by researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering and the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine have identified the optimal structure and cell ratio associated with heart function - and the discovery has already led the team to another research first: the engineering of the first-ever living, three-dimensional human arrhythmic tissue.

21 Nov 2013

Safest way to manage brain AVM is to treat patient's symptoms only

Patients with a condition that causes blood vessels in the brain to form an abnormal tangle could be helped by the findings of new research.

21 Nov 2013

Vagus nerve stimulation-tone therapy safe for treating tinnitus, say UT Dallas researchers

UT Dallas researchers have demonstrated that treating tinnitus, or ringing in the ears, using vagus nerve stimulation-tone therapy is safe and brought significant improvement to some of the participants in a small clinical trial.

21 Nov 2013

Buck Institute research provides method to study sarcopenia

Our epigenome is a set of chemical switches that turn parts of our genome off and on at strategic times and locations. These switches help alter the way our cells act and are impacted by environmental factors including diet, exercise and stress. Research at the Buck Institute reveals that aging also effects the epigenome in human skeletal muscle. The study, appearing on line in Aging Cell, provides a method to study sarcopenia, the degenerative loss of muscle mass that begins in middle age.

21 Nov 2013

Covagen, TRL expand research collaboration to generate bispecific FynomAb

Covagen and Tanabe Research Laboratories U.S.A, Inc., a fully owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation, today announced that they expanded their strategic research collaboration. MTPC and TRL have nominated a first bispecific FynomAb for formal preclinical development which triggered an undisclosed milestone payment. MTPC and TRL also exercised an option for a second bispecific FynomAb program based on the parties' research and licensing agreement signed in October 2012.

21 Nov 2013

Obese children could suffer step back in life expectancy by up to 10 years

In Mexico, overweight or obese children could suffer a step back in life expectancy by up to 10 years. According to the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (INEGI), the life expectancy in Mexico is of 73 years for women and 76 years for men.

21 Nov 2013

Cedars-Sinai study presents new insights into mechanisms underlying the symptoms of autism

In what are believed to be the first studies of their kind, Cedars-Sinai researchers recording the real-time firing of individual nerve cells in the brain found that a specific type of neuron in a structure called the amygdala performed differently in people who suffer from autism spectrum disorder than in those who do not.

21 Nov 2013

$About 50% of hip fracture patients report barriers for mobility in home environment$

About 50% of hip fracture patients report barriers for mobility in home environment

About half of hip fracture patients reported barriers for mobility when entering the home or in the outdoor home environment. One year after the fracture, many people still experienced barriers, especially in the outdoor environment.

21 Nov 2013

Henry Ford offers electric stimulation of brain using FDA-approved device for hard-to-treat epilepsy cases

Because of its participation in a pivotal trial, Henry Ford Hospital will be the first in Michigan to offer electric stimulation of the brain using a newly FDA-approved device for hard-to-treat epilepsy cases.

21 Nov 2013

Study: Connections in the brain become stronger during sleep as children age

While young children sleep, connections between the left and the right hemispheres of their brain strengthen, which may help brain functions mature, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder.

21 Nov 2013

Long-term cocaine abuse may be linked with deficits in parts of brain overseeing own behavior

New research from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai reveals long-term cocaine abuse may be associated with deficits in parts of the brain involved in monitoring and overseeing one's own behavior.

21 Nov 2013

Smoking influences survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients

Survivors of nasopharyngeal carcinoma who are former or current smokers are more likely to have their disease progress, relapse, or spread, and are more likely to die of their disease, compared with survivors of nasopharyngeal carcinoma who have never smoked, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

21 Nov 2013

Top-performing hospitals have fewer readmissions from all diagnoses and time periods after discharge

Checking back into the hospital within 30 days of discharge is not only bad news for patients, but also for hospitals, which now face financial penalties for high readmissions. The key to reducing readmissions may be focusing on the whole patient, rather than the specific conditions that caused their hospitalizations, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

21 Nov 2013

Multiple sclerosis researchers receive NMSS drug development grant

A $500,000 drug development grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society was awarded to a partnership between a multiple sclerosis research team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc., a clinical stage pharmaceutical company. Dr. Patrizia Casaccia, MD, PhD, Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Genetics and Genomics, at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, will be the academic lead.

21 Nov 2013

Changing texture can make bread taste salty even if salt content is reduced, say scientists

Want to make bread taste pleasantly salty without adding more salt? Change the bread's texture so it is less dense, say scientists. They report in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that simply making the pores, or holes, larger can make people perceive bread as having saltier taste.

21 Nov 2013

Medical Research News

New research highlights urgent need to address distress in long-term melanoma survivors

Attractants prevent maturing nerve cells from migrating into brain

Study reveals benefits of bright light in treating anxiety

Brown University biologists find way to measure effects of aging

Kennedy Krieger Institute researchers find therapeutic benefits of virtual sailing

Researchers engineering first-ever living, three-dimensional human arrhythmic tissue

Safest way to manage brain AVM is to treat patient's symptoms only

Vagus nerve stimulation-tone therapy safe for treating tinnitus, say UT Dallas researchers

Buck Institute research provides method to study sarcopenia

Covagen, TRL expand research collaboration to generate bispecific FynomAb

Obese children could suffer step back in life expectancy by up to 10 years

Cedars-Sinai study presents new insights into mechanisms underlying the symptoms of autism

About 50% of hip fracture patients report barriers for mobility in home environment

Henry Ford offers electric stimulation of brain using FDA-approved device for hard-to-treat epilepsy cases

Study: Connections in the brain become stronger during sleep as children age

Long-term cocaine abuse may be linked with deficits in parts of brain overseeing own behavior

Smoking influences survival of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients

Top-performing hospitals have fewer readmissions from all diagnoses and time periods after discharge

Multiple sclerosis researchers receive NMSS drug development grant

Changing texture can make bread taste salty even if salt content is reduced, say scientists

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