Day February 9, 2015

Robert Siegel speaks with Brice de le Vingne, director of operations dealing with the Ebola outbreak for Doctors without Borders. They discuss the state of the outbreak today, what more needs to be done and the lessons learned to date.

Most residents of the San Francisco Bay area prefer to forget what scientists know to be true: One of the major faults that runs below their feet will cause a major earthquake in the next 30 years. But a recent…

While it may seem the stuff of mythical legends and daytime TV, there are women who do, indeed, reach that magical climax every time they have sex. And no, they’re not faking it. We turned to two top experts to…

You know what would be awesome? If we could all work out with a personal trainer every single time we hit the gym. Yeah, not going to happen. Of course, that doesn’t mean you don’t always want to get the most…

If you watched the Grammys last night, you know that female empowerment was in full force. From ridiculously powerful performances by talented female artists to a strongly worded and spoken message about domestic violence from a woman who experienced it firsthand, it…

The drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate) is well known not only for its effectiveness against chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but also for the story behinds its development. The drug was specifically designed to target an abnormal molecule—a…

Researchers have known that transplanted human umbilical cord cells (HUCBCs) can have a restorative effect on the brain and brain function following a stroke. However, just how the cells exert their therapeutic effects has not been clear. Now, a research…

Recent research carried out by a team of researchers in Japan has investigated the use of bone marrow transplants (BMTs) to treat hypophosphatasia (HPP). In this study, the researchers carried out BMT for two infants with HPP in combination with…

When skyscrapers go up, contractors rely on an infrastructure of steel beams and braces. Some cancers grow the same way, using a biological matrix from which the tumor can thrive and spread. Scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson…

Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can differentiate into all of the different types of cells that comprise the blood and immune cell lineages. HSC transplantation is the only effective treatment for certain blood disorders; however, sources of HSCs are limited. Pluripotent…

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Don’t go chomping on a handful of chili peppers just yet, but there may be help for hopeful dieters in those fiery little Native American fruits. A large percentage of the world’s population — fully one third, by the World…

A new study by researchers at Yale School of Public Health and George Mason University provides an in-depth look at the positive aspects of sexual encounters among black men who have sex with men (MSM) versus MSM of other races…

Through an investigation of a fundamental process that guides the maturation of immune cells, researchers have revealed new insights into possible ways to vaccinate people to generate potent antibodies of the type that are predicted to offer protection against diverse…

A new system of wireless microelectrodes aims to detect the location of epilepsy in the brain with high precision. This technique, under development at EPFL, is much less invasive than the current method. It will allow patients to go about…

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is not just a health condition, it’s a disease. Blood pressure is the body’s reflection of the tension in the blood vessels— the more tense they are, the higher your blood pressure is and harder…

We got a glimpse last week of what would happen to our health care system if Republicans increase their control of Congress and win the White House in 2016. Gone would be the part of Obamacare that Americans tell pollsters…

By Kizito Makoye TURA, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As darkness falls, Dora Mjungu and her two brothers cram themselves around the faint flame of a kerosene lamp, struggling to finish their homework before their mother blows out the lamp…

No one wishes to dispense with the blessings of modern medicine, which took away the dread of many diseases. The flipside of the coin: To ensure that effective and safe medications are available, experiments on animals in research laboratories are…

Mayo Clinic and Virginia Hospital Center today announced Virginia Hospital Center as a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a national network of organizations committed to better serving patients and their families through collaboration. Members of the network have…

If you’ve ever been told that you’re “tone deaf” or “can’t carry a tune,” don’t give up. New research out of Northwestern University suggests that singing accurately is not so much a talent as a learned skill that can decline…

1 Population Training and Research Unit, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa 2 Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Faculty of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria 3 Department of Population…

1 UMR Diabète athérothrombose Thérapies Réunion Océan Indien, Inserm U1188 – Université de La Réunion, Plateforme CYROI, 2 rue Maxime Rivière, Saint-Denis, 97490, La Réunion, France 2 Laboratoire de Chimie des Substances Naturelles et des Sciences des Aliments, EA 2212,…

1 Paris Diderot University – Sorbonne Paris Cité; Inserm U1141, DHU PROTECT, Robert Debré Hospital, Paris, France 2 Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, Unit of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 3 Hormonology and Biochemistry Departement,…

1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka 2 Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka 3 Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka…

Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2015, 10:5 doi:10.1186/1747-597X-10-5 Published: 9 February 2015

Patient Portals are a trending item in the healthcare industry, but what does the term “Patient Portal” really mean? And more importantly, what can a Patient Portal do for you? In reality, the patient portal moniker has become a confusing…

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® will host more than 400 Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) women from across the country for a special leadership weekend and formal dedication of the newly renovated St. Jude Tri Delta Place. St. Jude Tri…

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) recently released a statement emphasizing that the allocation of trauma centers should be based upon the needs of the population, rather than the needs of individual health care organizations or hospital groups. The position…

An examination of process measures endorsed by the National Quality Forum finds that these measures focus predominantly on management of patients with established diagnoses, and that quality measures for patient presenting symptoms often do not reflect the most common reasons…

THE SOUNDS OF ALZHEIMER’S I sit in the darkness of the early morning enjoying the peacefulness of “me” time. It’s blessedly quiet because it’s 4:30 a.m. I just sent hubby out the door to work and I have about four…

Hot on the heels of discovering a protective form of immune response to spinal cord injury, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have pinpointed the biological trigger for that response – a vital step toward being able…

Teens who use tobacco products are likely to use more than one product, including e-cigarettes, hookahs and pipes, and smokeless tobacco, according to a new study by RTI International. The study, published in Pediatrics, found 14.7 percent of middle and…

Randy Couture, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cory Everson, Mark Henry, Elaine LaLanne, James Lorimer, and Dr. Bob at the Induction Ceremonies of the International Sports Hall of Fame, March 2012 at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Sports Festival It has been nearly twenty…

CAIRO (Reuters) – At least five Egyptian soccer fans were killed and 20 others injured in clashes on Sunday night when the security forces barred them from entering a stadium to watch a match in the local league, security and…

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 8, 2015 — Not unlike an urban restaurant, the success of a bacterial cell depends on three things: localization, localization and localization. But the complete set of controls by which bacteria control the movement of proteins and…

IMAGE: Spice up your diet with peppers every day to keep obesity away. view more Credit: Thyagarajan WASHINGTON, D.C., February 8, 2015 — Don’t go chomping on a handful of chili peppers just yet, but there may be help for hopeful…

IMAGE: This is gramicidin, a membrane-spanning protein used to monitor lipid bilayer disruption in the Gramicidin-Based Fluorescence Assay. view more Credit: Andersen Lab, Weil Cornell Medical College WASHINGTON, D.C., February 8, 2015–A good drug is hard to design: to garner FDA…

By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Zaw, an illegal Burmese migrant dying of AIDS-related illnesses, spent a weekend hunched over in waiting rooms at three Thai hospitals near Bangkok – each denying him care as he gasped for…

Hippocrates said circa 400BC that “food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food”. He would probably turn in his grave if he saw the amount of highly processed, sugary food and drinks marketed to children today. This…