Day September 13, 2016

Jordan Lotter was an otherwise fit and healthy 18-year-old when he went to his GP in January 2015 with a pain in his side.  Just 15 months later, Jordan died at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. What he’d thought…

Renée Zellweger showed off her toned arms at last week’s movie premiere The 47-year-old Oscar winner has admitted she even works out on holiday We reveal the ultimate workout to get arms like Bridget Jones herself By Daily Mail Reporter…

The return to school means all children face the risk of getting head lice Insect expert Ian Burgess selects five of the best available treatments…   By David Hurst For The Daily Mail Published: 20:22 EST, 12 September 2016 | Updated:…

The first lecture I had on medicines at university opened with a simple statement: ‘Drugs don’t work’.  As an opening gambit this felt like heresy to a group of enthusiastic 18-year-olds embarking on their medical careers and in fact was…

A series of new studies led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) describe a potential vaccination strategy to jump-start the selection and evolution of broadly effective antibodies to prevent HIV infection.…

Royal Philips today announced that it will unveil its latest innovation in interventional oncology at the 2016 Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe annual meeting (CIRSE 2016), which will be held in Barcelona (Spain) from September 10 until 14.…

Over half of young adults (18-24 year olds) in Europe take comfort in hearing about people’s health experiences that are similar to theirs while less than a quarter of the same age-group trust online health websites and even less (17%)…

Finding could lead to new therapeutics for diseases Researchers in Singapore have developed a new protein that can alter DNA in living cells with much higher precision than current methods. The ability to alter DNA accurately will open more doors…

Chemists from Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with RCSI have devised a revolutionary new scanning technique that produces extremely high-res 3D images of bones — without exposing patients to X-ray radiation. The chemists attach luminescent compounds to tiny gold structures…

/ o comments

Animals and protocols All procedures were performed in compliance with the Ethic Committee of Third Military Medical University and the National Institute of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory. Animals Male C57BL/6 mice (weight: 25–30 g, age: 6–8…

The fecal microbiomes of six HCV patients and eight healthy individuals (Table 1; Additional file 1: Table S1), from the city of Beni Suef in Egypt, were sequenced by high-throughput Illumina MiSeq. High-throughput sequencing generated 651,912 reads that passed initial quality…

Patient samples Peripheral blood was collected from traumatic and pathologic SCI patients in Jessa Hospital (Hasselt, Belgium), University Hospitals Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Adelante Rehabilitation Centre (Hoensbroek, The Netherlands), Hospital East-Limburg (Genk, Belgium), Antwerp University Hospital (Edegem, Belgium), Radboud University Medical…

Patients This was a retrospective study that used data obtained at a single medical centre. All the subjects with AD were included in previously reported paper from our institute 14]. This previous study was approved by the National Center of…

Enlarge this image Democrats and Republicans often have trouble seeing one another’s perspectives. Researchers think this might be driven in part by their earliest experience of power — the family. Mark Airs/Getty Images/Ikon Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Airs/Getty…

The first few days after a cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming. At the very moment when you must make key decisions about your treatment and care, your brain may feel overloaded processing the distressing news you’ve just received. Mark J.…

/ o comments Osaka University

In a study published today in the prestigious journal Nature Biotechnology, scientists from The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Karolinska Institutet discovered that T-cells capable of producing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine can regulate blood pressure. These T-cells are white blood…

/ o comments Investigación y Desarrollo

The combined use of fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and immunohistochemistry (IHC) identified non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with rare or novel anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements, not otherwise identified by FISH alone, that showed response to crizotinib…

A study presented at this year’s European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) meeting in Munich, Germany (12-16 September), shows that UK commercial airline pilots with insulin-treated diabetes can fly safely, with almost all of their blood sugar readings…

As humans evolved over many thousands of years, our bodies developed a system to help us when we start running and suddenly need more oxygen. Now, using that innate reflex as inspiration, UCLA researchers have developed a …

(HealthDay)—Family, friends and acquaintances can play a key role in suicide prevention by being alert for signs and taking action to help someone who may be struggling, a mental health expert says. Nearly 43,000 Americans commit suicide each year, according…

(HealthDay)—For patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), outcomes differ by time to first cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first documented rhythm, according to a study published online April 30 in Circulation: …

Taking cannabis for medical reasons should be made legal, says a cross-party group of UK politicians. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Drug Policy Reform says there is clear evidence cannabis could have a therapeutic role for some conditions, including…

Selection of studies identified in the systematic map Most of the evidence on which this systematic review will be based is included in the recently completed systematic map of biodiversity impacts of active management in forest set-asides 19]. Of the…

Study participants All data were recorded by trained community health volunteers in March 2014 in ward 22 of Lalitpur district, an urban area near Kathmandu, Nepal. This ward was selected because it’s one of the least developed wards and requires…

Excessive alcohol consumption places drinkers’ health at risk both in the long term and during the drinking episode 1]. In the drinking episode intoxication can lead to risk taking behaviours such as unsafe sex, driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated,…

Anyone about to have an operation is routinely warned about the risks but what patients are less likely to hear about are the surprising added benefits of going under the knife. Research has revealed that many common procedures intended to…

People with irregular heart rhythms currently implanted with a defibrillator The box delivers a painful electric shock which makes the heart beat again Light has a similar effect and can restore normal rhythm without any pain Experts say it could…