Day November 11, 2017

Medicine, Health Care Survey Finds Pediatric Doctors Attempts… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by Johns Hopkins Medicine A national survey of more than 200 pediatric primary care physicians found that while over three-quarters addressed at least one parental health issue, such…

Medicine, Health Care Simple Blood Test Identifies Critically… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by Loyola University Health System   MAYWOOD, IL – A simple blood test for a compound called PEth can accurately identify critically ill hospital patients who misuse alcohol, a…

Medicine, Health Care New Stanford University Study Reports… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, Nov. 9, 2017 — Researchers have shown that women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the U.S. have…

Medicine, Health Care Study Led by MIT Portugal… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by MIT Portugal Program A team of researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Coimbra, led by Dr. Lino Ferreira, MIT Portugal Program Faculty and…

Medicine, Health Care Th1/17 Hybrid T Cells Offer… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by Medical University of South Carolina In recent years, the search for new cancer treatments has increasingly focused on immunotherapies that harness the body’s own defenses to fight…

Medicine, Health Care A Number of Proactive Policing… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine   WASHINGTON – A number of strategies used by the police to proactively prevent crimes have proved to be successful at…

Medicine, Health Care Intelligence Study IDs Key Factors… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by North Carolina State University A study of government and industry teamwork at a National Security Agency-funded research center found that an established suite of factors are key…

Medicine, Health Care Cell Phone-based Microscope Leads to… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases River blindness, or onchocerciasis, is a disease caused by a parasitic worm found primarily in Africa. The worm (Onchocerca volvulus)…

Medicine, Health Care NTU Singapore Scientists Create ‘Tracking’… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by Nanyang Technological University Polymer nanoagents that can ‘light up’ tiny areas of diseased tissues that conventional methods fail to detect, have been created by a research team…

Medicine, Health Care Reducing the Burden of Neglected… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by PLOS International support for measures to prevent neglected tropical diseases has resulted in public health gains, but eliminating these debilitating conditions will require significant investments in basic…

Medicine, Health Care Mushrooms Are Full of Antioxidants… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by Penn State   Mushrooms may contain unusually high amounts of two antioxidants that some scientists suggest could help fight aging and bolster health, according to a team of…

Medicine, Health Care Scientists Unravel Likely Causes of… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by PLOS A protein secreted by cells infected with dengue virus can cause dangerous leakage of fluid from blood vessels, and new research published in PLOS Pathogens supports…

Medicine, Health Care Theranostic Nanoparticles for Tracking And… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening) Although the most basic definition of a “theranostic” nanoparticle is a nanoparticle that simply has a therapeutic moiety and imaging…

Medicine, Health Care Increasing Hydroxyurea Dose Helps to… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital investigators have shown that using the drug hydroxyurea to boost average fetal hemoglobin levels above 20 percent…

Medicine, Health Care Ozanimod Successful in Clinical Trials… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by Scripps Research Institute   LA JOLLA, Calif. – Nov. 9, 2017 – Celgene Corporation recently announced results from two phase 3 trials evaluating the efficacy and safety of…

Medicine, Health Care Opioid Use by Patients After… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by The JAMA Network Journals   Bottom Line: Rhinoplasty patients used an average of nine of 20 to 30 hydrocodone-acetaminophen tablets prescribed for pain relief, suggesting that over-prescription of…

Medicine, Health Care Half of UK’s Kids Fib… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by The PR Works Limited   Almost half of UK kids fib to some degree about brushing their teeth, with a fifth trying to trick their parents into thinking…

Medicine, Health Care Cancer Drug Parity Laws Lower… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center   CHAPEL HILL — State laws designed to ensure that the pill form of cancer drugs is not more costly than treatments given…

Medicine, Health Care Common Genetic Fusion Event May… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by American Association for Cancer Research   Bottom Line: Establishing the way in which a genetic alteration called a TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion forms in a prostate cancer, rather than…

Medicine, Health Care Sleep Apnea May Increase Risk… Published: November 10, 2017.Released by American Thoracic Society   Nov. 7, 2017 — Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) may put elderly people at greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD), according to new research…