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Cleveland Clinic, university plan to study brain injuries from sports, combat ...

The Republic

AP CLEVELAND — Two competitive Ohio medical research institutions are teaming up at a new lab to study head and spinal injuries that occur in sports and combat. The Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University will jointly run the Cleveland ...

Poll: Voters would support act with more medical marijuana regulations

News10.net

SACRAMENTO, CA - A majority of voters would support more regulations for the medical marijuana industry and tougher penalties for fraudulent medical

Anesthesia in early childhood may be linked to ADHD

13abc Action News

By Lisa Esposito THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children who have more than one surgery with general anesthesia by their second birthday might be at higher risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a new study suggests.

Alzheimer's disease jumps across brain cells to spread like infection

CBS News

(CBS) Alzheimer's disease spreads through the brain like an infection, jumping from one cell to another, according to a new study. The study found that tau protein - which is indicative of the fibrous tangles found in brains of people with Alzheimer's ...

Uganda Plans To Eliminate Mother To Child Transmission Of HIV/AIDS By 2015

104.9 Ssuubi FM

ENTEBBE- The Ugandan government has launched a new HIV/AIDS prevention strategy and plan for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015. Programme Manager at the AIDS Control Programme (ACP) Zainab Akol said under the plan, ...

Massages Scientifically Proven To Help Reduce Pain

Medical News Today

According to a study published online in Science Translational Medicine by researchers from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, massages aid the growth of new mitochondria in skeletal muscle, ...

International Stroke Conference is this week in New Orleans

NOLA.com

Among the research discussions is new analysis of a 2010 study, chronicled in the New England Journal of Medicine, involving more than 2500 patients treated for clogged carotid arteries, a leading cause of stroke, and followed for an average of two and ...

Ultrasound zap to stop sperm production

Times of India

LONDON: Scientists claim to have made a step closer to developing an entirely new form of contraception for men after finding that a dose of ultrasound to the testicles helps stop the production of sperm in rats. In their study, published in the

Should Blood Pressure Be Taken in Both Arms?

WebMD

By Peter Russell Jan. 30, 2012 -- Differences in blood pressure readings taken from the left and right arms may be a sign of heart and blood vessel disease and death risk, according to a new review of recent research. Researchers found that a ...

Study Pinpoints Genetic Variation that Raises Risk of Serious Complication ...

HealthCanal.com

The other contributors are Penelope K. Palaskaof Tufts and Yufeng Shen and Aris Floratos at the Columbia University Medical Center Bioinformatics Department. This research was supported by grant number 7R21DE018143-03 from the National Institute of ...

UT Arlington engineer developing 'Biomask' to aid soldiers recovering from ...

Medical Xpress

Project partners include the US Army Institute of Surgical Research at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and Northwestern University in Chicago. The work is funded through a $700000 research grant from the US Army Medical Research ...

Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission Announces New Program for Pre-Clinical ...

MarketWatch (press release)

25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission (Commission) has announced a new program for pre-clinical and clinical research grants. This program will support for-profit companies in advancing medical therapies using ...

Potential for earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer

Medical Xpress

Using whole genome DNA profiling methods, Brian Gloss, Dr Philippa O'Brien and Professor Susan Clark from Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research have identified a panel of 6 genes that are affected by an epigenetic process known as ' DNA ...

South Africa's population would be 4.4 million larger without AIDS

Zim Diaspora

By Editor in Chief By Bheki Zikode By Kumazivandadzoka By Staff Reporter The population of Zimbabwe's nearest neighbour South Africa would be 4.4 million larger without AIDS, latest research reveals. South Africa, which has more HIV/AIDS infections ...

World-leading Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Investigators Join enGene's ...

MarketWatch (press release)

Dr. D'Haens also founded and led the Imelda GI Clinical Research Centre in Belgium, where clinical testing of many new medications for IBD and colorectal cancer have been conducted. In addition, he co-founded the European Crohn's and Colitis ...

In Rating Pain, Women Are the More Sensitive Sex

New York Times (blog)

Melanie Thernstrom, a patient representative on the Institute of Medicine pain committee from Vancouver, Wash., said the newest research “really highlights the need for more treatment and better treatment that is gender-specific, and the need for far ...

New research suggests birth weight plays a role in autism spectrum disorder

Medical Xpress

Losh, who teaches and conducts research in Northwestern's School of Communication, is lead author of the study that will be published in the journal Psychological Medicine and is now available online. Prior twin studies have shown that when one Californians to Regulate Medical Marijuana Forms Campaign Committee

Sacramento Bee

Allocate any surplus tax revenues funds -- beyond those needed to run the BMME – to fund emergency medical services, low-income assistance and health services, scientific and educational grant programs, research into environmentally-sound cultivation ...

Fake Antimalarial Medications Undermine Africa Malaria Drive

Medical News Today

Fraudulent and substandard antimalarial drugs could be wrecking the chances of winning the war against malaria in Africa, researchers from the Wellcome Trust-Mahosot Hospital-Oxford University Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration reported in the ...

Researchers Develop Robotic Surgery Systems for Medical Research Laboratories

AZoRobotics

By Andy Choi Robotics experts at the University of Washington and at the University of California, Santa Cruz have finished a set of seven innovative robotic surgery systems for medical research laboratories across the US. Following the final tests, ...

Bird flu research dangers: Experts weigh in

Los Angeles Times

So when two research teams -- one led by Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and the other by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin in Madison -- recently engineered bird flu strains that passed easily between ...

Calls for poison warnings on energy drinks

ABC Online

Research published in the Medical Journal of Australia shows 65 people called the New South Wales Poisons Centre with problems caused by energy drinks in 2010, up from 12 people in 2004. The average caller was 17 years old, and in some cases callers ...

Nicotine can stop memory loss: study

The Citizen Daily

The research in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, included 74 non-smokers with an average age of 76. Half were given a daily nicotine patch for six months, the other half wore a placebo patch.Those on nicotine therapy ...

 

Researcher Who Studied Benefits Of Red Wine Falsified Data Says University

Medical News Today

There is a suggestion that the impact of this news on resveratrol research will be minimal. According to a report from the Associated Press (AP), Dr Nir Barzilai, whose team conducts resveratrol research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in ...

New research finds ideal number of embryos to implant during assisted conception

Medical Xpress

(Medical Xpress) -- Controversy exists over how many embryos should be implanted during assisted conception (in-vitro fertilisation/IVF) therapy. New research by the University of Bristol and published in the The Lancet shows that, while discretion can ...

Whistleblower Scientist Accuses British Medical Journal of Institutional ...

MarketWatch (press release)

9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Dr. David Lewis, internationally known whistleblower and respected expert on institutional fraud, released a report today calling for a formal investigation into the practices of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), ...

Clinical research results absent in government database, risks patient safety

FierceHealthIT

Richard Lehman, a senior research fellow with the department of primary care at the University of Oxford, and Elizabeth Loder, a clinical epidemiology BMJ editor, insisted researchers should be accountable to reporting deadlines. ...

Harvard-led study finds vaccines partially protect monkeys from HIV-like virus

Boston.com (blog)

... with an aggressive and virulent HIV-like virus. The study, led by Dr. Dan Barouch, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is paving the way for a trial to test a similar vaccine in people. ...

30 tribal leaders charge NCIP

The Manila Times Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:09 AM PST

SOME 30 tribal leaders from Palawan filed with the Office of the Ombudsman graft complaints against top officials of the National Commission Indigenous People (NCIP) before yearend for inaction on the overwhelming endorsement of mining in the their area manifested in the result of the free prior and informed consent (FPIC) process last year.

Should all medical research be published?

BBC News

The British Medical Journal has printed an editorial attacking the pharmaceutical and science community for the long-existing habit of only selectively publishing the results of clinical trials. BMJ editor-in-chief Fiona Godlee and neuroscientist ...

Stem Cell Shots Reverse Aging in Mice

ABC News

By CARRIE GANN (@carrie_gann) , ABC News Medical Unit Injecting younger cells into aging bodies could help people live longer -- and stronger -- at least according to new research performed on mice. Scientists said the research, published today in the ...

Medical experiments on humans

Washington Post

Thousands of often desperately ill individuals volunteer each year to participate in experimental, federally funded medical programs. Thousands more participate in more mundane research with significantly less risk. And yet others take part in projects

Medical experiments on humans

Washington Post

Thousands of often desperately ill individuals volunteer each year to participate in experimental, federally funded medical programs. Thousands more participate in more mundane research with significantly less risk. And yet others take part in projects ...

Harvard Medical School Adviser: Evidence suggests link between depression and ...

Detroit Free Press

Even though it's not clear whether depression actually causes heart attack and stroke, scientific research indicates that there is a strong link between the two. Two recent reports that studied middle-aged women demonstrate the relationship between ...

Multiple Sclerosis May Cause Changes in Thalamus: Study - Health ...

By Nelson Alonso

FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) — New research suggests that in addition to the disabling lesions it's known to cause, multiple sclerosis also damages the part of the brain that affects thinking skills, motor function and the senses.“The thalamus is a central ...

New clues to memory loss

CBS News

Neelum T. Aggarwal, MD, co-leader of the Rush University Medical Center's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center's Clinical Core and associate professor of neurological sciences, agrees. She reviewed the findings. Doctors should aggressively manage ...

Vitamin D proposal to prevent MS highlights bureaucratic blight on medical ...

The Guardian

Professor Stewart Fleming University of Dundee • Your article highlights major problems in medical research. As the Scottish chief medical officer said, the issue can only be settled by a large, simple "randomised clinical trial". ...

Can Ecstasy Help Treat Autism?

Patch.com

Many people who suffer from autism have reported lasting improvements after taking MDMA or “ecstasy,” and clinical research into MDMA as a possible treatment for this perplexing medical disorder is now on the horizon. ...

Research provides first proof of epigenetic risk factor for type 2 diabetes

News-Medical.net

Now, a research team led by Dr. Asaf Hellman of the Hebrew University's Institute of Medical Research Israel Canada has developed a novel, multistep, study design involving the analysis of disease-contributing epigenetic variations among hundreds of ...

 

Bird flu research flap stirs security debate

CBS News

... of Pittsburgh Medical Center, believes the studies that drew the biosecurity board's concern should not have been done, that the risks of the work outweighed any potential benefit. "This research should not have been done," Dr. Richard H. Ebright, ...

Law for Biomedical Research on Humans by End 2012: Official

Siliconindia.com

Every new medical research and experiment on humans will come under this," he said. "This bill will also monitor all kinds of foul play in terms of research and experiment. Under this bill, any research on human beings will be covered.

St. Petersburg woman solves mystery of dad's 1958 death

Tampabay.com

In 1939, a technician at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research in New York City sat in his car with a stranger. The stranger said he needed a culture of a virulent strain of the yellow fever virus used by Rockefeller researchers. ...

Letter: Politicians should support medical research

East Peoria Times-Courier

The NIH provides funding for more than 350000 research positions at universities and research institutions across the country, including over 60 of those centers here in Illinois. Biomedical research is a proven driver of innovation, which is a primary ...

Details of Lab-Made Bird Flu Won't Be Revealed

Fox News

... which funded the original research. The scary-sounding viruses are locked in high-security labs as researchers at the Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison prepare to publish their findings in ...

Gov't wants bird flu research kept under wraps, away from terrorists

CBS News

The research showed that it was easier than scientists expected for bird flu to evolve in a way that lets it spread between at least some mammals. The virus stores are being kept in high-security labs as researchers at the Erasmus University Medical ...

ALS Therapy Development Institute Announces Research Agreement with Biogen ...

Sacramento Bee

We are excited about this project and look forward to working with ALS-TDI in this investigation," said Douglas Kerr, MD, Ph.D., Director of Medical Research at Biogen Idec. "By combining ALS TDI's innovative approach to bridging the translational ...

Immunological defense mechanism leaves malaria patients vulnerable to ...

PhysOrg.com

The Medical Research Council (MRC) funded study, published in Nature Medicine, found that in malaria-infected mice (which show exactly the same susceptibility to salmonella as is seen in humans) the body's natural response to defend itself from the ...

China Sky One Medical to Jointly Launch Adult Stem Cell Research Enterprise

MarketWatch (press release)

It is also to perform the clinical applications of bone marrow stem cells, intercord mesenchymal stem cells and other human stem cells. "As we have been involved in this area of research for the past several years, we are optimistic as to the potential ...

Spare embryos could be used for stem cell research

Times of India

These stem cells can be used only for research and are in "restricted category," according to guidelines prepared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to provide ethical direction to scientists working in the field. ...

Research from DMC could reduce premature deliveries

Detroit Free Press

The study of 775 women builds on research Romero also headed and released earlier this year that followed 458 women at 45 medical centers, including Hutzel Women's Hospital in Detroit. Premature birth is the leading cause of infant death worldwide. ...

Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) and Onyx Pharmaceuticals Announce ...

PR Newswire (press release)

The MMRF announced earlier this year that enrollment has begun in its CoMMpass(SM) Study (relating Clinical Outcomes in Multiple Myeloma to Personal AsseSSment of genetic profile), the cornerstone of the multiple myeloma personalized medicine research ...

Emerging Lymphoma and Myeloma Treatments Focus on Improving Individual Patient ...

PR Newswire (press release)

Its mission is to further the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disorders affecting blood, bone marrow, and the immunologic, hemostatic, and vascular systems by promoting research, clinical care, education, training, and advocacy ...

HIV study results troubling

QNotes

The low percentage comes from the fact that 1 in 5 people with HIV do not know they are infected and, of those who are aware, only 51 percent receive ongoing medical care and treatment. Of the nearly 1.2 million people living with HIV in the US, ...

Medical profession blamed for allergic increase

Stuff.co.nz

The medical profession is to blame for increasing numbers of people being allergic to foods, a researcher claims. Professor Julian Crane, of the University of Otago's Wellington asthma and allergy research group, said food allergies had "increased ...

Gene Therapy Achieves Early Success Against Hereditary Bleeding Disorder

MarketWatch (press release)

In the US, the research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Assisi Foundation of Memphis and ALSAC. In the UK the research was funded in part by The Katherine Dormandy Trust, Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, NHS Blood and ...

Fight over human genes patents goes to the US Supreme Court

ABC Online

MARK COLVIN: The fight over human genes and whether they can be patented for medical research has gone to the US Supreme Court. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation filed their appeal today. They argue that genes are ...

Scientists make advances in neuroscience and vision research

Medical Xpress

The lead author on the study, Sammy Lee, was a postdoctoral researcher working in Reese's lab and supported by a CJ Martin National Health & Medical Research Council fellowship from Australia during the course of the study. Lee labeled individual cone ...

As human-embryo stem cell research fades into obsolescence, political fallout ...

Daily Caller

The compromise failed to slow the Democrats' political strategy, although it did nudge medical research in a more ethical path, say some conservatives. “Bush's policy created a defensible line against the development of Brave New World technologies ...

Study underway for new TBI treatment

Jacksonville Daily News

Thus, the ongoing study with hyperbaric intervention is designed to meet the highest standards of medical research: a placebo-controlled, double-blind course, conducted with subjects at multiple centers, including Ft. Carson, Ft. Gordon and Camp ...